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EIA projects US electricity demand breaking records in both 2026 and 2027
US electricity demand is heading for back-to-back records as AI data centers add to pressure from electrification across the economy. According to EIA projections, electricity demand in the US will increase from a record 4,195 billion kilowatt-hours in 2025 to 4,288 billion kWh in 2026 and 4,356 billion kWh in 2027. As has been put...
Tue, Oct 6
CFTC proposes crypto rules on its own authority, leaving spot trading out
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) took steps to regulate crypto exchanges as it released an early-stage rulemaking on October 5. However, the bigger story is what it left out. The agency made use of its already existing authority to propose rules affecting leveraged and margin trades, but did not touch the larger spot...
Tue, Oct 6
Ripple backs OKX as its own investors turn into customers
Ripple has joined a funding round for crypto exchange OKX at a $25 billion valuation. Meanwhile, Brevan Howard, one of the Wall Street names that bankrolled Ripple last year, is deepening its relationship with the company as a client. How much did Ripple invest in OKX? OKX raised new capital at a $25 billion valuation...
Tue, Oct 6
Mistral races China on open-weight AI, and cyber capabilities are the selling point
Mistral has launched a public preview of its trillion-parameter open-weight model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), which it is calling the most powerful of its kind built outside China. Cybersecurity is the leading pitch of the model that has been code-named “Le Chonk.” The model is available through Mistral’s API. In its announcement, the company stated...
Tue, Oct 6
Google secured 3.6 GW of power from Constellation Energy
On Tuesday, Google announced that it has secured 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy. This is 3.6 gigawatts connected to the largest power grid in the United States, the PJM Interconnection, since the data centers of artificial intelligence require massive amounts of energy per hour, and this has to be compensated for somehow. About...
Tue, Oct 6
Police acted on three Claude chats in seven weeks, and two users face felony charges
Three Claude conversations reached police from August 11 to September 30, and users in San Antonio and Florida now face felony threat charges.
Tue, Oct 6
Dario Amodei earned $18 million at Anthropic in 2025, IPO prospectus shows
Anthropic's unpublished IPO prospectus puts CEO Dario Amodei's 2025 pay at $18 million, mostly stock and options, above the Alphabet and Amazon chiefs.
Tue, Oct 6
U.S. trade deficit widens 14% to highest level since ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
America’s trade deficit just got a lot uglier. The gap between what the country buys from abroad and what it sells overseas widened 13.7% in August to $105.6 billion, blowing past the $102 billion economists had expected. Imports alone jumped 4.3%, helped by the expensive hardware feeding America’s AI construction frenzy and by businesses still...
Tue, Oct 6
Google and Constellation strike $4.3 billion nuclear power deal
Google and Constellation Energy have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement that will add 890 megawatts of new nuclear capacity to the PJM Interconnection grid, with Constellation investing about $4.3 billion to fund the project. None of the new capacity involves building any reactors from scratch, as Constellation plans to squeeze even more output from...
Tue, Oct 6
Bitcoin sits 49% above its July low after a 4chan pattern's bottom date passed
Bitcoin passed October 5, 2026, the bottom date implied by a 4chan post's 364-day pattern, trading about 49% above its July 1 low.
Tue, Oct 6
Korea suspends bank security deregulation after AI tool fuels hacking spree
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has paused the next phase of a program intended to loosen bank security rules. The agency pulled the plug just a day before the next set of banks were to be picked. The reason for the cancellation is a recent run of AI-assisted hacks that tore through seven financial firms...
Tue, Oct 6
Andre Cronje points to $5 million in Flying Tulip put NFT trades after Ansem's NFT call
Andre Cronje says Flying Tulip's put-option NFT marketplace has passed $5 million in volume, replying to Ansem's call for an NFT comeback.
Tue, Oct 6
"Crypto Godfather" gets 78 months, closing case on off-duty deputies, warrants, kidnapping ring
Adam Iza, the 26-year-old self-styled “Godfather” at the head of a crypto crime ring that employed off-duty Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies as muscle, received a 78-month federal sentence on Monday, October 5. Iza became the sixth person to be hit with jail time in an organization that ran multiple schemes, including stealing over $37 million...
Tue, Oct 6
German prosecutors seize over $11 million of Cryptoqueen funds to compensate victims
Authorities in Germany have managed to take control over millions of euros’ worth of assets allegedly belonging to OneCoin’s founder, Ruja Ignatova. The funds will be used to compensate victims of the fraudulent scheme founded by the woman dubbed “Cryptoqueen” who is still wanted around the world. German prosecutors seize millions in Cryptoqueen money The...
Tue, Oct 6
AMD stock clears OpenAI's warrant price bar before the chips ship
A year ago to the day, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) handed OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares, with the richest payouts dependent on AMD’s stock reaching set price targets and OpenAI actually taking delivery of the chips. AMD’s stock price rose to $631 last week, raising its market value over $1 trillion. The...
Tue, Oct 6
SDNY presses its case against Roman Storm despite FinCEN dropping mixer crackdown
Regulators in the U.S. are sending mixed signals in the case against Roman Storm after the Tornado Cash co-founder pointed out that DOJ prosecutors were still after him despite the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network withdrawing from the planned crackdown on cryptocurrency mixers. Within a day of the withdrawal, federal prosecutors in the Southern...
Tue, Oct 6
Hyperliquid Open Positions Double in 2026 to Over 435K
Hyperliquid has notched up another record with the total number of open positions at an all time high. Data from HyperTracker shows 435,564 open perpetual futures positions on the platform as of October 6. At the start of the year, this number was at 202,943 which is around a 115% growth in just over nine...
Tue, Oct 6
LIVE: Nvidia on track to hit world-record $6 trillion market cap
Nvidia is closing in on a world-first $6 trillion market cap, with shares at a record high after a strong outlook and historic buyback. The stock is up 28% in 2026, adding about $1.2 trillion in value and driving a huge chunk of the S&P 500’s 14% gain. U.S. futures are higher Tuesday after the...
Tue, Oct 6
Crypto spot trading posts second consecutive month of recovery in September
Crypto spot trading grew in September, expanding to $973B on centralized exchanges.
Tue, Oct 6
Solana Foundation Launches Institutional Settlement Tool With Input From JP Morgan
The Solana Foundation, the Swiss nonprofit that supports the decentralization, growth and security of the Solana blockchain, launched a tool today that aims to tackle settlement risk by letting banks and large financial institutions settle trades onchain in seconds. In traditional markets, the same trade usually can take up to one or two days to...
Tue, Oct 6