In a letter to the Comptroller of the Currency, Warren argued nine national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms violated the National Bank Act. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
The US Treasury sanctioned more than 50 companies, vessels, and individuals tied to Iran’s shadow banking and oil networks this week, escalating the Trump administration’s Economic Fury campaign against Tehran’s financial workarounds. The Office of Foreign Assets Control hit Iranian exchange house Amin Exchange and blocked 19 oil and petrochemical tankers, while Secretary Scott Bessent…
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping redesign of…
Google on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to work around the clock — drafting emails, assembling documents, monitoring inboxes, and eventually making purchases — even when a user’s laptop is closed and their phone is locked. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026, is the company’s most ambitious attempt yet to…
The Blocknative website now returns a post noting that the firm is “now in the process of ceasing operations.” Source: www.theblock.co Read Full Story
Analysts at Benchmark, TD Cowen, and Mizuho hold buy ratings on Bitdeer, Strive, DeFi Technologies, and Gemini amid infra and markets pivots. Source: www.theblock.co Read Full Story
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury decision. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at Google I/O…
DefiLlama’s RWA category data puts the RWA tokenization market near $30 billion on-chain, with only $2.47 billion appearing as DeFi active TVL, the value actually deposited or pooled inside third-party DeFi protocols the platform tracks. The rest of the tokenized real-world assets market sits outside the lending markets and collateral vaults that make crypto assets…