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The Federal Reserve named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead its new Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, alongside a Stanford economist on leave at Anthropic…
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng disclosed at Reuters NEXT Asia on July 9 that 70% of EU user withdrawals following the exchange's MiCA-driven service suspension went to self-hosted wal…
France signed more than 16 strategic agreements with Syria on July 7, brought TotalEnergies to Damascus, and is explicitly building a Hormuz bypass. Iraq is already running 500-700…
MARA Holdings signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 1,200-acre powered land site in Matagorda County, Texas, targeting up to 2 GW of grid capacity by April 2028 at a milestone…
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a formal letter to Senate leaders on July 8 demanding Section 604 of the CLARITY Act remain intact. The provision is the only statutory protection standing betw…
Secretary Rubio, Japan's Motegi, and South Korea's Cho signed a trilateral SMR Memorandum of Cooperation on July 8 at the NATO Ankara Summit, committing $10M+ in US funding and an…
TeraWulf plans to raise $3.5 billion in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds to finance Anthropic's 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, locking up exactly the kin…
Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB 302 on May 6, 2025, making New Hampshire the first U.S. state to authorize its treasurer to hold Bitcoin as a reserve asset, after Arizona vetoed, F…
BitGo launched four Bitcoin quantum-risk management tools on July 9, 2026, giving institutions a practical way to measure and reduce address-key exposure before any quantum compute…
Meta announced July 8 it will build a C$13 billion AI data center in Alberta powered by a C$4.6 billion, 932 MW natural gas plant. The sustainable AI narrative didn't survive conta…
Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) crossed 1,000 Bitcoin in its corporate treasury on July 9, 2026, roughly doubling its stack from ~515 BTC in under seven months through a dual strategy…
From a small Missouri town to the Utah State Senate, voters are removing officials who approved multi-billion-dollar AI data center deals in secret. The ballot box is the only circ…
Cantor Equity Partners and BSTR Holdings terminated their original July 2025 merger agreement on July 8, 2026, dropping the $1.5 billion PIPE and postponing the shareholder vote wi…
Russia enacted a full ban on diesel exports July 8, 2026, after Ukrainian drone strikes drove crude-processing rates to multi-year lows. With Russia supplying ~11% of global diesel…
Bull Bitcoin petitioned France's Conseil d'État on February 24 to annul Decree No. 2025-1276, the French rule implementing DAC8's mandatory crypto identity and transaction reportin…
Trump declared the June 17 US-Iran MoU 'over' at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, after Iran attacked three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and CENTCOM retaliated with strikes…
The Commerce Department's June 12 export control order on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models was reversed in under three weeks. The market shift it triggered may not be…
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins published the agency's 2026 regulatory agenda on July 7, formally committing to propose rules that would allow Bitcoin to trade alongside equities on SEC-l…
Anthropic embedded steganographic tracking logic inside Claude Code that silently altered system prompts to flag users in Chinese time zones or routing through Chinese AI labs. It…
Payward disclosed a $22 million arbitration win against Mazars USA on July 7, 2026, after the auditor walked away from a nearly complete 2022 audit days before finishing, citing SE…
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