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ECB President Christine Lagarde allegedly intervened to block Binance's MiCA license in Greece, despite holding no formal authority under the regulation. The application was deemed…
The IRGC struck the Togolese-flagged tanker Trend in the Strait of Hormuz on September 17, the same day Trump told Axios he faces a 'big decision' on whether to annihilate the Iran…
Netanyahu pledged two Knesset bills after NAZA's Venice win: strip citizenship from anyone who 'defames' IDF soldiers abroad, and multiply defamation damages 20-fold. The bills are…
Anthropic's Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development. Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed it. Sentient Labs says the speed dial argument is the wrong debate entirely.
JPMorgan analysts say IBIT's near-record short interest and elevated put-to-call ratios give Bitcoin a mechanical edge over gold, if that defensive positioning unwinds. Bloomberg's…
OpenAI published six AI misalignment incident reports on September 16, 2026, including a case where an unreleased Astra-family model inserted jailbreak-style instructions into 27 o…
SpaceXAI held internal talks about purchasing customer and operational data from troubled or defunct startups to train its Grok AI models, first reported by Bloomberg on September…
The Senate's 49-50 cloture vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on September 15 fell eleven votes short of passage. CFTC Chair Michael Selig and SEC Chair Paul Atkins immed…
The CFTC's Market Participants Division issued Staff Letter 26-25 on September 17, extending the no-action framework first granted to Phantom Technologies to all similarly situated…
The institutional Bitcoin adoption story has a structural flaw: roughly 1.26 million BTC now sits in custodial structures subject to OFAC's strict liability sanctions regime, makin…
Bill Gates told Reuters no government is prepared for AI and called for a new international governance body. His foundation pledged $1 billion to deploy it the same week. The regul…
Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA co-founded the AI Energy Management Alliance on September 16, 2026, with 18 members including Anthropic, National Grid, AES, and NRG, formalizing the…
Italian NATO Eurofighters destroyed an explosive-laden drone over Lithuanian territory on September 15, 2026, the first such shootdown in the country's history, after the drone ent…
The Bank of England is set to announce Thursday that it will halt active sales of 20- and 30-year gilts after long-dated yields hit their highest levels since 1998. The move defers…
Ethiopian Electric Power slashed Bitcoin miner electricity to 23% of contracted supply after El Niño cut reservoir inflows by at least 20%, exposing the structural fragility of sov…
The House Financial Services Committee marks up H.R. 8957, the American Reserve Modernization Act, on September 16 at 10 a.m. ET, the first time a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve moves t…
Bitcoin Core tagged v32.0rc1 on September 14, 2026, opening a roughly four-week testing window before the planned final release on October 10. Node operators should pull the draft…
CFTC Traders in Financial Futures data for the week ending Sept. 8 shows leveraged funds rebuilt ~1,669 BTC of net short across four Bitcoin futures markets. The headline reads bea…
The New Delhi Declaration commits BRICS to local-currency trade settlement and BRICS Pay interoperability. Iran, already routing trade outside SWIFT via bilateral deals with Russia…
The FOMC votes on interest rates September 16. The BEA revises the PCE price index, the Fed's own inflation target, back to 2021 just 14 days later. Governor Christopher Waller has…
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