The UK is finally drawing a line in the sand when it comes to crypto regulation. On April 29, 2025, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves rolled out a draft set of rules aimed at bringing crypto exchanges, dealers, and agents under official oversight for the first time. Think of it as Britain’s long-awaited attempt to stop…
Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. All of the new pemissively licensed models — Phi 4 mini reasoning, Phi 4 reasoning, and Phi 4 reasoning plus — are “reasoning” models, meaning they’re able to spend more time…
Nearly a year after Ragnarok: Monster World launched on Ronin, Sky Mavis announced the sudden termination of its partnership with the game’s Singapore-based developer, 0x&. Sky Mavis Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Aleksander Larsen said the decision came after it was discovered that 0x& had “secretly” entered into a deal with another blockchain, breaching…
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social, has announced plans to introduce a native utility token and digital wallet. The move is aimed at supporting its monetization strategy across its growing media and financial ecosystem. Truth Token and Investment Platform The announcement was made in a shareholder letter ahead of…
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BRICS trade just hit a seismic milestone — over 65% now in national currencies as the bloc accelerates its exit from the U.S. dollar. BRICS Pushes Dollar Aside, Eyes Next-Level Financial Sovereignty Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Monday in Rio de Janeiro that trade between BRICS nations is increasingly shifting away from the…
A discarded hard drive, a billion-dollar Bitcoin wallet, and a trash-strewn landfill in Wales are now the foundation for a high-stakes docuseries. Entertainment company LEBUL announced this week that it has acquired exclusive rights to the story of James Howells, the British engineer who famously lost access to 8,000 Bitcoin (BTC) in 2013. Dubbed ‘The…
Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—and one of its executives lied under oath about the company’s plans, a federal judge wrote on Wednesday. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has referred the situation to the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco “to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings…
Key Takeaways Plume and Soneium are partnering to offer real-world asset staking and yield opportunities to 5.1 million users. The SkyLink interoperability layer allows integration with tokenized assets like US Treasuries and private credit through the Plume chain. Share this article Soneium, Sony’s public blockchain, is collaborating with Plume, the full-stack layer 1 chain built…
Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier. Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos (but not audio), is available in Amazon Bedrock, the company’s AI model development platform. Amazon says that Premier excels at “complex tasks” that “require deep understanding…
