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Kalshi Sues Illinois Over New State Tax on Sports-Related Prediction Markets
In brief Kalshi sued Illinois after the state created a 15% tax on revenue from sports-related prediction market wagers. The...
Cardano’s scaling overhaul hit by a user confidence gap widened by ADA’s slump and wallet exploit
Cardano has opened public testing for a major throughput upgrade and advanced a mainnet hard fork, pushing forward the blockchain’s...
Meet Qwable: The Free Local Model That Thinks Like Claude Fable
In brief Qwable 27B is a full fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B, trained on a Fable 5-style reasoning dataset, designed to...
Comparing Bitcoin Giant Strategy to Terra Luna Is a STRC, Benchmark Says
In brief Strategy’s Stretch (STRC) may be volatile, but it’s far from the stablecoin that underpinned Terra’s ecosystem, according Benchmark-StoneX’s...
Inception Labs’ Mercury 2 AI Beats Google’s DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
In brief Inception Labs' Mercury 2 generates roughly 1,000 tokens per second and scored 90 on the AIME 2026 Google's...
AI ‘Amplification Spiral’ May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests
In brief Researchers proposed an "amplification spiral" framework to explain how AI chatbots may reinforce delusional beliefs. The model centers...
HYPE, JTO and WLD wins are looking more like exceptions than an altcoin season signal
The WLD token surged 149.6% over the past month, XLM climbed 54%, JTO posted a 46.7% gain, and HYPE set...
Bitcoin Network Activity Is Rising as BTC Falls Nearly 50% Below Peak Price: CryptoQuant
In brief Activity on the Bitcoin network has been trending up, reaching levels not seen since 2024. But while transaction...
Global $2.75B payments deal shows stablecoins moving into the rails they were meant to bypass
Nuvei agreed to buy Payoneer for $2.75 billion in cash in a deal centered on money movement through merchant acquiring,...
France to Phase Out Non-Quantum Encryption as Bitcoin Security Concerns Grow
In brief France will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-safe encryption beginning in 2027. Officials cited concerns that future...
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