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UK Fraud Review Calls for Judge Training on Crypto Laundering, AI Scams

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A major UK review of fraud has recommended that judges and magistrates be trained to handle a coming wave of cases involving cryptocurrency money laundering and fraud powered by artificial intelligence. The recommendation lands in "Fraud in the Digital Age," the second report from the Independent Re

Team Behind Ethereum's Institutional Privacy Push Spins Out For-Profit Firm EthSystems

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The group that spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's institutional privacy work has spun out to start its own company. EthSystems launched Tuesday as an independent, for-profit firm building privacy and compliance technology designed to let banks and asset managers transact on Ethere

US, UK Outline Recommendations to Align Stablecoin and Tokenization Rules

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The U.S. and UK have laid out a joint roadmap for aligning how they regulate stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital money, a coordinated push by two of the world's largest financial centres to let blockchain-based finance move more easily across the Atlantic. The 10 recommendations, published Tu

DeepMind CEO Says AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire

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For the second time this year, Demis Hassabis predicted that artificial general intelligence would arrive before the end of the decade. This time, however, he said it won't simply be another technological breakthrough—it will rival the discovery of electricity or fire. In a blog post published Tuesd

Bitcoin Ticks Up to $64K Following Largest Inflation Slowdown in Six Years

Bitcoin ticked above $64,000 Tuesday morning, after a widely watched inflation gauge showed consumer prices cooling more than expected in June—bolstering expectations that the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates untouched at the conclusion of its next policy meeting. The Consumer Price Index f

UK to Defer Capital Gains Tax on DeFi Lending, Liquidity Pool Deposits

The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs has confirmed that depositing cryptoassets into DeFi lending protocols and liquidity pools will no longer count as a taxable disposal, deferring any capital gains tax until an investor makes a genuine economic disposal of the assets. The change, set out in a policy pape

Morning Minute: Saylor's Strategy Hoards Cash, Doesn't Buy BTC

US Government Moves $288M in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime

The U.S. government shifted $288 million in seized Bitcoin and Ethereum onto Coinbase Prime on Monday, on-chain tracker Arkham showed, reviving speculation that Washington could be preparing to sell crypto it has pledged to hold. The transfers, spread over about half a day, included around 3,800 BTC

Stop Over-Prompting: OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Guidelines Change Everything

OpenAI published a new prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol, its newly released flagship model, and the main message will feel wrong to anyone who spent the last year writing multi-page system prompts: stop writing so much. The core idea is outcome-first prompting. Define what good looks like, set the st

Protesters March on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Demanding AI Development Pause

Protesters again took to the streets of San Francisco, marching between the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, calling for a pause in the development of more powerful AI. Saturday's demonstration, organized by Stop the AI Race, went beyond AI safety to include concerns over job losse

New Hampshire Follows Bitcoin Reserve With 'Blockchain Basic Laws' Signing

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte helped make the state into one of the crypto-friendliest in the nation when she signed HB 639 into law last week. Known as the The Blockchain Basic Laws act, the bill provides protections for cryptocurrency innovation and use in the state while also allowing for

Claude's Personality Changes Depending on the Model—And the Language You Speak

Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found its assistant consistently expresses different values depending on both the model users choose and the language they speak. In a report published on Monday, Anthropic resear

Democratic Opposition to Clarity Act Grows in Crypto Bill's Do-or-Die Final Weeks

Key Senate Democrats have begun mounting an impassioned case against passage of the Clarity Act in its current form, as the sprawling crypto bill enters a climactic final hurdle. On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote a letter urging Senate leadership to ensure the Clarity Act includes langua

Bolivia Is Considering Adding Tether's USDT Stablecoin to National Payments System: Report

Bolivia’s economy is stabilizing, and now it is investigating the potential inclusion of Tether’s dollar-backed stablecoin USDT as a form of payment in the nation, according to a local news report from La Razón. The report stems from a Friday briefing from Bolivia’s Minister of Economy, José Gabriel

'The Odyssey' Director Chris Nolan: Young Audiences are Rejecting 'AI Slop'

“The Odyssey” director Christopher Nolan famously doesn’t use a smartphone, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that he isn’t on board with the latest tech buzzphrase. On the press tour for his latest effort, Nolan told The Telegraph that young audiences are “utterly rejecting” generative AI, adding that,

Robinhood Chain's Early Momentum Is Being Driven By Meme Coins, Not Tokenized Stocks

Robinhood spent over a year building a blockchain around the idea that users want to trade tokens tied to the world’s most valuable companies. But since Robinhood Chain debuted two weeks ago, digital assets with cute pictures and funny names have led the charge. Although the Ethereum layer-2 scaling

This Is How Much Your Boyfriend Is Spending on AI Girlfriends

People are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on AI girlfriends, and the trend doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. According to data provided to Decrypt by analytics firm Appfigures Intelligence, NSFW and romantic AI companion apps across Apple’s App Store and Google Play have generated 16

BitMine Buys $49 Million in Ethereum as Tom Lee Hails Early Robinhood Chain Demand

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added another $49 million worth of ETH to its stash last week, acquiring 27,801 ETH. The firm now holds 5,770,038 ETH, nearly 4.8% of the token’s circulating supply, valued around $10.1 billion as Ethereum trades around $1,780 on

Strategy Pads Cash Reserves to $3 Billion, Skipping Bitcoin Buy for Third Week

Strategy’s Bitcoin-buying machine remained in neutral last week as the firm continued growing its cash reserves, forgoing acquisitions of the digital asset for a third straight week. The company raised $467 million during the period by issuing common stock, lifting the balance of its so-called USD R

Bank of Thailand Flags Abnormal Stablecoin Trades in 'Grey Economy' Crackdown

Thailand's central bank has turned data-analytics tools on the country's stablecoin market, scanning high-volume trades for signs of illicit money as part of a widening crackdown on the shadow economy. Bank of Thailand Governor Vitai Ratanakorn said the central bank has begun screening abnormally la

Morning Minute: BTC and ETH ETFs Flip Green After Lengthy Outflow Stretch

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors fall 1-3% after overnight selloff; BTC at $63k BTC ETFs flip to net inflows after brutal 2-month stretch

Chinese Prosecutors Float Treating Crypto Mixer, Privacy Coin Use as Sign of Money Laundering

An article in the official newspaper of China's top prosecutors' office has laid out a framework for prosecuting crypto money laundering, proposing that courts presume criminal intent when suspects use coin mixers and privacy coins, and that the state build a platform to sell off seized cryptocurren

How to Make Product Ads With AI for TikTok and YouTube—For (Almost) Free

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TikTok Shop, the ecommerce platform that allows users to buy and sell things directly on TikTok, moved $64.3 billion in merchandise in 2025, nearly doubling from the year before. The U.S. alone accounted for $15.1 billion of that, and most of it was driven by short, cheap, face-to-camera videos of s

What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks