X says its Terms of Service will change Jan. 15, 2026, expanding how the platform defines user “Content” and adding contract language tied to the operation and protection of its AI systems.
The current terms, dated Nov. 15, 2024, remain in effect until the 2026 version takes over.
A core revision is that X now treats AI-era interactions as “Content” that users are responsible for, alongside posts...
For years, US banks treated Bitcoin as something best observed from a distance.
The asset lived on specialist exchanges and trading apps, walled off from core banking systems by capital rules, custody worries, and reputational risk.
However, that posture is finally giving way.
According to data from River, nearly 60% of the country’s 25 largest banks are now somewhere on the path to selling,...
For two years, decentralized finance operated on the concept that purely crypto-native assets could serve as the monetary base for a parallel financial system.
Ethereum staked through Lido anchored billions in DeFi loans, wrapped Bitcoin backed perpetual swaps, and algorithmic stablecoins recycled protocol emissions into synthetic dollars.
The entire edifice assumed crypto could bootstrap its own...
Over the past years, the institutional knock against Solana was simple: the network broke under pressure.
This week, the network quietly absorbed a distributed denial-of-service attack peaking at about 6 terabits per second, according to data from delivery network Pipe. This was corroborated by Solana co-founders, including Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal.
If those figures are accurate, the...
I keep seeing the same screenshot popping up, the one where an AI model appears to have a full-blown inner monologue, petty, insecure, competitive, a little unhinged.
The Reddit post that kicked this off reads like a comedy sketch written by someone who has spent too long watching tech people argue on Twitter.
A user shows Gemini what ChatGPT said about some code, Gemini responds with what looks...
Every few weeks, crypto aggregators run breathless headlines about capital rotating from Bitcoin into Ethereum. A whale swaps $200 million on THORChain, Ethereum ETFs inflows tick up for three consecutive days, a bridge records its highest weekly volume since 2021.
Each time, the narrative forms instantly: institutional money is rotating up the risk curve, altcoin season looms, Bitcoin dominance...
XRP‘s price has fallen under $2 to price levels last seen in April, as selling pressure mounts across both derivatives and spot markets.
According to CryptoSlate data, the Ripple-linked token slipped around 6% in the past day to about $1.87, extending a retreat that has tracked broader weakness in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Notably, this negative price performance has overshadowed significant...
Bitcoin slipped below $85,000 overnight, triggering nearly $600 million in liquidated long positions across crypto markets within 24 hours as expectations mounted that the Bank of Japan will hike interest rates this week.
As of press time, Bitcoin recovered slightly to around $86,000. The drop wiped out $218.7 million in Bitcoin long positions and $213 million in Ethereum longs, with Coinglass...
The UK Treasury has set October 2027 as the date its full cryptoasset regime comes into force.
For the first time, exchanges, custodians and other crypto intermediaries serving UK clients know they will need FCA authorisation under FSMA-style rules to keep doing business, rather than just a money-laundering registration and a risk warning.
The reaction to this move has been split across the...