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2026-06-01 16:23:42

Anthropic Reveals 31.5% Hijack Rate for Opus 4.8 Browser Agent Before Safeguards

Nearly one in three attempts to hijack Anthropic’s newest AI browser agent succeeded before safeguards kicked in. That is not a rumor from a red-team Slack channel. It is a number Anthropic printed in its own system card.The company released the Claude Opus 4.8 system card on May 28, spanning 244 pa

2026-06-01 16:23:41

Mysterious $1.26 Billion BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Sale Shakes Market

Last week’s large-scale, one-off sale of the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF caused a major stir in the market.At this point, a mysterious major investor sold $1.26 billion worth of BlackRock Bitcoin ETFs in a large over-the-counter transaction on May 26th, all at below-average price. This caused the price of

2026-06-01 16:22:31

Elk Grove Village Property to Raise $850M for CoreWeave Data Center

A property developer in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is looking to raise $850 million through high-yield bonds to build a data center that will be leased to CoreWeave, the GPU cloud company that has become one of the most aggressive spenders in the AI infrastructure race.The deal is the latest in a

2026-06-01 16:15:02

Kraken to Launch CFTC-Regulated Bitcoin Perpetuals in U.S. Within 30 Days

Kraken is racing to bring CFTC-regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures to U.S. traders, moving quickly after recent Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) actions cleared a new path for crypto derivatives. What Kraken announced - Kraken said it plans to launch CFTC-regulated Bitcoin perpetuals in

2026-06-01 16:12:45

Bitcoin options market reaches $70,000 threshold

Odaily Planet Daily report: Adam, a macro researcher at Greeks.live, posted on X that today, the Deribit BTC index dropped to a low of $70,992, nearing the $70,000 psychological level, which is also a zone of concentrated options open interest.Options data shows that near-term ATM IV is around 30%,

2026-06-01 16:12:45

Analysts Split on Strategy's Bitcoin Sale; Most See No Change in Long-Term Holding Approach

Mars Finance reports that, on June 1, following Strategy’s disclosure of its first Bitcoin sale in four years, Wall Street analysts expressed divergent views on the signal this move conveyed, though most agreed that the transaction size was too small to alter the company’s long-term Bitcoin accumula

2026-06-01 16:12:39

Strive to increase ASST and SATA ATM financing by $2.1 billion each.

According to ME News, on June 2 (UTC+8), Matt Cole, CEO of Strive, stated that the company expects to increase the sizes of its two At-The-Market (ATM) financing programs, ASST and SATA, by $2.1 billion each, to reflect sustained growth in liquidity and investor demand for both securities. Cole note

2026-06-01 16:12:30

CLARITY Act Nears Final Decision as June Becomes Pivotal Month for US Crypto Regulation

Stakeholders think June could be the most significant month for the US crypto industry.Senator Tim Scott says the CLARITY Act will help make the U.S. the crypto capital.Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz calls June “Clarity Month” for U.S. crypto regulation.The CLARITY Act is nearing a final decision, with J

2026-06-01 16:02:31

Nvidia Launches RTX Spark Superchip to Challenge Intel and AMD in PC Market

Nvidia just declared war on the two companies that have owned the PC processor market for decades. The GPU giant announced the RTX Spark Superchip at its GTC Taipei keynote on June 1, an Arm-based chip that combines CPU and GPU functions into a single package designed for on-device AI.What the RTX S

2026-06-01 16:02:29

Strategy Sells 32 BTC for $2.5M, Analysts Disagree on Significance

For years, Strategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor insisted he would never sell bitcoin BTC$72,675.37.Yet on Monday, the largest company disclosed that it sold 32 bitcoin last week, its first sale in four years. The announcement prompted questions about whether one of bitcoin's most promin

2026-06-01 15:54:24

Sui Network Suffers Three Mainnet Outages in 48 Hours Due to Software Bug

TL;DR:Sui suffered three outages in less than 48 hours on May 28 and 29, leaving the network down for more than 15 hours.The failures originated in bugs introduced in version 1.72 of the software, affecting gas fee logic and the on-chain randomness protocol.The SUI token fell around 19% during the w

2026-06-01 15:53:25

Citi Projects $5.5T Tokenized Securities Market by 2030

Citi projected the global market for tokenized securities will reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, up from roughly $17 billion today, in a Global Perspectives & Solutions report titled Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain released Monday ahead of the Proof of Talk conference in Paris.The base case s...

2026-06-01 15:53:24

Coinbase Launches Direct Rupee Transfers in India via IMPS After FIU Registration

Coinbase just flipped the switch on direct Indian rupee bank transfers, letting users in India deposit and withdraw funds through the country’s Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) network. It’s a move that effectively removes the biggest friction point for Indian crypto traders on the platform: getting

2026-06-01 15:53:20

Senator Bernie Sanders Proposes 50% Equity Tax on AI Labs to Fund Sovereign Wealth Fund

Bernie Sanders wants the American public to own half of the AI industry. Not through buying shares on Robinhood, but through the government taking them.The Vermont senator announced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 1, proposing a one-time 50% tax on the equity of major AI companies.

2026-06-01 15:44:56

Strategy sells 32 BTC for $2.5M, with funds used for preferred stock distributions.

CoinMarketCap reports:The latest filings from Strategy show that the company sold 32 bitcoins last week, cashing out approximately $2.5 million at an average selling price of $77,135 per bitcoin. After the sale, its bitcoin holdings decreased to 843,706 bitcoins, valued at approximately $61 billion

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