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CrowdStrike is weaving its Falcon cybersecurity platform into Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace, giving customers a way to purchase security products and spin up AI-driven security agents from within Claude’s environment. The integration, announced on May 21, 2026, marks the latest chapter in a partner

Melius Research raised its Dell price target to a Street-high $735, while BofA and Mizuho lifted their targets to $600. Raymond James moved to $617 and Evercore ISI increased its target to $575. Morgan Stanley, which remains more cautious, lifted its target to $499. At $461.50, the $735 target impli

Key Insights:Crypto regulation: G20 finance officials backed clearer digital asset rules while keeping financial stability and cross-border risks in focus.G20 officials are awaiting FSB findings on global stablecoins, including cross-border impacts and data challenges.G20 reaffirmed its cross-border

A volunteer group called the Bitcoin Red Team just ran one of the most ambitious automated security audits the crypto ecosystem has ever seen. Their weapon of choice: Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model built by China’s Moonshot AI. Over roughly 108 hours, the model catalogued 7,958 potential security

Former Ripple CTO David Schwartz has defended Tether’s decision to freeze $42.4 million in USDT before receiving a formal court warrant, putting a broader question about centralized stablecoin control into focus.Two Thai businessmen filed suit against Tether in the Southern District of New York on A

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic. His words end months of conflict with the maker of Claude. The artificial intelligence (AI) firm could go public soon.Lutnick spoke to Axios on Tuesday. A day later, he shared a stage with Anthropic co-founder Tom

Circle brought its case for American dominance in digital finance straight to Capitol Hill this week, with President Heath Tarbert testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on September 2. The message was direct: the US has a narrow window to cement the dollar’s role in the next gener

New Jersey escalated the state fight against prediction markets to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, filing for a writ of certiorari asking the high court to rule on how prediction markets should be governed.The ruling comes months after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Commodity E

Securitize and Chiliz Group-powered Socios.com are partnering to develop regulated tokenized equity offerings for minority stakes in professional sports teams. The offerings will use the Socios Equity Token brand. The estimated global professional sports franchise market is $500 billion. Socios.com

While Bitcoin has shown a strong recovery in the last two weeks, market maker Wintermute assessed the recent surge and the possibility of a new bull market.Is the Rise in Bitcoin a Harbinger of a New Bull Market?While Bitcoin has seen a significant surge in the last two weeks, Wintermute, one of the

Ondo Finance is asking US regulators to bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks onshore, arguing that the products can already fit within the country’s existing “security futures” framework rather than requiring new rulemaking. In comment letters submitted on Aug. 24 to both the Securities

Goldman Sachs is telling investors to bet on stocks and cool it on credit. The firm upgraded equities to Overweight from Neutral for both its 3-month and 12-month outlooks, while simultaneously downgrading credit to Underweight. It’s the kind of strategic pivot that tends to ripple through portfolio

The number of onchain tokenized equity holders just hit 1.9 million. Jupiter, the dominant decentralized exchange aggregator on Solana, has been the primary engine behind that growth, routing a massive share of the volume that’s pulling retail investors into a new flavor of stock trading: permission

CoinDesk reports:Foreign media reported that after posting its strongest August performance since 2017, Bitcoin weakened rapidly at the beginning of September, briefly falling below $77,000. The article suggested that markets are repricing higher interest rates, a stronger U.S. dollar, and rising oi

KuCoin Web3 Wallet said on September 2 that it had upgraded its self-custodial trading interface with intent-based swaps and limit orders. The KuCoin announcement names UniswapX and PancakeSwapX as the intent-routing integrations, while 1inch powers the new limit-order function.Intent Systems Compet