🚨 BRAZIL BLOCKS KALSHI, POLYMARKET IN SWEEPING PLATFORM BAN

Brazil has blocked access to Kalshi and Polymarket as part of a wider crackdown on 28 betting platforms, citing investor protection and rising concerns over online gambling risks, Finance Minister Dario Durigan said.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran officially denies seeking talks with the US, says it has made "no request", per Tasnim.

Tehran insists it never requested direct talks and accuses Washington of pushing negotiations via Pakistani intermediaries.

Meanwhile, President Trump just said Iran plans to make an offer to resolve US demands.

Both sides are back to giving completely different stories.

🚨 Google just confirmed it's pouring up to $40 BILLION into Anthropic.

Here's how Google's Anthropic stake has grown:

2023: $300M initial bet (~10% stake)
Late 2023: $2B added
2025: ~$1B follow-on
2026: up to $40B confirmed

That's a roughly 13,000% jump in three years.

The deal includes $10B in cash NOW at a $350B valuation, plus another $30B tied to performance milestones.

To put it bluntly, Google just spent more on Anthropic this week than Anthropic earns in three years.

In 2026 alone, the hyperscalers, that's Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet, are set to spend a combined $700B plus on AI infrastructure.

Meanwhile, McKinsey is projecting $5.2 trillion in global AI data center capex by 2030.

That's roughly the size of Japan's entire GDP, spent on one industry, in five years.

What changed? Everything.

👀 JUST IN: Telegram founder Pavel Durov is accusing French tax officials of selling crypto holders' data to criminals.

He's blaming them for 41 kidnappings of crypto holders in just the first 3.5 months of 2026.

This makes France blew past last year's total (30) in under 4 months.

Per CertiK, so-called “wrench attacks”, where attackers use physical force instead of hacking, surged 75% globally in 2025, reaching 72 verified cases and over $40.9M in losses.

Kidnapping was the dominant attack vector, with 25 incidents globally.

Europe is now the epicenter with 40.3% of all global cases in 2025

France alone accounted for 19 of those 72 in 2025, more than 2x the United States.

In 2026 so far, ~two-thirds of all global wrench attacks have occurred in France, per Jameson Lopp's tracker.

Targets have also shifted from founders and whales to mid-level holders, spouses, even children.

Crypto security just became a personal security problem.

▶️ JUST IN: BlackRock and Morgan Stanley just bought $34M in Bitcoin ETFs

Investors added 438 $BTC worth of exposure, valued at $34M, through these giants, showing serious institutional appetite returning.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs also recorded $14.45M in net inflows, now 9 straight days of buying.