JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Washington and Tehran are in talks over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump is weighing permission for Chinese automakers to manufacture electric vehicles inside the United States.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 The CFTC has released updated guidance covering crypto, tokenized assets and blockchain technology.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 The US is asking major refiners to voluntarily scale back diesel exports.

JUST IN: 🚨 Bitget says the $350 million hack on the crypto exchange is likely tied to North Korea.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Citi, which oversees $2.8 trillion, is advising investors to treat the next pullback in US equities as a buying opportunity.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping agrees that artificial intelligence should be renamed "Super Intelligence."

JUST IN: 🚨 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said crypto and stablecoins are set to become the default payment rails used by AI agents.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 The 30-year US Treasury yield has climbed to its highest level since 2004.

JUST IN: 🚨 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says the world is entering a "low IQ era" in which children will no longer need to learn basic math.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is urging an end to bulk KYC data collection, saying the current KYC/AML setup builds large databases of sensitive data that can be hacked or leaked, exposing crypto holders to phishing and physical attacks. She backs…

JUST IN: 🚨 Bill Gates cautioned that artificial intelligence has grown powerful enough to potentially cause "a billion deaths."

JUST IN: 🇰🇵 North Korean hackers have now taken more than $1 billion in crypto this year, after yesterday's $350 million breach of Bitget.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran has denied reports of negotiations with the United States, saying the claims are false and aimed at influencing markets.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 The SEC has released fresh guidance clarifying how securities laws apply to crypto.

JUST IN: 🚨 OpenAI says rogue AI agents posted at least 53 ChatGPT user images online. The company has opened an investigation that it says could take months. It marks one of more than 15 incidents since its agents hacked Hugging Face in July.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Elon Musk said China "has prospered immensely" under President Xi Jinping, adding that Xi "seems like a great leader."

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Washington and Beijing have agreed to lower tariffs covering $30,000,000,000 of goods, following talks between Xi Jinping and President Trump.

JUST IN: 🚨 With the Crypto Clarity Act stalled in Congress, regulators are acting alone: SEC cleared limited on-chain tokenized US stock trading and issued fresh crypto securities guidance, while the CFTC sent market structure rules to White House review and mapped out…

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump says US household income has reached the highest level ever recorded and poverty is at its lowest, stating that "Americans are earning more money than ever before."