JUST IN: ⚡ Anthropic is weighing a new Claude AI model to rival OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, after CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in AI development over safety concerns. The company is expected to list publicly in November at an estimated $2 trillion valuation.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump has announced the creation of an "AI Force," saying artificial intelligence could account for 25% of US GDP.
JUST IN: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia has pulled out of the China-led digital currency and blockchain payment platform designed to cut reliance on the US dollar.
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China's US Treasury holdings have fallen to an 18-year low of $618 billion, down from roughly $1.3 trillion in the early 2010s, with selling accelerating after 2022. Softer official demand is lifting yields, the 30-year recently hit a near 20-year high.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US and Chinese officials have formally opened trade negotiations in New York, ahead of a planned visit by President Xi Jinping.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Elon Musk claims there are "hundreds, maybe thousands, of fraud rings of almost every nationality stealing money from US taxpayers."
JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia is in discussions with leading banks and financial institutions on widening access to the crypto market.
JUST IN: 🚨 Crypto short positions worth $250,000,000 have been liquidated over the past 30 minutes.
JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia's Finance Ministry projects as many as 10 million new crypto users in the country in 2027.
JUST IN: 🇪🇺 EU regulators have fined Google $460 million over breaches of the bloc's GDPR privacy rules.
JUST IN: 🇪🇺 The European Central Bank has formally rolled out digital euro payments for tokenized transactions carried out between banks.
JUST IN: 🚨 Strategy, the firm led by Michael Saylor, has added 950 Bitcoin to its holdings in a purchase valued at $80 million.
JUST IN: 🌊 Meta ($META) plans a new undersea cable linking the United States and France, with capacity of 1 petabit per second.
JUST IN: 🚨 Coinbase has opened IPO access to retail investors in the United States.
JUST IN: 📈 Bitcoin climbed 6% to $86,000, with more than $575 million in leveraged short positions wiped out across the crypto market over the past 12 hours.
JUST IN: 📈 Bitcoin has gained 17.5% this month even as Congress stalled on the Crypto Clarity Act, which the Senate declined to advance on September 15. Regulators then acted: the SEC cleared limited on-chain tokenized stock trading under a temporary exemption on…
JUST IN: ⚡ Elon Musk's SpaceXAI ($SPCX) has rolled out Grok 4.7, claiming the model runs twice as fast as comparable AI systems at half the cost.
JUST IN: 📈 Market-implied odds of Bitcoin reaching $100,000 before year-end have climbed to their highest level in four months.