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Robinhood launches AI agentic trading beta with autonomous account management
Robinhood is beta-testing AI agents that can autonomously trade stocks and make payments via a virtual credit card, with fraud detection and real-time notifications designed to keep users in control of their capital.
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Bitdeer appoints Corsair Gaming's Michael Potter as CFO
Bitdeer Technologies Group appointed Michael G. Potter, former CFO of Corsair Gaming, as its new CFO effective May 26, 2026. Potter replaces Jianchun Liu and brings hardware and capital-intensive business experience to the mining and AI infrastructure company.
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US Treasury Yields Near 4.5% Trigger Risk-Off in Equities and Crypto
The 10-year US Treasury yield is approaching 4.5%, a psychological threshold that historically pressures equities and crypto. Rising yields increase borrowing costs, reduce liquidity for speculative assets, and create acute opportunity costs for non-yielding digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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JPMorgan ready to deploy $20B on acquisition, Dimon says
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank could deploy as much as $20 billion on an acquisition over the next few years, marking the largest deal under his two-decade tenure if realized.
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Trajectory raises $50M to advance AI visual understanding for robotics
Trajectory, founded by ex-Google DeepMind and Apple researchers, is raising roughly $50 million to build AI systems with superior visual understanding and real-time learning capabilities for robotics and autonomous systems.
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StakeDAO Attacker Mints 5.4T vsdCRV, Cashes Out Only $91K
An attacker exploited a compromised StakeDAO deployer key on Arbitrum to mint over 5.4 trillion vsdCRV tokens worth $763 billion on paper, but thin liquidity limited actual proceeds to approximately $91,000 in realized gains.
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GENIUS Act repriced Bitcoin's monetary premium, Tanuku argues
The GENIUS Act created a government-backed stablecoin alternative that shifted digital-dollar demand away from Bitcoin, repricing the asset's core function as a capital-control workaround for emerging markets, according to this week's Crypto Long & Short newsletter.
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Kraken launches Bitcoin Vault with up to 2.5% APY on BTC holdings
Kraken announced a Bitcoin Vault feature that allows customers to earn yield on BTC holdings without leaving the exchange, offering up to 2.5% APY through on-chain lending strategies managed by DeFi firm Sentora.
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BIS Project Agorá finds tokenization speeds cross-border payments
Project Agorá, backed by the BIS and seven central banks, concluded that tokenized reserves and deposits could enable atomic settlement across borders. The initiative now moves to real-value testing.
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Amazon licenses AI shopping technology to retailers, Tapestry first adopter
Amazon is licensing AI shopping tools to retailers through AWS, with Tapestry Inc. (Coach, Kate Spade parent) among the first to adopt the technology for store feedback systems and enterprise chatbots.
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DDC Enterprise buys 131 Bitcoin, total holdings reach 2,714 BTC
DDC Enterprise, a former Asian food platform now focused on Bitcoin accumulation, purchased 131 BTC this week, bringing its total holdings to 2,714 BTC and ranking it among the top 30 publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holders.
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Hong Kong SFC raids CCB International, China Securities over IPO misconduct
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission raided two major Chinese brokerages on May 27 over suspected IPO misconduct, marking the second enforcement sweep against Chinese firms in three months.
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Huawei's Claw-Anything benchmark exposes AI agent reliability gap
Researchers from Huawei and Chinese universities built a benchmark that simulates three months of real digital life, asking AI agents to complete tasks across multiple services and devices. GPT-5.5 scored just 34.5%—and fine-tuned open models outperformed some closed-source rivals.
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Crypto IPOs could create $1 trillion market as institutions shift to blockchain finance
Jefferies expects a wave of crypto and blockchain public listings over the next two years as institutions shift focus from speculation to real-world financial infrastructure, potentially creating a $1 trillion market within five years.
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Innio targets $20.3B valuation in US IPO as data center power demand surges
Gas engine manufacturer Innio, majority-owned by Advent International, is targeting a $20.3 billion valuation in a US IPO that would raise up to $2.03 billion, marking a 70% jump from earlier estimates driven by data center infrastructure needs.
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Bitcoin's three-month uptrend against gold snaps amid ETF outflows
Bitcoin's three-month rally versus gold has broken down as investors pivot toward precious metal ETFs, with BTC losing $2 billion in inflows while gold drew $2.34 billion in a single week.
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I Squared Capital buys $225M data center portfolio for AI infrastructure
Miami-based I Squared Capital acquired 10 data center facilities from Cogent Fiber for $225 million to build a standalone US AI inference platform, committing up to $1 billion total for upgrades and expansion.
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Samsung Electronics launches five-year ecosystem investment fund
Samsung Electronics is establishing a new fund to invest in its broader ecosystem and cultivate future talent over five years, continuing the company's track record of large-scale technology investments and workforce development initiatives.
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Base launches MCP tool to connect crypto wallets to AI agents
Base has released a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool that allows AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to execute blockchain transactions on behalf of users, with every action requiring explicit confirmation and no access to private keys.
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XRP fails breakout near $1.36, trapped in tightening consolidation
XRP traded between $1.30 and $1.34 on May 27, failing again to break above $1.36 resistance despite 62 million tokens in volume, keeping the token locked inside a months-long compression structure.
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Bitcoin slides to $75,498 as golden cross setup emerges
Bitcoin slid to $75,498 in Asian trading Tuesday while Zcash fell 9%, even as global equities hit record highs. The largest cryptocurrency's 50-day and 200-day moving averages are on track to cross in coming weeks—a setup known as a golden cross that traders watch for directional signals.
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Japan's 40-year bond auction posts strongest demand since March
Japan's 40-year government bond auction achieved a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.76 on January 27-28, the strongest since March, signaling renewed investor confidence amid the Bank of Japan's monetary tightening and the nation's elevated debt burden.
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Hyperliquid launches native and Ethereum-compatible options trading
Hyperliquid announced plans to launch both native and Ethereum-compatible options on its Layer-1 blockchain, leveraging its existing speed and user base to compete with centralized venues like Deribit.
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Taiwan charges three in Nvidia chip smuggling crackdown to China
Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office charged three individuals with forging export documents to reroute approximately 50 Supermicro AI servers equipped with Nvidia chips toward mainland China, marking the nation's first formal enforcement action against semiconductor smuggling tied to US export controls.