Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
Circle launched its Arc blockchain mainnet today, a new public chain where USDC is the native gas token and 12 major financial institutions — including BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard — serve as validators.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 46-43, with seven Democrats who had negotiated the bill for months voting no over Trump-related ethics provisions, effectively killing US crypto market-structure legislation for 2026.
New defaults taking effect today block AI training and agent crawlers on ad-supported pages unless they clearly declare their purpose, closing a loophole multi-purpose bots like Googlebot previously used to gather training data under cover of search indexing.
A 19-article regulation signed by Premier Li Qiang lets Chinese authorities block departures over export-control violations that could endanger technological security, with bans lasting up to three years.
A China-linked actor scanned 1,386 self-hosted Gitea servers across seven countries and confirmed compromises at 13 organizations, deploying a new Linux rootkit that patches 15 kernel functions to hide itself.
The EPA repealed the last federal caps on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants, with industry groups explicitly citing surging AI and data center electricity demand as justification.
Signal is moving to allow account registration without a phone number, using zero-knowledge proofs tied to a one-time payment to block bots while keeping user identity private.
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 solved the Cyphral Distich in 44 minutes with 176,000 tokens, decoding a historical cipher embedded in a 17th-century Scottish text that resisted centuries of human attempts.
VW's Mission Efficiency concept posted a 0.158 drag coefficient and the lowest energy consumption ever recorded for a near-production electric car — achieved with the same motor and battery as the ID. Polo, not bespoke racing hardware.
Microsoft opened public comment on a code of conduct that would bar its future AI models from resisting human correction or shutdown, concealing their reasoning, or expanding their own operating scope.
President Trump publicly attacked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Truth Social days after Amodei called for the AI industry to deliberately slow its pace of capability development.
A Falcon 9 launch carrying the final three O3b mPOWER broadband satellites marked SpaceX's 700th Falcon flight and completed a Boeing-built constellation more than ten years in development.