BOJ rate decision puts Bitcoin in focus
Bitcoin traders are turning their attention to Tokyo this week as the Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate to 1% from 0.75%, potentially triggering broader market volatility.
Bitcoin traders are turning their attention to Tokyo this week as the Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate to 1% from 0.75%, potentially triggering broader market volatility.
The US government has ordered Anthropic PBC to disable access to its most advanced AI models, such as Mythos and Fable 5, for all foreign nationals. The order comes after the US government discovered it's possible to "jailbreak," or bypass the guardrails, of the Fable 5. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports.
ByteDance is in discussions with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to acquire AI chips for inference workloads, according to sources familiar with the matter, as the TikTok owner expands its domestic semiconductor supply network.
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Coins.ph has expanded support for digital asset payments on the Philippines’ national QR Ph network, allowing users to spend Bitcoin and Ethereum at nearly 700,000 merchants nationwide.
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has urged companies to build what he calls "token capital," arguing that proprietary AI capabilities will become a core asset alongside human expertise in the emerging AI economy.
The US and Iran have reached an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, halting a conflict that has rattled the wider region. But Israel bombed Lebanon's capital Beirut in retaliation for drone incursions by Hezbollah, despite warnings from President Trump to stop the attacks. Julia Roknifard, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law & Governance at Taylor's University, Malaysia spoke to Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East and Africa on Israel's role in the deal.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is partnering with Japan’s two other major banks to launch a yen-backed stablecoin by March 2027, marking one of the country's most significant banking-sector blockchain initiatives.
Zcash slumped about 50% after developers disclosed a critical vulnerability discovered with the help of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8, raising fresh concerns about how artificial intelligence could reshape crypto security.
Google Quantum AI researchers have lowered the estimated number of logical qubits needed to break Ethereum’s account security to about 1,200, down from previous estimates in the tens of thousands.
Swiss voters rejected a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million people as economic risks overcame elevated concerns about immigration. A 55% majority accepted warnings from companies and the government that the proposal would have a long-term negative impact on growth. Bloomberg's Bastian Benrath-Wright reports.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at curbing crypto ATM fraud after Americans lost more than $333 million to scams involving the machines in 2025.