All news
Everything we’ve published, newest first.
-
Zoox grounded its Atlanta test fleet after as many as 40 workers may have breathed toxic gas
Federal safety officials have closed their inquiry, but Zoox has not said what was getting into its cars.
-
Alibaba says its new chip is China’s most powerful, and it will not ship until 2027
The Zhenwu V900 is built to run in clusters of 500,000, but Alibaba has not said who will manufacture it under US export controls.
-
Waymo will now drive 13-year-olds across Nashville with no adult in the car
Teen accounts have reached a second city and Waymo promises many more, though it has not said how it checks who is actually riding.
-
OpenAI halved its prices ninety minutes after Anthropic cut its own
GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 arrived on the same Tuesday, and the headline number for both was cost, not capability.
-
The CFTC called bets on what people will say easy to rig, and stopped short of banning them
Prediction markets can keep listing mention contracts, but only where the person being bet on has a strong reason not to steer the result.
-
Canada’s six biggest banks will test tokenised deposits, and none has promised to issue one
Every major Canadian lender now has a seat at the table, without a chosen blockchain, a launch date or a commitment to put a…
-
SoFi moved its $25 billion card programme onto a stablecoin its own bank issues
SoFi is the first US national bank to settle Mastercard transactions in its own token, and the design only works if merchants never notice.
-
Binance took a $100 million stake in Circle, the company that pays it to promote USDC
The shares arrived with a five-year deal under which Circle pays Binance a monthly fee, which makes it hard to say who is investing…
-
BitMEX invented the perpetual swap and has now closed on a market it no longer led
The exchange behind crypto’s most traded product stopped trading at 04:00 UTC on Wednesday, and anyone who leaves money behind now pays rent on…
-
ZetaChain holders just voted to shut down the blockchain they built
A 99.4 percent vote to migrate to Solana points to a wider truth about the 2021 wave of layer-1s: chain maintenance is now the…