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JUST IN: Reports attributed to CNN and Fox News indicate that Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General, a move that shakes the federal justice system and reignites questions about the political direction of his administration.
Reports cited by Reuters indicate that Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General.

BREAKING: Microsoft unveiled three new foundational AI models capable of generating text, speech, and images, a clear indication that it intends to build its own multimodal AI stack to compete with OpenAI and Google without breaking its alliance with OpenAI.
Microsoft AI launched MAI Transcribe 1, MAI Voice 1, and MAI Image 2 through Foundry and MAI Playground.

BREAKING: Coinbase received conditional approval for a domestic trust company charter in the United States, a step that could make it a federally regulated cryptocurrency custodian and strengthen its push into the institutional market.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Coinbase conditional approval for a domestic trust company charter.

JUST IN: X, Elon Musk's social network, is preparing a new barrier against cryptocurrency scams.
It will automatically block accounts that mention crypto for the first time and require additional verification before allowing new posts.
The measure aims to disable hijacked accounts, which are often used to promote fake tokens and malicious links.

JUST IN: The firm Kroll issued this rating, giving it the lowest level within the investment grade category, which isn't exactly bad, but is still far from the highest levels of confidence.
KBRA assigns Ripple Prime its lowest investment grade rating.
Business still in the scaling phase with concentrated revenue streams.

JUST IN: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) settled its first individual case related to the FTX collapse with a $3.7 million settlement from a former FTX engineer.
The settlement marks another step in the regulatory cleanup following the exchange's bankruptcy and underscores that legal accountability extends to former key employees.
The CFTC reached a $3.7 million settlement with a former FTX engineer.

JUST IN: Google has once again made a move in the open source AI race with Gemma 4, a new family of models designed to strengthen its position against rivals who have gained ground in the open AI ecosystem.
Google unveiled Gemma 4 as part of its renewed open AI strategy.

BREAKING: Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared details about how he organizes his personal AI environment with a clear emphasis on privacy and security, amid growing concerns about data exposure and reliance on centralized platforms.
Vitalik Buterin explained how he structures an AI environment with a focus on privacy and security.
This approach reinforces the debate about using AI models without sharing sensitive data with third parties.

JUST IN: The legal director of 1inch asserted that the CLARITY Act in the United States is very favorable for DeFi, considering that the bill recognizes protections already implemented by several platforms and could offer a regulatory pathway without forcing the sector to rebuild from scratch.
Orest Gavryliak, 1inch's chief legal officer, said that the CLARITY Act is favorable for cryptocurrencies and for DeFi.

JUST IN: Hims & Hers confirmed a data breach in its third-party customer support system following a social engineering attack in February.
The company maintains that medical records were not compromised, but acknowledges the theft of names, email addresses, and other personal data that has not yet been specified.
Hims & Hers stated that hackers accessed its external ticketing system between February 4 and 7.

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JUST IN: Circle, known for issuing stablecoins like USDC, announced the upcoming launch of cirBTC, a new wrapped bitcoin product aimed at the institutional market.
The offering seeks to expand the company's presence beyond tokenized fiat currency, with real time, verifiable on chain reserves and an initial deployment on Ethereum and Arc.
Circle announced Circle Wrapped Bitcoin, or cirBTC, as a new tokenized bitcoin offering for institutional users.

JUST IN: The Artemis II mission has barely begun and has already produced a scene as human as it is unusual amidst the lunar journey NASA astronauts needed technical support to resolve a problem with Microsoft Outlook and another issue with the spacecraft's toilet.
Commander Reid Wiseman reported that his device displayed two instances of Microsoft Outlook, and neither was working.

BREAKING: Russia has targeted some 50,000 cryptocurrency miners after expanding operational bans to 13 regions, in what is shaping up to be the most severe enforcement action since the legalization of the activity in 2024.
The underlying issue is not only regulatory; the country faces electricity deficits of nearly 3,000 MW in key Siberian areas, and the reshuffle could shift some of Bitcoin's global computing power to other markets.
The restrictions cover 10 active regions, including Irkutsk, parts of Buryatia and Zabaikalsky, six republics in the North Caucasus, and Ukrainian territories occ

JUST IN: A new report from the CFA Institute shows that young, high net worth investors are entering the cryptocurrency market at a much faster rate than older generations.
Behind this preference lies a troubling factor a significant portion of Gen Z and millennial millionaires admit to investing out of FOMO fear of missing out, amidst high volatility in Bitcoin, the rise of social media as a source of income, and growing doubts about the financial literacy of younger generations.
According to the CFA Institute, 48% of young, affluent investors and 50% of Gen Z and millennial millionaires repo

JUST IN: Donald Trump's latest speech on the Iran war reignited market volatility after the president asserted that the United States would achieve its military objectives very soon, while leaving key questions unanswered about the future of the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, and the inflationary impact on the US economy.
Trump stated that the US would complete its military objectives in Iran shortly and anticipated extremely hard blows for the next two to three weeks.

JUST IN: An analysis attributed to Google Quantum AI ranked Cardano as the second best blockchain positioned against potential threats from quantum computing, second only to Algorand.
The report compares architectures, public key exposure, and migration capabilities toward post-quantum cryptography, at a time when the industry is beginning to prepare for a risk that is still considered distant.

MARKET: Ripple introduced new corporate treasury features that allow finance teams to manage XRP and RLUSD alongside fiat balances from a single platform, a move aimed at bringing digital assets closer to the daily work of CFOs.
Ripple integrated native digital asset accounts into its GTreasury-based enterprise treasury system.