A Japanese logistics company that counts Amazon Japan as a client plans to settle payments in the regulated yen stable currency JPYC with business partners, including independent truck drivers, according to a Nikkei Asia report. Tokyo-listed AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings (9090), which reported revenue of 230.5 billion yen ($1.4 billion) for the fiscal year ended March, […]
After a brief respite, the price of gasoline is starting to rise again. On Monday, the average price at the pump in the United States soared to $4 a gallon, according to the AAA auto club, as the war with Iran resumed, halting most shipments and pinching already depleted global refineries. The price is up
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K3 forms the basis of why the list is different than it would have been a month ago. The open-weight model outperformed all rivals – except Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 – on some metrics, and surpassed a widely watched coding benchmark, triggering a semiconductor sell-off on Friday that dragged the crypto lower.
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Bitcoin slipped to around $63,900 on Monday, down 1.3% on the day but still up 2% on the week, as the crypto remained stuck between a war driving up oil and the Chinese AI shock that hit chip stocks on Friday. The board is red all day. Ether fell 1.1% to $1,850, BNB fell 0.8%
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Bets on stocks and technology continue to rally since Friday. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, a Chinese open-weight model that took first place in a widely watched coding benchmark, sparked a semiconductor selloff that dragged the crypto lower until it closed last week. The aftershock hit Asia on Monday, with South Korea’s Kospi falling 3.5% as
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This interpretation is intuitive given that ETFs, which allow investors to gain exposure to cryptocurrency without directly owning it, are widely seen as a cleaner gateway for institutions into the cryptocurrency market. As a result, positive ETF inflows mean BTC is receiving institutional support, while outflows suggest the opposite. The price of Bitcoin has also
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Oil prices rose and stock futures were little changed late Sunday following a weekend of fighting between the United States and Iran that left at least three U.S. military personnel dead in Jordan and Iraq. The United States has also begun sending more fighter jets to the Middle East, signaling that the war could soon
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Michael Saylor, executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy, has spoken out against a new proposal to clean up “spam” from Bitcoin, arguing it could fundamentally change how the world’s largest blockchain operates. Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110, aimed at temporarily restricting arbitrary data to focus on basic monetary functions, poses a threat to the network’s
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The rise of autonomous AI agents requires the use of zero-knowledge proofs, says Brian Trunzo, chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.
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This year, Tether rolled out USAT – launched with US standards in mind and issued by US banking partner Anchorage Digital. For the moment, its use remains relatively low. “Non-compliant stablecoins will not be able to be used by U.S. institutions when the safe harbor expires in 2028, but we don’t expect the market to
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