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In brief OpenAI may be overhauling ChatGPT into a “superapp” bundling Codex, AI agents, and third-party integrations. The overhaul, internally codenamed “Aria,” is aimed at pushing users toward higher-margin products before a Q4 2026 IPO. Codex has grown sixfold to more than 5 million weekly active users since a desktop app launched in February, and the majority of those users pay for the service. OpenAI has nearly 1 billion ChatGPT users. Most of them use it for free. That’s the problem the company is trying to solve before it goes public.The plan, reported by the Financial Times based on interviews…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows the new Bitcoin whales realized a massive amount of loss during the past week as BTC has gone through its drawdown. New Bitcoin Whales Have Harvested Massive Losses Recently As pointed out by CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn in a new post on X, New Whales on the Bitcoin blockchain have been participating in loss-taking recently. “Whales” are broadly defined as investors holding more than 1,000 BTC in their wallets, excluding entities such as miners and exchanges. Whales can be divided into two cohorts on the…

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX exchange, is serving a quarter-century in federal prison for orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in US history.Yet, crypto speculators are wagering that a newly filed presidential pardon application could somehow reverse his fortunes.This week, the disgraced FTX founder officially requested executive clemency via the Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney portal.SBF Seeks Trump Pardon (Source: US DOJ)The move marks a formal escalation of a months-long shadow campaign by his family and legal surrogates to secure his freedom, defying conventional legal wisdom and the standard five-year post-sentencing…

In brief Apple introduced Siri AI with conversational capabilities, visual understanding, and access to personal context. Apple Intelligence is also coming to Safari, Messages, Mail, Calendar, Photos, Home, and Shortcuts. Siri AI will launch in beta later this year, while many of the new Apple Intelligence features will arrive with Apple’s upcoming software releases. During a presentation at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuilt version of its voice assistant that can hold conversations, understand personal context, analyze images, and complete more complex tasks across the company’s devices.The announcement marks Apple’s biggest update…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A viral claim is spreading across the crypto space, suggesting that Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, had dumped a massive amount of ETH in a short period. The report has sparked fears of a major price decline, raising investor concerns. It also drew sharp reactions from ETH community members, as debate ignited over whether the sell-off move indicated deeper market weakness or misinformation. Ethereum Co-founder Dump Claims Shake The Market Crypto investors and traders were rattled this week after reports claimed Buterin had sold a large portion of…

In brief Xiaomi and inference partner TileRT have broken 1,000 tokens per second on a 1-trillion-parameter model, a first at that scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node—not custom chips. The speed comes from FP4 quantization on the model’s expert layers and DFlash speculative decoding, which proposes a full block of tokens in one pass instead of one at a time. A limited API trial opens June 9 through June 23, priced at 3× standard MiMo rates for roughly 10× the generation speed. Most people know Xiaomi as the Chinese phone brand. The one that makes cheap electric scooters and…

Bitcoin traded around $63,000 on Monday, clawing back from a two-month low hit on June 5 as a confluence of headwinds — spot ETF outflows, macro uncertainty, and capital rotation into artificial intelligence stocks — pushed the world’s largest cryptocurrency roughly 50% below its all-time high of $126,279 reached in October 2025. The decline has triggered familiar scenes of capitulation. Retail investors have largely stepped back, and mainstream headlines have leaned into the fear. But a growing chorus of institutional voices is pushing back hard. In a report published Monday, analysts at Wall Street brokerage Bernstein said Bitcoin’s long-term “store…

In brief Sam Bankman-Fried field an application for pardon with the Office of the Pardon Attorney. He told Fox Business last week that he “absolutely” would take a pardon, though the process can take months or years. The FTX co-founder and former CEO is currently serving a 25-year sentence for his crimes. FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (aka SBF) has formally applied for a presidential pardon according to an update on the Office of the Pardon Attorney website.Bankman-Fried, who was convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges in 2024 and sentenced to 25 years in prison, is seeking a…

Stand With Crypto and more than 200 companies and organizations sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on June 7, urging them to schedule the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act for a full Senate vote. The letter — signed by executives and representatives from some of the most recognized names in digital finance — frames the moment as a test of American leadership in the global race to govern digital asset markets.  Signatories include Coinbase, Circle, Ripple, Kraken, Andreessen Horowitz, Binance.US, Multicoin Capital, Riot Platforms, and Uniswap Labs, among dozens of state-level blockchain…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, moved forward with a new legal effort on Monday by filing a request for a presidential pardon from President Trump. Bankman-Fried’s Pardon Bid Bloomberg reported that Bankman-Fried submitted an application to the Office of the Pardon Attorney within the US Department of Justice (DOJ), seeking what the site describes as a “pardon after completion of sentence.”  Later on Monday, during an exclusive conversation with FOX Business correspondent Susan Li, Bankman-Fried said he “absolutely” wants…

Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies made its largest ETH-denominated purchase of 2026 last week, adding 126,971 ETH or around $214 million worth of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.The firm’s major acquisition comes amid what the firm sees as a “strengthening case” for Ethereum following the AI-assisted discovery of a vulnerability in privacy protocol Zcash. Uncertainty over whether the vulnerability was actually exploited led to a 40% plunge in the price of Zcash’s ZEC token last week, though it has since recovered some of those losses.“The broad selloff in crypto, in our view, is a superficial take,” said…

Strategy (MSTR) returned to the bitcoin market this week, purchasing 1,550 BTC for approximately $101 million — its first acquisition since a controversial sale of 32 bitcoin drew scrutiny from investors and analysts. The company disclosed the purchase in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday morning. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor confirmed the buy on social media, stating that Strategy’s total bitcoin reserve now stands at 845,256 BTC, acquired for just under $64 billion at an average price of $75,680 per coin. The latest tranche was purchased at an average of $65,332 per bitcoin — roughly…