OxPay Financial's subsidiary Oxygen7 received a full Financial Services Licence from Bhutan's Gelephu Financial Services Office on April 29, 2026, clearing the way for a regulated crypto payments and stablecoin remittance platform targeting GMC's tourism and B2B sectors.
The third edition of Money20/20 Asia drew 4,500+ attendees from 90 countries to Bangkok over April 21-23, marking a 40% jump year on year. Stablecoins, tokenization, CBDCs, and AI dominated the agenda, with senior executives from KASIKORNBANK, Standard Chartered, J.P. Morgan, and DBS Bank attending.
Drift Protocol was drained for $285M by North Korean hackers on April 1. Circle didn't freeze $230M in stolen USDC. Now Tether is backing a $148M recovery and Drift relaunches on USDT.
Running just 230 TH/s against a 1 ZH/s network, one solo miner found Bitcoin block 943,411 and pocketed 3.139 BTC, $210K, via CKPool. It's the 312th solo win in CKPool's history.
Athena Intelligence is moving into one of the world's most complex corporate risk environments, with a local hire and a senior advisory bench that signals serious intent.
Larry Fink says tokenization could do for finance what the internet did to mail — and BlackRock isn't waiting around. With $150B already in digital markets, the world's largest asset manager is building the future it's describing.
Online discussions circulating on Chinese social media platforms show high-end homes in Shenzhen Bay, once considered among the most resilient property markets in mainland China, being weighed directly against assets such as Bitcoin, Nvidia shares, and BNB.
Prosperr.io builds AI powered tax management infrastructure aimed at simplifying compliance for individuals and enterprises operating across increasingly complex financial and regulatory environments.
Digital South completed two separate training programs for officers in Tamil Nadu, each focused on the growing challenges around crypto-related crime, financial fraud, and digital investigations.
The joint venture also aligns with SoftBank and OpenAI’s involvement in the Stargate project, an ambitious AI infrastructure initiative in the U.S., backed by Oracle and reportedly supported by former President Donald Trump.
Altman announced in a blog post that OpenAI's user base has tripled to over 300 million weekly active users, positioning the company as a frontrunner in the race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
"If you create a chatbot and ask it a question about Tiananmen, it won’t respond the same way as a system developed in France or the U.S.," he said.
If successful, this latest fundraising round would bring Crusoe’s total funding to approximately $1.5 billion, combining equity and debt. In 2022, the company raised $200 million in debt, using its data center chips as collateral to acquire AI processors.
The new fund’s limited partners include organizations like the McKnight Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, UBS, Woven Earth Ventures, and Zoma Capital. Blue Bear plans to invest in about 15 companies, prioritizing smaller portfolios to ensure successful exits.
Anthropic announced the partnership last week, stating that its generative AI models would empower defense agencies with rapid data processing and analysis tools.
These AI-CoEs, launched in collaboration with leading academic institutions such as AIIMS, IIT Delhi, IIT Ropar, and IIT Kanpur, aim to boost India’s presence in the global AI landscape.
Hinton stressed the need to be concerned about the negative consequences of AI advancements, noting that we lack experience in managing systems smarter than humans.
The host highlighted one of Perplexity’s final questions: “Discuss his views on failure in the tech industry. How does he encourage his team to take risks, and what lessons has he learned from setbacks in his career?”
Among the experts present were Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Andrew Yao, UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell, OBE, and Zhang Ya-Qin, Chair Professor at Tsinghua University.
Leveraging AppliedXL's autonomous news-gathering technology and informed by input from AP journalists, the new initiative, AP Local Lede, identifies and contextualizes the local impact of federal regulations from over 430 agencies, highlighting how government actions affect communities and businesses across all 50 states.
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