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More than $12 million in crypto-aligned political action committee (PAC) media buys helped propel Barry Moore to victory in Tuesday's Alabama Republican US Senate runoff over Barry Moore.The runoff was necessary after neither candidate was able to secure...

For months, fearmongers have warned of AI’s “doomsday,” how it could eventually render whole swaths of the labor force unemployed and leave the rest managing AI employees. But for Jeff Bezos, those fears are overblown, and instead, AI will...

Crypto exchange Bybit has been added to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Investor Alert List, a registry designed to warn consumers about entities that may be wrongly perceived as licensed or regulated by the financial watchdog. Bybit Fintech Limited...

Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, giving the stablecoin issuer a direct entry into the wrapped Bitcoin market and setting up a new challenge to existing BTC-backed DeFi assets.TL;DRcirBTC is live on Ethereum and backed 1:1 by Bitcoin. Circle says...

Today in crypto, the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) deadline looms over crypto exchanges serving the bloc.Also, the US Congress reached a deal to advance a housing bill that includes a central bank digital currency (CBDC) ban,...