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Trump Defends Family’s Crypto Business in 60 Minutes Interview

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Donald Trump defended his family’s crypto business during a 60 Minutes interview by comparing his stake in World Liberty Financial with assets held by...

LIVE – Why Is Crypto Down? Jensen Huang Chinese Spy Scandal Sends AI Stocks...

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Bitcoin fell below $75,000 while Ethereum dropped more than 7%, and XRP and Solana also suffered heavy losses. The decline accompanied a sell-off in...

Google DeepMind’s Alex Imas says AI agents may yield only 4% to 5% GDP...

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Alex Imas, Google DeepMind’s director of AGI economics, expects the widespread deployment of AI agents to increase annual GDP growth in developed economies by...

What is Zcash (ZEC)? How shielded transactions work

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Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and blockchain launched in 2016. It allows users to make both public and shielded transactions, with the latter...

NYU Professor Gary Marcus Says OpenAI Could Become the ‘WeWork of AI’ After IPO...

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Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, compares OpenAI to WeWork following the delay of its initial public offering. He argues that the...

Brent Crude Fell 12.5% But Former Biden Advisor Warns Iran War Could Return

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Brent crude prices fell by more than 12.5% this week. Amos Hochstein, a former adviser to the Biden administration, nevertheless estimates that the chances...

Bill Ackman Defends Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as Board Probe Unfolds

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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman defended Jensen Huang on X on November 9, 2026, calling him an “incredible human” and urging the community to support...

China wholesale inflation hits over four-year high as consumer measure slows

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Producer prices in China rose 5.7% in October, their fastest increase since June 2022, above the 5.3% expected by economists polled by Reuters. This...

Core Scientific’s AI Colocation Revenue Jumps to $215M as Mining Role Shrinks

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Core Scientific generated $215.4 million in colocation revenue in the third quarter of 2026, compared with $136.7 million in the previous quarter and $15...

Hyperliquid Whale’s 56,667-ETH Long Fully Liquidated

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A long position of 56,667 ETH held on Hyperliquid was fully liquidated. The two tracked accounts now have combined lifetime losses of about $44.8...

Upbit weekly volume falls 20.8% to 6.7 trillion won as XRP leads trading

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Upbit’s weekly trading volume fell 20.8% to 6.7 trillion won, or approximately $4.9 billion, for the week ending November 8, 2026. This was the...

Blumenthal Sets Jan. 4 Deadline for Binance, Tether and Trump Crypto Firms

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Senator Blumenthal set a January 4 deadline for Binance, Tether and crypto businesses linked to Donald Trump to provide records. He warned that alternative...

Hut 8 Expands AI Campus Commitments While Funding Buybacks With Bitcoin Sales

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Hut 8 has fully commercialised its Beacon Point campus with a second 352 MW lease, bringing the expected contract value of its AI data-centre...

Trump says AI risks are manageable and signals openness to guardrails

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Donald Trump told CBS during an interview recorded on November 8, 2026, that the risks of artificial intelligence are manageable and that he would...

Trump expresses confidence in Rubio’s role as Secretary of State

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In a recent interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Donald Trump expressed confidence that Marco Rubio will continue as Secretary of State. His statement follows...

Shiba Inu (SHIB), Tron (TRX), Zcash (ZEC) and Near Protocol (NEAR) Price Analysis For...

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Shiba Inu fell below $0.00000500 and traded around $0.00000447, extending its downtrend amid weak DeFi activity and low token burning. Tron bounced from $0.300...

Kalshi, Polymarket face scrutiny from Democrats after midterms

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Democrats are preparing legislative action and congressional hearings targeting prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket after their gains during the 2026 midterm elections....

Bloom Energy stock falls 16% despite two major data center deals

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Bloom Energy shares fell about 16% on November 6, 2026, after the company announced two data center contracts totaling 1,602 megawatts of fuel cell...

Crypto Liquidations Surge as Bitcoin Falls Below $74K. How Bad Is It?

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Bitcoin plunged toward $74,000 late Sunday, touched a low of $73,708 and reached its weakest level since August. Ethereum also fell to $2,100. CoinGlass...

Gold prices fall as strong US jobs data fuels December rate hike expectations

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Gold prices continued to decline following the release of strong US jobs data. The labor market report showed a significant rise in nonfarm payrolls...

Riot Sells More Than 20,000 Bitcoin as AI Data-Centre Contracts Reach $38B

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Riot Platforms sold 20,264 Bitcoin during the first nine months of 2026, raising approximately $1.5 billion primarily to finance data-centre construction. In the third...

US midterms show backlash against local data centers, Missouri moratorium possible

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Recent state election results show growing public opposition to the development of data centers near residential areas. According to Pew Research, six in ten...

The Pentagon is reportedly ramping up economic warfare and espionage. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s...

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Nvidia launched an investigation after reports that its chief executive, Jensen Huang, was the target of a foreign intelligence campaign. The company’s board said...

Three men charged in alleged $129 million AI voice-cloning fraud scheme

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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan say Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan, and Guy Sheetrit used artificial intelligence to impersonate executives and lawyers, tricking companies into fraudulent...

Stanford and Google DeepMind build TURTLE to make AI benchmarks evolve

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Stanford University and Google DeepMind developed TURTLE, a system that turns existing tool-use tasks into harder versions while checking that they remain solvable. The...

Samsung, SK hynix and Micron pursue a common charging standard for fab robots

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Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron are discussing with the SEMI association the development of a common charging standard for mobile robots used in...

Senator Blumenthal Sets January 4 Deadline for Binance and Tether Records

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Senator Richard Blumenthal has asked Binance, Tether, World Liberty Financial, and Fight Fight Fight to provide outstanding documents by January 4, 2027. The two...

AI spending added 0.9 points to third-quarter US GDP growth

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According to Morgan Stanley’s analysis, artificial intelligence spending added 0.9 percentage points to annualized US real GDP growth in the third quarter of 2026,...

OpenAI CFO Says Democratic Midterm Wave Did Not Change IPO Plans

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC that the Democratic wave in the 2026 US midterm elections did not significantly alter the company’s schedule. OpenAI...

Threshold Says tBTC Bridge Has Resumed Onchain, but App Remains Paused

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Threshold says the tBTC bridge has resumed its onchain activity. The associated app, however, remains paused. Aave’s $119.9 million tBTC reserve held in Ethereum...

Stock futures rise slightly as investors eye AI trade, brace for more data and...

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U.S. stock futures edged higher Sunday evening as investors awaited key inflation data and earnings from major AI companies. Dow Jones futures rose 101...

Physical Superintelligence claims unreleased Anthropic model proved Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture

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Physical Superintelligence (PSI), a physics research lab based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says a system powered by an unreleased Anthropic model produced a complete proof...

Vitalik ‘pivots’ ETH to store of value, crypto suffers after US midterms: Hodler’s Digest

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Crypto super PACs spent $176 million trying to influence the US elections, but majorities in both chambers now favor the industry: 50 senators and...

Coinbase Explains Cold-Storage Defences After Binance Breach Shakes Crypto Industry

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Coincoin said on November 4 that it was not affected by the reported Binance hot-wallet incident and that more than 99% of customer assets...

How to Buy YouTube Stock as It Dominates US Television

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YouTube does not have its own stock, despite capturing a record 15.8% share of US television time. Investors can gain exposure to the platform...

Onchain data casts doubt on insider-trading theory in NYT’s ‘suspicious’ election betting story

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The New York Times reported on apparently suspicious bets during an election. Two experts reviewed The Block’s findings using onchain data. They said the...

Hypercall to Open Anthropic Options on Hyperliquid November 9 as IPO Timing Draws Doubts

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Hypercall will open synthetic options on Anthropic’s pre-IPO valuation on Monday, November 9 at 8 a.m. EST, with cash settlement and continuous trading, including...

AVAX Falls 28% in Four Weeks, Lagging Bitcoin and Ether

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AVAX lost 28% of its value over four weeks. During the same period, Bitcoin fell 11.3% and Ether fell 16%. The decline reversed AVAX’s...

Which Bitcoin Treasury Stocks Could Surge on Bullish CPI Data Drop?

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Bitcoin treasury stocks are set to react sharply to the U.S. Consumer Price Index release on Tuesday, November 10 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Consensus...

Nvidia investigation raises uncertainty for Asian tech markets

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Asian technology markets could face greater uncertainty after a Bloomberg report highlighted potential pressure on the sector linked to the investigation into Nvidia. The...

$1B liquidated from crypto market as Bitcoin, Ethereum drop

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More than $1.05 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated over 24 hours, including approximately $930 million in long positions, or 88.2% of the total....

Circle Says It Froze $1.1B in USDC Linked to Binance Hack Investigation

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Circle said it froze approximately $1.1 billion in USDC during an investigation into an attack on Binance involving more than $6 billion in digital...

Cathie Wood Blames Anthropic’s CEO for AI Panic: Why Attack a Company Her Fund...

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Cathie Wood blamed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for the panic seen in the artificial intelligence market after the midterm rout. Her comments came as...

Bitcoin Trades Below Strategy’s $75,451 Average Purchase Price

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Bitcoin traded on Sunday below Strategy’s $75,451 average purchase price. The company’s disclosed 849,327 BTC were worth about $63.58 billion at Sunday’s quote. Their...

Binance resumes HYPE withdrawals, but how will altcoin navigate $77.6M in shorts?

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Binance has resumed withdrawals of HYPE and APT following its late-October hack, which had halted withdrawals for 10 days. HYPE was trading around $75,...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defends global chip competition against Anthropic’s Amodei

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Jensen Huang rejected Dario Amodei’s call for a total ban on advanced AI chip sales to China. The Nvidia CEO advocated an approach centered...

Atlanta Fed survey shows AI spending among US firms nearly doubled

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U.S. companies using artificial intelligence expect to spend an average of $1,024 per employee in 2026, a 96.1% increase from 2025. A broader Atlanta...

Nvidia CEO apologizes, pledges to protect US national security amid probe

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has apologized to the company's employees and pledged to protect the company and support U.S. national security. This statement followed...

Crypto Millionaire Reveals Shocking Details of His $2M Kidnapping in the UK

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Crypto millionaire Evan Luthra detailed to BeInCrypto his kidnapping in Oxford, United Kingdom. The incident drained approximately $2 million from him in cryptocurrency. According...

Nvidia’s board will probe CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with an alleged spy. Here’s what...

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Nvidia’s board is investigating whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted as part of a foreign-intelligence scheme. The company announced the review on Sunday. Huang...