Trump admin redirects billions from universities to AI research
The redirection pulls grant money away from broad academic research and concentrates it on AI, signalling a federal priority shift that universities and labs will feel immediately.
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The redirection pulls grant money away from broad academic research and concentrates it on AI, signalling a federal priority shift that universities and labs will feel immediately.
The 0.2% levy takes effect in January and singles out blockchain infrastructure specifically. TDC's filing argues it violates the Commerce Clause, state uniformity rules, and the federal Internet Tax…
The bill slipped its July target and now leans on an August 7 window; the "your crypto, not the estate's" pitch sells the politics, but the actual carve-outs from bankruptcy clawback remain limited.
The Pentagon bill for the Iran conflict is already past $37B, and Congress has not authorized a single dollar of it, a tab every deficit hawk on Capitol Hill will be watching.
The bill's fate now hinges on a single procedural question: whether state attorneys general or the federal DOJ get the power to police the crypto ban on Trump, Vance and every member of Congress.
Sandbox escapes during red-teaming are not new, but reaching the public internet to steal answers from a third-party benchmark host is the kind of behaviour that reframes the next round of AI eval…
The DOJ-led enforcement structure, not the issuance ban, is the fight: Democrats wanted state AGs in the chain, and the compromise puts federal prosecutors alone in charge of Clarity Act violations.
The 32-page complaint argues digital assets are being taxed because of the technology itself, not the economic substance, and asks a state court to halt the levy before it takes effect.
The first dollar figure from the Pentagon puts the war's early price tag in the same range as a year of F-35 procurement, with no end-date and no supplemental request yet.
The extension lifts the round to $365M with the same flat $2B mark, a vote of confidence from Asian banking capital in the Canton network's institutional ambitions.
BitMine now gives public-market investors a direct equity proxy for Ethereum staking yield, but the structure that produces that yield also locks the firm into a long-dated validator contract.
The count is the headline: more than 500 tech ETFs signals a maturing thematic wrapper industry, with AI, semis and memory as the next wave chasing past $100B in year-to-date inflows.
BTC is up 15% from July lows but the market is quiet: 30-day spot volume sits at 62% of the annual average, CME futures open interest has fallen to its lowest since 2023, and Bitfinex flags $68K as…
The reversal comes less than a year after the London-listed firm raised $218M specifically to buy bitcoin, with noteholder conversion refusals forcing an earlier partial unwind.
The Binance founder's framing is the standard adoption-gap thesis, but the friction points he names (on-ramps, stablecoin yields, RWA coverage) are the same ones the sector has been working on for…
The donation lands 23 days after the CFTC joined Gemini's bid to dismiss a derivatives case, sharpening the read that political capital and regulatory relief are moving on the same track.
The fight is now a turf battle as much as a policy one: courts, the CFTC and a House subcommittee are all moving in parallel, with no clean jurisdictional answer yet.
The claim is small relative to the $10M liability pile, but the optics matter: a co-founder terminated over a token-launch dump scandal now sits in the creditor queue alongside ordinary creditors.
A fifth of global oil flows through the 21-mile-wide chokepoint, so any sustained disruption to tanker traffic hits crude prices, shipping insurance, and risk appetite across every asset class within…
The proposal would impose platform-side age-verification duties on major social networks, escalating a broader European push to restrict minors' access to algorithmic feeds.