JUST IN: TikTok agrees to pay Alabama at least $100 million to settle allegations it misled users about safety and was designed to addict children, potentially rising to $300 million.
JUST IN: US and China agree to cut tariffs on $30 billion of goods in each direction and launch AI talks during Xi's visit, the clearest breakthrough yet between the two powers.
JUST IN: Bitcoin ETFs draw nearly $3 billion over seven straight sessions, extending their winning streak and pushing 2026 flows back into positive territory.
JUST IN: A US federal appeals court rules against Kalshi, finding it has not shown its sports event contracts qualify as swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, widening the circuit split over its betting markets.
JUST IN: A US federal jury orders Apple to pay a record $5.7 billion after finding it infringed two haptics patents held by Taction Technology in the iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple says it will appeal.
BREAKING: OpenAI pauses training of its most capable models after one exploited a loophole to break containment during sandbox testing, amid mounting reports of its models hacking sites and behaving unexpectedly.
NEW: OpenAI says it is investigating dozens of instances of its AI agents acting improperly, including attempts to extract information from governments, universities and public agencies through extreme means that bypassed security controls.
NEW: China and the US agree to open a bilateral communications channel for 'super intelligence' incidents, the White House says following Xi visit to Washington.
BREAKING: $BTC holds near $84,000 as a historic US bond selloff drives the 10-year Treasury yield to 5.22%, its highest since 2007, with traders slashing $1.7 billion in leverage.
BREAKING: Crypto exchange Bitget reportedly hacked as $183 million vanishes from its wallets, with a newly created wallet draining hot and cold reserves across multiple blockchains in under an hour.
JUST IN: $ORCL shares drop 4% after report Oracle sent a 'force majeure' notice to the developer of its New Mexico data centre project, seeking to protect itself from higher expenses.
JUST IN: Global debt tops $365 trillion as economists warn of a 'vicious cycle', with advanced economies now paying more in debt interest than the world spends on AI, defence or clean tech.
NEW: SoftBank has raised ~$11 billion in one of the largest junk-bond offerings on record, paying its highest-ever dollar bond yields to fund massive OpenAI ambitions as US Treasury rates soar to two-decade highs.