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Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone

Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.

• GOOGL

US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether

Federal prosecutors are targeting a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank accused of moving money without a license.

• Tether

SEC crypto FAQ addresses token buybacks, network upgrades and promises of profit

Promoting a network’s current uses generally would not create an expectation of profit, SEC staff said.

Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger to step down, Kristin Smith to return as interim CEO

The Blockchain Association is switching up its leadership with CEO Summer Mersinger set to step down next month.

AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.

Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs

Google's PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.

• GOOGL

Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away

The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.

• Ethereum
• Tether
• Usd Coin

Man charged in $16 million crypto ‘massive pig butchering’ scam

A man was charged for his role in defrauding someone of millions of dollars' worth of crypto in a "massive pig butchering" scam.

OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest

Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people who need the bot to work faster, not just longer.

Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect

An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchange's CEO says the fingerprints look like Pyongyang's.

Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit

A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue of more than 23,000 NFTs.

• Ethereum

Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing

Pullback or reversal? Here's what the charts suggest for BTC.

• Bitcoin
• Ripple
• Solana

Magic Eden legacy approvals leave $5.7 million in NFTs exposed to exploit before rescue

Magic Eden legacy approvals exposed $5.7 million in NFTs to an exploit before whitehats rescued 23,155 tokens.

Aave V4 on Base adds Coinbase tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans

Aave V4 added Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and four more tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans for non-U.S. users.

• AAPL
• NVDA
• TSLA
• COIN

Strategy proposes daily dividends for STRC, STRD, STRF and STRK preferred stocks

Strategy is seeking shareholder approval to pay daily dividends across its four U.S.-listed preferred stocks.

Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year

STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD would accrue dividends on weekends and holidays, in a move Strategy says will dampen volatility.

Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play

The bulk of prediction market trades are still sports bets, while valuations are predicated on rising institutional interest.

• MS

Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo

The biggest financial institutions in the world are bringing more products onchain, and the pace is accelerating.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows

Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 million in cash.

• COIN
• Bitcoin

KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit

Evercrest says LayerZero approved the single-verifier configuration in writing multiple times, then warned a different developer about it.