
Bessent and Powell Call an Emergency Meeting Over an AI That Can Hack Any Bank
Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell summoned Wall Street CEOs to warn them about Anthropic's Mythos AI model and its unprecedented cyber capabilities.
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Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell summoned Wall Street CEOs to warn them about Anthropic's Mythos AI model and its unprecedented cyber capabilities.

US Secret Service, UK NCA, and Canadian police traced $45M in crypto fraud across 30 countries, freezing $12M and contacting 3,000 victims directly.

JPMorgan estimates Q1 2026 crypto inflows dropped sharply to around $11 billion, with Strategy's Bitcoin purchases and VC funding accounting for the bulk.

The Seoul Administrative Court overturned the FIU's three-month suspension of Upbit, ruling that KYC rules for small transactions lacked specificity.
Bithumb filed for provisional asset seizure against users who refused to return 7 BTC from the February payout error that credited 620,000 phantom bitcoins.

A new CEA report finds that prohibiting stablecoin rewards would add just $2.1 billion in bank loans, undercutting the banking lobby's core argument.

Canary Capital submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a spot PEPE ETF on April 8. The fund would hold PEPE directly with up to 5% in ETH for gas fees.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent published a WSJ op-ed urging Congress to pass the Clarity Act before April ends, calling it essential to US financial leadership.

Visa launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, letting AI agents make purchases across 150M+ merchants. Stablecoin and x402 protocol integrations deepen the crypto link.

The March FOMC minutes reveal growing support for rate increases as oil-driven inflation reaches 3.5%. Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as traders reprice rate expectations.