Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, (C) greets attendees during a campaign stop to address Pennsylvanians who are concerned about the threat of Communist China to U.S. agriculture at the Smith Family Farm September 23, 2024 in Smithton, Pennsylvania.  Win Mcnamee | Getty Images After Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency last week, tech CEOs including Apple‘s Tim Cook, Meta‘s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos publicly praised

Stablecoins, which are cryptocurrencies with their price anchored to government-issued currencies, are increasingly popular for payments across the globe, offering a more efficient and cheaper way to move money. As countries roll out regulations for the asset class, more banks are getting interested in issuing their own stablecoin. Spanish bank BBVA, for example, said it plans to issue a stablecoin on Ethereum next year using payment firm Visa’s tokenization platform.

New Tesla Cybertruck vehicles parked at a logistics drop zone in Seattle on Aug. 22, 2024. M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks to replace defective drive inverters, according to notices made public by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday. It’s the sixth recall of the Cybertruck since the angular steel pickup went on sale about a year ago. The Cybertruck sells

The technology driving ChatGPT is capable of so much more. What’s coming next will make talking bots look like mere distractions. Source link

The last decade of Web3 has battle-hardened a stack of distributed architecture and incentive games. While too complex for individuals to operate at scale, this technology is primed for AI and the agentic internet, says Outlier Ventures’ founder and Chairman, Jamie Burke. Source link

The Oura Ring 4 Courtesy: Oura LISBON — Samsung’s foray into smart rings isn’t concerning the boss of the product category’s pioneer, Oura — in fact, Tom Hale says he’s seeing a boost in business. “I’m sure that a major tech company making an announcement saying: ‘Hey, this is a category that matters. It’s going to be something that’s big.’ I think it’s probably helpful,” Hale told CNBC in an interview this

The service encompasses the full life-cycle of tokenization, including tools for risk management, know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money-laundering (AML) compliance and secondary market monitoring. The platform at the beginning supports Ethereum, Avalanche and Bitcoin scaling network Liquid by Blockstream, and “soon” will add the Telegram-adjacent TON network and other smart contract chains, a Tether spokesperson said in an email to CoinDesk. Source link

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning says censorship is still “a dominant threat,” advocating for a more decentralized internet to help better protect individuals online. Her comments come amid ongoing tension linked to online safety rules, with some tech executives recently seeking to push back over content moderation concerns. Speaking to CNBC’s Karen Tso at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday, Manning said that one

The price of bitcoin (BTC) fell about 1.5% to $88,300 in the minutes following Powell’s comments. The price at press time had dipped a bit further to $88,000, down 3.2% over the past 24 hours. Ether (ETH) is down by a similar amount. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index, however, is up 0.5% over the same time frame. It’s being led by a 13% advance for Ripple’s (XRP), perhaps cheered by

Jaidev Janardana, CEO of U.K. digital bank Zopa. Zopa LISBON, Portugal — British online lender Zopa is on track to double profits and increase annual revenue by more than a third this year amid bumper demand for its banking services, the company’s CEO told CNBC. Zopa posted revenues of £222 million ($281.7 million) in 2023 and is expecting to cross the £300 million revenue milestone this year — that would mark