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Grayscale’s Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG) began trading on June 3 with a 0.29% sponsor fee, the lowest among US-listed HYPE products, intensifying a price war among issuers chasing the fast-growing token. A Fee War Heats up Around HYPE Grayscale has launched its Hyperliquid Staking exchange-traded fund (ETF), with the product now trading live under the […]

Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial motto; it’s 2004 IPO prospectus declared that doing “good things for the world” was more important than “short term gains”. Mark Zuckerberg similarly wrote in Facebook’s 2012 IPO letter that the social network was “built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected”. As was obvious to anyone paying attention, this was all performative bullshit. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to feel nostalgic about that period of time – which came to a definitive end in 2018, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. By and large, billionaires and CEOs still cared what the hoi polloi thought of them. They were self-aware enough to realize that, even with all their billions, there’s a lot more of us than th

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews, and prevent it from being used for the "fine-tuning" of Google's AI models. "In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews," the CMA announced. "This will put publishers, like news organizations, in a stronger position to negotiate c … Read the full story at The Verge.

Watchdog says ‘publishers will now have effective tools to prevent content being used to power AI features in search’ Publishers will be able to opt out of their content being used to train Google’s AI models and power its search summaries, the UK competition watchdog has announced as it imposes new conduct requirements on search services. “Publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews,” the Competition and Markets Authority said. Continue reading...

Bitcoin saw its largest daily drop since early February on Tuesday as the cryptocurrency shed more than $4,500 in a single day.

Rubio told Congress sanctions relief requires nuclear concessions only, rejecting Hormuz linkage. Iran oil sanction relief by June 30 drops to 33.5% YES. The post Rubio says US will lift Iran sanctions only for nuclear concessions, not Hormuz appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

US forces struck Iranian drones/missiles targeting Kuwait and Bahrain. US invasion of Iran at 17.5% YES; US strikes 8 countries in 2026 at 25.9% YES. The post US carries out self-defense strikes against Iranian drones and missiles targeting Kuwait, Bahrain appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

US strikes IRGC communications tower on Qeshm Island near Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz traffic normal by June at 21.5% YES, down from 38% last week. The post US strikes IRGC communications tower on Qeshm Island near Strait of Hormuz appeared first on Crypto Briefing.