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According to a BBC report on May 6, Apple submitted a proposed settlement agreement in a federal court in California on May 5, agreeing to pay $250 million (about £184 million) to settle a class action accusing it of false advertising about Apple Intelligence and Siri AI features; Apple denies any wrongdoing in the agreement, which still requires a judge’s approval.

According to an official statement released by Ondo Finance on May 6 (Wednesday), JPMorgan and Mastercard have completed the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasury funds, using Ripple’s XRP ledger and the interbank settlement system.

HawkEye 360, a Herndon, Virginia-based space analytics company, raised US$416 million in its initial public offering on May 6, valuing the company at approximately US$2.42 billion, according to Reuters. The company's shares are set to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker

According to Bitcoin News on May 7, Germany’s Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil confirmed that Germany’s government is planning to adopt “different” tax policies for Bitcoin and crypto assets, with the direction possibly being to scrap the current mechanism that exempts holdings held for more than one year from tax and align the tax treatment of Bitcoin with stock assets.

Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, stated that Bitcoin's post-quantum migration will be more difficult than the Taproot upgrade and should begin immediately. According to Pruden, the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about

Q1 Earnings Results DoorDash reported mixed first-quarter results on May 1, 2024, as spending on technology and expansion reduced profit despite higher order volumes, according to CNBC. Total orders rose 27% to 933 million but missed analyst expectations of 954 million. Net income fell to US$184 m

Arm Holdings warned that smartphone market weakness is compressing a key revenue source for the chip design company, though growth in AI chip business is expected to offset the impact, according to CEO Rene Haas in an earnings call. Prior quarter phone shipments declined, with losses concentrated in

CoinDesk reported on May 6 that Frank La Salla, president and CEO of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), said on Wednesday at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami that DTCC is working with multiple Layer-1 (L1) blockchain networks and announced that the company plans to begin testing a tokenized securities platform starting in July 2026.

Bitcoin (BTC) gave back the overnight gains, trading at around $81,000 as of May 7. White House adviser Patrick Witt said the latest update on the U.S. Bitcoin reserve will be released “within the next few weeks.” Samourai Wallet co-founder called for donations of Bitcoin from the federal prison, and President Trump’s hopes for a pardon are slim.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first funding round at a reported US$45 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. The valuation marks a significant increase from an estimated US$20 billion valuation just weeks earlier, following attention drawn to the company's AI models for

According to reports by Bloomberg and Reuters on May 7, American Bitcoin Corp. (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining company supported by the Trump family, released its first-quarter 2026 financial results, posting a net loss of $82 million, widening from a $59 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2025; its mining output for the quarter was 817 BTC, and as of March 31 total Bitcoin holdings rose to 7,021 BTC.

In the post-quantum security space, the startup Project Eleven published a report on May 6, warning that the earliest possible arrival of the quantum computers surpassing the critical point of modern cryptography (Q-Day) may be as early as 2030, with a probability exceeding 50% for occurrence by 2033. The report also estimates that, under certain conditions, around 6.9 million bitcoins face potential quantum attack risk, and it calls on the cryptocurrency ecosystem to accelerate the anti-quantum migration process.

According to public statements issued on May 7, 2026 by multiple Federal Reserve officials, several Fed officials warned that US inflation risks are heating up again; interest rates may remain at high levels for a longer period, and the possibility of further rate hikes is not ruled out. After Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke through $82,000 on Wednesday to hit a three-month high, it fell again on Thursday to around $81,000.

Apple spent 10.3% of revenue on research and development in its March quarter, marking its highest R&D share in at least 30 years as the company intensifies AI development, according to CNBC. R&D spending rose nearly 34% year-over-year while revenue increased 17%, according to the company. The compa

Uber reported first-quarter gross bookings of US$53.7 billion, beating expectations, and raised its June-quarter guidance to US$56.25 billion to US$57.75 billion, above estimates, as demand for rides and deliveries remained strong despite headwinds from the Middle East conflict, according to

Anthropic announced Wednesday it would use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, marking the latest partnership in the Claude maker's AI infrastructure expansion. The arrangement underscores Anthropic's strategy to secure dedicated compute resources as it scales its AI

CITIC Securities research indicates that artificial intelligence compute power is driving a fundamental restructuring of US electricity supply, with the country's major AI companies now entering a new era of self-directed power generation. In March 2026, seven major US AI companies signed the

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has launched the VF MPV 7 in the Philippines, introducing its battery subscription model as it expands further in Southeast Asia, according to VinFast. Product Specifications and Pricing The seven-seat MPV starts at 1.5 million pesos (US$25,000) with the

Project Eleven published a report on Wednesday proposing that the inflection point of quantum computers breaking modern encryption, often referred to as "Q-Day," could come as early as 2030, with a breakthrough described as "more likely than not" by 2033. The startup, focused on post-quantum securit