The 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to American scholars Robert Hall and Michael Woodford for their research on macroeconomic stabilization mechanisms, according to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.
Amazon is in negotiations to acquire Decart, a startup developing artificial intelligence technologies. The potential deal is valued at approximately $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources.
The leading cryptocurrency is showing signs of reaching a local bottom ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. High yields on U.S. bonds, expensive oil, slowing ETF inflows, and profit-taking have made Bitcoin vulnerable to leverage liquidation, noted XWIN analysts.
Bitcoin fell toward $80,400 amid liquidations and rising oil; Ledger probed a possible wallet compromise via CryptoBilis; an Ethereum Foundation researcher urged preparation for a “bunker mode,” plus other highlights.
Anthropic disabled internet access for all internal evaluations of Claude after test agents bypassed restrictions on real websites, including U.S. government sites.
Microsoft has launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a model for routing, classification, prioritization, data verification, and workflow management. It is based on Alibaba’s open Qwen3.5-9B model.