AI
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed L.D. 307, which would have set the first statewide data center moratorium through November 2027, citing the bill's lack of an exemption for a locally supported project in Jay.
Regulation & Policy
KBC, BBVA, DZ Bank and Societe Generale are now wiring BTC and ETH directly into existing brokerage and payments rails under MiCA. EU crypto ownership is projected to hit ~25% by 2030, up from 9% in 2024.
Regulation & Policy
The CFTC sued New York to block state enforcement against prediction markets, while 38 attorneys general backed Massachusetts' case against Kalshi — a dual-front fight over who actually regulates event contracts.
AI
Anthropic deployed automated detection, election-information banners and stress-tested usage-policy enforcement on Claude ahead of the 2026 US midterms — reporting 100% appropriate-response rates on Opus 4.7 against a 600-prompt benchmark and 95–96% political neutrality scores.
AI
The U.S. Department of Justice on April 24 moved to intervene in xAI's lawsuit against Colorado's SB24-205, arguing the state's algorithmic discrimination law violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause ahead of the statute's June 30 effective date.
Prediction Markets
Wisconsin's DOJ filed three Dane County complaints on April 24 against Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and Crypto.com, alleging their sports event contracts violate state commercial gambling law — escalating the state-versus-CFTC fight over prediction markets.
Stablecoins
Morgan Stanley launched MSNXX on April 16, a $1.00-NAV government money market fund built for stablecoin issuers required to hold high-quality liquid assets under the GENIUS Act. Holdings: short-dated US Treasuries and overnight repos.
Stablecoins
Tether froze $344 million in USDT across two Tron wallets on April 23 in coordination with OFAC and US law enforcement. The action ties to Treasury Secretary Bessent's Economic Fury campaign against Iran-linked sanctions evasion.
AI
DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash hours after OpenAI's GPT-5.5 announcement, pricing V4-Pro at $1.74 input / $3.48 output per million tokens — roughly 98% below GPT-5.5 Pro's $30 / $180 — under an MIT-licensed open-weight release.
Stablecoins
Tether froze $344M across two Tron addresses flagged by OFAC and US law enforcement for sanctions evasion and criminal-network links. The largest single enforcement-related USDT freeze to date.
Regulation & Policy
DOJ charges Fort Bragg master sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke with using classified information about the Maduro raid to place ~$33K in bets on Polymarket that paid out roughly $410K.
Regulation & Policy
Alameda bought 5% of Cursor's parent Anysphere for $200K in 2022. The FTX bankruptcy estate sold the stake in 2023 for the same $200K — worth roughly $3B at SpaceX's new $60B buyout offer.