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Bitcoin climbed nearly one percent to seventy-six thousand six hundred twenty-one dollars as the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since twenty twenty-three, with projections signaling only one more hike ahead. Zcash surged twenty-three percent to a record high after investment firm Paradigm disclosed a new stake, suggesting institutional appetite for crypto remains very much alive.
On Capitol Hill, a House committee advanced a bill that would establish a United States Bitcoin reserve, but not without friction. The version that passed on a party-line vote strips out the Federal Reserve funding mechanisms and weakens transparency requirements — raising real questions about how such a reserve would actually be built and who would be watching.
And in a story that cuts closer to home for anyone running a business, Spain's data protection agency has documented what it calls its first breach carried out by an autonomous AI agent. The attacker chained together multiple stages — scanning systems, exploiting a flaw, and modifying data — without human hands on the keyboard. Regulators are now urging companies to treat AI-driven attacks as a standard risk, not a hypothetical one.
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