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View More NewsBitcoin (BTC) fell toward $58,000 around Tuesday’s Wall Street open as the clock ticked down to a brutal quarterly close.Key points:US stocks’ Q2 gains leave Bitcoin far behind as bulls nurse losses of nearly 20%.Bitcoin faces renewed pressure from the risk of Japanese government moves to support the yen.BTC price weakness is forcing capitulation by top buyers, says analysis.Bitcoin “about to get spicy” amid 40-year dollar/yen highData from TradingView showed downside gaining the upper hand as volatility increased into the US session.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewWith $60,000 increasingly looking lost as support, commentators saw the tussle between bulls and bears…
In brief Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, after which pricing reverts to $3/$15—still a fraction of Opus 4.8’s $5/$25 rate. On Anthropic’s own evaluations, Sonnet 5 is virtually tied Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge-work benchmark. Sonnet 5 ships with no special restrictions while Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain suspended for general usage under a June 12 export control directive. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, calling it “the most agentic Sonnet model yet.” It’s the default model for Free…
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A review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance; 288 pages; HarperCollins: New York (June 2026)The novelist Evelyn Waugh was once asked how he reconciled his lousy personal behaviour—which included drunkenness, antisemitism, and cruelty to friends and foes alike—with his Catholic faith. No one could imagine, Waugh replied, how vile he would have been were he not a Catholic. That retort came to mind as I read US vice president JD Vance’s new book, Communion, about his conversion to Catholicism. Since joining the Church of Rome in 2019, Vance has not exactly been a paragon of virtue. Once…
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A U.S. judge sentenced Chinese businessman Miles Guo, the billionaire behind the fraudulent crypto venture Himalaya Coin, to 30 years in prison, long after…
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