Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, has completed a $600 million direct cash investment in the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket. The transaction fulfills a strategic arrangement first announced in October 2025, bringing ICE’s total commitment to the platform to nearly $2 billion. As part of the deal, ICE serves as the exclusive global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven data to...

Morgan Stanley filed an updated S-1 for its Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), setting a management fee of 0.14%. The proposed rate is 11 basis points lower than BlackRock’s IBIT and undercuts the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust by one basis point. Analysts expect the fund to launch in early April 2026, leveraging the bank’s network of 16,000 financial advisors. Investment banking giant Morgan Stanley is preparing to upend the...

Anthropic accidentally exposed internal documents revealing Claude Mythos, a new AI model described as a “step change” in performance over its predecessor, Opus 4.6. The leaked files warn that the model poses “unprecedented cybersecurity risks” due to its advanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale. The news triggered a significant market reaction, with cybersecurity stocks like...

Ondo Finance announced a strategic partnership with Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1.7 trillion in assets under management, to bring a suite of five ETFs to blockchain infrastructure. Under the agreement, Franklin Templeton will continue to manage the underlying funds, while Ondo provides the tokenization infrastructure and digital distribution layer through its Ondo Global Markets platform. The five...