On June 17, 2026, a meeting of the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) took place. As a result, the regulator decided to leave the interest rate at its current level — 3.5%-3.75%. Recall that this is the first meeting under the regulator's new chairman, Kevin Warsh. The Fed's decision was expected and matches experts' forecasts. In addition, this…

The Claude chatbot by Anthropic suffered a large-scale outage on June 18: thousands of users around the world found that the service was not responding and not loading messages. According to the DownDetector service, the number of complaints began to rise sharply around 10:03 Moscow time. The problems coincided with a tense news backdrop around the company. This week Anthropic…

PsiQuantum, a developer of photonic quantum computers, has begun construction of a facility in the Australian state of Queensland. There the company plans to house a fault-tolerant, industrial-scale quantum computer. First, PsiQuantum will prepare the infrastructure for a large cryogenic installation by Linde Engineering. The company then expects to launch cryogenic…

Tether announced the gradual winding down of the Alloy by Tether platform and the aUSDT stablecoin after a review of user activity, market demand, and the company's strategic priorities. The company's statement notes that Alloy by Tether was created as an open platform to study demand for digital assets backed by Tether…

CZ is urging states to tokenize their stock markets and launch national stablecoins following meetings with Asian leaders and regulators.