A Sberbank study says Russian fraudsters laundered about 295 billion rubles (over $4 billion) in a year by routing stolen money through roughly 900 crypto exchange services operating in 2025. The findings surface as Russia moves toward tighter rules that could cut the number of authorized exchangers and shift legal trading to approved intermediaries by July 1, 2026.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday in Taipei that the company plans to lift its annual spending in Taiwan to $150 billion and start building a new campus by year-end. Taiwan's Taiex rose 1.7% to a record close, with TSMC up 1.3%, MediaTek up 8.8% and Delta Electronics up 7.2%. Mainland China chip stocks slid the same day, including Cambricon down 5% and Hygon down 7%.

Micron (MU) surged 20.51% today with strong volume. Discover what Micron does, the drivers behind today’s rally, the 2026 price outlook, and why traders are turning to BingX.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that it is "critically important" for the CFTC to retain "exclusive authority" over prediction market platforms as state regulators intensify scrutiny. The agency is litigating against Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut and New York, while Minnesota has moved to criminalize prediction markets and a multi-state attorneys general coalition has backed Massachusetts against Kalshi's sports contracts.

This institutional deep dive analyzes Circle Internet Group’s (CRCL) strategic shift toward the ARC Layer-1 network, the Pharos ecosystem, and its structural insulation from the Clarity Act. It also provides actionable technical scenarios and Wall Street price targets following the stock's recent pullback to $104.17.

The structural narrative surrounding Intel Corp (INTC) shifted in May 2026. On Tuesday, May 26, Intel shares gained 3.07% to close at $123.52, capping an extraordinary 45.2% rally over the past 30 days and an aggressive 230% turnaround move year-to-date. This explosive upward trajectory marks a significant shift for the silicon pioneer, which traded down near a multi-year low of $18.96 within the last 52 weeks.

A major technical milestone occurred in the semiconductor sector during the May 26, 2026 trading session. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) surged 7.78% to close at an all-time high of $503.89 and pushing past $508 in after-hours trading. This move pushed AMD's market capitalization past $800 billion, cementing its status as an elite megacap challenger in the global artificial intelligence infrastructure race.

The artificial intelligence revolution underwent a structural shift. While the market spent the last three years focusing on graphics processing units (GPUs) to train massive large language models, the focus of AI infrastructure is expanding. As AI workloads increasingly migrate from resource-heavy training to energy-efficient inference, a critical new battlefield has emerged: the server central processing unit (CPU).