Google engineer insider-traded search results on Polymarket, Feds allege

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A Google security engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, was arrested and charged over alleged insider trading by placing bets on Polymarket about what Google users were searching, U.S. officials alleged on Wednesday. According to a complaint unsealed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Spagnuolo used “material nonpublic information” to place bets […]

Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation, gathers support from Google, Stripe, AWS and others

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Coinbase’s AI-focused payment protocol x402 is moving toward becoming an open, standardized infrastructure under the Linux Foundation, the non-profit hub for open-source software development. The move aims to create a community-governed ecosystem for high-frequency, micro transactions that legacy finance can’t efficiently handle. The protocol has formed an initial governing body, the x402 Foundation, that includes […]