South Korea's KOSPI index gains 1.14% at the opening of trading.

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request to break up Google’s (GOOG.O) online advertising business. The ruling is historic, effectively putting an end to nearly 20 years of antitrust risks for Alphabet’s Google. As early as the Obama administration, U.S. government enforcers had considered filing a monopolization lawsuit against Google. However, judges have long been strongly resistant to breaking up companies, viewing such remedies as overly radical, and Wednesday’s ruling is the latest example of this. U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema took a more restrained approach to determining how to penalize Google. Last year, she ruled that Google had illegally monopolized the complex online advertising market for website ads. The DOJ argued that forcing Google to sell its ad exchange was the only way to curb its market dominance and open the market to new competitors. Brinkema disagreed. In a two-page ruling order, she adopted alternative measures to limit Google’s ability to control publishers’ use of its ad technology.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, a crypto whale today added 430,224 HYPE tokens, valued at $35.1 million. Separately, a newly created wallet address starting with 0xC5ca withdrew 94,149 HYPE tokens (worth $7.66 million) from FalconX two hours ago.

According to Sportico, Kalshi on Tuesday removed prediction markets related to the duration of athletes’ injuries from its application. A source familiar with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) revealed that Kalshi’s move was made at the request of its federal regulator, the CFTC. Since 2026, Kalshi has facilitated at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in predictions tied to player health, capitalizing on the uncertainty of injuries to high-profile players such as Luka Don?i?, Anthony Edwards, and Malik Nabers, while collecting fees from these related markets. Critics argue that injury predictions commodify sensitive medical information, potentially increasing the risk of harassment for healthcare providers, and are also vulnerable to manipulation.

According to on-chain data, Robinhood Chain's on-chain fees reached $3.75 million in the past 24 hours, exceeding the total fees of three public chains—Solana, Ethereum Mainnet, and Base—over the same period.

Beating AI Express News: OpenAI’s Responses API has started returning a 404 “Not Found” error for the suspected Astra model ID gpt-6-astra. Previously, inputting a non-existent model name would trigger a 400 error, while gpt-6-astra now returns a 404. Per OpenAI’s API error code differences, this indicates the model ID is likely in the backend system but not yet publicly available. Similar signals were observed earlier for Anthropic’s Fable 5.1: ahead of its launch on AWS Bedrock, the model ID also shifted from returning a 400 to a 404, followed by its official release. That said, gpt-6-astra may not be the final name. The Information previously reported that OpenAI once considered naming Astra GPT-6, but later scrapped that plan.

Galaxy Digital Head of Research Alex Thorn stated that attackers behind the Coldcard Wave 3 recently transferred stolen funds for the first time, converting a portion of the assets to ETH via cross-chain decentralized exchange THORChain. This marks the first instance of funds from the Wave 1, Wave 2, or Wave 3 attacks being moved from the attackers’ initial wallet addresses to other on-chain addresses. Currently, approximately 90% of the stolen funds from Wave 3 remain untransferred. On-chain activity indicates the attackers encountered apparent issues when conducting conversions via THORChain, with some transactions being repeatedly refunded, though they continue to attempt converting the remaining funds.