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Cryptocurrency trade groups are bringing another legal challenge to Illinois’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital asset transactions, alleging the state hastily enacted a “flawed and unlawful statute.”

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. is adding a new pool of cash to its balance-sheet toolkit, part of an effort to preserve flexibility as its once-powerful financing model remains under pressure.

Matt Levine discusses Anthropic’s governance, leveraged ETF arbitrage, circumstantial insider trading, AI natives, and quirky interests.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent refrained from any further signals on revamping US debt management on Monday, following a report that his department could draw down some of its cash pile to fund buybacks of higher-yielding older securities.

Amazon.com Inc.’s Andy Jassy has begun making an audacious boast during conference calls this year. Though his company remains a top Nvidia Corp. customer, it’s also one of the world’s largest makers of data center chips in its own right.

When the US and Israel launched their aerial assault on Iran on the last Saturday of February, the world’s main oil markets were closed. The price of crude kept moving anyway.

Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., the Japanese insurer in which Berkshire Hathaway Inc. recently took a stake, is close to finalizing an acquisition target after reviewing Australian and Canadian firms, the Financial Times reported.

Two oil and gas trade associations sued New York Monday over its greenhouse gas reporting program claiming it’s unconstitutional in part because it impacts activities outside of New York.

More than a dozen Republican state attorneys general told the Big Four accounting firms Monday that they may have violated state laws by asserting independence while signaling support for climate-related disclosures in corporate financial reporting.

Private equity managers have found another way to placate investors frustrated by a lack of cash returns.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. is adding a new pool of cash to its balance-sheet toolkit, part of an effort to preserve flexibility as its once-powerful financing model remains under pressure.

Oil and gas leasing near the former boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument is moving forward under a Bureau of Land Management plan published Friday.

Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a senior Nvidia Corp. manager as part of a group that allegedly smuggled advanced AI chips into China, according to people familiar with the matter, advancing the island democracy’s first known crackdown on the black-market trade of such accelerators.

The US Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump a temporary victory on his push to use the Postal Service to limit the distribution of mail ballots in the November midterms, while leaving open the prospect of a renewed challenge in the coming days.

Government-sector unions filed a legal challenge to Trump administration policies changing the way federal workers are evaluated for their fitness and performance.

Digital logistics and operations platform Springshot Inc. has raised intellectual property ownership concerns over the proposed sale of Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.'s deindentified business data to its competitor Google LLC, which aims to use the information to train its artificial intelligence.

Bond traders have ramped up measures of credit risk associated with Broadcom Inc. as it backstops mega financing packages for the buildout of artificial intelligence.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall launched an investigation into OpenAI’s security procedures after one of its AI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked AI firm Hugging Face in July.

The US Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump a temporary victory on his push to use the Postal Service to limit the distribution of mail ballots in the November midterms, while leaving open the prospect of a renewed challenge in the coming days.

Government-sector unions filed a legal challenge to Trump administration policies changing the way federal workers are evaluated for their fitness and performance.

A former Nevada county commissioner asked a federal judge to toss his fraud indictment, alleging the state’s Trump-appointed chief prosecutor targeted him due to political rivalry and bypassed her recusal from the case.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging the Texas Education Agency unlawfully punished teachers and other public school employees for comments they made in the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The California Supreme Court heard a sheriff’s claims Monday that he didn’t break state election law when he seized 650,000 ballots over alleged voter fraud, with one justice calling his argument “bizarre.”

The Sixth Circuit held that a federal judge improperly abstained from hearing a tenured law professor’s case against the University of Kentucky, which launched an investigation against him after he called for the invasion of Israel.