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Best High-Yield Savings Rates in the US — Up to 4.91%
Your Savings Account Is Probably Earning Almost Nothing Here's the Fix If your money is sitting in a regular savings account right now, it's quietly losing value to inflation and the fix takes about 10 minutes. Here's the gap most people don't realize exists: the average traditional savings account pays just 0.22% APY. The best high-yield accounts available right now pay up to 4.91% APY more than 10 times the national average. On a basic savings account, the highest yield today is 5.84%, while the average standard account pays just 0.22% That's not a rounding error. On $10,000 in savings, the difference between 0.22% and 4.91% is roughly $469 a year in free money, just for moving your cash to a better account. Why Rates Are Still This High Savings rates are heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve's moves and after the Fed cut rates at it's September, October, and December 2025 meetings, many savers assumed yields would keep falling. They haven't at lea...
IBM Joins Swift's Blockchain: 17 Banks Already Piloting It
IBM Plugged Into Swift's Banking Blockchain Here's Who's Already On It: The world's biggest bank messaging network just quietly went blockchain and IBM wants in. On September 25 - 2026, IBM connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, currently in beta. The move lets banks move tokenized deposits across Swift's network using an ISO 20022 messaging adapter meaning banks can tap blockchain rails without ripping out their existing payment systems. Swift isn't a small player here. It connects over 12,500 financial institutions across more than 200 markets, moving the equivalent of world GDP every two to three days. So when Swift adds blockchain to that stack, banks pay attention. The First Live Transaction Already Happened HSBC and Standard Chartered beat everyone to the punch, completing the first live transaction on the ledger back in August proof the system works outside the lab. Meet the 17 Founding Banks Swift's ...
Crypto Funds Just Posted Their Best Week of 2026 — $3.5B in a Single Week
"Bitcoin ETFs Go 5-for-5: Crypto Funds Hit Biggest Inflow Week of the Year" Digital asset investment funds pulled in $3.5 billion last week, according to CoinShares latest Digital Asset Bi-Weekly Digest the largest single-week inflow recorded in 2026. The surge pushed total assets under management across crypto funds to $173 billion globally. Bitcoin Led the Charge US spot Bitcoin ETFs were the standout performer, hauling in $2.39 billion and staying positive on all five trading days of the week. Ethereum products weren't far behind, adding $690 million over the same stretch. Together, these flows pulled year-to-date totals back into positive territory up to $8.6 billion for 2026 so far. What Sparked the Rally? CoinShares attributes the strength to the removal of uncertainty following the Federal Reserve's recent rate decision. Once the outcome became clear, investors who had been sitting on the sidelines started deploying capital again. The US Dominated But Who Else...
Visa Is Shutting Down the Meme Coin Credit Card Loophole
Buying meme coins with a credit card came with an unexpected perk: some users could earn ordinary credit card points and cash back on their crypto purchases. Visa is now moving to close that loophole. The issue centered on how meme coin purchases were classified by payment processors . Some Crossmint-powered checkouts used merchant category code (MCC) 5815 , a category intended for digital media such as movies, music and audiobooks, rather than a crypto-specific category. That meant a meme coin purchase could look to the card network like a normal digital-media purchase. How the loophole worked Users of Robinhood Wallet and Fomo could purchase certain meme coins using credit cards through Apple Pay or Google Pay. According to The Block's testing, transactions made with Visa and Mastercard cards were classified as digital-media purchases and could earn normal card rewards, including points and cash back. The classification mattered because crypto purchases are generally t...
Vitalik Says AI Will Make Crypto More Secure
What if the same AI that helps hackers find vulnerabilities could also make your crypto harder to steal? That is the possibility Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is pointing to. He argues that AI could make software fundamentally harder to break by making formal verification practical at a much larger scale. Formal verification uses mathematical proofs to confirm that code follows specific security rules. Instead of relying only on testing to find bugs, developers can prove that certain parts of a program behave as intended. But Buterin says there is a bigger challenge. The Hardest Part Is Defining Security According to Buterin, defining what “secure” actually means is harder than verifying the code . A security definition needs to account for more than obvious bugs. It may also need to consider compromised servers, leaked keys, network attacks, metadata and hardware vulnerabilities. If an important threat is missing from the definition, a perfect mathematical proof will no...
AI Stocks Have a New Problem: Investors Want Their Money Back
The AI boom has been one of the biggest forces in the stock market. But investors are beginning to ask a different question. Not “How much more can companies spend on AI?” But: “When does all this spending start producing returns?” That question is becoming harder to ignore after Alibaba announced a $10.2 billion share sale to finance its AI expansion — and investors promptly sent the stock lower. Alibaba just gave investors a warning Alibaba plans to issue 710 million new shares , equivalent to roughly 3.6% of its enlarged share capital, with the proceeds dedicated to AI infrastructure, chips, models and other capabilities. The offering was priced at HK$112.70 per share, an 8.4% discount to the previous closing price. Despite strong demand for the deal, Alibaba's shares fell sharply. Why would investors sell a company that is raising billions to participate in one of the world's biggest technology trends? Because AI spending has a cost . Alibaba's latest quart...
Tech It Up Today
The AI Race Is Getting More Expensive: Inside the Global Battle for Chips, Compute and Capital Artificial intelligence is no longer just a race to build the smartest model. It is becoming a race for chips, computing power, memory, data-centre capacity and capital — and the numbers involved are getting enormous. This week alone, Broadcom was reported to be negotiating more than $60 billion in debt financing for an AI chip deal, Samsung raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services by as much as 15% , and Micron announced a $10 billion investment in a new memory research laboratory. Together, the developments reveal something important about the next phase of the AI boom: the bottleneck may increasingly be infrastructure rather than ideas. AI is becoming a capital-intensive industry Building an advanced AI system requires far more than software engineers and training data. Companies need enormous quantities of advanced processors, high-bandwidth memory, networking e...
Tech It Up Today
The Next AI Revolution Won't Happen on Your Screen For the last few years, the AI revolution has mostly lived inside a screen. You type a question. AI answers. You give it an image. AI analyzes it. You ask for code. AI writes it. You ask it to create something. AI generates it. But what happens when AI no longer needs to stay inside the screen? What happens when AI gets a body? That shift is already being called physical AI or embodied AI : systems that can perceive their surroundings, reason about them and act in the physical world. Researchers describe this as a fundamentally harder problem than simply generating text or images because the real world is unpredictable. And in 2026, the technology is moving rapidly from demonstrations toward commercial applications. AI Is Learning to Touch Reality A chatbot can tell you how to pick up a strawberry. A robot has to actually pick it up. That sounds simple until you consider everything involved. How hard should it gr...
SK Hynix’s U.S. Debut Signals a New Phase of the AI Memory Boom
SK Hynix has officially entered the U.S. stock market, marking a historic moment for both the semiconductor industry and investors looking to capitalize on the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. The South Korean memory chip giant's American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) made an impressive debut, with shares expected to open more than 20% above their offering price, highlighting the growing investor appetite for AI-related companies. The successful listing provides U.S. investors with a simpler way to invest in one of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers without having to buy shares directly on the Korean stock exchange. More importantly, it reinforces the belief that AI infrastructure spending is still in its early stages. A Record-Breaking U.S. Listing SK Hynix priced its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) at $149 per share , raising approximately $26.5 billion , making it the largest foreign company listing in U.S. history. Even before trading officially...