Autonomous weapons powered by AI are no longer a science-fiction scenario — they are the subject of active U.S. Senate legislation, Pentagon policy rewrites, and a growing Silicon Valley startup race. Here is a plain-English guide to what these systems are, how they work, and why institutions from the Vatican to the White House are fighting over them.

For the first time in DeFi history, real-world assets — tokenized stocks, commodities, and indices — outpaced crypto perpetuals on Hyperliquid, the world's largest decentralized derivatives exchange. ARK Invest's research team says RWA trading on DeFi has reached a structural inflection point that rewrites the competitive map for the entire sector.

Fidelity’s support gives the crypto bill fresh institutional weight, but Democrats say the latest ethics language still leaves major loopholes around Trump-linked digital-asset ventures. The...