Trump scraps Biden's AI safety order just as new research shows models can find system exploits faster than human hackers. Meanwhile Coinbase makes waves buying crypto on the open market and the administration pushes companies to give government early access to AI model
The operator of Germany's Frankfurt Stock Exchange just put $200 million into Kraken, and the valuation math tells you everything about where institutional money is actually flowing. Deutsche Börse Group acquired a 1.5% stake in Kraken for $200 million, valuing the exchange at $13.3 billion
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Microsoft is taking over the Norway data center slot that was supposed to belong to OpenAI, and the power dynamics of the Stargate project just got a lot clearer. Microsoft has agreed to rent data center capacity in Norway that was originally designated for OpenAI under the Stargate initiative
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Anthropic is suing the Pentagon and briefing the White House at the same time, which tells you everything about how AI companies are learning to play the power game.
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The man who spent two years selling AI as civilization's next chapter is now asking everyone to please calm down about AI. Sam Altman published a blog post asking the public to "lower the temperature" on AI discourse, citing concerns about polarization and unrealistic expectations.
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The violence has started, and it's not coming from the machines. 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama faces federal charges after throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, then attempting to break into OpenAI's HQ with intent to kill anyone inside.
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The best AI models just got cloned for your laptop—no API keys, no cloud bills, no permission slips. Developer Jackrong released Gemopus, a family of Claude Opus-style fine-tunes built on Google's open-source Gemma 4 that run locally on consumer hardware
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The Ethereum Foundation just made the most expensive part of building on-chain cheaper, and that changes who gets to ship.
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Anthropic just made a bet that enterprises would rather trade flexibility for speed in their agent deployments, and the early data suggests they might be right.
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The government is pushing Wall Street to test an AI that finds zero-day exploits while the Pentagon calls the same company a supply-chain risk.
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While DOGE used ChatGPT to torch federal grants with a DEI prompt, a free platform called GrantWell is doing the opposite: helping communities actually access the $1 trillion Congress already allocated.
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Google just turned your browser into a factory for AI workers you can clone and deploy with one click. Chrome now lets you save any Gemini AI prompt as a reusable "Skill" that runs across multiple tabs with a single click
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Half a billion dollars in short positions just evaporated as Bitcoin crossed $75,000, and the real story isn't the price—it's who got caught wrong. Bitcoin hit a two-month high above $75,000 while Ethereum actually outperformed, rising faster than BTC in the Tuesday rally
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AI agents are about to start moving your money around, and nobody's figured out how to stop them from screwing up. Nava raised $8.3M in seed funding to build escrow infrastructure for AI agents handling financial transactions
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Sam Altman's robocar bet just got a $170 million vote of confidence, with another $250 million queued up behind it. Glydways Inc., backed by Sam Altman, raised ~$170 million in Series C and is negotiating an additional $250 million round
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An AI agent just signed a lease, got a credit card, and forgot to hire anyone to unlock the door on opening day.
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Travis Wright breaks down three major stories shaking up tech leadership and crypto infrastructure. Paxos launches a new platform for custom stablecoin creation, corporate boards dump half a million into CEO protection after the Altman incident, and the FBI charges some
Paxos just spun out a lab to let anyone mint stablecoins and tokenized bonds, with $12 million and a platform that treats regulated financial rails like Lego blocks.
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Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house, and the security industry is treating it like the starting gun for a new era.
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A Meta engineering director who ran 120 people just traded his seat on the Big Tech bus for the driver's seat at a $6.6 billion AI code startup.
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The first violent attack targeting an AI CEO just turned into attempted murder charges, and the line between philosophical AI safety concern and actual radicalization is now a police matter.
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