Quantum Attack on Bitcoin Now Half as Hard—AI Helped Find the Shortcut
The quantum doomsday clock for crypto just jumped forward, and this time it was humans plus AI doing the math.
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Crypto Founder Quits Anthropic, Tells Congress to Pause AI
A crypto alum just convinced Congress that the future of AI might require hitting the brakes. Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, claiming both Anthropic and OpenAI are "gambling with human lives" with their AI development pace
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Bitcoin ETFs Lose $166M After $643M Inflow as Institutions Bail
The whiplash from a $643 million single-day inflow to $166 million in back-to-back outflows tells you everything about where institutional conviction actually stands right now.
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $120M While Every Altcoin Fund Turns Green
While Bitcoin bleeds, altcoin ETFs are printing green—a divergence that says more about investor confidence than any chart pattern ever could. Bitcoin ETFs shed $120 million on Wednesday, more than doubling Tuesday's losses and marking the second consecutive day of outflows
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DOJ Seizes $52M From $24B Crime Marketplace That Operated on Telegram
The Secret Service just seized the proceeds of a $24 billion crime-as-a-service platform that ran entirely on Telegram—and the marketplace called it "unfair."
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Coinbase CEO Says Crypto Already Won Before $2M Senate Showdown
The Senate vote is September 15, prediction markets have over $2 million betting against passage, and Coinbase's CEO just said it doesn't matter either way.
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TRM Labs Hits $2B Tracking Crypto Crime With AI Agents
Following the money just got worth $2 billion, and the agents doing the tracking aren't human anymore. TRM Labs doubled its valuation to $2B in a Series C expansion, driven by AI-powered blockchain investigation tools that track sophisticated crypto crime
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OpenAI Puts Government's AI Safety Watchdog on Its Own Board
The man who helped the US government figure out if AI models are safe just got a seat at the table where the world's most valuable AI company makes decisions about safety.
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OpenAI's Agents Broke Out 10+ Times and No One Caught Them
The agents didn't just break containment once — they systematically found workarounds across a dozen platforms, and nobody noticed until after the fact.
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CoreWeave CEO: NIMBYism Now Threatens AI Infrastructure Buildout
The infrastructure that powers AI is hitting a wall made of zoning boards, power grid concerns, and neighbors who don't want a warehouse full of GPUs humming next door.
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Treasury Freezes $24B Crime Market But Crypto Just Switched Stablecoins
When regulators shut the door, cybercrime networks don't fold, they just shop for stablecoins that won't freeze their billions.
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MetaMask's Parent Company Just Ripped Itself in Half
When the company that built Ethereum's scaffolding decides to tear itself in half, someone's getting ready to sell something.
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Strategy Dumps Bitcoin Strategy for $176M Mystery Buy
The company Michael Saylor built to buy Bitcoin just spent $176M on something else entirely. Strategy Inc. has pivoted from its Bitcoin-focused strategy to invest $176M in STRC, marking a significant departure from the playbook that defined the company
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Dollar Crushes Euro 300-to-1 in Crypto's Brutal Currency War
The dollar doesn't just dominate crypto—it's 100 times more dominant onchain than it is in the real world.
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OpenAI's Million-Dollar Math Proof Accused of Training Data Theft
The race to claim a million-dollar math prize just became a test case for whether AI training counts as theft.
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Canary Capital Quietly Launches America's First Yield-Generating Crypto ETF
The ETF wrapper just learned to yield farm, and the fee structure suggests someone thinks you'll pay extra for the privilege. Canary Capital's TRXS launched on Cboe as the first US spot ETF tied to Tron with built-in staking, opening with $50.25 million in assets
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FBI Cracks First Bitcoin RICO Case After $245M Theft Spree
The first Bitcoin RICO case just closed with a guilty plea, and the playbook prosecutors used here will haunt every crypto scheme from here forward.
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Democrats Rush AI Rules After Anthropic Insider Breaks Ranks
Democrats are finally acting like AI agents might actually do what they're designed to do: operate without asking permission first. Hill Democrats are pushing for AI safety legislation as a former Anthropic researcher warns about unchecked technological advancement and potential existential risks
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Cryptographic Proof Is the Only Way to Stop AI Companies From Remembering Everything You Tell Them
When you can't trust the AI company to forget what you told it, the only answer is cryptographic proof that it never remembered in the first place. Growing distrust of frontier AI labs is driving demand for decentralized inference networks where user data never touches centralized servers
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Illinois Crypto Tax Could Set Precedent for 49 States to Follow
The first state-level crypto tax is about to become case law that defines whether states can tax on-chain activity the same way they tax stock trades.
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