OpenAI just killed its adult chatbot project after employee and investor revolt, and the real story is what happens when a $157B company tries to chase revenue in the wrong direction. OpenAI has shelved its "adult mode" ChatGPT project indefinitely after internal pushback over societal harm concerns
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The Pentagon and Anthropic are locked in a standoff over AI warfare guardrails, and the dollar figures explain why neither side can afford to lose.
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Bitget Wallet just built a bridge between crypto's oldest promise and its newest infrastructure, and the names on the roster tell you everything about where stablecoin rails are heading.
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Elon Musk just hired someone who helped build Base and Aave to design X Money, and that tells you exactly what kind of payments product is coming. X hired Benji Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Aave Labs and design lead at Coinbase's Base, to lead design for X Money
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Congress is trying to turn Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon into law. Sen. Adam Schiff is drafting legislation to codify Anthropic's red lines, ensuring humans make final decisions on lethal force and mass surveillance
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The world's biggest energy conference is running two movie screens at once, and nobody knows which one to watch. CERAWeek in Houston is split between Iran war volatility rattling oil markets and AI power demand reshaping the grid, with executives struggling to price both risks simultaneously.
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Bret Taylor just shipped a self-service AI agent builder, and the timing tells you everything about where this market is headed. Sierra launched Ghostwriter, a product that builds AI customer service agents from natural language prompts, no code required
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Ethereum's dominance isn't guaranteed anymore, and the threats aren't hypothetical. Ethereum faces simultaneous pressure from scaling bottlenecks, quantum computing advances, and AI-driven chain optimization, marking what developers are calling a "make-or-break moment" for the network
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DeFi printed $8 billion in onchain yield last year, but half the money sitting in Ethereum stablecoins is earning less than a risk-free T-bill. DeFi protocols generated $8 billion in onchain yield in 2025, driven primarily by borrowing demand, trading fees, and perpetual funding rates
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The Democratic Party just split wide open on AI infrastructure, and the fracture line runs straight through 2028. Sen. Mark Warner called a proposed AI data center moratorium "idiocy" at Axios' AI+DC Summit, directly rebutting Sanders-AOC legislation introduced the same day
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Sony and SBI just bet $63 million that Japan will lead the institutional RWA buildout, and they're using a Layer 1 most people have never heard of.
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François Chollet just dropped a benchmark that measures what AI actually can't do yet, and the timing couldn't be more pointed.
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Sky's stablecoin incubator just put a billion dollars of USDS to work in the real world, and it's not going where you think. Obex, a Sky-backed stablecoin incubator, is deploying $1B in USDS into eight real-world asset projects spanning mortgages, AI infrastructure, and renewable energy.
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Japan's biggest financial institution just dropped $50M on blockchain infrastructure—not for speculation, but for real securities moving on-chain. Startale closed a $63M Series A with $50M from SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial services conglomerates
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A stablecoin startup just raised $6 million to build something the rest of crypto seems allergic to: financial privacy that doesn't require a PhD in cryptography. Payy raised $6 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto joining the round
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Sky's stablecoin arm just put a billion dollars into real assets, and it's the clearest sign yet that DeFi is done pretending Treasury bills are the endgame.
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Bernie Sanders just proposed a full stop on data center construction until Congress figures out what "safe AI" means.
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Kelp just turned payment float into a tradable DeFi asset, and the implications for stablecoin velocity are bigger than most people realize. Kelp launched KUSD, a stablecoin backed by trade receivables and cross-border payment flows, not treasuries or overcollateralized crypto
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While AI overviews are eating media traffic alive, breaking news clicks are up 103%, and the reason reveals exactly where human journalism still wins. Global publisher traffic from Google dropped one-third last year, with organic search down 42% according to Define Media Group analysis
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China just put the cofounders of Manus under exit ban while it reviews Meta's $2 billion AI agent acquisition, and this is the real opening shot in the AI sovereignty war.
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