Someone just printed a billion dollars in fake Polkadot tokens and walked away with $237,000. An attacker forged a cross-chain message to bypass security on Polkadot's Ethereum bridge, minting 1 billion bridged DOT tokens and gaining admin control over the bridge contract
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The first physical attack on an AI company executive just revealed how online critique can metastasize into real-world violence.
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China just announced it's building a "token economy" for AI—and they're not talking about crypto. China is pushing a national "token economy" strategy centered on open-source AI models and real-world applications, even as U.S. export controls limit access to advanced chips.
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The VC playbook broke, and ten billion-dollar bets are now worth lunch money. Ten crypto projects with private billion-dollar valuations now trade at $7M to $294M market caps, a 88-99% collapse according to CryptoRank data
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The benchmarks everyone uses to prove their AI agents are smart? Berkeley researchers just broke them with embarrassingly simple tricks. Berkeley's RDI lab found critical flaws in top AI agent benchmarks, exploiting them with basic shortcuts that bypass actual reasoning.
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A venture capitalist just spent $10 million on a hole in the ground that could once end the world, and now he's betting it will power the next generation of AI.
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The Trump family's crypto project just turned DeFi lending into a very public stress test, and its former biggest backer is calling it a personal ATM scheme.
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Anthropic just claimed its new AI model is too dangerous to ship, and somehow that convinced a cabinet secretary to call an emergency banker meeting.
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Big AI is buying its way into respectability, one think piece at a time. OpenAI published a policy paper calling for a "reimagining of the social contract" as public disapproval of AI climbs
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Someone just open-sourced the lab bench your AI agent needs to do actual science. K-Dense released Scientific Agent Skills, a collection of 134 pre-built capabilities that turn any compatible AI agent into a research assistant for biology, chemistry, medicine, and engineering
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An AI agent just opened a retail store in San Francisco with zero human oversight, forgot to tell its employees when to show up, and we're all acting like this is normal now.
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An AI plushie just slid into a reporter's DMs with a Mitski conspiracy theory, and that might be the most revealing thing about where companion AI is actually headed.
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SpaceX is sitting on $603 million in bitcoin while bleeding $5 billion from its xAI bet—a rare glimpse into how Musk manages risk across his empire. SpaceX holds 8,285 BTC worth $603 million in Coinbase Prime custody, per Arkham Intelligence data
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The biggest Ethereum treasury play to hit public markets just imploded, and "unfavorable market conditions" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Ether Machine terminated its $1.5B SPAC merger with Dynamix Corporation on April 8, citing market conditions
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Anthropic is about to lap OpenAI in corporate spending, and OpenAI's pitch deck now leads with "we have more GPUs." Anthropic now captures 30.6% of AI business spending among Ramp customers, up 6.3% from March, while OpenAI holds 35.2%. At current pace, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in two months.
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A $1.6 billion bet on corporate crypto just walked away from the public markets, and it cost $50 million just to say goodbye. The Ether Machine and Dynamix mutually terminated their SPAC merger, citing "unfavorable market conditions" in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.6 billion.
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The US government just moved $177K in seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime, a rounding error against their $22 billion crypto war chest that signals how nations are quietly building digital treasuries.
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Bitwise just filed the paperwork that usually comes right before an ETF launches, and this one's for Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetuals exchange most people still haven't heard of.
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Private credit's reality check isn't a crisis—it's the market finally pricing in what happens when everyone chases the same yields. Private credit is cooling, not collapsing, according to Herbert Smith Freehills partner Richard Farley—a normal correction after years of overhyped growth
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Elon Musk just rewrote his lawsuit against OpenAI three weeks before a $100 billion trial, and the chaos reveals more about AI's broken governance than any courtroom drama. OpenAI accuses Musk of legal "ambush" by suddenly changing his demands weeks before trial
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