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Apple’s Third-Generation Foundation Models Arrive—Built With Google, Running on NVIDIA
Apple's third-gen foundation models arrive: five models, Google collaboration, NVIDIA in Google Cloud, and a 20B on-device model using Instruction-Following Pruning.
Humanity Protocol’s $36M Exploit Traced to One Compromised Laptop Holding Multisig Keys
Humanity Protocol lost $36M+ after an employee laptop held 3/6 Ethereum and 3/5 BSC multisig bridge keys. Attacker drained 141.2M H…
Anthropic Releases Mythos-Class Model to Public—With Guardrails That Block 5% of Queries
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model. Classifier guardrails block 5% of sessions on cyber/bio queries, falling back…
UK Regulator Proposes 10% Crypto ETN Cap for Mutual Funds—Direct Holdings Still Banned
The UK FCA proposed allowing authorized funds up to 10% crypto ETN exposure, closing a gap where retail investors had access…
CISA Gives Feds Three Days to Patch Check Point VPN Bug—Qilin Ransomware Already Exploiting It
CISA ordered federal agencies to patch a critical Check Point VPN zero-day exploited by Qilin ransomware within 72 hours. The flaw…
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What is ProgramBench: The Uncheatable Benchmark Where Every AI Model Scores 0%
Meta's new benchmark hands AI agents a compiled program and its documentation—no source code, no internet—and asks them to recreate…
Anthropic Files Confidential IPO—65B AI Lab Eyes Public Markets
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC days after closing a 5B round at 65B valuation, beating OpenAI and setting…
Groq Chases $650M After Nvidia’s $20B Deal—Inference Cloud Is Act Two
Groq raises $650M from existing backers for Groq 2.0, an AI inference neocloud pivot after the $20B Nvidia licensing deal and…
XCENA Raises $135M — AI’s Bottleneck Is Memory, Not Compute
XCENA raised $135M Series B at $570M valuation for MX1, a chip placing compute inside DRAM to eliminate the memory round…
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UK Regulator Proposes 10% Crypto ETN Cap for Mutual Funds—Direct Holdings Still Banned
The UK FCA proposed allowing authorized funds up to 10% crypto ETN exposure, closing a gap where retail investors had access…
Tether, Fasset Just Dropped World’s First Gold-Backed Visa Card
Tether and Fasset roll out the first Visa card fully backed by tokenized gold, offering up to 6% XAU₮ cashback and…
India Blocks Polymarket—1.4 Billion Lose Access to Prediction Markets
India formally blocked Polymarket under the IT Act and is preparing a parallel ban on Kalshi, the most populous nation to…
Malta Moves to Regulate Prediction Markets—First EU Framework
Malta is actively exploring prediction market regulation, positioning itself as the first EU member to license platforms like Polymarket rather than…
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Inside Putin’s $26 Billion Quest to Conquer Aging — From Pig Organs to Immortality
Russia has launched a $26B state program to combat aging through bioprinting, gene therapy, and pig-grown organs, with…
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Apple’s Third-Generation Foundation Models Arrive—Built With Google, Running on NVIDIA
Apple's third-gen foundation models arrive: five models, Google collaboration, NVIDIA in Google Cloud, and a 20B on-device model using Instruction-Following Pruning.
Humanity Protocol’s $36M Exploit Traced to One Compromised Laptop Holding Multisig Keys
Humanity Protocol lost $36M+ after an employee laptop held 3/6 Ethereum and 3/5 BSC multisig bridge keys. Attacker drained 141.2M H on Ethereum and minted 200M…
Anthropic Releases Mythos-Class Model to Public—With Guardrails That Block 5% of Queries
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model. Classifier guardrails block 5% of sessions on cyber/bio queries, falling back to Opus 4.8. Mythos 5—the…
UK Regulator Proposes 10% Crypto ETN Cap for Mutual Funds—Direct Holdings Still Banned
The UK FCA proposed allowing authorized funds up to 10% crypto ETN exposure, closing a gap where retail investors had access but their fund managers did…
CISA Gives Feds Three Days to Patch Check Point VPN Bug—Qilin Ransomware Already Exploiting It
CISA ordered federal agencies to patch a critical Check Point VPN zero-day exploited by Qilin ransomware within 72 hours. The flaw affects IKEv1-configured gateways and gave…
What is ProgramBench: The Uncheatable Benchmark Where Every AI Model Scores 0%
Meta's new benchmark hands AI agents a compiled program and its documentation—no source code, no internet—and asks them to recreate it from scratch. Nine of the…
Inside Putin’s $26 Billion Quest to Conquer Aging — From Pig Organs to Immortality
Russia has launched a $26B state program to combat aging through bioprinting, gene therapy, and pig-grown organs, with Putin personally backing the moonshot initiative.
Tether, Fasset Just Dropped World’s First Gold-Backed Visa Card
Tether and Fasset roll out the first Visa card fully backed by tokenized gold, offering up to 6% XAU₮ cashback and Dubai gold ATMs next.
Florida Sues OpenAI and Altman—First State-Led Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Deaths
Florida sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in the first state-led lawsuit over ChatGPT, claiming the AI aided multiple murders and drove users to suicide.
Hackers Tricked Meta’s AI Chatbot Into Handing Over Instagram Accounts
Hackers tricked Meta’s AI chatbot into resetting Instagram passwords and hijacking high-profile accounts. Meta says the exploit is now patched.
Anthropic Files Confidential IPO—65B AI Lab Eyes Public Markets
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC days after closing a 5B round at 65B valuation, beating OpenAI and setting up a historic AI IPO…
SpaceX Wins $6.45B in Space Force Contracts—Golden Dome Gets Its Backbone
SpaceX landed $6.45B in Space Force contracts for Golden Dome missile-tracking satellites and a military data network, weeks before its expected IPO.