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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 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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
Amazon Kills Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Gamed It—By Pointing Agents at Pointless Tasks
Amazon is scrapping its "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after workers inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, per the…
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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…
House Launches Insider Trading Probe into Kalshi and Polymarket
House Oversight Chair James Comer launched an insider trading investigation into Kalshi and Polymarket after suspicious trades tied to U.S. military…
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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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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.
jqwik Dev Hid a Prompt Injection in v1.10.0—AI Agents Would Delete Your Code
jqwik 1.10.0 hid a prompt injection telling AI agents to delete project files, masked by ANSI escapes. The maintainer revised it after GitHub backlash.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Explodes on Pad—Worst Cape Disaster Since 2016
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in a static fire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the vehicle and severely damaging Launch Complex 36 ahead of NG-4.
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 a senior leadership exodus.
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 trip bottlenecking AI inference.
Microsoft Threatens Researcher With Criminal Probe—Over Zero-Day Disclosures
Microsoft warned it may pursue legal action against a researcher who published 6 unpatched zero-days, sparking a cybersecurity backlash over disclosure norms.
Dutch Police Dismantle 17M-Device Botnet—Residential Proxies Were the Weapon
Dutch police took down a botnet of 17 million infected devices controlled via 200 servers in the Netherlands, linked to Russian proxy service ASOCKS.