Poolin Files Chapter 11—$52M Floor Bid Set for Its Texas Mining Sites
Once bitcoin's largest mining pool, Poolin filed Chapter 11 in New Jersey owing $173.1M—a $52M stalking-horse bid sets the floor for its West Texas sites.
Polymarket traders are now 100% certain LeBron James is headed to the 76ers
The NBA's most-watched prediction market has pinned LeBron James's next team at the Philadelphia 76ers with total conviction.
Google Adds Selfie Video Sign-In—Liveness Checks Take On Deepfakes
Google's selfie video option lets locked-out users recover accounts with a liveness-checked face video that is encrypted at rest and deletable at any time.
An Indiana judge caught a court reporter submitting AI-generated errors in an official transcript
A judge's order warns stenographers that AI transcription tools are producing fabricated errors in certified court records.
Amazon Orders Sellers to Label AI-Generated People—NY Law Goes Nationwide
Amazon now requires sellers to tag ads featuring photorealistic AI people, turning New York's synthetic performer law into a marketplace-wide global rule.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3—a multimodal model that generates video with its own audio
FLUX 3 jointly learns images, video and audio, and can produce 20-second clips with native sound—though only in limited release for now.
AMD Ships Helios This Year: 72-GPU AI Racks—OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft Line Up
AMD's Helios rack packs 72 MI455X GPUs and 31 TB of HBM4, shipping this year with OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, Anthropic and Microsoft all lined up to…
Clarity Act will likely miss its August 7 window as Polymarket odds slide to ~33%
The Clarity Act will likely miss its August 7 deadline, Thune said, as Polymarket odds of 2026 passage slid to about 33%.
BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy among nine firms pledging $15 million for Bitcoin security
Nine giants including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy pledged $15 million over three years for Bitcoin security research, with quantum threats a focus.
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode to Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku — and gives it app control
Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode to Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku and gave it control of Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and more — a step beyond OpenAI's voice.