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60% Say AI in Brand Messaging Is a Turnoff, Not a Feature — WordPress VIP Research Reveals the Trust Gap
60% Say AI in Brand Messaging Is a Turnoff, Not a Feature — WordPress VIP Research Reveals the Trust Gap Dek: New Future of…
Polymarket’s $345M Iran Peace Deal Stuck on Definition of ‘Permanent’
Polymarket's $345M Iran peace deal market is frozen over whether a 60-day framework qualifies as 'permanent.' Nine wallets control the UMA…
FIFA World Cup Bug Let Anyone Modify TV Broadcast Stream
Security researcher BobDaHacker found a client-side authorization flaw in FIFA's Microsoft Entra tenant that exposed live World Cup broadcast controls, RTMP…
Qualcomm Bets on 40+ AI Wearables as Smartphone Replacements
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is developing over 40 AI wearable designs — jewelry, camera earbuds, pins, and watches…
SpaceX Agrees to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in All-Stock Deal—SEC Filing Reveals Details
In Brief SpaceX filed Form 8-K June 16 announcing agreement to acquire Anysphere (Cursor) in all-stock deal valuing Cursor at $60…
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60% Say AI in Brand Messaging Is a Turnoff, Not a Feature — WordPress VIP Research Reveals the Trust Gap
60% Say AI in Brand Messaging Is a Turnoff, Not a Feature — WordPress VIP Research Reveals the Trust Gap…
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…
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…
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Polymarket Whale Loses $1.2M as Spain Stumbles vs Cape Verde—World Cup Odds Shift
A single wallet dropped $1.2M on Polymarket's World Cup Winner market after Spain's odds fell 1.5pp following a shock draw vs…
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…
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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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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.
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.