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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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nginx-poolslip—AI Agent Found Unpatched RCE in 30% of the Web
Unpatched NGINX 1.31.0 RCE zero-day nginx-poolslip bypasses ASLR. Found by AI agent 8 days after nginx-rift patch. No CVE, no fix, millions of servers at risk.
SEC Delays Prediction Market ETFs—Wall Street Waits
The SEC delayed Polymarket and Kalshi ETF decisions to Q3 2026. Regulators disagree on jurisdiction while prediction markets seek Wall Street access.
1.8M Fingerprints Stolen—This NYC Hospital Breach Is Permanent
Fingerprints and medical records of 1.8M people were stolen from NYC Health + Hospitals. Unlike passwords or SSNs, biometric data cannot be replaced or revoked.
Adcock’s $700M Hark Bet—The Same Founder Now Runs Two AI Unicorns
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock raised $700M at a $6B valuation for Hark — a consumer AI hardware lab. He now runs two companies worth $45B…
SynthID Goes Industry-Wide—OpenAI and Nvidia Just Signed On
Google's SynthID watermark has labeled 100B AI images. Now OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and ElevenLabs are adopting it—and a new detector portal opens to the public.
GitHub’s Own Repos Got Hit—One Poisoned VS Code Extension Was All It Took
A poisoned VS Code extension gave TeamPCP 3,800 GitHub internal repos. Days earlier the same group hit Nx Console (2.2M installs) for developer credentials.
Karpathy Left OpenAI Twice—Now He’s Building Anthropic’s Pre-Training
OpenAI co-founder Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead pre-training acceleration with Claude. Cyber veteran Chris Rohlf also joins the frontier red team.
CISA’s Own Contractor Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub for 6 Months
A CISA contractor exposed AWS GovCloud keys and plaintext passwords on GitHub for six months. Researchers call it the worst government data leak in years.
Nasdaq Wants 23-Hour Trading—Polymarket Says 12% Chance by June
Nasdaq filed to extend US equities trading to 23 hours a day, but the SEC has not issued a final rule. Polymarket traders give it just…
Apple Brings Apple Intelligence to Accessibility Features With VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Vision Pro Wheelchair Control
Apple previewed a suite of accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, bringing new capabilities to features that users with disabilities rely on daily. The…
Musk Lost—Prediction Markets Called It Before the Jury Even Started
A unanimous jury rejected Musk's claims against OpenAI on statute of limitations grounds. Prediction markets dropped his odds from 60% to 40% during the trial. The…
Bug Bounty Platforms Drowning in AI Slop—Curl and Nextcloud Already Pulled the Plug
Bugcrowd reports submissions surged 334% in three weeks as AI-generated fake vulnerability reports flood platforms. Curl and Nextcloud ended their paid programs. The signal-to-noise crisis is…