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OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Labs May Need to Slow Down
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has raised the prospect that the world's leading artificial intelligence labs may soon need to ease off the accelerator, warning that…
Bitcoin Starts the Week Flat, But Chainlink Is Flying—Here's Why
Chainlink's LINK token surged to an eightmonth high on Monday even as Bitcoin opened the week largely unchanged, following news that a major financial infrastructure provider had…
Irish Gangs Are Renting Private Vaults to Hide Crypto Keys
Criminal organizations in Ireland are increasingly turning to private safe deposit facilities to conceal the cryptographic keys that control their digital asset holdings,…
'Purported White-Hat Hackers' Withdraw $320M in Bitcoin From Liquid
A group claiming to be whitehat hackers has moved roughly $320 million worth of Bitcoin out of the Liquid Network, sparking an unusual public exchange with sidechain operator…
Philippines eyes payment operator registration freeze, tighter VASP checks
The Philippine central bank is weighing a temporary halt on new payment operator registrations alongside stricter oversight rules for arrangements that involve virtual asset…
Coldcard third-wave attacker moves 45% of stolen Bitcoin
An attacker linked to a third wave of thefts targeting Coldcard hardware wallet users has begun shifting a significant portion of the stolen Bitcoin, according to research from…
Bitcoin network used by exchanges hit by $320 million exploit. Hackers claim they're the 'good guys'
A settlement layer trusted by cryptocurrency exchanges suspended all activity after attackers drained roughly $320 million worth of bitcoin, in one of the largest exploits to hit…
Better and Coinbase’s bitcoin-backed mortgages can reuse borrowers’ collateral
Better Mortgage and Coinbase have rolled out a new bitcoinbacked mortgage product that carries a significant catch for borrowers: the digital assets pledged as collateral can be…
Satoshi-era Bitcoin wakes after 16 years of dormancy as 600 BTC moves
A cache of 600 Bitcoin that had sat untouched for 16 years suddenly sprang to life this week, reigniting speculation about the earliest days of the cryptocurrency network before…
AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
An artificial intelligence system built by Anthropic has reportedly cracked a centuriesold mathematical challenge, spending nearly two weeks transforming one of history's most…
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
The Group of Seven has issued a warning that the rise of quantum computing poses a serious risk to modern encryption, urging organizations across finance and technology to begin…
QuFi launches post-quantum verification platform with Bitcoin testnet proof
QuFi has unveiled a postquantum verification platform designed to safeguard digital asset transactions against future quantumcomputing threats, backing its debut with a proof of…
AMC chief criticizes Robinhood’s tokenized stock plan
AMC Entertainment Chief Executive Adam Aron has publicly pushed back against Robinhood's tokenized stock initiative, raising concerns about the regulatory status of the products…
Bybit Pay integrates with Mesh to expand crypto payments
Bybit Pay has teamed up with crypto payments infrastructure provider Mesh in a move designed to let users spend their digital assets directly from their exchange balances across a…
Recovery specialists crack $1B crypto wallet... but find just $10
A team of crypto recovery specialists successfully broke into a digital wallet a client believed held roughly $1 billion in assets — only to discover the account contained just…
FX has stopped reading bond yields the old way. Bitcoin should too.
The traditional relationship between currency markets and bond yields has broken down, and analysts warn that bitcoin traders relying on the same old playbook may be misreading…
Coldcard hacker swaps stolen Bitcoin for ETH via THORChain
An attacker involved in the recent Coldcard wallet exploit has begun laundering stolen Bitcoin, converting a portion of the funds into Ether using the crosschain protocol…
Top Pentagon AI Official Sold Millions in Perplexity Stock, Disclosures Show
A senior Pentagon technology official divested millions of dollars worth of shares in the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity over the summer, according to newly surfaced…
Norway Moves to Regulate 'Pervert Glasses,' Weighs Facial Recognition Ban
Norwegian authorities are moving to rein in smart glasses equipped with facial recognition technology, with the country's data protection agency proposing new rules and its…
BTC will hit $1M by 2030... but Arthur Hayes is buying ETH instead
Arthur Hayes, the cofounder of BitMEX, has reaffirmed his conviction that Bitcoin is on a longterm path toward $1 million by the end of the decade — yet the veteran trader says…
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