BTC Markets' one-day staking opt-in grabs user yields without risk sharing
BTC Markets auto-stakes user crypto, keeps rewards, 24-hour opt-out presumption draws ASIC scrutiny.
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Taylor Swift trademarks her voice and face to draw a legal line against AI deepfakes
Taylor Swift files three landmark trademarks covering her voice and stage likeness to block AI deepfakes.
Match Group bets $100 million on Sniffies to crack the queer dating market
Match Group's $100M Sniffies deal targets queer men's market with an acquisition option as Grindr faces trust erosion.
Microsoft drops OpenAI exclusivity and ends revenue share in landmark deal restructure
Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity, enabling full AWS and multi-cloud deployment as partnership restructures.
DeFi community raises $238M to save Aave from KelpDAO exploit fallout
DeFi rallies $238M including Justin Sun's $20M to rescue Aave from $280M KelpDAO bad debt.
The Microsoft-OpenAI breakup is playing out in slow motion and both sides are accelerating it
A Bloomberg report this week confirmed that Microsoft is ending its revenue-sharing arrangement with OpenAI, formalising a commercial uncoupling that has been building for over a year as both companies pursue independent AI strategies and increasingly compete for the same enterprise customers.
Discord sleuths breach Anthropic's zero-day hunter in a wake-up call for contained AI security
A group of Discord researchers gained unauthorised access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos cybersecurity model for weeks in April, exploiting a third-party vendor preview environment through URL guessing and data patterns , a breach that exposed the fragility of even the most restricted frontier AI deployments.
AI agents can now cost more than the humans they were supposed to replace
A growing body of analysis is puncturing one of enterprise AI's core assumptions: that automation is inherently cheaper than headcount , with fully loaded agentic AI costs regularly exceeding equivalent human labor for complex, multi-step knowledge work tasks.
China's Manus intervention rewrites the rules for cross-border AI deals
Beijing's move to bar Manus co-founders from leaving the country and launch a formal review of Meta's $2 billion acquisition is not just a deal dispute: it is a strategic declaration that agentic AI is now sovereign infrastructure, and that the era of frictionless US-China tech M&A is over.
Three lessons from the med student who built a fake MAGA influencer and made thousands
A 22-year-old Indian medical student created an AI-generated conservative influencer called Emily Hart, grew her to 10,000 followers and millions of views in a month, and monetised her through merchandise and an explicit content platform , raising uncomfortable questions about AI literacy, platform responsibility, and the economics of synthetic identity.
Asian markets hit record highs on AI and chip optimism but surging oil prices are keeping the rally honest
Japan and South Korea hit record highs on Monday as AI and chipmaker optimism from a strong Wall Street close lifted regional equities, but surging oil prices and stalled US-Iran negotiations are capping the rally's breadth. The semiconductor and AI infrastructure trade is carrying index performance while industrial and consumer names remain under pressure from energy cost concerns. US futures were flat during Asian hours, signaling Wall Street is not yet ready to extend Friday's gains while the
Elon Musk says AI and robots are the only way to stop America going bankrupt
Elon Musk says AI and robots are the only way to stop America going bankrupt
John Ternus points Apple toward on-device AI and it could be the most disruptive bet in the industry
John Ternus's appointment as Apple CEO signals a potential strategic pivot toward on-device AI inference powered by the Neural Engine architecture he helped build, positioning Apple to compete on privacy and latency rather than cloud-scale model capability. If Apple can deliver AI experiences that run entirely on-chip without external API calls, it challenges foundational assumptions about where consumer AI value is created and captured. The bet is long in the making and would force a significan
SWE-bench has been benchmaxxed and AI coding scores can no longer be trusted at face value
SWE-bench has been benchmaxxed and AI coding scores can no longer be trusted at face value
The US government really does accept debt donations and social media cannot decide whether to laugh or cry
Posts on X mocking an apparent US government crowdfunding effort to reduce the national debt have gone viral, but the donation portal being ridiculed is real, has existed for decades, and collected around $3.5 million in fiscal year 2024 against a debt load measured in trillions. The viral moment reflects genuine public frustration with US fiscal credibility rather than just amusement at an obscure Treasury program. The mockery is a minor but real sentiment signal with implications for how the p
Telegram just gave a billion users the ability to build and deploy AI bots without writing a single line of code
Telegram's Bot API 9.6 introduces Managed Bots, a no-code system that lets any of the platform's one billion users create and deploy AI-powered bots through @BotFather and a shareable link, with no programming knowledge required. The feature opens immediate use cases across crypto alerts, customer support automation, and productivity tooling for the massive Telegram community that previously lacked the developer access to build them. Early demos show functional trading journal bots and conversat
