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Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.

The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.

The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo.

A hacker is reportedly selling personal and financial records tied to more than 678,000 taxpayers and businesses in France.

The Chinese lab says the release beats comparably sized open models on code benchmarks. The blog’s own numbers show it trails the closed frontier and at least one open rival.

Sharplink plans to stake roughly 12% of its total Ethereum holdings through Lido, earning yield while staying active in DeFi.

Current and former OpenAI employees reportedly say pressure to release new AI products made it harder to prioritize safety.

Galaxy Research says the lull likely means vulnerable holders migrated, or were already emptied.

Bank Leumi’s 2022 attempt died at the Bank of Israel. A softer regulatory line and Galaxy’s custody stack now give it another shot in early 2027.

Bitcoin miner Hyperscale sold most of its Bitcoin but said it plans to rebuild its holdings through mining and future purchases.

Malware planted during a bogus coding assessment harvested a session token, bypassing multi-factor authentication to reach a code repository.

The country’s first strategy of its kind also brings stricter due diligence for firms dealing with overseas crypto companies.

It seems Tether passed, putting an end to the longest-running open criticism of the leading stablecoin company.

No replacement date has been set for the meeting, which was cancelled due to an “unforeseen scheduling issue.”

A King County judge gave the exchange until August 19 to stop offering sports, election and politics wagers in the state.

Bitcoin Red Team member Calle said Chinese models, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, are finding bugs across Bitcoin’s open-source software.

In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why.

6th Man Ventures co-founder Mike Dudas says Solana’s infrastructure could carry crypto’s next wave.

Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn’t said how.

Google’s model is live and built for cheap agents; OpenAI’s is quicker but locked behind a waitlist.

Tether said KPMG gave its 2025 financial statements a clean opinion, a milestone for the company after years of questions about the reserves backing USDT.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that lets vetted U.S. companies carry out offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. Here’s what the program actually authorizes.

The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia’s case, saying that broad Fed power over “master accounts” could be used to push crypto firms out of the banking system.

More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms asked the biggest AI labs this week to let independent security researchers use their strongest models before public release.

The company’s CEO said a 5,014 BTC transfer was a custody move, not a sale, as the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company rolls out a fixed-rate debt program.

Lawmakers targeted the deposits that scammers rely on, with the machines still able to sell crypto for dollars or swap one coin for another.

An FCA employee bought crypto from a UK IP address using a driving license as ID, according to the regulator’s claim.

The Ethereum staking platform is adding asset trading, fiat accounts, and borrowing through Aave as it pushes into crypto banking.

The hardware wallet manufacturer says its devices and backups are untouched, but the leak hands attackers valuable customer data.

The Derive integration gives XRP holders a way to hedge or speculate without depositing their tokens with a centralized exchange.