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Investigators say tracing the network’s crypto transactions exposed links to organized crime and murder-for-hire.

OFAC says hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin moved through BitBank to the Revolutionary Guards in two months.

OpenAI’s new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake “breach alerts,” coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other.

Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.

SpaceX’s AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there’s nobody left to ask them.

Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built food safety dashboard after a summer of outbreaks, putting employee data in the hands of a company seeded by the CIA’s venture arm.

In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers.

Days after its disputed Navier-Stokes claim, OpenAI says it’s made “substantial progress” on another Millennium Prize math problem—and won’t say which one yet.

The Ethereum co-founder said AI could help developers mathematically verify entire software systems, turning the same technology powering new attacks into a tool for defense.

The former presidential candidate said lawmakers should impose liability rules and waiting periods on frontier AI firms as autonomous agents raise new cyber and labor concerns.

King Charles hosted senior AI executives at his Scottish estate to discuss keeping the technology “in the service of humanity,” days after industry leaders called for a slowdown.

The Federal Reserve’s first rate increase since 2023 barely dented crypto prices, but what comes next could change calculations on Wall Street.

S&P Global is expanding into the technology risks underpinning stablecoins, tokenized funds, and other onchain financial products.

“Anyone running an unregistered peer-to-peer crypto business should assume we are looking at them,” the FCA’s enforcement chief said.

The “innovation exemption” lets qualifying venues trade tokenized versions of U.S. stocks on public blockchains without registering as exchanges—though it excludes price-tracking “synthetics” and lets companies block tokenization of their shares.

The group says it chose whom to target by scanning the blockchain for Revolut accounts holding significant crypto.

The Clarity Act failed to pass and FOMC hiked rates, and yet, crypto majors are green and alt leaders are flying. What does it mean?

The privacy coin rose double digits Thursday and 168% over the past month in the wake of the NU7 upgrade vote.

A substitute text adopted before the vote strips out the Federal Reserve funding routes and thins the transparency rules.

The bill would exempt qualifying crypto fees from gain-or-loss calculations and restrict tax-loss deductions on tokens sold and quickly repurchased.

Meta is reportedly developing a version of its smart glasses without a camera, potentially addressing one of the biggest privacy objections to AI wearables.

An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform’s defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI’s own incident report never fully described.

Chair Kevin Warsh credited Trump’s economy, then ignored his rate-cut wishes entirely.

Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered final testing, bringing faster block checks and changes to how wallets prepare payments.

The Federal Reserve delivered the hike Wall Street had almost unanimously priced in.

Michael Selig and Paul Atkins pledged to use their agencies’ existing powers to provide crypto regulatory certainty after the Senate failed to advance the bill.

Attackers ran 108 malicious ads through the streaming service’s verified account, directing users to fake software downloads.

Meta’s CEO says competition and potential liability give AI developers reasons to prioritize safety, citing the company’s decision to delay Muse.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP ETFs shed roughly $593 million combined Tuesday, their heaviest single-day drawdown since June.

The Layer 1 network’s validator set is permissioned, and Circle has minted 10 billion ARC tokens without committing to publicly launch them.