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OpenAI published a new prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol, its newly released flagship model, and the main message will feel wrong to anyone who spent the last year writing multi-page system prompts: stop writing so much. The core idea is outcome-first prompting. Define what good looks like, set the st

Protesters March on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Demanding AI Development Pause

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Protesters again took to the streets of San Francisco, marching between the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, calling for a pause in the development of more powerful AI. Saturday's demonstration, organized by Stop the AI Race, went beyond AI safety to include concerns over job losse

New Hampshire Follows Bitcoin Reserve With 'Blockchain Basic Laws' Signing

8 hours ago

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte helped make the state into one of the crypto-friendliest in the nation when she signed HB 639 into law last week. Known as the The Blockchain Basic Laws act, the bill provides protections for cryptocurrency innovation and use in the state while also allowing for

Claude's Personality Changes Depending on the Model—And the Language You Speak

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Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found its assistant consistently expresses different values depending on both the model users choose and the language they speak. In a report published on Monday, Anthropic resear

Democratic Opposition to Clarity Act Grows in Crypto Bill's Do-or-Die Final Weeks

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Key Senate Democrats have begun mounting an impassioned case against passage of the Clarity Act in its current form, as the sprawling crypto bill enters a climactic final hurdle. On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote a letter urging Senate leadership to ensure the Clarity Act includes langua

Bolivia Is Considering Adding Tether's USDT Stablecoin to National Payments System: Report

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Bolivia’s economy is stabilizing, and now it is investigating the potential inclusion of Tether’s dollar-backed stablecoin USDT as a form of payment in the nation, according to a local news report from La Razón. The report stems from a Friday briefing from Bolivia’s Minister of Economy, José Gabriel

'The Odyssey' Director Chris Nolan: Young Audiences are Rejecting 'AI Slop'

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“The Odyssey” director Christopher Nolan famously doesn’t use a smartphone, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that he isn’t on board with the latest tech buzzphrase. On the press tour for his latest effort, Nolan told The Telegraph that young audiences are “utterly rejecting” generative AI, adding that,

Robinhood Chain's Early Momentum Is Being Driven By Meme Coins, Not Tokenized Stocks

12 hours ago

Robinhood spent over a year building a blockchain around the idea that users want to trade tokens tied to the world’s most valuable companies. But since Robinhood Chain debuted two weeks ago, digital assets with cute pictures and funny names have led the charge. Although the Ethereum layer-2 scaling

This Is How Much Your Boyfriend Is Spending on AI Girlfriends

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People are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on AI girlfriends, and the trend doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. According to data provided to Decrypt by analytics firm Appfigures Intelligence, NSFW and romantic AI companion apps across Apple’s App Store and Google Play have generated 16

BitMine Buys $49 Million in Ethereum as Tom Lee Hails Early Robinhood Chain Demand

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Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added another $49 million worth of ETH to its stash last week, acquiring 27,801 ETH. The firm now holds 5,770,038 ETH, nearly 4.8% of the token’s circulating supply, valued around $10.1 billion as Ethereum trades around $1,780 on

Strategy Pads Cash Reserves to $3 Billion, Skipping Bitcoin Buy for Third Week

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Strategy’s Bitcoin-buying machine remained in neutral last week as the firm continued growing its cash reserves, forgoing acquisitions of the digital asset for a third straight week. The company raised $467 million during the period by issuing common stock, lifting the balance of its so-called USD R

Bank of Thailand Flags Abnormal Stablecoin Trades in 'Grey Economy' Crackdown

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Thailand's central bank has turned data-analytics tools on the country's stablecoin market, scanning high-volume trades for signs of illicit money as part of a widening crackdown on the shadow economy. Bank of Thailand Governor Vitai Ratanakorn said the central bank has begun screening abnormally la

Morning Minute: BTC and ETH ETFs Flip Green After Lengthy Outflow Stretch

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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors fall 1-3% after overnight selloff; BTC at $63k BTC ETFs flip to net inflows after brutal 2-month stretch

Chinese Prosecutors Float Treating Crypto Mixer, Privacy Coin Use as Sign of Money Laundering

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An article in the official newspaper of China's top prosecutors' office has laid out a framework for prosecuting crypto money laundering, proposing that courts presume criminal intent when suspects use coin mixers and privacy coins, and that the state build a platform to sell off seized cryptocurren

How to Make Product Ads With AI for TikTok and YouTube—For (Almost) Free

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TikTok Shop, the ecommerce platform that allows users to buy and sell things directly on TikTok, moved $64.3 billion in merchandise in 2025, nearly doubling from the year before. The U.S. alone accounted for $15.1 billion of that, and most of it was driven by short, cheap, face-to-camera videos of s

What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks

Robinhood Chain is a blockchain network developed by Robinhood, the financial services company behind the stock and crypto trading platform. Launched in mainnet on July 1, 2026, Robinhood Chain—a network built with Ethereum technology—brings together tokenized assets, decentralized finance (DeFi), a

Nano Banana 2 Lite vs. Nano Banana 2: When to Save Your Money and When to Upgrade

Google last week launched Nano Banana 2 Lite—officially gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image—as the entry point in its image generation stack, sitting below Nano Banana 2 and well below Nano Banana Pro. It delivers text-to-image outputs in roughly four seconds, 2.7 times faster than Nano Banana 2, and is pos

Apple Sues OpenAI, Claims Former Employees Stole Trade Secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI and two former employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using stolen trade secrets for its consumer hardware efforts. The complaint, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names former Apple senior system electrical engineer Chang Liu a

Democrats Call for Senate Hearings on Trump's Massive Crypto Profits

Democratic senators are calling for congressional hearings into President Donald Trump’s crypto holdings after new financial disclosures revealed they generated over $1.2 billion in income for him last year. Five Senate Democrats—Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Gary Peters (D-MI)

Bitcoin Treasury Firm Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half of BTC Holdings for $87 Million

Publicly traded Empery Digital Inc. has sold nearly half its Bitcoin treasury since early May, using the proceeds to pay down debt, prepare for an AI-related real estate acquisition, and cover mounting legal bills tied to a shareholder lawsuit, according to an SEC filing this week. The company discl

Xbox CEO Joins Fed AI Jobs Task Force Days After Announcing 3,200 Layoffs

Days after announcing the largest restructuring in Xbox history, CEO Asha Sharma has joined a Federal Reserve task force examining how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies could reshape jobs, productivity, and the broader economy. On Thursday, the Federal Reserve said that Sharma

Trump Won't Sign Housing Bill With CBDC Ban—Will It Become Law Tonight Anyway?

President Donald Trump said Thursday he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill that includes a multi-year ban on the issuance of a U.S. central bank digital currency, or CBDC. Unless the president actively vetoes the legislation before midnight tonight, however, it will automatically become law. "I

Circle Stock Jumps as Stablecoin Issuer Wins Final Federal Banking Charter Approval

Circle has received final approval to establish a national trust bank from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a move that’s set to shift the stablecoin issuer’s operations from a patchwork of state-by-state rules to a national framework. In an announcement on Friday, the company beh

Strategy Bitcoin Sales 'Mostly Noise,' Standard Chartered Says, Holding $100K BTC Call

Strategy's turn from hoarding Bitcoin to selling it, in order to pay dividends on its preferred stock, has "muddied" Bitcoin's near-term prospects, according to a new Standard Chartered note that nonetheless urges investors to look past it. Last week, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy sold 3,588 BTC

Morning Minute: Robinhood Chain Explodes Onto the Crypto Scene