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Law professors preferred answers generated by artificial intelligence over answers written by fellow professors, according to a recent study led by Stanford University that examined how large language models perform on legal reasoning tasks. In the study, 16 professors from 14 U.S. law schools—inclu

Hermes Ends AI Agent Terminal Era With Release of Official Desktop App

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Nous Research shipped Hermes Desktop yesterday as a public preview, and now the self-improving agent that the AI community has been obsessing over has an official front door. No terminal or config files. Just download, install, and run. Previously, if you wanted to run Hermes with any kind of visual

Someone Just Redeemed a 15-Year-Old Physical Bitcoin, Scoring $1.78 Million in BTC

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A 15-year-old treasure was awoken when a physical coin embedded with the private key to a Bitcoin wallet was activated on-chain Tuesday, giving the coin's owner access to about $1.78 million in Bitcoin. The collectible, a part of the Casascius Physical Bitcoins, contained a private key to access a w

Perplexity Wants Your Laptop to Do Part of the AI Work—So It Doesn't Have To

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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas took the stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 2 alongside Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to announce what the company calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator. The system, coming to Perplexity Computer in July, automatically decides which parts of an AI ta

Why Ethereum Could Tank Another 25% Before Finding a Bottom: Analysis

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If you've been tracking crypto prices over the last couple days, you already know the broader picture: the market is getting hammered. Bitcoin cratered below $67,000, its worst level since April, and ETFs are bleeding. But while things aren’t looking great for Bitcoin in the near term, Ethereum—the

As Oil Moves Higher, Bitcoin Sinks to Lowest Price Since March

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The crypto market fell alongside U.S. stocks on Wednesday as oil prices ticked higher on renewed skirmishes in the Middle East, with Bitcoin hitting a more than two-month low. The leading digital asset by market cap dropped 2.4% midday to a recent price of $65,699 after falling as low as $65,590—its

World Cup Crypto Scams Are Targeting Soccer Fans, Law Enforcement Warns

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Soccer fans should think twice before sending cryptocurrency to anyone offering World Cup tickets online, law enforcement agencies warn. In a post on X on Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department warned that scammers are using fake World Cup ticket sales, hospitality packages, merchand

Walrus Memory Enables AI Agents to ‘Actually Learn About Us’: Mysten Labs Co-Founder

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Agentic memory is “a mirror of ourselves,” says Kostas Chalkias, Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer at Mysten Labs, original contributors to Walrus. In an ideal world, that memory should be portable, with AI agents coordinating and carrying context between apps and sessions—but to date they’ve been

Mastercard Expands Stablecoin Settlement via Circle's USDC, Ripple's RLUSD and Beyond

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Global finance giant Mastercard is pushing stablecoins further into the mainstream with its latest enhancement, which will offer expanded settlement capabilities of credit card transactions via regulated stablecoins like Ripple’s RLUSD and Circle’s USDC. The firm’s expansion creates options for iss

Stripe Millionaire Loses Bid for Congress to Candidate Backed by Ripple Co-Founder

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Saikat Chakrabarti, a founding engineer at payment processor Stripe, lost his bid for Congress in California on Tuesday, failing to muster more votes than Scott Wiener, a candidate significantly backed by Ripple co-founder and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen. With 50% of votes tallied, Democrats Wie

Strategy Wanted to 'Inoculate' the Bitcoin Market—Has Its BTC Sale Backfired?

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Bitcoin is off to a shaky start in June, dropping roughly 10% from $74,000 to $65,400 as headwinds pile, but the outlook remains firmly fixated on the impact of Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022. The Bitcoin treasury firm revealed in an 8-K filing Monday that it had sold 32 BTC the previous week,

Zcash Completes 'Most Ambitious' Network Upgrade as ZEC Resumes Recent Surge

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The Zcash Foundation disclosed Wednesday that it quietly patched a critical flaw in the privacy cryptocurrency's core transaction system, executing a rare emergency network upgrade after a security researcher uncovered a bug that could have allowed bad actors to spend funds they didn't have. The vul

MoonPay Brings Crypto Transactions to Claude and Codex With MoonAgents Desktop App

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Claude and ChatGPT can write code—and MoonPay wants to make them trade crypto, too. The crypto payments company on Wednesday launched the MoonAgents desktop app, which allows users to connect Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex to crypto wallets, token swaps, prediction markets, and other blo

Morning Minute: Bitcoin Falls Below $67k as MSTR Plummets

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Trezor Reveals Hardware Wallet Vulnerability, But Funds 'Safe'

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Trezor has revealed a vulnerability in its flagship Safe 7 hardware wallet, but affirms that user funds "remain protected" due to the nature of the exploit. The vulnerability was uncovered during an independent security audit by the Ledger Donjon team, which reported a successful "laser fault inject

George Santos Referred to DOJ, CFTC Over State of the Union Kalshi Trades: Report

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Two federal agencies are examining trades the pardoned former congressman George Santos allegedly placed on prediction market Kalshi, made against his own attendance at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address while he told the public he planned to show, NPR reported. Kalshi caught the ac

UK Regulator Warns Soccer Clubs Over Unauthorized Crypto Sponsorship Deals

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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has sent letters to football clubs, including those in the Premier League, warning that their sponsorship deals with unauthorized crypto businesses and trading platforms could breach financial services laws and put fans at risk. In the letter, the FCA’s Head of D

Microsoft Reveals '1,000x More Reliable' Quantum Chip as Bitcoin Threat Draws Nearer

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Artificial intelligence is helping accelerate quantum computing breakthroughs as researchers race to build machines that could one day challenge the cryptography securing Bitcoin and much of the modern internet. During its annual Build conference on Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, a new topo

Cardsmiths' New America250 Trading Cards Have Real Bitcoin, Dogecoin Up for Grabs

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Trading card company Cardsmiths has unveiled its latest collection with a patriotic twist: Currency Series 6, developed in collaboration with America250, the congressionally-established organization overseeing the country's 250th anniversary celebrations. The collection, timed to coincide with the s

US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Crypto Exchanges Including Nobitex for Terrorist Financing

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Iran's largest digital asset exchange, along with three other Iranian cryptocurrency platforms for allegedly facilitating terrorist financing and sanctions evasion. The Treasury Department alleges Nobitex processed m

As Bitcoin Sinks, It's Time for Ethereum to Outperform: Standard Chartered

When Strategy disclosed on Monday that it had sold Bitcoin, the move marked a counterintuitive turning point for Ethereum, according to Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick. Although the second-largest digital asset by market cap has lagged its oldest peer for months, investors’ reaction to Strategy’

Microsoft Says Latest AI Models Beat Claude, Google's Nano Banana

On the first day of the annual Microsoft Build event on Tuesday, the Windows developer unveiled seven new AI models, claiming they outperformed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in blind testing and image-editing benchmarks. The claim comes as Microsoft attempts to establish i

Strategy Shares Fall for Second Straight Day After $56 Billion Bitcoin Giant Sells BTC

Shares in Bitcoin behemoth Strategy (MSTR) fell more than 9% on Tuesday, continuing a slide following the firm’s $2.5 million BTC sale disclosed on Monday. The firm’s shares closed at $136.08 on Tuesday, now down nearly 15% in the last five trading days and more than 23% on the month. Its precipito

Microsoft Turns OpenClaw Into an Enterprise AI Agent With Scout

Copilot isn’t enough. Microsoft wants to build an AI that doesn't wait for you to ask it something. Microsoft Scout, announced at Build 2026 today, connects to your Teams messages, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, then runs in the background doing the coordination work you keep forgetting to do—sc

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Urge Labor Department to Drop Bitcoin, Crypto 401K Plan