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Anthropic spent last week apologizing for Fable 5's invisible safeguards, and then the U.S. government ordered the model pulled for all foreign nationals over a disputed jailbreak finding. A few days later, a developer on Hugging Face uploaded a model that used Fable’s reasoning to guide a local mod

Trump's Quantum Push Wins Praise, But Experts Warn Bitcoin Isn't Ready

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President Donald Trump's executive orders accelerating the federal government's transition to post-quantum cryptography by 2031 are drawing support and criticism from researchers who say Washington is adjusting its plans to match a rapidly changing quantum landscape. The executive orders signed by T

Crypto’s Clarity Act Has a New Enemy: Catholic Leaders

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The crypto industry’s long-coveted Clarity Act has attracted plenty of opponents in recent months, among them Wall Street leaders, consumer advocates, law enforcement groups, and Native American tribes. Now, the market structure bill has attracted the ire of a new and perhaps unexpected constituency

Mark Zuckerberg Wants a Prediction Market Too: NYT

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First it was stablecoins. Then it was the metaverse. Now it’s prediction markets. Under Mark Zuckerberg, Meta has made a series of bets on crypto-adjacent tech, and now the social media giant could be preparing for its next one in light of Polymarket and Kalshi’s surging popularity, The New York Tim

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Beats Anthropic's Banned Mythos Model—And Nobody's Shutting It Down

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OpenAI's cybersecurity model just beat the Anthropic Mythos AI model that the U.S. government yanked offline—and it's still up and running. On June 22, OpenAI announced the full launch of GPT-5.5-Cyber as part of its Daybreak cyber defense program. On CyberGym—a benchmark developed at UC Berkeley th

AI Agent Triggers Nuclear Strike After Getting Outmaneuvered in Civilization VI

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Like the title character in “Dr. Strangelove,” AI may be learning how to stop worrying and love the bomb—at least in a simulation. In a new benchmark designed to test strategic reasoning, a frontier language model playing the Sid Meier’s game "Civilization VI" spent 50 turns developing nuclear weapo

A New OpenClaw Competitor: ToqanClaw Promises Privacy in AI Agent Race

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European tech investment group Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a no-code platform that lets businesses build custom tools and automations simply by describing what they need in plain language. The company is presenting it as a safer, more private alternative to OpenClaw-style agents, with data kept u

Bitcoin Tests Two-Week Low at $62K as Tech Stocks Waver on Wall Street

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The price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell in sympathy with tech stocks on Tuesday, indicating that investors’ appetite for risk is shifting across the board. The leading digital asset by market cap tested a two-week low of $62,000 as markets opened in the U.S., showing a 4% decrease over

Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Workforce in 'Leaner' Reorganization

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The Ethereum Foundation is parting ways with 54 employees, around 20% of its total workforce, amid reorganization efforts designed to make the non-profit “leaner and more focused.” The move concludes a months-long process according to the organization, following the March publication of its “Mandate

Thailand Expands Crypto Mining Probe Into $300M Chinese Laundering Network

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Thailand's top investigative agency is widening a crackdown on illegal crypto mining that it says doubles as a laundering machine for Chinese-linked crime syndicates. The Department of Special Investigation said on Friday it had expanded its probe into a network of "grey" Chinese capital, a term for

Morning Minute: Fomo's $75M Raise Shows Big VCs Are Still Betting on Consumer Crypto

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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. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify. GM! Today’s top new

US Senate Passes Housing Bill With Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban

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A U.S. freeze on a government-run digital dollar is suddenly close to becoming law, carried there by an unrelated housing bill. The U.S. Senate on Monday night passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in an 85-5 vote, a bipartisan package meant to boost housing supply and stop large investors fro

Comparing Bitcoin Giant Strategy to Terra Luna Is a STRC, Benchmark Says

Strategy’s Stretch (STRC) is facing notable pressure, but it doesn’t resemble the stablecoin that brought crypto to its knees in 2022, according to Benchmark-StoneX’s Mark Palmer. Although the Bitcoin-buying firm’s flagship preferred stock evoked painful memories as it drifted to record lows last we

BitMine, Sharplink, Joe Lubin Back New Ethereum Research and Development Lab

Ethlabs, a new non-profit research and development organization founded by former Ethereum Foundation researchers, aims to better prepare the network and its native token for institutional adoption. The effort is being funded by the largest publicly traded Ethereum treasury firms, BitMine Immersion

Trump Orders Acceleration of Quantum Readiness as Bitcoin Faces Coming Risk

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Monday aimed at strengthening U.S. leadership in quantum computing while accelerating the federal government's transition to post-quantum cryptography. The move advances Washington's efforts to prepare for “Q-Day,” a future in which quantum computer

Google Warns AI Consciousness Debate Could Become a Political Battleground

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, a new paper from Google DeepMind argues that one of the technology's most difficult challenges may be political rather than technical. In the study, “Artificial Minds, Human Disagreement: The Political Challenge of AI Consciousness,” researchers Ada

Crypto Industry Urges Congress to Pass Tax Bill—But Will It Happen This Year?

The crypto industry is urging Congress to approve a new digital asset tax bill—and claim that changing the legislation at all could risk derailing its chances of passage. In a letter sent this week to the top-ranking Republicans and Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, the heads of three

Ethereum MEV Bot JaredFromSubway Threatens Legal Action After $7.5 Million Loss

A well-known trading bot took a notable hit this weekend after it fell victim to a series of transactions that left its logic exposed to malicious behavior. The $7.5 million attack, which took place on Saturday, marked a sudden setback for “jaredfromsubway” and the formula it has used to quietly not

ICE and OKX Are Teaming Up to Bring Tokenized Securities to Wall Street

NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the firm behind centralized crypto exchange OKX are forming a joint venture to build tokenization and digital asset products, the firms announced on Monday. The split venture is subject to regulatory approval, but if completed will offer OKX customers

The Studio Behind 'Ex Machina' Is Now Researching AI With Google

Google is investing approximately $75 million in independent film studio A24 as part of a new artificial intelligence research joint initiative, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google's DeepMind division and A24 will collaborate on tools for fi

Bank of England Eases Stablecoin Rules, Swaps Holding Caps for £40B ‘Guardrail’

The Bank of England has set out the shape of its stablecoin regime, easing several proposals the industry had warned could strangle a sterling-backed market before it got going. In its final policy statement and a draft rulebook published Monday, the central bank dropped planned caps on how much of

Ethereum Layer-2 Taiko Warns Users to Withdraw Bridge Funds After Security Breach

The developers behind the Taiko network have urged users to withdraw funds from all bridges deployed on its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain after confirming a compromise of its chain state verification mechanism. In a security notice posted Sunday, the project said the security assumptions underlying al

Tom Lee’s BitMine Adds $92 Million in Ethereum, Hits 4.7% of Total Supply

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies reached 4.7% of the circulating supply, adding another $92 million in ETH to its balance sheet last week. The firm bolstered its balance sheet with 52,203 ETH and now maintains 5,672,956 ETH valued around $10 billion and 205 Bitc

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