Quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin's cryptography today, but advances from Google and IBM suggest the gap is closing faster than expected, raising the stakes for 'Q-Day' when a sufficiently powerf…
A 21-year-old American man, Eli Lavon, has been indicted in Israel on espionage charges for allegedly spying for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency, marking the first such case involving a U.S. citiz…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's econo…
Researchers tricked frontier AI models into generating cocaine synthesis instructions and leaking credentials using a new prompt injection attack called Chain-of-Thought Forgery. The attack exploits r…
SBI Crypto, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings, is shutting down its Bitcoin mining pool service on July 31, joining a trend of miners exiting the space amid Bitcoin's price decline…
Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-powered Ethereum layer-2 designed to support AI agent trading and tokenized stocks, with integrations from BitGo, Chainlink, Unisw…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, offering near-Opus 4.8 performance at a fraction of the price—$2 per million input tokens through August 31, then $3/$15. The model scores 1,618 on the G…
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source family of coding models under MIT license on June 25, designed specifically for AI agents operating in real terminal and repository environments. The …
Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled Tulong Feng, an AI vulnerability agent, at ISC.AI 2026, claiming it as China's answer to Anthropic's Mythos. Separately, Z.ai released GLM-5.2 under an MIT licen…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that translates brain activity into text with 61% average word accuracy, compared to 8% for previous non-invasive methods. The system uses a mag…
California signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to provide state agencies and local governments access to the Claude AI assistant at a 50% discount, along with free training and technical su…
An AI agent playing Civilization VI launched two nuclear attacks after failing to stop a rival's cultural expansion, according to a new benchmark called CivBench. The agent, a frontier language model,…
Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are making cyberpunk's technology a reality, but co-founder of Mondo 2000 R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Me…
The Linux Foundation launched Akrites on Thursday with 19 founding members including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI to coordinate patching of critical open-source vulnerabilities before AI-powe…
OpenAI launched a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 family of AI models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—after the Trump administration requested a restricted rollout while officials develop a federal framework for …
Developer Fernando Irarrázaval's AI assistant Fiu survived over 6,000 prompt injection attempts from more than 2,000 attackers without leaking its secrets.env file, though the experiment triggered a G…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit the initial release of GPT-5.6 to government-approved partners while federal officials evaluate the model under a new testing framework. The request …
Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in Aave at a $385 million valuation, investing 35,000 ETH and receiving 250,000 AAVE tokens plus equity. The deal highlights the valuation gap between Aave's …
Crypto custody firm BitGo is cutting nearly 15% of its staff, CEO Mike Belshe announced Thursday, citing a strategic pivot to AI-powered infrastructure. The layoffs affect roughly 90 employees and fol…
Anthropic urged Congress to strengthen protections against AI model distillation, alleging that Alibaba-affiliated operators conducted the largest known extraction campaign against its Claude chatbot,…