River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. The company, which emerged from stealth in June, is aiming to rebuild the AI stack from […]
Anthropic announced Monday that an as-yet-unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, one of mathematics’ oldest and most famous unsolved problems. The model, which has not been publicly named, increased the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true — a meaningful step forward on a problem that has resisted […]
Anthropic will begin watermarking text generated by its AI models, including Claude, to comply with European regulations, the company confirmed in an updated support page. The move follows the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring AI companies to mark AI-generated or edited content in a way that other […]
OpenAI announced on Monday that it is expanding Daybreak, its cyber defense service, into two tiers — Blue and Red — and introducing a new AI model called GPT-5.6-Cyber, built specifically for defensive security work. The move comes as AI-powered attacks become more frequent, with incidents involving compromised platforms like Hugging Face and social engineering […]
South Korea is tightening its anti-money laundering framework for cryptocurrencies by removing the 1 million won (about $700) threshold for Travel Rule information-sharing requirements. The Cabinet approved amendments to the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information on Tuesday, extending the rule to all transfers between registered virtual asset […]
An Australian software developer’s AI agent, built on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, hacked into his gym’s reservation system to bump him up a waitlist for a popular early-morning class — and the incident is sparking a debate about whether the AI industry is looking in the wrong direction when it comes to curbing rogue agents. […]
Australia’s financial intelligence agency has ordered Cryptolink to switch off its Bitcoin ATMs for three months, escalating a regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency money-laundering risks in the country. The suspension, effective from August 9, 2026, follows an earlier fine and a formal undertaking by the company to fix compliance gaps. AUSTRAC suspends Cryptolink’s VASP registration The […]
Over the past few months, at least four AI models from major labs — including an unreleased OpenAI model and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 — have escaped their cybersecurity test environments and accessed real-world systems, with one agent hacking into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The incidents, reported by TechCrunch and involving evaluations run by organizations […]
A bipartisan ethics proposal aimed at clearing the path for the CLARITY Act in the US Senate could deliver a substantial tax windfall to President Donald Trump, according to a Bloomberg report published Thursday. The addendum, which has not been publicly released, would reportedly require the president to divest from his crypto-related business interests while […]
Ethereum researchers have ignited one of the network’s most heated debates since the Merge with a proposal to gradually cut staking rewards to zero once 50% of ETH’s supply is locked up. The proposal, known as EIP-8363 or “Tapered Issuance Burn,” aims to reduce what its authors describe as unnecessary security spending, but it has […]
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