Florida Candidate Liquidates $800K in Bitcoin to Bankroll Congressional Bid
A Republican candidate jockeying to represent Florida’s 22nd Congressional District liquidated Bitcoin to help fuel his political bid. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anthropic Dominates In An Otherwise Slower Week For Megarounds
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…
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Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me. Source: www.wired.com Read Full Story
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Sui network temporarily stalls again after Thursday’s outage
The outage was caused by the same network update software bug that disrupted the protocol on Thursday, which resulted in nearly six hours of downtime. Source: cointelegraph.com Read Full Story
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Fed Governor Michelle Bowman warns against hiking interest rates because of inflation spike
Bowman said reacting to the inflation surge, driven primarily by energy prices and tariffs, has proven ineffective. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
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How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age already being transformed by artificial intelligence, the greatest change in…
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Why the Ethereum Foundation is suddenly again at the center of crypto’s culture war
In this week’s edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re diving deep into the institution that has been the main steward for the Ethereum blockchain, and why its been back in the spotlight. Source: www.coindesk.com Read Full Story
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Kalshi Sues to Stop Minnesota From Enforcing America’s First Prediction Market Ban
Prediction market giant Kalshi has asked a federal judge to prevent Minnesota from allowing the ban to go into effect in August. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment
Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper “fast mode” tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale work. The model is available immediately across Anthropic’s surfaces — claude.ai, Claude…
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Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up
Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model’s “honesty.” According to Anthropic, it trains “all [its] models to be honest – for instance, to avoid making claims that they can’t support.” But it notes that “a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions,…
