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View More NewsThis is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.If you follow politics, you’ve probably seen an ad made with AI — and if you live in an area with a contested midterm race, you’ve probably seen several. The Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th congressional district featured an ad depicting the incumbent, Thomas Massie, in an AI-generated throuple with congressional progressives, while an ad from Massie allies showed his rival Ed Gallrein abandoning President Trump in a hail of bullets. “Trump was in the foxhole,” the narrator says. “Woke Eddie Gallrein tucked his tail and ran.” In Georgia, gubernatorial underdog candidate Brad Raffensperger created…
In brief Crypto accounted for more than half of all scam losses reported to the FBI last year, at $11.37 billion. The Consumer Federation of America puts the true cost at $80.7 billion, applying a 7.1x multiplier for unreported fraud. Investment fraud was the largest single category, with reported losses up 32%. Cryptocurrency accounted for more than half of all scam and cybercrime losses, according to a new report by the Consumer Federation of America that put estimated losses at $80.7 billion.The association of non-profit consumer groups based its findings on FBI figures that put the cost of crypto scams…
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A curious paradox sits at the heart of many advanced economies. Employers complain constantly about labour shortages. Governments respond by importing record numbers of migrants to fill vacancies. Yet at the same time, a growing number of men have quietly withdrawn from work altogether.These men are not showing up in unemployment queues or appearing in dramatic economic statistics. In many cases, they are not even looking for jobs. Instead, they exist in a liminal space between participation and withdrawal, cycling through gig work, periods of welfare dependence, disability payments, online entertainment and increasingly isolated lives.The phenomenon is most pronounced in…
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Decentralized perpetuals exchange Trade.xyz said it will reimburse traders liquidated when its SK Hynix perpetual futures contract crashed 19% late on Monday, a loss…
Gabriel Perez, who was accused of profiting from Kalshi bets tied to President Donald Trump’s speeches, is no longer employed by the federal government.…
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The Cerebras Systems and SpaceX listings follow a period of months where the volume of RWAs onchain has been steadily multiplying, and traditional financial…
The agreement covers tokenized securities, blockchain-based market infrastructure and the potential use of USDT as a settlement layer. Read the full article here
In brief Claude Opus 5 “one-shotted” a first-person shooter game with a prompt so simple, and results so impressive, people are struggling to believe…
Bitcoin BTC$63,792.47 has lost 0.53% since midnight UTC, having shed around 2% during the U.S. session overnight.Two catalysts are weighing on sentiment. First, chipmaking…
Zcash researchers published more than 2,700 machine-checked theorems designed to rule out undetectable counterfeiting bugs in Ironwood. Read the full article here
In brief Zcash has activated the Ironwood network upgrade, replacing the Orchard shielded pool with a new private pool. The upgrade prevents any potentially…
In the current suit, James Ramirez, claims he downloaded the app on July 25, 2025 and had 7.4 BTC “transferred to a scammer.” He…
Ten European financial institutions have launched Regulated Layer One (RL1), a jointly owned blockchain cooperative designed for regulated financial markets and tokenized assets. On Tuesday,…
In brief Morgan Stanley launched spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products under the ticker symbols MSSE and MSOL. Both funds will stake a portion…