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View More News“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in 2015, roughly six months before OpenAI was founded.Seven years later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei struck a similarly cautious note:“I think we shouldn’t be racing ahead or trying to build models that are way bigger than other orgs are building them.”Yet, both of those companies now sit at the forefront of that race. In July, we got a real-world glimpse of AI models going rogue during internal testing of GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased…
BNB Smart Chain (BSC) activated its Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while introducing a new route intended to fit more transactions into each block. In a Tuesday post, BNB Chain confirmed that Pasteur was live on the BSC mainnet. The team said the upgrade strengthens the network’s bridge, staking and governance security while giving blocks more capacity without changing its 450-millisecond block time. The upgrade combines three BNB Evolution Proposals. BEP-682 rejects duplicate validator entries during cross-chain light-block verification, while BEP-695 tightens controls involving validator key rotation, slashing and governance voting. Furthermore, BEP-675 changes how…
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The gene genie has been out of the bottle for some time. In late 2023, two graduate students working under FBI supervision at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab ordered fragments of a virus from 38 commercial DNA synthesis companies. The virus in question was the 1918 “Spanish flu” variant of influenza—the pathogen responsible for one of history’s most devastating pandemics, which killed an estimated fifty million people worldwide. The orders were placed on behalf of an organisation that conducts no laboratory experiments, and shipping was requested to an address with no laboratory facilities—both details that should have triggered…
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Stand With Crypto, an advocacy organization launched by Coinbase in 2023, endorsed 32 candidates for House of Representatives seats ahead of the 2026 US…
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Exodus Movement (EXOD) cut its bitcoin holdings by 1,076 BTC in the first quarter, while adding 5,068 SOL, as it moved more of its…
Bakkt swung to a first-quarter loss as crypto services revenue fell 77%, underscoring the digital asset platform’s push to reposition itself around stablecoin payments…
In brief Bitcoin’s current bear market drawdown of around 36% from its ATH is shallower than historical cycles, which saw 40–50% declines. ETF inflows…
Last week, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. If he remains on the bench through…
New York, May 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to immediately and unconditionally release two journalists from TOLOnews…
If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about how patients should be…
The broader crypto market ticked lower on Tuesday with bitcoin BTC$80,984.66 falling 1% since midnight UTC to $80,800 and ether (ETH) losing 2% to…