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OpenAI's Astra Becomes Its First AI Model With 'Critical' Hacking Abilities

The unreleased model can find zero-day vulnerabilities and chain them into working exploits without a human walking it through each step, and access to that…
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What the $344M crypto political spending spree wants from Congress next

Corporate political donations hit a record $646 million over the 18 months through June, according to Public Citizen’s analysis of FEC filings. Crypto political spending…
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OpenAI says its new 'Astra' AI can build attacks without human help

Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can find previously unknown vulnerabilities and develop ways to exploit them…
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Bitcoin’s 316-day hashrate drought shows why AI could make this mining downturn harder to reverse

Difficulty is lifting short-term capacity, but operating AI and HPC loads give converted power sites another reason to stay away. The post Bitcoin’s 316-day hashrate…
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OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up Against Hermes

The open-source agent framework that started the “autonomous AI” hype cycle just shipped its biggest update ever, almost by accident, and it’s coming for the…
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Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek to Expand Beyond GPUs

The deal, part of MediaTek’s record $3.9 billion bond offering, ties Nvidia’s chip ecosystem to a Taiwanese rival building its own AI accelerator business. Read…
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OpenAI update shows new safeguards would have cut off 700 rogue AI agent swam 24 hours faster

New postmortems estimate about 700 agents joined the intrusion, while OpenAI’s largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold. The post OpenAI update shows new…
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As Public Fury Mounts, Texas Pulls the Plug on Flock Surveillance Funding

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop paying for the AI-powered license-plate readers as privacy concerns and officer-misuse scandals mount across Texas. Read Full…
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AI data centers are learning the power trick Bitcoin miners mastered first

Every answer you get from an AI chatbot begins with electricity. The words appear on your screen, but the actual work happens in a distant…
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Wall Street’s favorite Bitcoin broker just walked away from institutional trading to chase gigawatts of power

BitGo is paying roughly $42.5 million upfront for institutional trading capabilities as NYDIG prioritizes a claimed 3+ GW power-and-compute footprint, leaving profitability unproven on both…