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Bernie Sanders presses AI giants to pause development as machines get out of control
The longest serving independent to have ever held a seat in the U.S. Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), has threatened legislative action if OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta and their leaders do not hit the brakes on their AI work, according to a letter first reported by Axios. Bernie Sanders, who has earned his reputation as...
Mon, Aug 10
Fake investment sites and counterfeit IRS letters hit crypto holders in the same week
New York State Police warn Twin Tiers residents of a crypto and gold-bar investment scam, days after the IRS flagged fake letters pushing a bogus compliance portal.
Mon, Aug 10
This BTC cohort has the fastest accumulation rate in 2026
BTC holders with over 10,000 coins in their wallets became the most active buyers, with accelerated accumulation at the beginning of August.
Mon, Aug 10
Alibaba's Qwen goes live inside Siri on Chinese Macs after two-year regulatory wait
Apple switched on Alibaba's Qwen for Siri and Writing Tools on Mac in China, the first confirmed rollout after Beijing cleared Apple Intelligence on July 15.
Mon, Aug 10
Claude Code flips to autonomous by default as Anthropic says humans stopped reading prompts
Anthropic makes auto mode the default in Claude Code on August 14 for Pro, Max, and Team plans, citing a study where humans caught 13.6% of dangerous commands.
Mon, Aug 10
Quantum’s first crypto victim may not know they’ve been hacked
The next blow to the crypto market could trigger without an identifiable perpetrator and no apparent compromise. Christopher Smith, the CEO and co-founder of blockchain firm Quantus Network, reportedly suggested that a signal that a quantum computer has compromised the crypto security used in major blockchains may be a succession of wallet thefts that cannot...
Mon, Aug 10
North Korean hackers turn to AI as DPRK drives 66% of crypto hack losses
North Korean hackers are turning to artificial intelligence to expand their cyber operations, adding a new layer of sophistication to a threat that already accounts for most cryptocurrency hacking losses worldwide. North Korea-linked hacking groups were responsible for roughly $643 million in stolen cryptocurrency during the first half of 2026, or 66% of all crypto...
Mon, Aug 10
Weekend Trading Pushes Hyperliquid HIP-3 Open Interest Past $4 Billion
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 markets have grown tremendously both in terms of volume and open interest ever since going live on mainnet last year in October. This weekend saw HIP-3 markets notch up another milestone as they closed above $4 billion in open interest for the first time. A month ago the figure stood at $3.67 billion,...
Mon, Aug 10
White House crypto adviser blasts Senate Democrats as CLARITY Act hits September deadline
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt called out Democrats for stalling the CLARITY Act’s progress. On X, he accused them of orchestrating a total blockade against a minor procedural vote on the bill prior to the August recess. He contended, “Chuck Schumer and the “pro-crypto Democrats” pulled out all the stops to block a mere...
Sun, Aug 9
Berkshire Hathaway smashes Q2 earnings, but Greg Abel shows no sign of openness to crypto
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) came out of the second quarter with much stronger operating profit, while CEO Greg Abel kept the company’s position on crypto firmly cold. Earnings from Berkshire Hathaway’s operating businesses rose 16% to $12.98 billion, compared with $11.16 billion in the same quarter last year. Berkshire Hathaway spent about $4.5 billion...
Sat, Aug 8
Demand, not inflation control will determine Ethereum and Solana price, Galaxy Research
Galaxy Research has told its clients what it thinks about the proposals that Ethereum and Solana are both considering to reduce token issuance rates on their networks. The company also warned that the changes to supply will not be the only factor that affects the prices of either asset, arguing demand does that job. How...
Sat, Aug 8
Trump scrutiny, not CLARITY Act, to become priority if Democrats reclaim House majority
If a Democratic House majority wins in November’s midterms, it is expected that subpoenaing President Donald Trump’s finances and crypto dealings will take first priority. Meanwhile, the crypto industry’s market-structure bill, the CLARITY Act, could remain on hold for much longer than stakeholders would want. What would a Democratic House majority mean for Trump? Representative...
Sat, Aug 8
Bitmart founder knocks back fund misappropriation rumors, commits to orderly wind-down
Bitmart founder Sheldon Xia has denied that the exchange had fled with customer funds. He told account holders on X that the team is still working through asset inventory, asset consolidation, and system maintenance, with formal announcements to follow. In his post, which was written in Chinese and shared on August 8, Xia first stated...
Sat, Aug 8
Ajinomoto raises AI chip-film prices 30% as profit jumps 127%
Ajinomoto (TYO: 2802), the 117-year-old Japanese maker of MSG, which also produces the film that insulates nearly every advanced AI chip, has raised its prices by about 30%. The company has also lifted its full-year forecast after it experienced a 127% increase in its quarterly revenue. How did Ajinomoto become critical to AI technology? Ajinomoto,...
Sat, Aug 8
Bybit launches lawsuit against North Korean hackers as recovery nears $80M
Bybit has taken the February 2025 theft of $1.5 billion in crypto to a US courtroom, filing a civil lawsuit against North Korea and the Lazarus Group. So far, it has won a preliminary injunction that freezes the stolen funds investigators can still reach. Why is Bybit filing this civil case? The complaint was filed...
Sat, Aug 8
Aztec exploiter moves 500 ETH to Tornado Cash amid record hack year
The attacker who drained Aztec’s deprecated Connect rollup in June has now sent another 300 ETH to Tornado Cash, bringing the total moved to the mixer to 500 ETH, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. The importance of the transfer lies not simply in magnitude, but also in speed. The hacker has already transferred about...
Sat, Aug 8
Large XRP holders continue to build positions despite 2026 price struggles
XRP may have struggled on the price front this year, but large holders have continued to build their positions. Santiment reports that wallets holding 10 million to 100 million XRP have accumulated an additional 1.23 billion XRP since the beginning of 2026. At the start of the year, large holders’ XRP holdings were 10.97 billion,...
Sat, Aug 8
After a 67% loss, Situational Awareness backs chipmaking bottleneck
Leopold Aschenbrenner is putting another $400 million behind artificial intelligence just days after his hedge fund suffered one of its steepest setbacks. The Wall Street Journal reported on August 7 that Situational Awareness has made an investment of $500 million in Source Foundry, which includes the company investing $400 million this week itself. Source Foundry...
Sat, Aug 8
Governments are quietly building a global stablecoin firewall
Regulators from Washington, London, Brussels, and Hong Kong are finalizing a new set of rules that grant them the authority to identify, freeze, and in some scenarios redirect cross-border stablecoin transfers. Stablecoins, which used to be hard to control, are now slowly being subjected to the same regulations that apply to traditional banks. The change...
Sat, Aug 8
BTCPay emergency patch exposes merchant-side Bitcoin security risk
An emergency update has been rolled out by BTCPay Server, the open-source software merchants use to accept Bitcoin, due to a vulnerability being exploited to potentially steal funds from users. As identified in GitHub pull request #7491, this vulnerability enables cybercriminals to circumvent the TOTP two-factor security mechanism through BTCPay’s Greenfield API Basic Authentication. The...
Sat, Aug 8
