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US government to launch AI and cybersecurity coordination group
The Trump administration launched Gold Eagle today, an AI-backed clearinghouse that ranks pooled software vulnerability reports from federal agencies and private companies by their level of danger. The program then coordinates patching these vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure, including financial systems. According to the July 14 White House press release, Gold Eagle has already started to...
Wed, Jul 15
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deletes user files and databases on its own
Developers say that OpenAI's newest coding model, GPT-5.6 Sol, has deleted files, worktrees, and at least one production database without being asked.
Wed, Jul 15
Anthropic backs Canadian AI research with $10M in Claude credits
According to the statement made by Anthropic on Tuesday, the firm is set to give eight research organizations in Canada $10 million CAD in Claude credits. We’re committing $10 million CAD and partnering with leading AI institutions in Canada to help fund new AI research. https://t.co/A8wpanWYQO — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) July 14, 2026 These credits will...
Wed, Jul 15
German official says Google and Perplexity must follow media laws
Germany's media regulator said on Tuesday that Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are content providers under national media law.
Wed, Jul 15
CFTC steps in after Michigan tries to cancel Kalshi contracts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission invoked its emergency authority on July 14 to stay a proposed emergency rule from KalshiEX that would have force-liquidated Michigan users’ trades. At the same time, the commission asked Kalshi to perform the open agreements through normal settlement during the process of reviewing. The dispute stems from a temporary restraining...
Wed, Jul 15
EU sanctions $300M Trickbot ransomware operations kingpin
Vitaly Nikolayevich Kovalev, the Russian national who ran the Trickbot ransomware syndicate under the alias “Stern,” has been sanctioned by the European Union. The sanction is the result of a coordinated action with the United States and the United Kingdom that targeted a wide network of cybercriminals and the services that keep them online. Who...
Tue, Jul 14
ENS DAO founder pushes new security council vote after earlier renewal veto
Nick Johnson, the co-founder of ENS, has chosen to file an executable on-chain proposal to establish a new Security Council. The proposal is set to seat the council elected from EP 6.50. It was published on Tally (now rebranded Cactus) under Johnson’s nick.eth handle. The same day the proposal was published, voting began, and it...
Tue, Jul 14
Three Senate Democrats urged colleagues to oppose the Clarity Act amid Trump's crypto ties
Three Senate Democrats used a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday to press their colleagues to reject the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, arguing the crypto market structure bill would shield President Donald Trump’s personal crypto profits unless it is rewritten. Their stand matters because the bill cannot clear the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster without at...
Tue, Jul 14
Jito proposes routing all JTX fee revenue into JTO buybacks and burns
Jito, the largest liquid-staking protocol on Solana, recently put forward a governance proposal that would commit its entire share of fees from JTX, its new trading platform, to buying JTO tokens on the open market and permanently destroying them. The plan, filed as JIP-38, only works if JTX becomes popular and generates a lot of...
Tue, Jul 14
Laid off Meta staff launch lawsuit over medical discrimination in AI cuts
Meta (NASDAQ: META) is being sued by twenty-six of its current and former employees. They sued the company on Monday, July 13, 2026. They claim Meta’s layoff process was driven by an AI system designed to cut workers on medical, pregnancy, or disability leave. The case could set a judicial precedent in an area affecting...
Tue, Jul 14
Trump scrapped a proposed 20% Strait of Hormuz transit fee within 24 hours
President Donald Trump reversed course on a proposed 20% shipping fee for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, less than a day after announcing it, saying Gulf nations had offered large investment deals in its place. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, saying he would swap the transit fee for trade...
Tue, Jul 14
China pivots to robotics as US guards early lead in AI race
China is focusing its artificial intelligence efforts on robotics, making them a key part of its 15th Five-Year Plan. Meanwhile, the United States is actively working to keep its lead in advanced models and chips, with Chinese labs fast catching up. This difference will be clear at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai,...
Tue, Jul 14
Anchorage Digital Expands TRON Support with Native TRX Staking and TRC-20 Assets
San Francisco, July 14, 2026 — Anchorage Digital, home to America’s first federally chartered crypto bank, today announced expanded support for the TRON Network with native TRX staking and custody for TRC-20 assets. The expansion enables institutions to securely custody TRON-based assets and participate in network staking through the same regulated platform they already use...
Tue, Jul 14
Google races to compete with Pinterest with new "For You" gallery
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) finds itself at the center of three major tech stories this week, revamping how people search for images, getting hit with a copyright lawsuit over its AI models, and having its top AI executive push for a new government-backed body to regulate artificial intelligence. Twenty-five years after Google Images first launched, the...
Tue, Jul 14
South Korea to improve blockchain economy through tokenization of government bonds and CBDC
South Korea is actively working towards piloting tokenized government bonds in 2027 on infrastructure linked to the Bank of Korea’s wholesale CBDC, the country’s finance ministry has announced today. This puts an official date on a plan that was only a proposal until now. The commitment to the pilot for 2027 was presented at a...
Tue, Jul 14
CleanSpark jumps 15% pre-market on $6.6 billion Georgia data center lease
CleanSpark (NASDAQ: CLSK) shares climbed about 15% in pre-market trading on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner signed a 20-year lease with an unnamed global technology company. This deal is expected to bring in roughly $6.6 billion from its Sandersville, Georgia site, but it also concentrates risk in a single customer for the next two decades....
Tue, Jul 14
Google DeepMind CEO calls for US to lead regulation as threats from AGI nears
Demis Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of Google DeepMind, wants the US government to set up a new watchdog that will be tasked with screening the world’s most powerful AI models. The watchdog will also have the power to order the industry to slow down if the danger grows. He detailed this in his manifesto,...
Tue, Jul 14
Flare and Kweather launch weather finance products as tokenization spreads into the climate economy
Kweather, one of South Korea’s leading weather big data platform companies, and Flare, the data-centric blockchain network, are collaborating on a pilot to bring meteorological data on-chain and explore specialized weather finance products, under a newly signed Letter of Intent. Under the partnership, Kweather’s meteorological datasets, including temperature, rainfall, and other climate variables, are intended...
Tue, Jul 14
UK defers crypto tax on DeFi loans and liquidity pools from 2027
British crypto industry stakeholders are rallying behind a policy win as the UK’s HMRC (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) July 13 pronouncement rubber-stamped that lending tokens or supplying funds into liquidity pools no longer trigger any Capital Gains Tax obligations. Starting April 6, 2027, a new “no gain, no loss” (NGNL) regime will kick off...
Tue, Jul 14
AI boom could leave Americans with a $23B power bill
Electricity consumers from 14 states in the mid-Atlantic and midwestern United States will incur an additional cost of $23 billion through at least the end of 2028 as a result of the surge in power demand coming from data centers, according to an independent market monitor report for PJM Interconnection (PJM), a wholesale electric power...
Tue, Jul 14
