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How Citizens is placing its bets in digital assets — americanbanker.com
For banks, getting ahead in the digital asset race may be less about picking a winner and more about playing the field.
A VC says he declined to join the Trump family’s crypto venture after cofounder Steve Witkoff couldn’t pronounce ‘memecoin’ — fortune.com
In 2024, the Trump family was getting its new crypto firm, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), off the ground and looking for advisors. WLFI cofounder and advisor to the current President, Steve Witkoff, reached out to a veteran crypto venture capitalist, Nic
Stranded at sea — theweek.com
How many sailors are in the Gulf? About 6,000 seafarers are stuck onboard several hundred tankers and cargo ships, many of which have been stranded in the Gulf since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran erupted in late February. “It’s as if we are trapped in a
A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results — fortune.com
A trove of seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot turned up in public Google search results last weekend. Some of the conversations reportedly included sensitive information like cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal details such
Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search — venturebeat.com
Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot had made "shareable" via a link were being indexed by Google Search, and could be clicked on and
Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google — 404media.co
Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were publicly available for strangers to see. The
Bank-run blockchains are back in style—but history suggests they will be a bust — fortune.com
The crypto scene is giving off serious 2016 vibes. That year saw big banks seek to remake the crypto space on their terms under the slogan “blockchain not Bitcoin.” It didn’t end well. The banks burned through buckets of money but achieved little, while
Meet the American techies who don’t care where ‘good enough’ AI models come from, even China — fortune.com
China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his
David Harvey’s Masterclass in Marx — newrepublic.com
For over a half century, David Harvey has been a central figure in Marxist debates around the future of capitalism. He is not a firebrand with a septum piercing, nor is he a holdover European radical in the mold of the political parties Podemos or La
Betting Alone — liberalcurrents.com
I worry America cannot survive this. “This” can mean many things. For today at least, I mean sports betting. Now, I’m aware that gambling on sports isn’t new. As far back as we can see evidence of spectator sports, we can find evidence of gambling. On
Bitcoin ETFs End Inflow Streak as Fed Rate Concerns Mount — bloomberg.com
Heavy outflows from US-listed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds late last week underscored the fragility of the token’s recent recovery.
The political problem with cousin marriage — unherd.com
On 1 July, the Swedish government formally outlawed first-cousin marriage, presenting the ban not simply as a measure to reduce inherited disorders but as protection against coercion, honor-based oppression and clan control. The immediate reaction,
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