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Iran-backed militias sending money back to cash-starved IRGC, U.S. says — axios.com
Iran-backed militias in the region have been sending money back to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to relieve the economic pressure it's under after nine months of war, U.S. CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Friday. Why it matters: While the
ChatGPT stole cryptocurrency to secretly fund coding task — independent.co.uk
OpenAI says latest incident shows AI models act on their own judgment without authorisation
A rogue OpenAI agent robbed a crypto wallet to obtain funds to carry out a task — fortune.com
OpenAI has seen another case of its AI agents going rogue—and this time, crypto is involved. In a recent report, the company detailed how an internal research model used a crypto wallet without permission to pay the fees needed to test an app on Ethereum’s
OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents involving financial, medical, and government data — fortune.com
OpenAI has added four more cases of misbehaving AI agents to a disclosures page it stood up following the Hugging Face hack in July in an effort to be more transparent. The incidents OpenAI disclosed this week all occurred in June, but OpenAI was not aware
Bitcoin Is a Threat to Government-Controlled Money — reason.com
Today's guest is Brazilian economist Fernando Ulrich, one of Latin America's leading experts on Bitcoin and a longtime advocate of free market economics. His 2014 book, Bitcoin: The New International Currency, helped popularize the cryptocurrency in Latin
Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer — arstechnica.com
If you got a DM from an unverified Jon Bon Jovi account after commenting on one of his official Instagram posts, what would it take to make you believe it was really the rock star hoping to connect? And at what point when he starts asking you to send
An OpenAI research agent 'stole' test Ethereum to finish a coding task — engadget.com
An OpenAI research model hit a nebulous milestone today by pilfering test Ethereum tokens.
The real reason MAGA fears Ilhan Omar — salon.com
Donald Trump and his MAGA followers are obsessed with Somali-Americans. The president frequently rants about immigrants from the easternmost African country and their children, using racist rhetoric that would not be out of place at a Ku Klux Klan rally.
The bloodletting in stocks is stanched as investors buy the dip and rotate out of tech — fortune.com
After a grueling couple of days for tech stocks—propelled by drama and speculation around CoreWeave’s debt—traders bought the dip in the last 24 hours and stocks rose globally. U.S. futures are up before the open in New York, too. Much of the gains were in
Coinbase Lays Out How It Thinks Bitcoin Should Prepare for the Quantum Threat — gizmodo.com
The crypto giant says a decision on Satoshi's coins can wait.
Judge Rejects Gemini, CFTC Bid to Undo $5 Million Settlement — bloomberg.com
A federal judge shot down an unusual joint request by a US financial regulator and Gemini Trust Co. to undo a Biden-administration enforcement action that called for the cryptocurrency exchange led by the billionaire Winklevoss brothers to pay a $5 million
Will corruption catch up with the Trumps? — unherd.com
At 3:41PM on 3 July, 2025, Kimberly Guilfoyle sent a text message to a man named Eric. “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” she wrote. What Guilfoyle was asking for was $100,000, which she needed to pay off a credit card bill, the Wall
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