Grayscale updates NEAR ETF filing as AI token gains attention

Anthropic said it abruptly disabled its two most capable artificial intelligence (AI) models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all customers worldwide after the U.S. government ordered it to cut off access for any foreign national, citing national security. An Order Of Potential Major Repercussions The directive arrived on June 12 at 5:21 p.m. Eastern […]

Insider Brief Researchers at Penn State have found that people trust AI-powered fact-checking systems about as much as human fact-checkers. It’s the reasons that are different. The study, published in Media Psychology, examined how users evaluate fact-checking performed by artificial intelligence compared with human reviewers. “There’s a very clear distinction that emerges from the study […]

U.S. prosecutors charged two men in a $389 million cryptocurrency laundering case tied to a dark web bitcoin service. Authorities said 10,333 BTC moved through its wallets, while arrests, domain seizures, frozen assets, and extradition efforts now span multiple countries. Global Operation Targets Bitcoin Laundering Service, Domains, and Crypto Assets The U.S. Attorney’s Office for […]

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu hosted political representatives from across party lines on Thursday to discuss the issue of electoral interference ahead of the country’s 2027 presidential election. French authorities are sounding the alarm over the rapid advances in artificial intelligence which they fear could make attempts to digitally manipulate the voting process from abroad – and consequently the electoral outcome – easier than ever before.

The transformation of healthcare through artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative proposition. It is happening at scale, in hospitals, in living rooms, in clinical trials, and in the benefit packages that hundreds of millions of workers select each year. The CEOs driving this shift are not simply technology founders who saw an opportunity in […]

Declining social activity is occurring despite continued development across the XRP Ledger and broader ecosystem initiatives.

Research from the Ramp AI Index shows that the top one percent of AI-adopting American businesses, described as “AI-pilled” firms, are spending $7,500 per employee each month on artificial intelligence, with that figure growing 14 percent month-on-month. The findings come as executives at Nvidia and AI recruitment startup Mercor have publicly noted that compute costs […]

They’re about to get more AI rammed down their throats, stuck into their pension plans and investment portfolios Americans are growing worried about what artificial intelligence portends for their futures. Eight in 10 Americans report concern over AI, compared with a third who report being excited, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll. More than half think it will do more harm than good in their daily lives. Seven out of 10 think it will reduce the number of available jobs. Skeptical though they may be, they are about to get more AI rammed down their throats and stuck into their pension plans and their investment portfolios, whether they want it or not – binding their futures ever more tightly to the frenzied, risky, multibillion-dollar dash by technology moguls to develop machines capable of mimicking human thought processes to take over cognitive tasks. Continue reading...