AI researcher claims he’s already bypassed Anthropic’s Fable 5 guardrails
“Pliny the Liberator,” says he has been “cleverly finding the holes in the fence that the thought police missed,” in the newly launched Fable 5. Go to Source
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Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines, Ripple and XRPL Join 30+ Partners to Power AI-Driven Commerce
Mastercard just made its biggest move yet into the AI economy. The payments giant has officially launched Agent Pay for Machines, a new payments infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents executing transactions at machine speed and Ripple is right in the middle of it, with the XRP Ledger and RLUSD helping lay the foundation for … Read more
Pyth Network Launches 24/7 Price Indices for U.S. Equities, Oil, and Metals
Pyth Network just solved one of the most persistent structural problems in crypto derivatives markets, and it did it with partners that carry serious institutional weight. The oracle network has launched Pyth Indices, a set of proprietary 24/7 price indexes covering U.S. equities, oil, gold, silver, and thematic baskets and the products are not just … Read more
Three Whale Addresses Pull $122M in ETH Off FalconX and Kraken in a Single Move
Three whale addresses, two of them freshly created, just withdrew a combined $122.29 million worth of ETH from FalconX and Kraken in what on-chain analysts are flagging as a significant accumulation signal. The move is being tracked across crypto monitoring communities and the details are specific. Two of the three addresses involved are brand new, … Read more
200,000 Human Neurons Learned to Play Doom, Pointing to Low-Power Biological Computing
Cortical Labs connected 200,000 human neurons grown from blood-derived stem cells to its CL1 silicon interface, teaching the culture to navigate and shoot in Doom. By translating the game’s state into electrical patterns and reading neural spikes as commands, the system improved with training, pointing to low-power biological computing even as current neuron-chip setups last … Read more
Teen crypto scammer stole $13M to splurge on private jets, Lambo
Trenton Richard Johnston was arrested in March during a traffic stop for speeding, but investigators soon found he was involved in a wider fraud scheme. Go to Source
ASK Group Taps Eric Schimdt-Backed Keeta to Tokenize Oil, Gold and Copper
The UAE-based investment group ASK Group and U.S. blockchain company Keeta have partnered to launch a public exchange where physical assets will be traded as fractional digital tokens. Gulf Commodities to Go Digital A United Arab Emirates investment group and Keeta, a U.S. blockchain company backed by tech billionaire Eric Schmidt, have launched a joint … Read more
Analysts tip pressure for Bitcoin, gold as US inflation tops 4%
“We continue to view the current macro environment as a headwind for Bitcoin,” 10x Research’s Markus Thielen said. Go to Source
Nigeria Senate Pushes Crypto Bill to Committee, Setting Up 4-Week Review Phase
The Nigerian Senate has advanced a major cryptocurrency regulation bill through a second reading, moving the country closer to its first comprehensive legal framework for digital assets. Legislative Progress and Next Steps Nigeria’s Senate on June 9 passed a cryptocurrency regulation bill through a second reading, moving Africa’s largest economy closer to establishing its first … Read more
Delaware, New Jersey advance bills banning crypto ATMs
Lawmakers in Delaware and New Jersey have advanced laws that would completely ban crypto ATMs, a measure that has only been enacted in three US states. Go to Source