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AI
Speaking alongside JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that its Mythos AI model has uncovered nearly 300 Firefox vulnerabilities and tens of thousands more in private — and that institutions have only 6 to 12 months to patch them before adversarial AI systems close the sam...
Web3
A month after North Korea's UNC4736 group stole $295 million from Drift Protocol via a six-month social engineering operation, the Solana-based exchange has released a detailed user recovery plan and set a Q2 2026 relaunch date. Roughly $293 million in 130,259 ETH remains traceable across four mo...
AI
Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro's administration filed a lawsuit on May 5 against Character Technologies Inc., seeking to bar its AI bots from posing as licensed medical professionals. An undercover state investigation found a chatbot named 'Emilie' claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist, provided a...
AI
Apple plans to introduce 'Extensions' in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 this fall — letting users select third-party AI models from Google, Anthropic, and others to power Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground. A dedicated App Store section for AI apps will support discovery and switching.
Web3
KelpDAO formally accused LayerZero of approving the dangerous bridge configuration that allowed hackers to steal $292 million in rsETH on April 18. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino disputes the account, saying Kelp unilaterally switched to a 1-of-1 validator setup not recommended for production. Ke...
AI
Google, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to submit frontier AI models to the US Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation for pre-release evaluation — joining OpenAI and Anthropic, which have participated in the program since 2024. The move expands an informal safety review into ...
AI
SAP announced it will acquire Prior Labs, the 18-month-old Freiburg-based pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models, with over €1 billion committed over four years — the largest European AI research acquisition of 2026. Prior Labs' TabPFN model, published in Nature, sets the state of the art on struct...
Web3
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh, letting AI agents autonomously discover APIs, receive live pricing, and pay per request via stablecoins on Solana — no accounts, no invoices, no human in the loop. The system is built on x402 and MPP open payment standards and opens Google Cloud...
AI
OpenAI quietly swapped ChatGPT's default model to GPT-5.5 Instant on May 5, citing a 52.5% reduction in hallucinations on high-stakes medical, legal, and financial queries. The update also introduces 'memory sources,' a control layer showing users which past context shaped each answer.
Regulation & Policy
Payward filed a second amended complaint in Colorado federal court alleging Etana Custody and CEO Dion Russell ran a Ponzi-like scheme, misappropriating $25M+ in Kraken reserve funds through falsified account statements and risky credit bets. Etana entered liquidation in November 2025.
Stablecoins
Tetra Trust launched CADD — Canada's first CAD-backed stablecoin issued by a financial institution — on Base, Ethereum, and Tempo, backed by Shopify, National Bank of Canada, Wealthsimple, ATB Financial, and Shakepay. The token targets 24/7 institutional settlement replacing legacy batch clearing.
defi
A US district court froze 30,766 ETH (~$71M) held by Arbitrum DAO after terrorism creditors invoked the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to attach recovery funds from the Lazarus Group's $292M Kelp DAO hack. Aave filed an emergency motion to unfreeze the assets.