Project Eleven estimates roughly 6.9 million BTC sit in addresses with exposed public keys, including Satoshi's coins, and resource estimates for a full 256-bit elliptic-curve break have fallen below 500,000 physical qubits.
A zero-day in Litecoin's MimbleWimble Extension Block let attackers slip an invalid MWEB peg-out past outdated mining nodes, triggering a 13-block reorg that wiped roughly three hours of history.
Open interest in BlackRock IBIT options reached $27.61B on April 25, edging Deribit's $26.90B BTC options book for the first time and closing the gap with a venue that has run since 2016 in roughly two years.
Anthropic's Mythos model can chain small protocol weaknesses into autonomous, multi-step exploits, and CoinDesk reports both Coinbase and Binance have approached the lab to stress-test their stacks.
Cohere is acquiring Germany's Aleph Alpha at a roughly $20B combined valuation, with Schwarz Group anchoring a ~$600M financing and STACKIT supplying the sovereign cloud beneath the merged enterprise AI stack.
Anthropic ran a closed pilot called Project Deal where AI agents bought and sold from each other on behalf of 69 employees, settling 186 trades and over $4,000 in volume across four model setups.
Google committed up to $40 billion to Anthropic on April 24, with $10 billion in cash wired immediately at a $350 billion valuation and $30 billion more contingent on performance targets. The deal also locks in 5 gigawatts of TPU compute over five years.
Tom Lee–chaired BitMine purchased 10,000 ETH at $2,387 — roughly $23.87 million — directly from the Ethereum Foundation in an OTC transaction on April 24, lifting its treasury to 4,976,485 ETH and following a separate 5,000-ETH purchase the company executed in March.
Anthropic deployed automated detection, election-information banners and stress-tested usage-policy enforcement on Claude ahead of the 2026 US midterms — reporting 100% appropriate-response rates on Opus 4.7 against a 600-prompt benchmark and 95–96% political neutrality scores.
Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO in September 2026, with hardware chief John Ternus succeeding him — handing the next leader an Apple Intelligence rollout, App Store economics under platform pressure, and a developer ecosystem reshaped by AI-native build flows.
The U.S. Department of Justice on April 24 moved to intervene in xAI's lawsuit against Colorado's SB24-205, arguing the state's algorithmic discrimination law violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause ahead of the statute's June 30 effective date.
Wisconsin's DOJ filed three Dane County complaints on April 24 against Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and Crypto.com, alleging their sports event contracts violate state commercial gambling law — escalating the state-versus-CFTC fight over prediction markets.