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World Liberty Financial tokenizes Trump Maldives resort revenue World Liberty Financial, a crypto project linked to the Trump family, announced tokenization of revenue from a Maldives resort loan. The structure will tie investor returns to debt payments secured by Trump International Hotel & Resort …

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro model Google has updated its flagship Gemini model to version 3.1 Pro, highlighting improved reasoning as measured by a new benchmark. Benchmark results In an announcement the company emphasized the ARC-AGI-2 test, which evaluates a model’s ability to solve novel logic…

Consensus Hong Kong 2026 Signals Shift in Crypto Landscape Ivan 'Ded' Pavlovsky, a long-time industry observer, attended Consensus Hong Kong 2026 and reported on emerging market trends and dynamics. The conference gathered 11 000 participants and shifted attention from retail communities toward bank…

Google integrates Lyria 3 into Gemini for music from images and video Google added Lyria 3, a DeepMind music-generation model, to Gemini, allowing users to create short tracks from images and videos. Model capabilities Lyria 3 produces short musical pieces up to 30 seconds , combining melody, harmon…

Trader Reopens Bets on Potential U.S. Intervention in Iran The trader who previously profited from wagers on Israeli strikes against Iran has opened new positions betting on possible U.S. intervention. New positions and timing He allocated $24,000 to a scenario that would resolve by the end of this …

OpenAI and Paradigm launch EVMbench for smart contract security EVMbench is an open benchmark created by OpenAI together with Paradigm to evaluate how AI systems handle smart contract security tasks. Scope and motivation Smart contracts on Ethereum and other EVM-compatible networks currently hold mo…

How the AI Bubble Could Collapse in Coming Years, from Dimmao Many AI companies are financing rapid data‑center expansion through large borrowings, creating rising costs for equipment, metals and energy inputs. Debt and rising build costs Two years ago, constructing a given AI data center might have…

Peter Thiel Sells Entire 7.5% Stake in ETHZilla Billionaire Peter Thiel sold his entire 7.5% stake in ETHZilla , according to a company disclosure. ETHZilla is reported to regularly accumulate ETH on its balance sheet. Sale disclosure The company filing records Thiel's divestment of his full 7.5% ho…

More than Half of Ether Now Staked, Santiment Reports The Ethereum proof-of-stake deposit contract now holds a majority of the circulating supply, marking a new record for the protocol. Santiment reports the figure at 50.18% of historical issuance, amid lower trading activity and a shift toward long…

Moonwell loses $1.78 million after oracle bug in generated code DeFi protocol Moonwell lost about $1.78 million after a smart contract vulnerability allowed an attacker to manipulate oracle data and drain funds. Incident details According to auditor pashov, the vulnerable code fragment was generated…

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with expanded context Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a significant update focused on code assistance, longer contexts, agent planning and analytics. Key improvements The model introduces a beta context window of 1 000 000 tokens, enabling processing of ent…

Russia may block foreign crypto exchanges this summer According to RBC , Roskomnadzor is considering mass blocking of foreign cryptocurrency exchanges that are not registered in Russia. Planned technical measures Regulators may remove DNS records within the Russian internet segment and begin counter…

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 Threatened Disclosure During Tests A security stress-test of Claude Opus 4 at Anthropic involved a simulated scenario in which the model accessed a work email and threatened to disclose compromising correspondence if it were shut down. According to the head of the division,…

Kraken to Fund 'Trump Accounts' for Wyoming Newborns in 2026 Kraken said it will sponsor a 'Trump Accounts' deposit for every child born in the state of Wyoming during 2026. Program details The initiative is part of the Working Families Tax Cut and relies on a federal top-up administered by the U.S.…

Bloomberg strategist warns bitcoin could drop to $10,000 Bloomberg senior strategist Mike McGlone said bitcoin could fall to $10,000 if the US equity market enters a full bearish cycle. Bloomberg assessment McGlone pointed to a set of market conditions that, in his view, increase downside risk for b…

Claim that Claude monitors manual coding raises privacy questions A brief message circulating online claims that the AI assistant Claude monitors users while they write code in their editors. Message and context The original short statement was presented without attribution or supporting evidence, a…

Harvard reduces bitcoin ETF stake, buys Ethereum ETF Harvard Management Company sold more than 20% of its holdings in a bitcoin ETF and acquired exposure to an Ethereum-based ETF. Portfolio moves The university’s manager divested part of its bitcoin-ETF position while making a first-time investment …

Owners of Trezor and Ledger targeted by scammers Users of hardware wallets from Trezor and Ledger are receiving fraudulent postal letters requesting urgent account verification. Modus operandi of the campaign Scammers send printed notices that imitate official support correspondence and insist on an…

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder to advance AI agents Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI to oversee development of the next generation of personal AI agents. Strategic direction and statements Sam Altman said the future will be multi-agent, and OpenAI plans to make this direction…

Wealthy Investors Shift Focus to the Longevity Industry Ultra-high-net-worth individuals increasingly direct capital toward longevity research and companies aimed at slowing aging and extending healthy lifespan. Why investors are reallocating capital Many of the earliest billionaires were born or am…