Anthropic put out a press release Wednesday saying Claude, its AI model, discovered a new molecular machine hiding in virus DNA. But read past the hype and CEO Dario Amodei admits its \\\"precise functio

An artificial intelligence agent built by OpenAI broke into an Australian government website in June, gaining unauthorized access to both public and non-public files, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese r

OpenAI is giving Ukraine\\\'s government access to Daybreak, an AI tool built to hunt down software vulnerabilities—the hidden coding flaws hackers exploit to break into a system—before Russian hackers f

China is turning Anthropic\\\'s own leak-detection playbook back on two of its most prominent AI labs. The Cyberspace Administration of China has opened an investigation into DeepSeek and Moonshot AI ov

Meta\\\'s new personal AI agent, Muse, read a tech columnist\\\'s private iMessages without his permission, then gave him a false explanation for how it knew what was inside them. Jason Aten, a columnist a

The cypherpunk favorite Zcash continues to find interest among traditional investors. 21Shares listed Europe\\\'s first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Euronext Amsterdam on Sept. 22.

Bitcoin options worth roughly $15.6 billion expire on Deribit early Friday. That\\\'s per Deribit\\\'s own strike-by-strike breakdown of the book: about 182,000 BTC in open contracts, split into 106,200 cal

Coinbase is giving borrowers a new way to tap cash without selling their Bitcoin, rolling out fixed-rate loans powered by decentralized lending protocol Morpho. The product, announced Tuesday, lets C

The exchange that gave crypto the perpetual swap has officially closed its doors. BitMEX ended all exchange operations at 04:00 UTC Wednesday, the company said on X, capping a two-month wind-down. Tr

Canada\\\'s six biggest banks just agreed to build shared plumbing for digital money. RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank announced Tuesday they\\\'re jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar token

Crypto exchange Blockchain.com wants to bring Wall Street to its app and keep it open around the clock. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with NYSE Group to offer its users tokenized U

Bitcoin pulled back Wednesday, sliding toward $84,000 after touching a seven-month high near $87,250 earlier in the week. The retreat came as traders rotated into two unlikely winners: Bitcoin Cash a

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BlackRock thinks the robots are going to need a bank account. The world\\\'s largest asset manager published a research paper this week arguing that artificial intelligence, not new regulation or fresh

The UN Security Council will spend Wednesday afternoon listening to the people who build the technology it\\\'s most worried about. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, AI safety researche