Regional mediators are reportedly close to a proposal that could restart the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, although Tehran continues to deny seeking renewed talks with Washington. Summary Pakistan, Egypt and Qatar are reportedly pushing a plan to revive the US-Iran MoU. Iran and Oman have reportedly accepted a proposal addressing disputes over the Strait of…
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has agreed to acquire the wallet-as-a-service business of Magic Labs, adding embedded non-custodial wallet technology used by more than 60 million users to its expanding enterprise infrastructure platform. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The companies said the acquisition is expected to close in the…
OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It’s now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of OpenAI’s latest AI models, was more extensive than the company initially disclosed. In an updated…
Key Takeaways Shared Claude AI conversations briefly became searchable through Google. The issue centered on Claude’s optional public share links rather than private chats. Users should review active shared conversations and remove links containing sensitive information. Shared AI Conversations Became Searchable Hundreds of Claude AI conversations reportedly appeared online after Reddit users discovered that searching…
Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, announced Tuesday that it signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal expected to be paid mostly in cash, with the remainder in Cyera shares. Oasis focuses on non-human identities, primarily AI agents….
Florida Rep. Mike Haridopolos has renewed his push for the CLARITY Act as Senate delays narrow the bill’s path to passage before the August recess. Summary Haridopolos warned that continued delays could push US crypto businesses and investment overseas. Senate leaders prioritized 74 federal nominees and a Russia sanctions bill over the CLARITY Act. The…
Amazon is reportedly looking to revamp its AI strategy, shifting from a wide portfolio of models for text, images, video, and multimodal tasks toward a single frontier model. The ecommerce giant has been one of the main beneficiaries of the AI boom, with developers investing heavily in compute capacity from AWS. However, it has not…
Key Takeaways 134 bank leaders urged Senate lawmakers to strengthen stablecoin interest and yield restrictions in the CLARITY Act. Bankers warned incentives tied to stablecoin holdings could weaken the deposit base supporting local lending. The dispute centers on whether payment stablecoins should function only as transaction tools. Bank Leaders Push Senate to Rewrite Stablecoin Provision…
Operators have to lock up their own ETH as collateral now. Liquid staking app Lido has started moving the bulk of its staked ETH onto Ethereum’s larger post-Pectra validators, and the operators running them are now putting up their own capital for the first time. The main idea is that Lido’s curated node operators…
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