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Your AI Chats May Be Showing up in Google Search — One Sharing Feature Made It Possible

Joseph Rees2 weeks ago04 mins

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…

Tech & AI

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

Abigail Avery2 weeks ago01 mins

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….

CLARITY Act delay risks US crypto lead, lawmaker warns

Adam Forsyth2 weeks ago04 mins

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 Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova AI Models

Abigail Avery2 weeks ago03 mins

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…

134 Bank Leaders Sound Alarm Over CLARITY Act — They Want a Key Crypto Rule Changed

Joseph Rees2 weeks ago03 mins

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…

Why Is Lido Moving $16B in Staked ETH to Pectra-Era Validators?

Adam Forsyth2 weeks ago02 mins

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…

Own Microsoft Office for your Mac for a single $42.97 payment

Abigail Avery2 weeks ago03 mins

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 for a one-time $42.97 through Aug. 9 (reg. $219) and enjoy Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote for years. Subscriptions have their place, but productivity software doesn’t really need to be one of them — especially when it’s something as familiar and widely used…

TradFi perpetuals double to $2B on crypto exchanges: CryptoQuant report

Adam Forsyth2 weeks ago04 mins

Open interest in perpetual contracts tied to stocks, metals and oil has doubled since late May as major crypto exchanges expand beyond digital assets, CryptoQuant reported. Summary TradFi perpetual open interest has more than doubled to over $2 billion since late May. Binance, Bybit and Gate control about 70% of the emerging derivatives segment. Crypto…

Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign

Abigail Avery2 weeks ago04 mins

A civil litigation case against eBay, filed by the founders of a Massachusetts-based news site that covers ecommerce, has just been settled. The gist of it: The company and former execs have to own up to—and pay up for—perhaps the most disturbing harassment campaign ever led by a giant tech company against its critics. Back…

SEC Chair Backs CLARITY Act — Says He’s ‘Optimistic’ Congress Will Pass Landmark Crypto Bill

Joseph Rees2 weeks ago03 mins

Key Takeaways SEC Chair Paul Atkins supports the CLARITY Act and is providing technical assistance to Congress. The legislation could establish a new framework for crypto market oversight in the United States. The SEC is preparing to address digital asset market rules as lawmakers consider the bill’s future. SEC Chair Pushes Congress Toward New Crypto…