Oscars Ban AI Performances and Screenplays From Eligibility

In brief The Academy bars AI-generated acting and screenplays from Oscar eligibility. International category expands to allow multiple entries via festival wins. Actors can now receive multiple nominations in the same category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday ruled that AI-generated performances and screenplays will not qualify for Oscars, according to…

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OpenClaw Put Apple Back in the AI Game—And Now They Can’t Build Macs Fast Enough

In brief Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that Mac mini and Mac Studio could remain in short supply for “several months” after AI-driven demand far exceeded the company’s forecasts. OpenClaw—the open-source AI agent platform now backed by OpenAI—turned Apple’s unified memory architecture into the default hardware for running large local AI models. Apple’s M4 Ultra…

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Ethereum Foundation Offloads $23M in ETH to BitMine for Third Time in Two Months

The Ethereum Foundation has completed a third over-the-counter (OTC) sale of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies, offloading another 10,000 ETH at an average price of $2,292 per coin, worth roughly $22.9 million. “This sale funds the Ethereum Foundation’s core operations and activities, including protocol R&D, ecosystem development, community grant funding and more,” the Foundation wrote…

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‘Go Time’ For Crypto Bill

The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could now move closer to becoming law after new stablecoin yield provisions were published, according to Coinbase chief legal officer Faryar Shirzad. “It’s time to get CLARITY done,” Shirzad said in an X post on Friday, after US Senator…

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