In brief The DOJ moved to intervene in xAI’s lawsuit challenging Colorado’s AI discrimination law. The department argues the law violates the Constitution by requiring companies to prevent disparate impact. The move reflects the Trump administration’s push to limit state AI regulation. The U.S. Department of Justice moved Friday to intervene in xAI’s lawsuit against…
In brief South Korean police arrested a 40-year-old man for distributing an AI-generated photo of escaped wolf Neukgu. Daejeon city issued an emergency text to residents and displayed the fake image at a press briefing. The charge—obstructing official duties by deception—carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison or a fine of 10 million…
The Bitcoin community continues to debate whether cryptographically relevant quantum computers are imminent or decades away. Source link
In brief Anthropic’s latest Claude models achieved 95-96% on political neutrality tests and 99.8-100% on election policy compliance. The company will deploy election information banners directing users to trusted nonpartisan voting resources for the 2026 midterms. The measures come as governments scrutinize AI’s potential impact on election integrity and misinformation. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company…
The Fellowship political action committee (PAC), which launched claiming to have more than $100 million from crypto-aligned backers, has reportedly backed out of an advertising deal to support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a crucial US Senate race. According to a Thursday report from Axios, Republican leaders contacted US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on…
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed glued to $78,000 on Friday with markets “awaiting clarity” from the US-Iran war. Key points: Bitcoin stalls in its bid to recapture $80,000, as US stocks tread water. Strong earnings are needed to sustain the equities push, says analysis. BTC price support is at risk of giving way next. Bitcoin joins risk…
In brief The Department of Justice ended its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday, clearing the path for Kevin Warsh’s confirmation vote. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) had blocked Warsh’s nomination pending the probe’s resolution, calling the investigation “bogus.” Warsh disclosed holdings in multiple crypto projects including Solana and Polymarket during confirmation…
Familiar players ramp up Bitcoin and Ether bets as markets hint at a rebound, while institutions test blockchain rails and US lawmakers stall on crypto rules this week. Source link
In brief DeepSeek released its new V4-Pro model with 1.6 trillion parameters. It costs $1.74/$3.48 per million input/output tokens, roughly 1/20th the price of Claude Opus 4.7 and 98% less than GPT 5.5 Pro. DeepSeek trained V4 partly on Huawei Ascend chips, circumventing U.S. export restrictions, and says that once 950 new supernodes come online…
In brief Amazon Web Services has made Chainlink’s data feeds, data streams, and proof-of-reserve solutions available on AWS Marketplace. The integration maintains enterprise security and compliance standards while bridging cloud and blockchain infrastructure. AWS provides reference architectures for proof-of-reserve monitoring and real-time prediction market trading. Amazon Web Services has launched Chainlink’s data standard on the…