Crypto & mining news

Headlines aggregated from 9 publishers, newest first, with mining and hardware stories tagged so they surface without wading through price chatter. Every entry links straight to the publisher — nothing is rehosted here, and the excerpt is the publisher’s own.

• 1mo ago

  OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them

  OpenAI's new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake "breach alerts," coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes

  Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.

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• 1mo ago

  Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left

  SpaceX's AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there's nobody left to ask them.

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• 1mo ago

  Why Is Chipotle Now Working With the CIA-Funded Palantir?

  Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built food safety dashboard after a summer of outbreaks, putting employee data in the hands of a company seeded by the CIA's venture arm.

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• 1mo ago

  CFTC Opens Door for Crypto Apps to Offer Regulated Derivatives Access

  In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers.

  DecryptMarketsRegulation

• 1mo ago

  OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem

  Days after its disputed Navier-Stokes claim, OpenAI says it's made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize math problem—and won't say which one yet.

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• 1mo ago

  Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Won’t Doom Crypto Security

  The Ethereum co-founder said AI could help developers mathematically verify entire software systems, turning the same technology powering new attacks into a tool for defense.

  DecryptEthereum

• 1mo ago

  Andrew Yang Calls for AI Kill Switch as Safety Fears Mount

  The former presidential candidate said lawmakers should impose liability rules and waiting periods on frontier AI firms as autonomous agents raise new cyber and labor concerns.

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• 1mo ago

  King Charles Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google for AI Safety Summit

  King Charles hosted senior AI executives at his Scottish estate to discuss keeping the technology "in the service of humanity," days after industry leaders called for a slowdown.

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• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Bounces as Markets Brace for the Fed’s Next Move

  The Federal Reserve's first rate increase since 2023 barely dented crypto prices, but what comes next could change calculations on Wall Street.

  DecryptBitcoinMarkets

• 1mo ago

  Financial Data Giant S&P Global Moves Deeper Into Crypto With OpenZeppelin Deal

  S&P Global is expanding into the technology risks underpinning stablecoins, tokenized funds, and other onchain financial products.

  DecryptDeFi

• 1mo ago

  FCA Targets Three More London Sites Over Unregistered P2P Crypto Trading

  "Anyone running an unregistered peer-to-peer crypto business should assume we are looking at them," the FCA's enforcement chief said.

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• 1mo ago

  SEC Clears a Path for Tokenized Stocks After Clarity Act Stumbles

  The "innovation exemption" lets qualifying venues trade tokenized versions of U.S. stocks on public blockchains without registering as exchanges—though it excludes price-tracking "synthetics" and lets companies block tokenization of their shares.

  DecryptMarketsRegulation

• 1mo ago

  What Is Arc? The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer Circle

  Arc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.

  DecryptDeFi

• 1mo ago

  Revolut Hackers Demand $3M Monero Ransom, Threaten to Sell Customer Data: Report

  The group says it chose whom to target by scanning the blockchain for Revolut accounts holding significant crypto.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Morning Minute: Crypto Rebounds After The Fed’s First Hike Since 2023

  The Clarity Act failed to pass and FOMC hiked rates, and yet, crypto majors are green and alt leaders are flying. What does it mean?

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• 1mo ago

  Zcash Closes On $1,400 After Coinholders Vote to Keep Bitcoin-Style Halvings

  The privacy coin rose double digits Thursday and 168% over the past month in the wake of the NU7 upgrade vote.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  House Committee Advances US Bitcoin Reserve Bill on Party-Line Split

  A substitute text adopted before the vote strips out the Federal Reserve funding routes and thins the transparency rules.

  DecryptBitcoinRegulation

• 1mo ago

  Crypto Tax Bill Clears House Committee After Clarity Act Setback

  The bill would exempt qualifying crypto fees from gain-or-loss calculations and restrict tax-loss deductions on tokens sold and quickly repurchased.

  DecryptRegulation

• 1mo ago

  Meta May Have Found a Fix for Its 'Pervert Glasses'

  Meta is reportedly developing a version of its smart glasses without a camera, potentially addressing one of the biggest privacy objections to AI wearables.

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• 1mo ago

  OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack

  An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform's defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI's own incident report never fully described.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Fed Chair Implies Trump Is Only Half Right on the Economy Following Rate Hike

  Chair Kevin Warsh credited Trump's economy, then ignored his rate-cut wishes entirely.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Core Software Update Aims for Speed and Security Patches

  Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered final testing, bringing faster block checks and changes to how wallets prepare payments.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  Fed Hikes Rates for the First Time Since 2023, Bitcoin Spikes

  The Federal Reserve delivered the hike Wall Street had almost unanimously priced in.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  CFTC and SEC Double Down on Crypto After Clarity Act Defeat

  Michael Selig and Paul Atkins pledged to use their agencies’ existing powers to provide crypto regulatory certainty after the Senate failed to advance the bill.

  DecryptRegulation

• 1mo ago

  Hackers Hijack HBO Max’s Reddit Account to Spread Crypto-Stealing Malware

  Attackers ran 108 malicious ads through the streaming service’s verified account, directing users to fake software downloads.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Zuckerberg Pushes Back on Coordinated AI Slowdown, Says Labs Can Act Alone

  Meta’s CEO says competition and potential liability give AI developers reasons to prioritize safety, citing the company’s decision to delay Muse.

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• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin ETFs Had Their Worst Day Since June Following Failed Clarity Act Vote

  Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP ETFs shed roughly $593 million combined Tuesday, their heaviest single-day drawdown since June.

  DecryptBitcoinEthereum

• 1mo ago

  Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa as Validators

  The Layer 1 network’s validator set is permissioned, and Circle has minted 10 billion ARC tokens without committing to publicly launch them.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  AI Pause Would Help Dominant Firms, Not Safety, Think Tank Warns

  Cato favors voluntary safeguards, while Block Chairman Jack Dorsey backs independent testing and narrowly justified restrictions.

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