AI & Hi-Tech News

xAI’s Grok drew massive attention on X after delivering profanity-filled roasts of Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Keir Starmer following user prompts.

Prediction markets are prone to insider trading vulnerabilities. Geopolitical contract spikes ahead of public news undermine credibility and block institutional adoption.

Anthropic previously secured a $200 million Pentagon contract, and its AI has been used in classified operations, including support for US airstrikes on Iran, the Financial Times reports.

The stablecoin issuer led a $50 million funding round for Eight Sleep as the companies explore AI-driven health monitoring and sleep optimization.

US President Donald Trump says AI data centers “need some PR help,” promising that tech giants will pay for their own power to run the energy-intensive projects.

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund Situational Awareness LP has scaled to $5.52 billion in equity exposure in less than a year by betting on power, data centers and Bitcoin miners.

Creators posting AI-generated war footage without disclosure risk losing access to X’s revenue-sharing program for three months.

A Bitcoin Policy Institute study of 36 AI models found Bitcoin was the top monetary choice in 48% of responses, but more than half preferred stablecoins for payment scenarios.

Ben Delo paid a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to US banking violations in 2022 and was granted a pardon by President Donald Trump in March 2025.

Security auditor OpenZepplin found that EVMbench’s dataset contains training data leaks and at least four invalid high-severity vulnerability classifications.

A Black Mirror‑style “Energym” spoof imagining 80% of jobs lost to AI is circulating as tech companies begin slashing thousands of roles, and white-collar job openings hit decade lows.

NYDIG’s Greg Cipolaro says AI could be a “general-purpose technology,” and its effects on the economy could be a boon for Bitcoin.

Vitalik Buterin says AI coding still has “massive caveats,” but people should expect Ethereum’s roadmap to be finished much faster than expected.

The US military reportedly relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI for intelligence analysis and targeting during an Iran strike hours after Trump ordered a ban on the company’s systems.

The company was the first to deploy its AI models on classified US military cloud networks, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.