OPENAI POSTS NEW AGI PRINCIPLES, RECASTS SAFETY POSTURESam Altman (@sama) published a 1,100-word document on @OpenAI's site yesterday, outlining five principles to guide development of artificial general intelligence. The principles are democratization, empowerment, universal prosperity, resilience, and adaptability.Altman framed the choice ahead as power held either by a small handful of companies controlling superintelligence or held in a decentralized way by people. The mission, he wrote, is to ensure AG ...

CLARITY ACT FACES 10-WEEK RUNWAY AS AUGUST RECESS LOOMSThe Clarity Act has roughly 9 to 10 working weeks to clear the Senate before the August recess pulls lawmakers into midterm focus, per Crypto In America. The real deadline is getting the bill on Trump's desk before lawmakers leave town.The bill remains stuck in the Senate Banking Committee, where it has stalled since January after the initial markup was postponed when key industry support fell through. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) (@SenThomTillis) blocked ...

FTC: SOCIAL MEDIA SCAMS COST AMERICANS $2.1B IN 2025, EIGHT TIMES 2020 LEVELAmericans lost $2.1 billion to scams that started on social media in 2025, an eightfold increase since 2020, the @FTC said today. Nearly 30% of all reported scam losses originated on social media, more than any other contact method.Investment scams led the breakdown at $1.1 billion, more than half the social media total. The FTC described the typical setup as fake investing programs pitched through ads or posts, plus WhatsApp groups ...

EX-DEEPMIND DAVID SILVER RAISES $1.1B AT $5.1B FOR INEFFABLE INTELLIGENCEDavid Silver, the former DeepMind reinforcement learning lead behind AlphaZero, raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation for Ineffable Intelligence, his new British AI lab. Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners co-led, with Google, Nvidia, Index Ventures, the British Business Bank, and the UK's Sovereign AI fund participating, per TechCrunch.The pitch is a "superlearner" that acquires knowledge through reinforcement le ...

SOLANA SHIPS POST-QUANTUM MIGRATION PLAN AS ANZA AND FIREDANCER CONVERGE ON FALCONThe Solana Foundation (@SolanaFndn) published its post-quantum migration plan today. Two validator client teams, Anza and Jump Crypto's Firedancer, independently researched the problem and converged on the same answer: Falcon, a post-quantum digital signature scheme with compact signatures designed for high-throughput chains.Both teams have shipped initial Falcon implementations. Anza's pull request #537 on solana-sdk implemen ...

PAYSTAND LAUNCHES USDB STABLECOIN ON BITCOIN LAYERS FOR B2B PAYMENTS@paystand announced USDb today at Bitcoin Las Vegas, a USD-pegged stablecoin native to Blockstream's Liquid Network and Rootstock, per Bitcoin Magazine. The token is built for accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and treasury operations, targeting the roughly $100 trillion B2B economy.USDb is backed 1:1 by USD reserves with Ibex serving as the first minting partner and liquidity provider. Paystand is pursuing GENIUS-aligned compl ...

KALSHI COMPLETES FIRST BESPOKE BLOCK TRADE WITH JUMP TRADING@Kalshi completed its first custom-certified block trade today, with @jumptrading providing liquidity, per Bloomberg. The transaction was brokered earlier this month by Greenlight Commodities for a Houston-based environmental hedge fund.The contract tracks whether a specific price will be realized at California's May auction of carbon allowances. It was created and certified specifically for the trade, with Jump on the opposite side as market maker ...

ANTHROPIC HITS $1T IMPLIED VALUATION ON JUPITER PRE-IPO MARKETS@AnthropicAI's implied pre-IPO valuation crossed $1 trillion today via SPV-backed instruments trading on decentralized platform @JupiterExchange under the ticker ANTHRO, per Watcher Guru. Anthropic becomes the third company to cross $1T in implied valuation on the platform.The figure has surged 733% since October 2025. Prediction market Kalshi shows 68% odds of an Anthropic IPO before January 1, 2027.The Jupiter number is not Anthropic's officia ...

GEMINI LAUNCHES AGENTIC AI TRADING ON US-REGULATED EXCHANGECrypto exchange @Gemini rolled out Agentic Trading today. The product lets users connect @claudeai, @ChatGPTapp, and other MCP-compatible AI models directly to their trading accounts to monitor markets, place orders, and manage risk autonomously based on predefined strategies.The connection runs over the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets external tools interact with financial accounts. Gemini calls the launch the first agentic tradi ...

ISRAEL APPROVES FIRST SHEKEL-PEGGED STABLECOIN AFTER TWO-YEAR PILOTThe Israel Capital Market Authority approved a framework for the country's first shekel-pegged stablecoin today, to be issued by licensed crypto firm Bits of Gold (@BitsofGold_LTD), per YNet. The green light follows a two-year regulatory sandbox process.Structure: the token will be backed 1:1 by the Israeli shekel, with reserves held in segregated accounts inside Israel. Liquidity and redemption mechanisms must be available at all times, and ...