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337 posts · sorted by dateColdcard Firmware Flaw Drains 1,816 BTC as Attacks Enter Fourth Wave
A five-year-old build error in Coldcard hardware wallets replaced the chip's hardware random number generator with a predictable software fallback, letting attackers recompute seed phrases and sweep roughly 1,816 BTC across more than 5,200 addresses since July 30.
EU AI Act Enforcement Goes Live: What Every AI Business Must Do Now
The EU AI Act reached a landmark enforcement milestone on August 2, 2026 — chatbot disclosure rules and GPAI fining powers are now fully active, with penalties up to €15 million or 3% of global revenue.
OpenAI Unveils Astra by Publishing Ten Solved Math Problems, Each Verified in Lean
OpenAI announced its next model family, Astra, on August 1 by releasing ten results in mathematics and theoretical computer science, every one open for at least a decade and every one shipped with a machine-checkable Lean 4 certificate. Total token cost: about $2,000.
MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.5: Chinese AI Labs Race to Redefine Video Generation
On July 31, 2026, MiniMax launched H3 — a 2K video generation model with native stereo audio — while ByteDance shipped Seedance 2.5 with 30-second single-take clips. Two landmark updates to China's AI video race arrived on the same day.
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 API Prices by Up to 80% as Open-Weight Rivals Squeeze Margins
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna API pricing by 80% and Terra by 20% on July 30, dropping Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens. The move lands as DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 undercut proprietary pricing on high-volume workloads.
Citadel Buys Out Aschenbrenner's $20B AI Fund After 4x Leverage Triggers Margin Calls
Situational Awareness LP, the AI-focused hedge fund run by 25-year-old former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, sold the bulk of its public equity portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel on 30 July 2026 after margin calls from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Bank of America. The fund had returned roughly 439% and peaked near $45 billion before July's AI selloff wiped out the equity backing its nearly 4x leverage.
Revolut Bundles ChatGPT Go Free for 75 Million Customers in OpenAI Deal
Revolut has partnered with OpenAI to give its 75 million customers up to 12 months of ChatGPT Go at no extra cost, making the neobank the largest consumer distribution channel yet for a paid AI subscription.
AI Firms Are Shredding Millions of Books for Training Data — and ISBNdb Sells Anonymity
A 404 Media investigation revealed that AI labs are using middleman services like ISBNdb to anonymously bulk-buy up to a million printed books at a time, cut off their spines for high-speed scanning, and destroy the originals. Pre-2022 books command a premium because they are structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated text.
Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed to Build the Voice Layer for AI — S2.1 Pro Clones Any Voice in 15 Seconds
Voice AI startup Fish Audio has raised $52 million in seed funding after hitting $21M ARR and 8 million users in its first year, with its S2.1 Pro model supporting 83 languages and cloning any voice from a 5-second clip.
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