Bitcoin Rises 12% in April
Bitcoin rose nearly 12% in April, marking its second positive month since September 2025. @MicroStrategy purchased $4.13 billion in BTC, boosting its stock by 33%. #Update #Crypto $BTC
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AI Surges with Walrus Agentic Memory
Walrus launches MemWal SDK for AI agents, enhancing verifiability and portability of agentic memory, crucial for complex tasks. Integrates with OpenClaw and NemoClaw. #Update #AI
ChatGPT Goblin Talks Surge 300%
OpenAI’s ChatGPT developed an unexpected obsession with goblins due to reinforcement learning quirks, prompting a system prompt patch to suppress creature mentions. #Update #Tech
Senate Bans Prediction Markets Use
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution banning senators from trading on prediction markets, targeting insider trading risks. This marks the first major regulation against such activities. #Breaking #Legal
Ubuntu Linux Launches AI Features Users Concerned
Canonical plans to integrate AI features into Ubuntu by 2026, sparking user backlash over privacy concerns. Features will be opt-in in Ubuntu 26.10. #Update #Tech
OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT User Security
OpenAI introduces Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT, enhancing user protection with passkeys and excluding accounts from model training. #Update #Tech
OpenAI Models Propel xAI’s Grok Training
Elon Musk revealed @xAI partly used OpenAI models to train its Grok chatbot, highlighting industry distillation practices amid his lawsuit against OpenAI over governance changes. #Update #Legal
Bitcoin Heist North Korea Steals $6B
North Korean hackers stole $577M in two April crypto heists, accounting for 76% of 2026’s hack losses; total stolen since 2017 exceeds $6B. #Breaking #Security
Bitcoin Giant Merger: Twenty-One Eyes IPO
Tether Investments proposes merging Twenty-One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy into a major Bitcoin entity; XXI shares rose 3% post-announcement. Crypto
Bitcoin Ethereum Dip as Fed Holds
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady amid Middle East tensions; Bitcoin and Ethereum prices dipped, with $BTC down 1.4% and $ETH down 2.3%. Crypto $BTC
Pentagon Pushes Anthropic Reinstatement Debate
The White House may reinstate @AnthropicAI for federal use amid Pentagon restrictions on its AI model Mythos, impacting cybersecurity and defense. #Update #Tech
AI Predicts Future Using Pre1930 Text
Talkie-1930, a 13B parameter AI model trained on pre-1931 text, offers insights into historical events and concepts without modern context, highlighting benchmark contamination issues in AI research. #Update #AI
Celsius Founder Banned in $10M FTC Settlement
Alex Mashinsky settles with FTC for $10M, receiving a lifetime crypto industry ban after Celsius Network’s collapse. Initial $4.7B judgment reduced; non-disclosure could reactivate it. #Breaking #Legal @CelsiusNetwork
Senator Pushes Clarity Act Vote Forward
Sen. Thom Tillis pushes for a Senate vote on the Clarity Act amid disputes over stablecoin yield and ethics rules. #Update #Legal