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OpenAI introduced a new cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, on May 11, designed to find, validate, and help fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. The firm describes the approach as making software “resilient by design,” moving security earlier into the build cycle through AI-assisted code review, threat modeling, patch validation, and dependency analysis. For crypto, where a software failure can result in an immediate capital loss within a single block, the urgency is clear. The standard pattern in the crypto industry is reactive, going through a pre-launch audit, post-deployment monitoring, response when funds move, a post-mortem on the method, vulnerability…

Casey Hudson, the gaming industry veteran who is leading the team making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, has commented on AI, saying he finds it to be “creatively soulless.”He said this in an interview with Bloomberg, adding, “It’s hard to imagine where it’s actually helpful in the process. I’m just really unimpressed with it.”Presumably Hudson is referring to generative AI, which has been the hot-button topic as of late, but whatever the case, he is clearly not enthusiastic about the technology for Fate of the Old Republic.Continue Reading at GameSpot

In brief Bhutan moved 100 BTC ($8.1 million) out of holding wallets on Tuesday, per Arkham Intelligence data. The sovereign fund has sold $230 ,million in Bitcoin since January, drawing reserves down 70% from their late-2024 peak. Analysts say the steady sell-down reflects a “hold and optimize” sovereign treasury strategy. Bhutan has quietly offloaded another slice of its Bitcoin holdings, moving 100 BTC worth $8.1 million, extending a steady sovereign sell-off that analysts say is driven by a treasury management strategy rather than market pessimism.The transfers are part of a selling trend that has accelerated last year and into 2026.“At…

Bitcoin (BTC) saw classic volatility ahead of Tuesday’s Wall Street open as a key US inflation gauge hit its highest levels in three years.Key points:US CPI inflation reaches its highest year-on-year levels since 2023.Energy prices fuel the rise, with the US-Iran war continuing to make its presence felt.Bitcoin traders retain support levels while a 200-day trend line comes in as resistance.Bitcoin price on edge as CPI beats multiyear recordsData from TradingView showed BTC price action circling $81,000 as risk assets saw fresh headwinds.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewThese came in the form of the April US Consumer Price Index (CPI), which…

ETH may continue to underperform if it stays below $2,400, one popular analyst claimed. The second-largest cryptocurrency, which experienced a significant revival in mid-April and at the start of May, has been on a decline over the past week, and some analysts now believe it may plunge further in the near future. Others remain cautious, arguing that traders should avoid jumping into ETH until it breaks convincingly out of its recent range. Tread Carefully As of press time, the asset is trading at around $2,280 (according to CoinGecko), representing a 4% decrease over the past 7 days. The renowned…

XRP exchange-traded funds (ETF) drummed up their biggest inflows since January amid a slew of developments at related company Ripple and favorable price action for the world’s fourth-largest token by market capitalization.The five U.S.-listed spot XRP exchange-traded funds reported a combined $25.8 million in net inflows on Monday, the largest single-day haul since Jan. 5, when they drew $46 million in their first week of trading, according to SoSoValue data. Franklin Templeton’s XRPZ led with $13.6 million, followed by Bitwise’s XRP at $7.6 million and Grayscale’s GXRP at $4.6 million. Canary’s XRPC and 21Shares’ TOXR reported no flows for the…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on A prominent figure from the Washington foreign-policy establishment has said openly what markets have been pricing in fragments: the United States has likely suffered a strategic defeat in Iran, and the failure runs through the Strait of Hormuz. Accepting this premise would introduce a new macro risk for Bitcoin.The warning comes from an article by Robert Kagan in The Atlantic. Kagan sits inside the interventionist wing of U.S. foreign policy, the Project for the New American Century, and the broader doctrine that treated American military dominance as the organizing principle of the post-Cold War order.Kagan is…

[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, May 12th, 2026] Nine protocol initiatives that target EVM compatibility, gasless transactions, compliant security tokens, transaction privacy, AI agent micropayments, and quantum-safe cryptography The Casper Association today published the Casper Manifest, a multi-year technical roadmap designed to make Casper Network the infrastructure layer for regulated real-world asset tokenization and the emerging machine-to-machine economy. The Manifest was introduced by Casper Association President & CTO Michael Steuer at the Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda, before an audience of leaders from Web3, traditional finance, and institutional finance. Building on major protocol releases delivered since mid-2025, including Casper 2.0…

Mortal Kombat 2 is in theaters now and it’s making millions at the box office, but will there be a third entry in the new series based on the popular video game franchise? A report said Mortal Kombat writer Jeremy Slater was coming back for a third movie, but it has not been confirmed.For his part, director Simon McQuoid said in an interview prior to Mortal Kombat 2’s release on May 8 that he doesn’t want to be “overly confident” about a possible third movie. Slater, meanwhile, said he’s nearly finished with a new draft for a third movie’s script,…

Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to its latest Securities and Exchange Commission filing.The bank said it raised its holdings in Ether (ETH) ETFs, including BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) and the Bitwise Ethereum ETF (ETHW), according to its latest Form 13F filing released on Monday.ETHA rose 63.5% from about 672,600 shares in Q4 2025 to roughly 1.1 million shares in Q1 2026, while ETHW increased by 37% from about 186,800 to more than 257,000 shares, showing a broad-based increase across Ether-linked…