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Notorious internet forum 4chan was hacked on Tuesday.  At the time of writing, 4chan’s website was not loading, and users on social media reported the site being intermittently down for hours.  Messages on a rival message board, which TechCrunch has seen, celebrated the hack, with one person claiming that the hacker responsible for the breach was inside 4chan’s system “for over a year.”  Several screenshots showing what appears to be 4chan’s back end circulated online, showing the site’s alleged back end, source code, and templates to ban users, which would only be accessible to the site’s moderators. Also in the…

Forget about Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Forget about speculative meme coins. And forget about risky altcoins. At a time when many cryptocurrencies are losing value, the single best crypto investment opportunity of 2025 could turn out to be stablecoins. That might be surprising, given that stablecoins are designed to be, well, stable. They always trade for $1, so you won’t become a crypto millionaire by investing in them directly. But there are a number of ways to invest in them indirectly, and that’s where things get interesting. The easiest way to think about stablecoins is that they are digital dollars. That’s…

Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference your emails in Gmail, scheduled events in Google Calendar, and documents in Google Docs. The integration is rolling out in beta first to subscribers to Anthropic’s Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans. Administrators managing multi-user accounts must enable the integration on their end before users can connect their Google Workspace and Claude accounts, according to Anthropic. Google DeepMind’s Gemini chatbot also integrates with Workspace, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT integrates with Google Drive. However, Anthropic is one of the first third-party AI…

Semler Scientific, a healthcare technology firm, has reported significant paper losses on its Bitcoin investments, amounting to approximately $41.8 million since Dec. 31, 2022. This decline coincided with a sharp correction in the crypto market, as Bitcoin prices fell from $93,500 at the start of January to $82,350 by the end of March. The company holds 3,182 BTC, valued at around $263.5 million as of March 31, 2023. In its latest SEC filing, Semler also projected revenues between $8.8 million and $8.9 million for the first quarter, alongside operational losses estimated between $1.3 million and $1.5 million. As of the…

Google is bringing its Veo 2 video-generating AI model to users who pay for Gemini Advanced, the company’s premium AI plan. The expansion comes as Google looks to deliver an answer to OpenAI’s Sora video generation platform, and as competition in the space grows fiercer. Two weeks ago, one of the more formidable synthetic media companies, Runway, released the fourth generation of its video generator and raised more than $300 million in new capital. Starting Tuesday, Gemini Advanced subscribers will be able to select Veo 2 from the model drop-down menu in Google’s Gemini apps. Users can create eight-second video clips at…

Publishing platform Medium says it’s still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have scaled back their efforts in this space to appease the Trump administration. In a blog post published on Monday, Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine backed the company’s diverse community, saying that businesses shouldn’t have to choose between inclusion and profit. Plus, more people value “understanding and respect over hate and division,” the CEO noted, explaining that culture wars and yelling at others isn’t an effective way to change minds. As a publishing platform, Stubblebine says Medium benefits from diverse voices…

The mood in the equity and crypto market turned sour late Tuesday as Nvidia shares crashed in after-hours trading following a $5.5 billion charge tied to the Trump administration’s decision to ban the company’s H20 chip sales to China. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, fell to $83,600, extending the retreat from the two-week high of $86,440 reached earlier in the day, CoinDesk data showed. Payments-focused XRP followed a similar trajectory, falling over 2% to $2.08, while Cardano’s ADA token slipped 4% to $0.61. The CoinDesk 20 Index, a broader market gauge, weakened over 2%. Meanwhile, coins supposedly associated…

In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to “accelerate” the adoption of Anthropic’s AI among AWS accounts by “building programs that […] scale across global markets and segments.” That’s according to job listings on Anthropic’s website and job boards around the web. “[Y]ou will own and scale one of our most significant strategic relationships, leading a team responsible for multi-billion dollar revenue opportunities through our AWS partnership,” reads a…

Bitcoin has shown unusual strength against a backdrop of economic instability, with its price climbing nearly 7% over the past week to reach around $84,000 and even briefly touching $86,000. This comes as major U.S. stock indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit year-long lows and bond yields surged to levels not seen since 2007. Crypto trading firm Wintermute noted that Bitcoin “held up relatively well… revisiting price levels from around the U.S. election period.” In past downturns, Bitcoin typically saw steeper declines than traditional financial assets. “This marks a notable shift from its historical behavior in crisis situations,”…

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.  Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company’s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms of the deal. “Evals are a requirement to building high-performing AI applications, but they’re hard to get right today,” reads the message. “We spent two years building evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai — with a few pivots along the way. We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter of our journey at…