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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined Bluesky, following in the footsteps of former president Barack Obama, who made his first post on the platform last week. Clinton confirmed her Bluesky account’s legitimacy in an Instagram story and a post on X. In her introductory post, Clinton wrote about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election taking place on Tuesday. The state judicial race is getting unprecedented attention on both sides of the aisle, since it determines the political bent of the swing state’s court, which will impact rulings on abortion rights, redistricting, and other issues. Musk has allegedly pumped more…

Coinbase users have reportedly lost over $46 million to phishing scams in March 2025. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced several large thefts, including one involving 400.099 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $34.9 million, stolen from a Coinbase wallet on March 27. The stolen funds were moved across blockchains, making them difficult to trace. Other significant losses include 60.164 BTC on March 26, 46.147 BTC on March 25, and 20.028 BTC on March 16. These scams often involve techniques such as wallet spoofing and address poisoning. Fraudsters trick users into sending funds to addresses that closely resemble legitimate ones. ZachXBT’s investigation found that…

Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug-discovery platform that was spun out of Google’s DeepMind in 2021, has raised external capital for the first time. The $600 million round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from GV and existing investor Alphabet, Google’s parent, it said.     The funding will accelerate further development of Isomorphic’s AI drug design engine and support the company’s goal of bringing its discovered drugs to clinical trials. Isomorphic Labs was founded by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis by leveraging DeepMind’s software for AI drug discovery, including AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts the three-dimensional structures of proteins. Last…

NFT marketplace X2Y2 will shut down its trading platform on April 30 after three years of operation. While the marketplace’s smart contracts will remain functional, users will no longer have access to its front-end interface. The native token, X2Y2, has dropped 13% in the past 24 hours to $0.0014, bringing its market cap below $540,000—down over 99% from its all-time high of $4.14 in February 2022. The shutdown follows a steep decline in NFT trading volumes. X2Y2, once a strong competitor to OpenSea and Blur, peaked at $209 million in monthly trading volume in May 2022. However, competition and the…

This month, ChatGPT unveiled a new image generator as part of its 4o model that is a lot better at generating text inside images.  People are already using it to generate fake restaurant receipts, potentially adding another tool to the already-extensive toolkit of AI deepfakes used by fraudsters. Prolific social media poster and VC Deedy Das posted on X a photo of a fake receipt for a (real) San Francisco steakhouse that he says was created with 4o. You can use 4o to generate fake receipts.There are too many real world verification flows that rely on “real images” as proof.…

Elon Musk clarified that the U.S. government has no intention of adopting Dogecoin, despite rumors sparked by the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Speaking at a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk emphasized that the department and the meme coin were not connected. “There are no plans for the government to use Dogecoin or anything as far as I know,” Musk stated, explaining that although the names were similar, their purposes were very different. The focus of DOGE was simply to make the government more efficient, he added. The confusion began after the department’s official website…

Construct Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups applying technology to sectors like manufacturing, transportation, and defense, has closed its third fund with $300 million in capital commitments. The Washington, D.C.-based firm previously raised a $225 million second fund and a $75 million capital pool for later-stage companies in 2022. While many emerging managers are struggling to raise fresh funds, Construct’s capital haul underscores institutional investors’ interest in backing VCs focused on the growing field of defense tech amid rising geopolitical tensions, along with the Trump administration’s push to increase domestic manufacturing. The firm was founded in…

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) withdrew two pieces of crypto-related staff guidance on Friday, further streamlining its approach to crypto regulation. The first advisory rescinded on Friday was Staff Advisory No. 18-14, Advisory with Respect to Virtual Currency Derivative Product Listings. Originally published in May 2018, the advisory established guidelines for crypto-related derivatives, including requiring reporting firms to maintain “close coordination with [the] CFTC surveillance group” and establishing a large trader reporting threshold of five bitcoins (or the equivalent value for other cryptocurrencies), among other suggestions. On Friday, the CFTC published a letter saying that “additional staff experience”…

Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions. Alongside the new agentic AI model, Amazon is releasing the Nova Act SDK, a toolkit that allows developers to build agent prototypes with Nova Act. Nova Act, developed by Amazon’s recently opened San Francisco-based AGI lab, will also power key features of the company’s upcoming Alexa+ upgrade, a generative AI-enhanced version of Amazon’s popular voice assistant. The version of Nova Act available starting today is a little less polished, however. Amazon is calling it a research…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles.Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket steered southward over the Atlantic, putting the space tourists on a path never flown before in 64 years of human spaceflight.Wang won’t say how much he paid Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the 3 ½-day ultimate polar adventure. The first leg of their flight — from Florida to the…