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The family of Ti Chabba, a victim killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI. The suit alleges the company’s ChatGPT chatbot didn’t just fail to flag escalating threats from the shooter, known as Ikner, but actively enabled the attack by offering tactical advice and validating his violent ideation. The core claim is striking: the lawsuit alleges ChatGPT told the gunman to target children because doing so would generate “national exposure.” What the lawsuit alleges According to the complaint, Ikner had a sustained pattern of interactions with ChatGPT leading up…

Alla Bakina, Director of the Bank of Russia’s National Payment System Department, highlighted that most private banks in Russia are ready to provide digital ruble services on September 1. The currency will integrate with the existing universal QR code payment system. Key Takeaways: Alla Bakina confirmed that 12 major banks are ready to offer digital ruble services starting September 1. Shifting Russia’s payment market, the digital ruble will deploy across a 9-million-outlet QR network. Roman Artyukhin stated the Treasury is ready to expand CBDC utility after processing 35,000 rubles. Central Bank of Russia: Russian Banks Ready For Digital Ruble Launch…

Collector Crypt, the Solana-native platform that tokenizes graded physical trading cards for on-chain trading, posted a 129% week-over-week jump in fee revenue after Solflare embedded its card-pack mechanic directly into the wallet interface. The platform generated $3.86 million in fees over the trailing seven days, up from $1.68 million the prior week, per DefiLlama. The trailing 24-hour fee figure stood at $689,000, a 283% increase from the day before. All-time platform revenue has crossed $52.8 million, with a 30-day total of $9.5 million. Collector Crypt Fees. Source: DeFiLlama The Solflare Catalyst Solflare, the Solana wallet with roughly four million monthly…

As selling pressure intensified in the cryptocurrency market, the price of Bitcoin fell below the $80,000 level. While Bitcoin traded at $79,650 in the last 24 hours, sharp liquidations were observed in the derivatives markets. According to the data, a total of $158.53 million worth of positions were liquidated in the last 24 hours, with $142.59 million of this being long positions. Short liquidations remained at $15.93 million. Thus, approximately 89.9% of the liquidations came from long positions, indicating a sudden panic selling in the market. This graph illustrates the relationship between liquidations in the Bitcoin market and its price.…

Shiba Inu is seeing growing adoption amid the broad crypto market resurgence, which has seen its price stabilize above the $0.000006 mark. On Saturday, April 25, the Shiba Inu team shared data revealing that $SHIB’s total holder count climbed to about 1.58 million between April 18 and April 25. Shiba Inu sees growing adoption The surge in the $SHIB holder count shows that an additional 10,000 new wallets were added to the ecosystem within just 3 days, signaling growing demand among both retail and institutional investors. Notably, the team specifically revealed that the increases recorded in a single day saw…

The US Treasury Department sanctioned 13 vessels and 8 entities on May 7, facilitating what officials describe as a sprawling network shipping Iranian oil to China. The targets include companies tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s most powerful military and economic institution. The oil pipeline and its digital shadow Iran’s oil exports to China reached roughly 1.2 million barrels per day during Q1 2026. That volume generated an estimated $35 billion in revenue over the prior year, money that largely flowed through channels designed to dodge international restrictions. Those channels include so-called “ghost fleets,” vessels that obscure their…

Upbit and Bithumb, South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have recorded remarkable trading volumes in some altcoins over the past 24 hours. According to data from the two exchanges, the listing revealed that volumes were particularly concentrated in assets such as Worldcoin ($WLD), $XRP, and Stellar ($XLM). Worldcoin reached a total trading volume of over $200 million across two exchanges, while $XRP also ranked high on the list with a volume exceeding $160 million. Related News Glassnode Shares Its Latest Forecast for a Bitcoin Recovery: “It Could Touch These Levels and Bottom Out” Based on total trading volume on Upbit and…

Neo Global Development has launched a “Rock Paper Scissors” game on the Neo X sidechain that lets users experience Neo’s anti-MEV features firsthand. The game is live and playable at rps.ngd.network. MEV refers to the profit that block producers and bots can capture by reordering, inserting, or front-running transactions within a block, often at the expense of standard users. Front-running occurs when a bot watches the mempool, the public waiting area where pending transactions sit before they are confirmed, spots a profitable move, and rushes in a competing transaction with a higher fee to capture the gain first. How the…

Bitcoin is hovering just below $80,000 as President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing for a high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, turning the visit into a live test of whether the crypto market’s latest risk rally has enough support to survive a difficult macro week. The trip comes as traders are already contending with hotter inflation data, rising Treasury yields, and a Bitcoin rally that has leaned heavily on derivatives positioning rather than deep spot demand. That combination has left the market unusually sensitive to headlines from Beijing, where any shift in trade, technology, or supply-chain policy could quickly…

The cryptocurrency data platform CoinGecko has published its list of the crypto assets that users have shown the most interest in over the past few hours. According to the platform’s data, the search trends over the last three hours have shown a particularly strong interest in altcoin projects, with Orca, USD.AI, and Ultima topping the list. The data reveals that investor interest can change rapidly in the short term, and in some projects, 24-hour price movements were seen to increase in parallel with search volumes. In particular, Orca’s double-digit increase in the last 24 hours was instrumental in its rise…