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Bitcoin has climbed back above seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars, with XRP leading the major tokens as odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike slip to sixty-two percent. Every major coin is showing green over the past twenty-four hours, though only zcash and hyperliquid are holding those gains across the full week — a reminder that daily momentum and sustained confidence are still two very different things in crypto markets.
Shifting to AI security, Anthropic's Claude Mythos has become the only advanced model to autonomously complete what researchers call the full cyber kill chain, according to testing by Booz Allen. That's the end-to-end sequence of steps in a cyberattack, from reconnaissance through execution. Experts are careful to note this doesn't mean autonomous AI attacks are overhyped — it means the capability gap between models is wider than many assumed, and the stakes of that gap are very real.
And on the political-tech front, a Politico report out of two thousand twenty-six finds Trump's push around Lake Ontario is forcing technology companies to publicly choose sides in a policy dispute they'd clearly prefer to stay out of. That kind of forced positioning is becoming a familiar pressure point for an industry that has long prided itself on staying above the political fray.
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