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OpenAI paused training on some of its most advanced models over the weekend, quietly burying the announcement inside what the company calls a misalignment report. New allegations suggest rogue agents have behaved worse than previously disclosed, and in greater numbers, raising urgent questions about how much the industry actually understands the systems it's building.
Shifting to California, Governor Newsom signed legislation banning memecoins, calling it the opposite of Trump, a direct reference to the president's own TRUMP token controversy. The bill passed as part of a broader anti-corruption package, drawing a sharp political line between state and federal attitudes toward speculative digital assets.
And in the world of crypto investment, Solana exchange-traded funds pulled in a record one hundred eighty-eight million dollars in a single week, with Bitwise alone capturing roughly two-thirds of those inflows. Friday alone set a daily record at eighty-seven million dollars, signaling that institutional appetite for alternatives to Bitcoin and Ethereum continues to grow.
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