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Someone deliberately burned over eight million dollars worth of Bitcoin this morning. Five unknown wallet addresses sent one hundred and seven Bitcoin into what's called a burn address — a cryptographic dead end with no key, no recovery, no way back. The coins are gone forever. Whether it was a protest, a mistake, or something more deliberate, nobody's saying.
On a very different scale, OpenAI is now offering enterprises what it calls Guaranteed Capacity — essentially the ability to lock in dedicated compute for up to three years. It's a direct response to the reliability complaints that have quietly dogged the company as business customers demand uptime guarantees, not just impressive demos. The move signals OpenAI is serious about competing for long-term enterprise contracts.
And in perhaps the most unexpected pairing of the week, the Vatican invited Anthropic to the presentation of Pope Leo's first encyclical on artificial intelligence. The document marks a formal position from the Catholic Church on the moral weight of AI development, and the presence of a leading AI lab at that moment is a signal that this conversation has moved well beyond Silicon Valley.
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