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Bitcoin has dropped below sixty-three thousand dollars for the first time since February, extending what's become a significant market selloff. Traders are rushing toward protective options plays, pushing the so-called fear gauge higher — a sign that sentiment in the crypto market has shifted from cautious optimism to genuine concern.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Anthropic have joined other leading labs and scientists in signing a letter urging lawmakers to strengthen oversight of synthetic DNA sequences. The worry is that AI systems could be used to help develop biological weapons, and the industry is asking Congress to act before that risk moves from theoretical to real.
And in a quieter corner of the AI world, a developer published a detailed account of spending fifteen hundred dollars testing whether large language models could successfully hack a deliberately vulnerable application. The results were mixed — the models showed real capability in some areas but failed in others, raising nuanced questions about just how dangerous, or limited, these tools actually are in the wrong hands.
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