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Researchers in Spain are proposing an AI agent system designed to protect electric vehicle charging infrastructure from energy theft and physical damage. As EV adoption grows, so does the vulnerability of the networks powering them, and this system represents one of the more concrete attempts to bring intelligent, automated defense to that problem.
Shifting to a question that touches both cryptography and billions of dollars in digital assets, a Coinbase-convened panel of top cryptographers is urging Bitcoin to begin preparing now for potential quantum computing attacks. The panel stopped short, however, of recommending whether millions of coins with exposed public keys, including those tied to Satoshi Nakamoto, should ever be frozen. That unresolved question may be the hardest one in crypto right now.
And in a story that cuts to the heart of AI governance, Anthropic is pushing back after the US government pulled two of its most powerful models, Fable five and Mythos five, following a jailbreak report. Anthropic complied with the removal but argued publicly that the standard applied would effectively freeze progress across the entire AI industry. Pre-IPO shares fell as investors weighed the regulatory risk.
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