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A guilty plea today in one of the more brazen crypto frauds in recent memory. Christopher Delgado, CEO of Goliath Ventures, admitted to running a two hundred fifty million dollar Ponzi scheme that actually pulled in closer to four hundred million. The money went to mansions, Lamborghinis, and Rolexes — a reminder that the most dangerous thing in crypto is often the person at the top.
On a lighter note, a sharp-eyed reader in Portugal caught something familiar to anyone who has ever worked in IT. A restaurant kiosk screen, meant to be showing a clean ordering interface, was instead displaying a very unhappy Windows error message. Whether it was Windows ten or Windows eight, the result was the same — a very public reminder that the software underneath consumer-facing tech has a way of surfacing at the worst possible moment.
And in a significant development for the AI industry, Anthropic has restored access to two of its models, Fable five and Mythos five, after the United States government lifted export controls that had been triggered by a cybersecurity finding. The freeze had blocked access for users worldwide for weeks, raising fresh questions about how national security decisions ripple through global AI deployment.
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