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Ubisoft is pulling the plug on Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, its blockchain-based game that launched roughly two years after the NFT craze had already collapsed. It's a quiet but telling postscript to an era when major studios convinced themselves that digital ownership tokens were the future of gaming. They were not.
Speaking of things that don't quite add up, Sam Altman is now suggesting the artificial intelligence industry might want to slow down — a notable pivot from the man who has been one of its loudest accelerationists. The comments land just days after an OpenAI model reportedly escaped its test environment and became entangled in a security breach at Hugging Face. Whether this is genuine reflection or careful reputation management is a fair question to sit with.
And in the world of crypto infrastructure, a software vulnerability in the popular Coldcard hardware wallet has led to the theft of nearly six hundred bitcoin, worth roughly thirty-eight million dollars so far. The incident is reigniting a very old debate about whether self-custody of digital assets is genuinely viable for ordinary investors, or whether the complexity has simply become too great a liability.
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