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OpenAI has closed a seven billion dollar share sale, positioning the company for what could become one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in tech history. The fundraise signals continued investor appetite for frontier AI, even as questions about governance and profitability remain very much open.
On the security front, BTCPay Server is offering a bounty of up to three bitcoin — roughly one hundred ninety thousand dollars — after attackers exploited a vulnerability in Lightning Network node credentials and drained merchant wallets. The project is pledging ten percent of any recovered funds, a move that reflects both the urgency of the situation and the collaborative instincts of the open source crypto community.
And in Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is gearing up for the two thousand twenty six Census, the five-yearly population snapshot that shapes decisions about schools, hospitals, and transport infrastructure for millions of people. It is a reminder that behind all the talk of AI and real-time data, governments still rely on this slow, careful, human-scale exercise to understand who we actually are.
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