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Kraken's parent company Payward has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing, gaining access to Claude Mythos, a specialized AI built for cybersecurity. Payward plans to use the model to hunt vulnerabilities in its own systems and share open-source findings with the broader security community — a notable example of a crypto exchange leaning into AI-assisted defense.
From the security beat to a legal one — Minnesota is squaring off against Elon Musk's xAI in what may become a landmark case around AI-generated harm. The state argues that Grok enabled a marketplace for non-consensual nudification, violating its first-of-its-kind digital sexual violence law. xAI is pushing back on First Amendment grounds, drawing a fault line between regulating a tool and restricting speech. Courts will have to decide where that line sits.
Meanwhile, a quieter but consequential story is unfolding in the American Southwest. Lake Powell has hit record lows, and the strain on the Colorado River system is intensifying pressure on the tens of millions of people who depend on it. Water, not bandwidth, may be the infrastructure story that defines the coming decade.
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