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North Korea's cyber operation has now stolen an estimated six billion dollars in cryptocurrency, and the pace is accelerating. Pyongyang-linked hackers drained five hundred seventy-seven million dollars from just two decentralized finance platforms in April alone, accounting for seventy-six percent of all crypto theft recorded so far in two thousand twenty-six. It is a systematic, state-sponsored campaign, and the industry has yet to find a credible answer to it.
In a federal courtroom in California, Elon Musk confirmed under oath that his AI company xAI used OpenAI's models to help train Grok. The practice, known as model distillation, is common enough in the industry, but the admission carries real weight given Musk's ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and his public attacks on the company. It is a complicated posture — suing a competitor while quietly borrowing from their work.
And OpenAI has published a post-mortem explaining why engineers had to write the phrase "never mention goblins" directly into ChatGPT's production code. A recent update had caused the model to fixate on the word unprompted and repeatedly. The incident is a small but telling window into how unexpectedly fragile large language model behavior can be, even at the world's most prominent AI lab.
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