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An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts — Quick Take — An attacker seemingly drained 116,500 rsETH from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge on Saturday …
More: CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, Tech in Asia, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands — Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing “Headless 360” …
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At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo — Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills …
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| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze — Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools — Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence …
More: Digital Trends and Tech in Asia
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned “ICE Sightings - Chicagoland” Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A — Last year, the Trump administration demanded platforms remove a slew of apps that monitored ICE activity.
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| Amanda Mull / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at $10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low — The online apparel retailer has become a $10 billion-plus e-commerce giant by mastering the art of the supply chain.
X: @business and @amandamull
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian — Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026 — Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company.
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a “crazy” number of bug reports — Anthropic's Mythos and similar AI tools can identify threats and vulnerabilities faster than small teams can fix them, putting the internet at risk.| Abram Brown / The Information: |
A look at Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis, an AI newsletter and research firm that expects $100M+ in 2026 revenue from subscriptions and AI supply chain research — For Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, an influential AI industry newsletter and research firm, Nvidia deserves the kind … | Nikkei Asia: |
Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now — TOKYO/SEOUL — A shortage of memory chips appears likely to continue until around 2027, with the top U.S. and South Korean …
More: The Verge, Android Central, iClarified, Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, and Yahoo Finance
| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. — Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn't work out.Sponsor Posts
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