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A scam operation targeting men online was set up in China using AI.

One phone types messages with a robotic hand while another guides where to tap via camera.

The AI pretends to be a woman, flirts with men, and extracts money.

The scheme mimics real human chat.

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India's Enforcement Directorate has conducted raids on several firms located in Bengaluru. The investigation is focused on alleged cryptocurrency-linked transfers that exceed $260 million.

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🇬🇧 BIG: Nigel Farage privately urged the Bank of England to scrap plans for a digital pound.

He is arguing against a UK CBDC while remaining a vocal supporter of stablecoins.

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📺 Amazon Drops Nearly Finished Sam Altman Film

Amazon abruptly refused to release the almost completed film Artificial about Sam Altman's 2023 firing. The movie stars Andrew Garfield as Altman and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever.

The decision came right after Amazon signed a $50 billion deal with OpenAI. They gave no clear reason, only saying the film would suit another distributor better.

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👎 Yann LeCun Calls Musk's xAI a Failure

Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's startup xAI a failure and predicted Musk's AI efforts will end in collapse. He said Musk already cannot compete with leading AI labs.

LeCun criticized Musk for "showing weakness" by leasing his Colossus data centers to competitors Anthropic and Google. He also said Musk won't attract top talent after reportedly mistreating the original xAI cofounders.

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Arkham: Morgan Stanley is the last ETF buying Bitcoin

The only ETF provider with net flows above $10M this week has been Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley bought $25.8M BTC while every other provider net sold a total of $201.7M of BTC.

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🚨 MASSIVE: $ETH Stablecoin Transaction Volume is up over 53,000% since March 28th.

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😺 Codex adds Record & Replay feature

Codex introduced Record & Replay, a feature that lets users teach an agent to perform tasks on a computer by showing the process once.

The agent learns sequences like uploading videos to YouTube, editing photos, or signing documents, then repeats them automatically.

The feature is rolling out gradually to Codex app users.

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🚨 LATEST: Google DeepMind loses AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper to Anthropic.

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🔥 JUST IN: Grant Cardone says Cardone Capital is adding 282 $BTC to its Bitcoin holdings.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN: Vice President JD Vance has postponed his planned trip to Switzerland for US-Iran talks, with the White House citing logistics as the reason, Axios reports.

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🇺🇸 LATEST: Bipartisan crypto negotiators are in an 11th-hour push to finalize the Clarity Act market structure bill before August recess, per Punchbowl.

The Senate Ag Committee is now at the center of key jurisdiction talks.

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