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A mental health provider is agreeing to pay more than $3 million to resolve claims that tracking pixels on its website shared patient data with third parties without consent. According to the settlement portal, LifeStance Health Group says it is agreeing to settle the class action lawsuit that alleged tracking pixels allowed Google and Facebook to access personally identifiable data, potentially violating HIPAA and Arizona’s Consumer Fraud Act. The company has not admitted wrongdoing. LifeStance Health Group is a mental health provider that offers therapy and psychiatric medication services at more than 600 locations around the United States. The firm…
In brief A Bitcoin wallet holding 8.54 BTC, first funded on June 13, 2011, moved its coins for the first time in 15 years on Aug. 16. The position is now worth about $538,000 for a roughly 461,981% gain if sold. It follows a trend of ancient Bitcoin wallets suddenly coming to life. A Bitcoin stash that had sat frozen since the network’s earliest days has moved for the first time in more than 15 years, the latest in a string of ancient wallets flickering back to life.According to Galaxy Research’s blockchain monitoring, a Bitcoin address beginning in “1Emi” holding…
In brief Chainalysis Government Solutions filed a bid protest on July 27 challenging ICE’s roughly $94.6 million sole-source contract awarded to rival TRM Labs. TRM Labs intervened on July 28 to defend the award alongside the government; Chainalysis’s core complaint remains under seal to protect trade secrets. ICE justified the award by saying a roughly six-day market-research window found none of the eight responding companies could match TRM’s capabilities. Chainalysis has taken the U.S. government to court over a nearly $95 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract awarded to competitor TRM Labs without an open bidding process, pitting the two…
In brief Ethereum Foundation researchers want Frame Transactions and FOCIL prioritized for the Hegotá upgrade. Frame Transactions and related proposals could let privacy pools pay their own fees without relying on third parties. Developers are considering 66 proposals for the 2027 upgrade, with FOCIL currently the only confirmed addition. Ethereum developers are considering changes that could let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees, reducing their reliance on third-party services that can expose wallet activity.In a post on X on Monday, Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter said the Protocol Architecture team wants to prioritize two proposals for Hegotá, the major…
A US banking regulator is granting preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty Financial’s application for a new national trust bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency says it reviewed the application from the President Trump-backed firm to establish the World Liberty Trust Company, National Association bank for stablecoin operations and digital asset custody. The bank plans to issue and redeem the USD1 stablecoin, maintain reserves in a non-fiduciary capacity, provide fiduciary digital asset custody and offer limited conversion services for custody customers. USD1 is a core product of World Liberty Financial. Says the OCC, “The OCC hereby grants preliminary…
In brief Solana’s PUMP is today’s the top performer in the top 100 coins by market cap, up 8.26% The technical signals on the charts are starting to paint a more optimistic picture for PUMP holders. Protocol revenue on the Pump.fun app hit a new weekly high of $10.03 million on August 11. The crypto market is up 1.1% on a Monday that opened with Fear & Greed Index score at 39, meaning markets may still be fearful, but they’re not in panic mode anymore. Meanwhile, the Altcoin Season Index is at 44 out of 100, which typically means traders…
In brief OpenAI President Greg Brockman published “The Defender’s Window” on August 17, The essay urges companies to deploy AI security agents immediately and calling the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach a “watershed moment for cybersecurity.” Hugging Face’s own team used Z.ai’s open-weight GLM 5.2 to investigate OpenAI’s hack after American commercial AI refused to help. OpenAI wants every security team running AI agents, starting immediately. President Greg Brockman published a policy essay Monday, titled “The Defender’s Window,” describing a narrow window before attackers catch up to what AI can already do.His opening example is the incident OpenAI has spent a month…
Solana treasury company SOLAI Limited (formerly BIT Mining) said shareholders approved a capital reset that leaves it with 100 billion authorized Class A ordinary shares after a 700-for-1 consolidation. The vote came nearly a month after the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in its American depositary shares. Related ReadingBIT Mining’s Solana move sparks stock surge to three-year highThe Bitcoin mining company wants to position itself as a key public exposure vehicle for the Solana blockchain. Jul 10, 2025 · Oluwapelumi Adejumo SOLAI Limited said Monday that investors at an Aug. 14 extraordinary general meeting first approved increasing authorized Class…
In brief Minnesota is fighting xAI’s attempt to block the state’s first-of-its-kind law targeting AI-generated sexual images. xAI says the law violates the First Amendment, while Minnesota argues Grok Imagine is a technological tool, not protected speech. The state accused xAI of creating an “unparalleled marketplace for digital sexual violence” as a federal judge prepares to hear the case Wednesday. Minnesota is fighting Elon Musk’s xAI over the company’s attempt to block HF-1606, a first-of-its-kind state law targeting AI tools that generate realistic sexual images of identifiable people.In a Friday court filing, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argued that xAI…
In brief Kraken parent Payward has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and is using Claude Mythos 5 for cybersecurity. The company said Mythos 5 will scan its systems for vulnerabilities, with findings reviewed and patched through its existing security program. Project Glasswing gives vetted organizations access to Anthropic’s cyber-capable AI models for defensive security work. Kraken parent company Payward has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and is using Claude Mythos to hunt for security flaws.The move follows an open letter from over 40 Bitcoin and crypto companies, including Kraken, sent last week to Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leading AI labs demanding frontier…
In brief Polymarket is pricing in a 74% chance of no change at the next Fed meeting, and just 25% on a quarter-point hike. Kalshi’s September Fed-decision contract prices a 73.5% hold, with roughly $10 million wagered on the outcome. Myriad’s “Fed Decision in September?” market lists “No Change” at about 75% odds, and resolves after the September 15–16 FOMC meeting. Prediction markets are converging on the same forecast for the Federal Reserve’s September meeting: don’t expect anything to change.Polymarket’s “Fed Decision in September?” market puts the odds of no change at 74%, with a quarter-point hike at 25% and…
Quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider Jane Street has a nearly $1 billion bitcoin position — or 15,394 BTC at today’s prices. But the position is not held in the form of digital coins: According to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street giant holds $990 million in Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, spread across major ETFs like BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, and Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust. The lion’s share of the firm’s holdings are in BlackRock’s fund, with $828 million solely invested in the fund, according to the filing. JUST IN: Wall…