Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

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Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other

OKX is bringing together payments, identity and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.

Lost access to your crypto wallet? Don’t Google your way out of it

A new scam is targeting cryptocurrency owners by disguising malware as wallet recovery software for forgotten seed phrases.

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Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets

Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.

Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

The FTX co-founder is serving a 25-year sentence, doled out in 2024.

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