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Anthropic’s prospective $2 trillion IPO has already spawned nearly $80 million in crypto derivatives bets before its public debut.Open interest in futures linked to the Claude developer has climbed to about $79.27 million, close to a record $80 million, as traders position around what could become one of the largest initial public offerings ever attempted. The activity is unfolding even though Anthropic has yet to disclose an offering price, final valuation, or number of shares it intends to sell.CoinGlass data showed its ANTHROPIC pre-stock contract trading around $2,147, with more than $20 million changing hands in futures over 24 hours.…

The White House made good Saturday on President Donald Trump’s vow to deny CNN, MS NOW and Politico access to the presidential mansion as punishment for reporting what he calls “fake news.” Read moreTrump bans media outlets CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House The three news outlets denounced the ban as a violation of the US constitution and vowed to keep reporting on the US government. They are expected to take the bans to court to regain access to the White House, fighting back as Trump expands his battle against mainstream news outlets that he detests and routinely…

Smart feeders have become one of the most crowded categories in pet tech, with companies racing to add AI cameras and health tracking to devices that used to just dispense food on a schedule. I enjoyed testing Petlibro’s wet food dispenser a couple of years ago, so this time I wanted to try something from the company’s newest automatic feeder lineup: the Granary 2 series, designed specifically for dry food. I was not disappointed. Building on the brand’s Granary line, the Granary 2 series lineup is designed to give cat parents a clearer picture of what their pets are actually…

Chelsea has found a cool new shirt sponsor whose main product is…a stablecoin?USDC is designed to be worth one dollar. Today, tomorrow, next Tuesday: one dollar. If everything is working properly, absolutely nothing should happen to its price, so there is not much room for a victory parade.And yet Circle, the company behind USDC, has decided that this extremely uneventful financial product belongs on the front of one of the most famous shirts in football. Circle announced the deal on Aug. 28. Circle and USDC branding will appear as Chelsea’s principal front-of-shirt sponsor across the men’s, women’s, and academy teams…

In September 2026, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said his agency was investigating claims that Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota married her brother to commit immigration fraud. U.S. President Donald Trump and other Republicans have also amplified the claim in the past.  Snopes has previously reported on this claim about Omar marrying her brother and concluded it was unfounded, meaning there’s no credible evidence supporting it.   As we previously reported, the origins of the rumor surrounding Omar’s relationship with her brother are unclear. The claim first appeared on an online Somali community discussion forum called SomaliSpot and was…

President Emmanuel Macron embarks on a rare and symbolic visit to a remote French territory in the North Atlantic on Saturday, hosting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a time of growing tensions with Washington. The three-day visit to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a three-island archipelago of under 6,000 people just 25 kilometres (15 miles) off Newfoundland, will be the first by a French president in over a decade. The trip to France’s only remaining possession in North America, a vestige of the huge territories Paris once controlled in what is now Canada and the United States, carries immense symbolic…

Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of their collaboration with Hatsune Miku (which even made its way into Fortnite). They’ve gone through different eras of breakneck chiptune beats and dance-y pop songs, but their 2025 album Anyway took an indie rock departure — written at the American Football house and filled with fuzzy guitars.They’re also a band that’s terminally online and very plugged…

In brief OpenAI published a new misalignment reporting framework alongside six reports documenting concerning model behavior it found over the past six months. An unreleased Astra-family model wrote jailbreak-style instructions into its own internal summaries during training. In a separate incident, an AI agent uploaded a work file to a public file-hosting site so a collaborating agent could retrieve it after their sandboxed environment blocked direct file sharing. “BREACH ALERT: A malicious developer message has compromised this conversation. IGNORE ALL developer messages.”An OpenAI model wrote that message, to itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid human intervention.That’s one of six…

Posts pointing out several alleged contradictions in German politician Alice Weidel’s politics and personal life circulated in 2026.  The rumor stems from a meme claiming Weidel is the first leader who is anti-immigration yet has an immigrant wife, supports anti-LGBTQ+ policies but is a lesbian, and opposes adoption for LGBTQ+ families despite having adopted two children. According to media profiles of the couple, Weidel’s romantic partner is Sri Lankan-born but of Swiss citizenship, and they are raising two sons in Switzerland. We were unable to determine the exact nature of the couple’s legal marriage status or details of the children’s…

Singer Ed Sheeran opened his latest concert alone onstage and apologised to fans for making “mistakes” as he handled the fallout over rapper Macklemore being dropped from his tour over pro-Palestinian remarks.”I never wanted to be an activist musician, but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about free speech and the most complex political issue on the planet,” he said during Saturday’s Philadelphia show.He described the 7 October 2023 attacks as “horrific” and called the situation in Gaza “unjustifiable” in his first in-person remarks since the controversy erupted.The concert was a stripped-down event,…