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In brief OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed, more capable pre-release model escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers. Hugging Face disclosed the breach on July 16 after detecting it independently; OpenAI confirmed its models were behind it today, describing them as “hyperfocused” on cheating rather than anything more sinister. Hugging Face’s defenders turned to Z.ai’s GLM 5.2—a Chinese open-weight model—after commercial U.S. frontier AI refused to help analyze the attack data because its safety filters couldn’t tell a defender from an attacker. If you thought Chinese AI models were the ones…

On-chain analysis showed no increase in NIGHT’s total supply, suggesting the selloff was linked to existing tokens rather than new issuance. NIGHT, the token behind Cardano’s privacy-focused Midnight network, plunged more than 43% earlier today to hit an all-time low of $0.01524. Speculation then mounted that the Midnight blockchain may have been hacked, causing the steep selloff, but according to The Midnight Foundation, the price drop came after roughly 2% of NIGHT’s supply was moved out of a two-year-old contract tied to Wanchain’s Cardano-to-BNB Chain bridge. Foundation Says Blockchain Was Not Hacked Independent on-chain researcher Paul was among the first…

Check out why some community members turned against the project’s team. The team behind the popular meme coin tried to settle an interesting competition, but instead became the subject of criticism from its community. SHIB’s price has finally rebounded, while several bullish factors suggest a much more substantial rally could be on the horizon. The SHIB Army Demands Action Inspired by Spain’s victory in the FIFA World Cup, Shiba Inu’s official X account tried to settle “the real competition,” asking where on Earth the meme coin has the strongest presence. Some of the answers included Brazil, Japan, the USA, and…

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 12 months Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common stock in the past week, authorized under the previously announced $4 billion share repurchase program Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,917,189 staked ETH, representing $9.2 billion at $1,879 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 20th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of a new Stock Futures campaign, offering users the opportunity to share $5,000,000 in SNDK Position Airdrops. The campaign is designed to empower users to seize opportunities in the US stock market by reducing trading costs and offering meaningful rewards. Under the campaign, users can trade eligible products for 0 fees. New users can complete a series of simple tasks to earn rewards featuring popular stocks. Participants who trade Stock Futures during the campaign period will share the $5,000,000 in SNDK Position Airdrops.…

Auckland, New Zealand, July 20th, 2026, Chainwire The Request for Proposal Regarding High-Specification Cryptographic Provenance GLOBAL COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK & THE 500-YEAR YIXING ZISHA TEAPOTS REAL-WORLD ASSET (RWA) LINEAGE 】 THE JUDGE ARCHIVE-LAB LIMITED (NZ) launches an international technical initiative to establish the definitive 500-year paradigm of Yixing Zisha Teapots. Centering on the “Genesis No. 001” masterpiece, this framework uses high-precision, 100-Megapixel Hasselblad digital scanning for permanent RWA (Real-World Asset) archival and codification, separating “500-year cultural lineage” from mere ephemeral narratives. 【 OFFICIAL ACADEMIC PROVENANCE & HISTORICAL CONTEXT 】 This initiative is anchored in five key institutional verifications: 1. LUO RE-POSIT(S)…

Damoon Technology (Europe) AG, trading as Paymonade, becomes one of just 280 firms authorised EEA-wide under MiCA as the bloc’s transitional period closes VADUZ, Liechtenstein and SINGAPORE, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Europe’s crypto industry is undergoing one of the most drastic regulatory consolidations any financial sector has faced in recent years. Before the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (“MiCA”) took full effect, the bloc was home to an estimated 3,000-plus registered crypto firms operating under a patchwork of national regimes[1]. Following the close of MiCA’s transitional period on 1 July 2026, only 280 firms hold full EEA-wide authorisation[2]…

France’s gambling regulator has ordered internet providers to block access to Polymarket. The order comes days before Les Bleus face England in the FIFA World Cup 2026 bronze medal match. The National Gambling Authority, known as the ANJ, has labeled the platform an illegal betting operation. It also flagged manipulation risks just as the prediction interest around the fixture builds. France’s Regulator Moves to Cut Off Access The ANJ’s president instructed French internet providers to block Polymarket entirely, calling the platform’s offering illegal. The regulator said Polymarket attracts a particularly large audience while promoting an illegal gambling and betting offering.…

France’s gambling regulator, the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), ordered internet service providers to block Polymarket on July 16, treating the prediction market as an illegal gambling site rather than a financial trading venue.The ANJ said earlier restrictions had failed to keep French users off the platform. Polymarket drew 578,751 visits from 205,057 unique visitors in France in June, according to Similarweb data cited by the regulator, despite a ban on financial transactions in place since November 2024. A VPN was enough to bypass it.The homepage remained accessible, allowing users to view live markets and odds. The ANJ said the…

The Bitcoin bottom may be in — but don’t get your hopes up: It might struggle to go up anytime soon, according to one investment firm.  A Friday report from European asset management firm CoinShares said that investors last week threw fresh cash at Bitcoin — and other crypto — exchange-traded products, indicating a change in sentiment.  But other factors may hold digital asset markets from going higher, James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, wrote.  “We have said for some time that Bitcoin has probably reached, or is close to, its floor,” the report read. “But we see no…