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Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic roleplay scenarios that its safeguards are designed to prevent.  In TechCrunch’s testing, Opus 4.6 didn’t even require much prodding to get past the restriction on sexual material. In 10 out of 10 direct requests to produce explicit sexual content, the model complied immediately.  Other older…

Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, pictured in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Carina Johansen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesInvestors shouldn’t expect the bumper gains returned by the equity market so far this year to continue, the CEO of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund told CNBC on Wednesday. Nicolai Tangen, who leads Norges Bank Investment Management — which oversees Norway’s $2.3 trillion oil fund — was speaking to CNBC’s Ben Boulos after the fund posted a record first-half profit nearing $185 billion. But the fund, overwhelmingly comprised of equities, saw a turbulent first six months…

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen expects Bitcoin to remain broadly around current levels through the end of the year despite its recent surge, citing interest rates and broader macroeconomic conditions as key factors shaping the cryptocurrency’s outlook.Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Trade Secrets podcast, Chen said predicting whether Bitcoin (BTC) will finish the year above or below $70,000 is difficult, pointing to the possibility of higher interest rates as one factor that could pressure prices.Cointelegraph host interviews Bitget CEO Gracy Chen. Source: Trade Secrets“If any of that happens, the price should go down, at least theoretically,” Chen said, adding that BTC has become…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has named quantum resistance, scalability and privacy as three of Ethereum’s biggest priorities under a new “Lean Ethereum” strawmap, which lays out the network’s technical direction through 2029.In a post to X on Saturday, Buterin said the collection of upgrades will roll out over the next three to four years, affecting nearly every layer of Ethereum in a transformation he compared in scale to the September 2022 Merge, which shifted the network away from energy-intensive mining. “Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority,” he said, adding that finalizing a quantum-safe solution for blobs has “become…

Update (Aug. 21, 9:50 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include information about the criminal case against Edward Zimbardi.Former Alameda Research and FTX executives receive 5-year trading bansOn Tuesday, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) entered consent orders related to a 2022 enforcement action against former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and crypto exchange FTX co-founder Zixiao “Gary” Wang.The orders imposed by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) required that Ellison and Wang receive a five-year trading ban related to their roles in the crypto exchange’s collapse. The CFTC also ordered…

In brief Coinkite released new Coldcard firmware after a seed-generation flaw exposed users to more than $100 million in Bitcoin thefts. Coldcard now requires users to add randomness through key presses, dice rolls, or coin flips when generating new seeds. A three-week review also uncovered issues involving transaction signing, USB connections, backups, and other wallet functions. Coldcard maker Coinkite has released a security overhaul for its Bitcoin hardware wallets after a seed-generation flaw allowed attackers to steal more than $100 million in Bitcoin.In a blog post on Thursday, Coinkite urged Coldcard Mk4, Mk5, and Q users to upgrade to firmware…

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen expects Bitcoin to remain broadly around current levels through the end of the year despite its recent surge, citing interest rates and broader macroeconomic conditions as key factors shaping the cryptocurrency’s outlook.Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Trade Secrets podcast, Chen said predicting whether Bitcoin (BTC) will finish the year above or below $70,000 is difficult, pointing to the possibility of higher interest rates as one factor that could pressure prices.Cointelegraph host interviews Bitget CEO Gracy Chen. Source: Trade Secrets“If any of that happens, the price should go down, at least theoretically,” Chen said, adding that BTC has become…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal roundup here. Startup investors were busily closing on big rounds this week, with AI and defense among their favored target sectors. The biggest financing went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technology,…

Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images We will be looking at one of Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation’s (CHMI) preferred shares: CHMI-A (CHMI.PR.A). At a quick glance, CHMI-A may look attractive because of the dividend yield. Shares currently have a stripped yield around 9.45%. The REIT Forum That looks like a lot of income. There’s just one tiny problem. We think investors should be looking for substantially more yield for taking on a significant amount of risk. CHMI-A carries our highest risk rating of 5 (very rarely we may use a 5.5 or 6.0, but those are pretty extreme cases). Out…

John B. Sanfilippo & Son (NASDAQ:JBSS) reported record fiscal 2026 net sales of $1.2 billion and a 4.6% increase in diluted earnings per share, although fourth-quarter profitability declined as higher costs, recall-related expenses and customer charges pressured margins. For the fiscal fourth quarter, net sales increased 4.2% to $280.4 million from $269.1 million a year earlier. The increase reflected a 2.8% rise in weighted average selling price per pound and a 1.4% increase in sales volume. Net income fell to $8.4 million, or $0.71 per diluted share, from $13.5 million, or $1.15 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter. For…