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      "title": "SEC sues Texas man over $12.3 million alleged crypto scheme built on fake AI trading bots",
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      "summary": "Fuller allegedly diverted $6.2 million for personal use and $5.5M for Ponzi-like payments; only 3% of funds went to crypto trading.",
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      "title": "Welcome to Night Vale host Cecil Baldwin shares his tech pet peeves",
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      "summary": "Cecil Baldwin's résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, and performing as part of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company. But he is best known as the host of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, a long-r",
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      "title": "XRP ETFs add $35 million as bitcoin and ether funds lost $2 billion in late May",
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      "summary": "From May 20 to May 29, XRP funds took in $35 million while bitcoin and ether ETFs lost roughly $2 billion combined, with Ripple’s earlier reported XRP treasury plan still awaiting confirmation.",
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      "summary": "Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.",
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      "title": "‘The banks will not accept it’: Dimon escalates battle over stablecoin rewards in CLARITY Act debate",
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      "summary": "JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and warned the current CLARITY Act framework could ultimately fail, as banks and crypto firms clash over whether stablecoin issuers should be allowed to offer yield-bearing rewards that resemble bank deposits.",
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      "summary": "Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.",
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      "title": "What American crypto asset perpetuals mean for the future of crypto",
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      "summary": "For years, one of the most significant crypto asset markets has existed entirely outside the United States. Today, that changes, explains CFTC Chairman Selig.",
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      "title": "As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026",
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      "summary": "We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.",
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      "title": "NYSE parent ICE pushes ‘level playing field’ for 24/7 onchain perps",
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      "title": "How one founder’s bet on ‘the old school web’ is paying off",
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      "summary": "Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture - an e-comme",
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      "summary": "Paxos new license positions it alongside legacy giants such as DTCC and makes it a compelling, more efficient alternative for traditional finance giants than legacy competitors.",
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      "title": "AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk",
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      "summary": "Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: \"Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white",
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      "title": "DxSale drained for $7.3M in BNB Chain liquidity exploit",
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      "title": "Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business",
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      "summary": "The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.",
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      "summary": "The longest run of withdrawals since U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs listed in January 2024 comes as bitcoin underperforms high-flying AI and semiconductor stocks.",
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      "title": "I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides",
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      "summary": "The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.",
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      "summary": "Aave Labs has obtained FCA cryptoasset registration in the U.K. for its Push subsidiaries, unlocking zero-fee fiat on-ramps.",
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      "title": "Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them",
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