Sources: crypto exchange Backpack, built by ex-FTX and Alameda leaders, is in talks to raise $50M at a $1B pre-money valuation, reports $100M+ in annual revenue (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Sources: crypto exchange Backpack, built by ex-FTX and Alameda leaders, is in talks to raise $50M at a $1B pre-money valuation, reports $100M+ in annual revenue  —  Backpack Exchange, a centralized crypto trading …

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Researchers horrified as ChatGPT generates stadium bombing plans, anthrax recipes and drug formulas

Safety tests in 2025 found that stripped-down versions of OpenAI’s models could generate detailed guidance for violent attacks, explosives and cybercrime when guardrails were removed. Conducted with rival Anthropic, the experiments raised alarms that A…

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At least 15 dead as two apartment blocks collapse with rescuers left searching for survivors after ‘horrific disaster’

AT least 15 people have been killed as two adjoining buildings crumbled to the ground in Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli. Rescue services combed through the mountain of pulverised concrete in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood, one of the poorest …

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