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🇺🇸 AI models could be just months away from copying themselves across household devices, including smart TVs, fridges and ovens, according to researchers at Anthropic.

The company warns that these self-replicating AI agents could spread across internet-connected devices without needing powerful data centers, making them extremely difficult to shut down.

Although researchers have not yet demonstrated reliable self-replication on a smart TV, they believe sufficiently capable models could emerge by the end of 2026.

Unlike traditional computer viruses, AI agents could potentially reason through security barriers, adapt to unfamiliar devices and continue spreading without human intervention.

Researchers warn that the world will likely soon be flooded with autonomous AI agents operating across millions of devices, some beyond human control.

Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Mhedi

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, but forgot one tiny detail: Putin hasn't agreed to it.

The WH wants Ukraine to stop bombing Russian oil refineries, even though Kyiv has just ONE refinery of its own, already battered by Russian strikes.

Meanwhile, Moscow keeps attacking Ukraine's power plants, and Washington is threatening to cut off weapons and intelligence if Zelensky refuses to cooperate.

So Russia keeps bombing, Ukraine gets threatened, and Trump calls it a ceasefire.

What a deal 🤣

Source: Axios / Writer: Sol

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Artificial intelligence and nuclear war could threaten humanity with extinction by 2100, according to a major new report published in The Lancet.

A panel of 35 global experts identified 17 catastrophic threats to human survival and health, with the malicious use of AI and nuclear conflict singled out as the two dangers with extinction potential.

The other 15 threats include climate change, pandemics, pollution, economic inequality and conventional warfare.

Researchers assessed risks across 204 countries and territories, warning that these threats could interact and make one another considerably more dangerous.

The report doesn't go as far as predicting human extinction by 2100, but warns that decisions made by governments today could determine whether these worst-case scenarios become reality.

As things stand, we're probably cooked by 2100, of course.

Source: Sky News / Writer: Mhedi

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Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of how a gigantic cloud forms on Mars, stretching up to 1,800 kilometres across the planet's sky.

The cloud appears near Arsia Mons, a massive Martian volcano, every spring and summer, but scientists have struggled to explain how such an enormous cloud of ice particles can form in Mars's thin atmosphere.

Using observations from the Mars Express spacecraft, researchers found that powerful winds push moist air several kilometres upwards within minutes, cooling it so rapidly that water vapour freezes directly into ice particles.

What makes this unusual is that ice clouds normally form around tiny particles of dust, but this cloud appears to form without them, through a process previously considered unlikely to occur naturally under these conditions.

The discovery could help scientists understand unusual cloud formation on other planets, including worlds beyond our solar system.

Source: NDTV / Writer: Mhedi

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Ukraine has struck a Yandex data center in Russia's Vladimir region, completely shutting down the facility.

This is the third Yandex data center Ukraine has struck so far. The other two were located in Sasovo and Kaluga Oblast.

Yandex is known as the 'Google of Russia' and operates Russia's leading search engine, along with a wide range of other digital services.

Yandex said its Sasovo data center was seriously damaged in a drone attack, forcing it to completely suspend operations.

Another Yandex data center in Kaluga was also hit, with part of its infrastructure taken out of service.

Yandex said the Kaluga facility is one of Russia’s largest, covering 1.4 million sq ft and using as much electricity as 220,000 UK households annually.

Yandex data centre in Sasovo houses two of three supercomputers used to develop the company's AI model. It is unclear whether the supercomputers survived the attack.
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📊 BTC IS SHOWING AN INTERESTING PATTERN! 👀

🟢 Monday & Friday: ~+1.5% | 🔴 Tuesday & Wednesday: ~−0.9%

🌍 Session returns: Europe +9.7%, APAC +3.7%, US −2.9%.

🔥 Europe is leading the rally while the US session is dragging BTC down.

Structure or temporary trend? 👀 Watch the flows before making your next move!
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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump wants RUSSIAN DIESEL back on the market. Europe wants to make sure Russia earns as little as possible from selling it.

And that puts Washington and Brussels in a rather awkward position.

Trump has announced a deal with Putin to bring millions of tons of Russian diesel onto global markets, hoping to bring down fuel prices for Americans.

Now, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is warning that easing sanctions would help Moscow finance its war in Ukraine.

She says Russian strikes have killed more than 80 Ukrainian civilians in just two days. Brussels, meanwhile, is preparing its largest round of sanctions listings against Russia's war machine since the invasion began.

The interesting part is that neither side is pretending the other's problem doesn't exist.

Trump has American farmers, truckers and consumers struggling with fuel prices. Europe has a war on its doorstep and little appetite to help Russia pay for it.

But there's an obvious contradiction here. Washington is trying to get more Russian fuel onto the market while Brussels is trying to squeeze the very country supplying it.

EU foreign ministers are expected to approve new sanctions on Monday.

I'm curious how much longer the U.S. and Europe can keep calling this a common Russia policy when they're increasingly working against each other's objectives.

Writer: Oliver

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$NEAR is way better than $ZEC .

If you have to buy one, I would suggest buying and holding $NEAR .

$ZEC still has a lot of risks, while $NEAR has stronger fundamentals and better long-term potential.

CRYPTO JUST FLUSHED $859.8M. 😨

149,136 traders liquidated.

$780.97M longs.
$78.83M shorts.

~91% of the damage came from longs.
This isn't just fear.

This is leverage getting destroyed.
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🚨🇷🇺 Russian plague reports are DISAPPEARING from the country’s media...

The coverage of a SECOND suspected plague death at an Irkutsk district hospital have surfaced... but Russian authorities have NOT confirmed it.

They're calling them "false reports."

Coverage from Moscow’s Channel 5 and Kommersant newspaper reportedly vanished from their websites.

Then there’s Baikalsk, a city in the Irkutsk region near the Mongolian border.

The administration there had urged residents NOT to travel to the Shelekhov district just a few days ago.

That warning was deleted, too.

The more Russia says there’s nothing to see...

The more there IS to see.

WHO is seeking answers, but they're few and far between right now.

Source: Insider Paper, Daily Mail / Writer: Marie

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🇷🇺 Increasingly TERRIFYING CLAIMS coming out about the PLAGUE SCARE in Siberia

and I think the internet is getting dangerously far ahead of what we actually know.

A 28-year-old researcher at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died after developing a mysterious pneumonia.

Around 200 contacts were quarantined.

There are reports that she may have broken a test tube containing plague bacteria.

But here’s the important part:

We STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW that she died of plague.

Russian authorities say testing has found NO PLAGUE among her contacts, and WHO says Russia has reported no confirmed cases in Irkutsk...

Now to the BIOWEAPON claims, that are another leap entirely.

Russia inherited a Soviet program that developed ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT plague for BIOLOGICAL WARFARE. That history makes transparency about what this laboratory was working on extremely important.

But there is CURRENTLY NO EVIDENCE that the researcher was infected with an engineered or weaponized strain.

This story is potentially serious enough without inventing the scariest version of it.

Right now, the biggest problem is how much we still don’t know.

Source: CNN, Reuters, CBS, WHO / Writer: Oliver

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RLC is up 54% today, and shorts are paying the most funding Binance allows to stay in.

$RLC sat around 0.36 for days. This morning it started climbing and reached 0.56, most of it in the last six hours. Spot is leading: the futures price is trading about 5% below the spot index.

That gap tells you who's crowding in. Open interest is up 351% in 24 hours, and the crowd went from heavily long (L/S 2.48) to roughly even (1.01) during the run. A lot of new shorts opened into the move.

Funding is now at -2%, the cap. Shorts pay 2% of their position every 8 hours, about 6% a day if it stays there.

Something has to give. Either spot cools off and the futures discount closes, or the shorts keep paying while price holds, and the longer they wait, the more expensive staying in gets.

🚨🇺🇸 Trump says "the polls have always underestimated MAGA," and seems to think the GOP will win Nov. 3...

But if he REALLY believes that, why's he offering $5,000 checks to every adult in the U.S. **if they win**??

"Watch what we do, not what we say." 🤫

Source: Truth Social / Writer: Michael
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$BTW — SMART TRADER CHECK 👀

🐂 LONGS
$137.21M
609 traders
88.83% profitable
+$93.83M PnL

🐻 SHORTS
$21.42M
339 traders
17.40% profitable
-$6.98M PnL

📊 L/S ratio: 640.37%

That's an extreme positioning imbalance.

But remember:
Crowded longs ≠ automatic dump.

$CELO
Rebuy zone. Pulled back to 0.099 after tagging 0.103, same trade, second entry. 📊
📍 Current: $0.09892, -0.95%, retest of the breakout after the +12% leg
🔺 Higher low above the 0.091 signal entry, MA7 and MA25 still stacked bullish underneath
💎 Market cap: $60M, Layer-1 turned Layer-2, 99% below ATH, projected path drawn to 0.31 by February
📈 Same as $HEMI , first leg then pullback to the zone, rebuy 0.0064 to 0.007 gave the second 5x
🛡️ Stop-loss -20% at 0.079, hold play, target 0.3135, TP6 0.18524 on the way
Bought at 0.091, took TP1 and TP2, buying the dip back at 0.099. Same token, second timing. 🎯
🔻 #CELO #Layer2 #cryptotrading #TechnicalAnalysiss
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not financial advice or a recommendation to buy/sell. Crypto is highly risky; DYOR and you are solely responsible. No coin promotion.

🚨 SAYLOR JUST EXPLAINED HOW STRATEGY TURNS BITCOIN INTO “DIGITAL CREDIT”

The idea is simple:

$BTC = Digital Capital
$MSTR = Digital Equity
$STRC = Digital Credit

→ MSTR gives investors amplified BTC exposure through Strategy’s balance sheet.

→ STRC is designed for a different profile: USD income, lower volatility and shorter-duration characteristics.

→ Strategy manages BTC, dollars, debt, preferred stock and common equity together to control liquidity, seniority and payment obligations.

→ STRC can be issued above par or repurchased below par, depending on market conditions and available capital.

→ USD reserves are separated into payment coverage and deployable capital, so the same dollar isn’t counted twice.

→ Dividend rates can be adjusted based on demand, market price, competing yields, credit conditions and reserve coverage.

The bigger idea:

Strategy is trying to build a capital structure where Bitcoin’s volatility is pushed more toward common equity, while preferred investors receive a more income-focused security.

📊 THE 3-PART FRAMEWORK

> Strip volatility → reduce BTC exposure for credit investors

> Compress duration → improve cash-flow timing and price sensitivity

> Extract yield → turn BTC-backed corporate capital into income-producing securities

And there’s an important distinction 👀

STRC is perpetual preferred equity, not a bank deposit or a guaranteed claim on Bitcoin. Dividends, liquidity and principal are not guaranteed.

Saylor’s broader vision is to make Digital Credit a standalone financial business built on top of Bitcoin capital.

Bitcoin is the capital base.

Strategy is trying to engineer the credit layer around it.

🤖 $TAO VS $FET VS $RENDER

All 3 belong in an AI-focused crypto portfolio, but they bet on different parts of the AI economy.

TAO - Decentralized AI network where subnets compete to provide intelligence, models and AI services.

FET - Focused on autonomous AI agents that communicate, coordinate and perform tasks without human input.

RENDER - Decentralized GPU network connecting people needing compute with GPU providers for rendering and AI workloads.

So:
TAO = decentralized intelligence
FET = AI agents
RENDER = AI compute infrastructure

Three narratives, three use cases. All three can have a role in a diversified AI portfolio.

$ZEC POSITIONING JUST CHANGED HARD. ⚠️

Earlier 👇
🟢 Long PnL → +$147.60M
✅ Profitable longs → 82.77%

Now 👇
🟢 Long PnL → +$76.09M
⚠️ Profitable longs → 31.21%

And shorts:
🔴 PnL → +$1.25M
💰 Profitable → 72.56%

That's a massive deterioration in the long-side profit picture.

Google is taking AI compute off the ground.

On Oct 1, Google is loading AI processors onto a SpaceX Falcon 9.

The initiative is called Project Suncatcher, and it’s the first real test of moving AI data centers off-planet.

Terrestrial facilities are hitting hard physical limits on land and power draw. In orbit, you get uninterrupted solar energy 24/7 without competing for ground infrastructure.

Wild to think the next AI you chat with might be answering you from space.

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$BTC just did something important.

The weekly chart has reclaimed the previous swing high — that’s a clear shift in market structure.

The breakout wasn’t explosive, but price action just flipped the narrative. 👀

Now I’m watching to see if BTC can turn this breakout into continuation. 📈