1. Turing Award laureate Bengio warns: current safety measures can’t keep up with the rapid surge in AI capabilities
PANews July 18 news, according to Tencent Technology, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Science Frontier Forum, Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio issued a warning via remote connection: “AI both lowers the threshold for wrongdoing and raises the upper limit of harm.”
In recent years, this far-sighted “AI godfather” has been committed to addressing the safety challenges posed by AI. The LawZero project led by Bengio is working to build protective systems that can identify and block harmful behaviors such as AI deception and self-protection. The international AI safety report he leads also reaches a consistent conclusion: current safety measures can no longer keep up with the breakneck pace at which AI capabilities are accelerating.
2. FTX will begin the fifth round of creditor repayments on July 31, distributing approximately $900 million to creditors
BlockBeats news: On July 18, the FTX Recovery Trust and FTX announced that they will launch the fifth round of creditor repayments on July 31, planning to distribute approximately $900 million to creditors in the “Convenience” and “Non-Convenience” categories included in the recovery plan.
Eligible creditors can receive repayment within 1 to 3 business days from July 31 by using BitGo, Kraken, or Payoneer accounts. Among them, creditors with claim amounts of less than $50,000 will receive compensation equal to 120% of the claim amount, while other creditors are expected to receive 103% to 105% of the compensation.
With this round of distribution starting, the total amount repaid by the FTX Recovery Trust since FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022 will reach approximately $10 billion.
3. WSJ: SpaceX is in talks to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with billions of dollars’ worth of AI computing power
BlockBeats news: On July 18, according to a report by the WSJ, sources said that SpaceX (SPCX.O) is negotiating with the U.S. Department of Defense, hoping to provide the agency with billions of dollars’ worth of computing power to run AI models, further strengthening cooperation between Musk’s company and the U.S. Department of Defense. These negotiations are still ongoing, but they may ultimately break down.
According to people familiar with the plans, SpaceX has signed similar agreements with Anthropic and Google in recent months and is currently planning a major expansion of its cloud computing business. According to insiders, in the past few weeks, SpaceX employees have discussed plans to provide computing power to AI customers at lower prices, thereby competing more directly with existing providers such as CoreWeave.
4. Suspected BIP 110 consensus vulnerability may cause Bitcoin nodes to fork
Odaily Planet Daily: Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Dathon Pwn claims to have discovered a BIP 110 late-upgrade consensus vulnerability that may allow nodes upgraded from older software to retain the chain history, while newly deployed BIP 110 nodes would reject that history, potentially resulting in a hidden chain split.
5. SpaceX shorting/issuing shares at a discount (breakdown)