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This Cryptocurrency Bounty Game Is a Little Too 'Black Mirror'

Pump.fun, a memecoin launchpad on Solana, has a new marketplace called GO where users can pay others in crypto for various tasks; the tougher the task, the more the reward. The platform keeps potential rewards in an escrow-style middleman account and releases them to creators once it's confirmed that a participant has completed a task. Reports say the bounties range from harmless promotional stunts to extreme acts that raise safety and ethical concerns.

This reminds me of Black Mirror's Season 7, Episode 1 ("Common People"), where—spoiler alert—a character accepts risky challenges on camera to earn money for his wife's medtech subscription. It's also much like the 2016 film Nerve, in which people livestream themselves taking on increasingly risky dares to earn cash prizes.

Here in real life, a Pump.fun GO user from Tamil Nadu, India, tattooed "$BOUTYWORK" on his forehead to claim a bounty equivalent to $2,875. In a...

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Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game President Trump has ordered the development of a quantum computer to ensure that the US maintains a strategic technical advantage, along with a nationwide migration to post-quantum cryptography to protect sensitive

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MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it

Abu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly

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Qualcomm nears $4bn Modular deal to rival Nvidia

Qualcomm is closing in on a deal to buy AI-software startup Modular for about $4bn. The Qualcomm Modular deal would hand the chipmaker fresh ammunition in its fight to rival Nvidia. Qualcomm has entered advanced talks to acquire Modular, according to Bloomberg. The deal would value the AI-infrastructure software company

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Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round

Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, and sovereign funds are paying close attention. Everyone knows the headline names of the AI chip boom. Nvidia designs the chips.

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Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it

Qualcomm nears $4bn Modular deal to rival Nvidia

Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round