The CEO of AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has responded after the Department of Defense and the White House ordered military contractors to stop using Anthropic’s products.
South Korea’s tax service shared the seed phrases for seized wallets in a press release. The contents were then taken, but ultimately returned.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that RUI-SIANG LIN was sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to distribute narcotics, money laundering, and conspiring to sell adulterated and misbranded medication, in connection with LIN’s ownership and operation of the Incognito Market, an online narcotics marketplace that sold more than one ton of narcotics before its closure in March 2024. On December 16, 2024, LIN pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, who imposed today’s sentence.
No opinion other than, don’t touch anything to do with drugs!
But what happens to law enforcement, governance, and accountability when systems eventually have no human operators? No central services at all and perhaps not even a profit‑taking entity? Fully automated, fully decentralized, dual-use utility with end-to-end storage, payments, ZKPs and maybe even “non-profit”.
