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The parents of a 29-year-old Queens man shot to death by an NYPD cop claimed Monday he was not threatening anyone —- but the NYPD said video shows him charging officers with a box cutter. The shooting inside the family’s apartment building on Nameoke St. near Central Ave. in Far Rockaway about 12:30 a.m. Sunday is now the subject of an internal NYPD review, as are all police shootings. The family say Chez Fray was reacting badly to marijuana and acting erratically, and they called police hoping cops would just talk him down. Courtesy of familyChez Fray, 29, was fatally…

Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections, a type of attack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions often hidden in web pages or emails, is a risk that’s not going away anytime soon — raising questions about how safely AI agents can operate on the open web.  “Prompt injection, much like scams and social engineering on the web, is unlikely to ever be fully ‘solved,’” OpenAI wrote in a Monday blog post detailing how the firm is beefing up Atlas’ armor to combat the unceasing attacks. The…

Crypto treasury company ETHZilla said in a filing with US regulators that it sold part of its Ether holdings to repay outstanding convertible notes amid a broader market downturn.The company disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission the sale of 24,291 Ether (ETH) for $74.5 million at an average price of $3,068.69 per token, leaving about 69,800 ETH on its balance sheet as of Friday. The company said it expects to use all or a significant portion of the proceeds to redeem its outstanding senior secured convertible notes. ETHZilla rebranded from 180 Life Sciences Corp on July…

Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was announced Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power-generation capacity alongside new data centers without having to rely on local utilities that are struggling to keep up with the demand of AI companies. Securing access to energy that powers data centers has become a critical part of training AI models. Alphabet previously held a minority stake in Intersect Power after Google and TPG Rise Climate led an $800 million…

A Times Square food cart vendor accused of dousing a man in gasoline and setting him on fire was indicted in Manhattan on Monday after being nabbed on his return from spending eight months hiding out in Egypt after the horrific arson attack, prosecutors said. ​Ahmad Mossad, 23, was charged with first-degree attempted murder and assault for allegedly attacking a 45-year-old club promoter on March 16 after the two men briefly interacted at his food cart by the Nebula nightclub on W. 41st St. near Broadway. ​NYPD officers arrested Mossad after he stepped off a flight at JFK on Nov.…

ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out an annual review feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT” to eligible consumers in select markets, including the United States. Other English-speaking markets with access to the new offering include Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. At launch, the feature will be offered to those with the free, Plus, and Pro plans who have the “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” options turned on and have met a minimum conversation activity threshold, the company told TechCrunch via email. Image Credits:OpenAI Team,…

US President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar has signaled that the White House may have all the pieces in place for digital asset regulation following the confirmation of Michael Selig to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.In a Monday X post, David Sacks said the US was at a “critical juncture” for crypto regulation, and that Selig and Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins made up a “dream team to define clear regulatory guidelines.” Sacks’ comments were in response to Selig saying that the US Congress was preparing to complete work on a crypto market structure bill. “We are…

The very first full-length trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has just been released. This trailer lands just a few days after Universal released a 6-minute-long prologue for The Odyssey, which eager fans can only see by purchasing a ticket to an Avatar: Fire and Ash IMAX screening. A London-born director, Christopher Nolan has already had quite the prolific filmmaking career, having directed and written 12 major motion pictures over the last 27 years. Those 12 feature films include three acclaimed Batman movies, the mind-bending Sci-Fi epics Inception and Interstellar, and more grounded projects like Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, with the…

Key takeawaysUS banks are prioritizing tokenized versions of familiar products, including deposits, funds and custody, rather than launching new crypto-native assets.Most onchain bank activity is taking place in wholesale payments, settlement and infrastructure, largely out of public view.Regulators are increasingly allowing crypto-related banking activities, but only within tightly supervised and risk-managed frameworks.Public blockchains such as Ethereum are being tested by major banks, but exclusively through controlled and compliant product structures.US banks are not racing to issue speculative crypto products. Instead, they are methodically rebuilding core financial plumbing, including payments, deposits, custody and fund administration, so these services can operate on…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in midday trading: Dominion Energy — The energy company’s shares fell nearly 5% after the Trump administration halted five East Coast wind projects, including Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, the largest project of its kind in the U.S. Maplebear — The Instacart parent’s stock fell more than 3% after it said it would end the use of artificial intelligence-driven pricing tests for its grocery platform. The pricing tests had caused some customers to pay more for identical items in the same store than other customers. Warner Bros. Discovery — Shares rose…