BREAKING: 𝕏 reveals it uncovered a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts, including hundreds used to influence U.S. debate over AI data centers & energy policy.
🚨HUGE: Kevin Durant’s $250K Hugging Face bet grows to $60 MILLION, nearly 50% more than his NBA salary.
Durant and business partner Rich Kleiman invested $100K in Hugging Face’s seed round and another $150K in Series A, with the investment now reportedly worth $60M+ following Nvidia’s acquisition.
That’s a nearly 24,000% gain, potentially one of the biggest athlete venture bets ever.
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Thrilled to announce I had the honour of working on The International again with Valve and PGL, an opportunity I’ll never take for granted.
The embroidery Opening Ceremony was the biggest project of my career.
Couldn’t be more grateful for the trust and proud of what we made.
🇺🇸LATEST: Trump meets Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, Chainlink, NYSE, Nasdaq and Robinhood at the White House crypto summit.
Key takeaways:
- Trump calls on Congress to pass "a fair version of the CLARITY Act" to keep the US ahead of China.
- Coinbase CEO Armstrong pushes for 60 votes by September 15, warns "big banks don't want the competition."
- SEC Chair Atkins unveils "the most historic step yet" to modernize crypto regulations.
- Trump says buying "sizable" amounts of Bitcoin "has been talked about" and he would "certainly listen."
- HYPE surges 19% to $69 after Trump says CFTC Chair is bringing Hyperliquid to the US.
- 583 IPOs since Inauguration raised $208 BILLION, nearly 4x the Biden era.
- CFTC launched the first ever US Bitcoin perpetual futures contract.
- Robinhood CEO Tenev says American investors "should not be the last to benefit" from tokenization.
- Chainlink's Nazarov says stablecoin and tokenized equity adoption is "hitting all-time highs."
- Trump says Bitcoin is now "a permanent asset of the United States Treasury."
- Kraken CEO Sethi says his mission is to "fix money, fix the world."
- Trump says America is the "undisputed leader" in Bitcoin, crypto, prediction markets and AI.
- Gemini co-founders say America should lead crypto and win in prediction markets.
- NYSE owner Sprecher backs clearing outdated financial regulation.
- Trump says he "ended the war on crypto once and for all."
Our current best prompt for the film above, exactly as it went in. Three attempts to get here, and it is still not where we want it.
Photorealistic live-action cinematography: real skin and materials, motivated lighting, subtle film grain, anamorphic lensing, realistic depth of field and colour grade. Heavy night rain, bright stadium floodlights, graded like a sports drama. Camera at the dog's eye level, low to the ground. The advertising hoardings around the pitch are plain blank panels in flat solid colour, completely empty, with no writing or symbols on them.
THE DOG, identical in every shot: a small scruffy stray terrier, sandy brown and white, wiry damp coat, one ear folded over, dark button eyes, soaked through. THE BALL: a white-and-black match ball.
0-3s. Real time, brightly floodlit, rain sparkling in the floodlights. The small sandy-and-white scruffy terrier with one folded ear wriggles out from under a plain blank hoarding onto the bright green grass and nips the ball away from a player's feet.
CUT TO - 3-9s. Real time, low camera running alongside him at grass level. The small sandy-and-white scruffy terrier with the one folded ear drives the ball forward with his nose, sprinting. A defender in blue reaches a boot in for the ball; the terrier flicks the ball sideways with his nose and cuts around him, and the defender slides past on the wet grass on his backside, laughing, arms in the air. A second defender comes across and the terrier veers between him and a team-mate, ball still glued to his nose. Every player is going for the ball only, never for the dog, and nobody touches the dog.
CUT TO - 9-15s. Real time, low camera. A tall defender in blue plants himself in front of the small sandy-and-white scruffy terrier with the one folded ear, legs apart. The terrier nudges the ball straight between the defender's legs, darts around him, collects the ball on the other side and keeps running. The defender spins round with his hands on his head, laughing in disbelief. Every player is going for the ball only, never for the dog, and nobody touches the dog. The crowd is roaring with laughter and delight.
CUT TO - 15-21s. SLOW MOTION, and only here. The small sandy-and-white scruffy terrier with the one folded ear plants his paws and butts the ball hard with his forehead. The ball lifts off his head and flies low and fast toward the goal for about two seconds only. Cut for a beat to the terrier standing on the grass, ears up, watching it go. The goalkeeper dives full length, fingertips grazing it. The ball clips the inside of the post, drops onto the goal line and spins slowly over it into the back of the net.
CUT TO - 21-30s. SNAP BACK TO FULL REAL-TIME SPEED, and the sound explodes from near silence into a deafening roar in an instant. The stadium erupts - confetti, camera flashes, floodlight flare through the rain. Two laughing players lift the same small sandy-and-white scruffy terrier with the one folded ear high above their heads like a trophy, fast and joyful. The dog is loving it, tail going, mouth open in a happy pant, and he barks up at the sky.
AUDIO: rain on turf and studs on wet grass, the crowd building through the dribble into waves of laughter and a roar, everything dropping away to a muffled distant rumble through the slow motion, then the full stadium roar hitting at once and at maximum volume on the cut back to real time, with one bright bark on top.
No on-screen text, no subtitles, no watermark.
Take it, swap the animal, run it — nothing above is specific to a dog. If you get a better result out of it, post what you changed.
We film every day at 👉 https://t.co/Ul24IOq9VB — the thirty-second one-take version is not in the product yet, and whether it should be is this week's argument.
ByteDance shipped Seedance 2.5 this week. We have been testing what it can actually hold, and this is the furthest we have got so far.
A stray dog gets under the hoardings at a cup final, takes the ball off a defender and scores the winner. Thirty seconds, five shots, one generation — nothing was edited together, the cuts are written into the prompt. That is the part that is new: the models we film with today stop at fifteen seconds, so anything longer has to be shot in pieces and joined.
Third attempt, rendered at 480p because that is what we test at. A probe, not a finished piece of work.
What we have learned so far, and the whole prompt, are in the replies. If you are getting better out of it, we want to hear how.
🚨 BREAKING: Harmony hit by a MASSIVE 4 BILLION $ONE exploit, token crashes -30%.
The unauthorized mint was equal to roughly 26% of the total supply, with the attacker already moving 2.8B ONE to exchanges, per Juiceberg.
Only 115M ONE remains onchain, while the overwhelming majority has already been sold or is sitting in exchange wallets, potentially ready for further selling.
Harmony has confirmed the exploit and says it is working with exchanges to freeze the funds, while preparing a patch and possible chain rollback.
calling all AI filmmakers
@AskVenice and MoonPay are giving away $100,000 for your best and most original work
submit your creation to the Lumara Film Festival at https://t.co/1rOk2UxEak
gm everyone
seeing some CT posts about $MOTION, so figured I’d share this here.
if you have some allocation, you can try it out:
Creator record
→ login with X
→ make a post about @motiontip
→ wait a bit
→ comment @tipmotion 1000
You can tip a builder, creator, or any post you think deserves it.
Pretty simple, give it a try if you’re already around.
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JUST IN: A $1 stablecoin CRASHED to nearly zero after a nearly $1 MILLION exploit.
Balance Coin, meant to hold $1 value using Bitcoin-backed collateral, crashed more than 99% to around $0.0014.
SlowMist said the attacker fed the protocol’s oracle an extremely low BTC price, triggering liquidations of vaults.
The attacker then seized the collateral and converted it into about $912,000 in profit.
BLC now trades at $0.00075, valuing the entire 3.51M circulating supply at just $2,570.