Decrypt - 2026-07-02
4 items collected.
1. OpenAI Offers US Government a $42 Billion Slice of Itself: Report
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/2/2026, 9:39:25 PM
Categories: Artificial Intelligence
Sam Altman is pitching a 5% equity stake in OpenAI for the U.S. government—and reportedly wants every major AI company to do the same.
2. Russia Is Ready for 'Widespread Use' of Digital Ruble by September, Says Bank Governor
Author: Logan Hitchcock
Published: 7/2/2026, 9:13:37 PM
Categories: Markets
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said major banks and retailers are on track to begin accepting the digital ruble by September 1.
3. Treasury Department Sanctions Over 130 ISIS-Affiliated Crypto Wallets on Tron
Author: Sander Lutz
Published: 7/2/2026, 8:59:18 PM
Categories: monero, , Law and Order
More than 130 Tron wallets connected with a Central Asian ISIS affiliate were sanctioned by the U.S. government, with funds frozen by Tether.
4. AI Researchers Got Chatbots to Share Cocaine Recipes Using This One Wild Trick
Author: Jason Nelson
Published: 7/2/2026, 7:36:58 PM
Categories: Artificial Intelligence
Researchers say a new jailbreak technique tricked AI models into treating attacker-written text as their own reasoning, bypassing safety guardrails and exposing a deeper security flaw.