CryptoNews

Bitcoin Supply Hits 20 Million BTC After 6,267 Days, Final Coins Stretch Across 114 Years

More than 95% of bitcoin’s total supply has now been mined, leaving just 1 million coins to be produced over the next century as the network’s programmed scarcity tightens and issuance slows through future halving cycles. Bitcoin Supply Milestone Highlights Scarcity Built Into Protocol Bitcoin’s circulating supply has reached 20 million BTC, leaving 1 million coins before the protocol’s…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply-chain risk designation

Anthropic has made good on its promise to challenge the Department of Defense (DOD) in court after the agency labeled it a supply-chain risk late last week. The Claude maker filed two complaints against the DOD on Monday in California and Washington, D.C., after a weeks-long conflict between Anthropic and the DOD over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

CAT puts century-old tech to work in its newest, heaviest electric drive dozer

Diesel-electric locomotives have been barreling along America’s wide-open plains for generations, and the century-old combination of consistent, high-efficiency rpm diesel engines spinning up generators to power high-torque electric motors has proven tough to beat. Now, Caterpillar is putting that century-old design to work in its heaviest tracked dozer yet – and the efficiency gains are…
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DefenseNews

Prewar US intel found intervention in Iran wasn’t likely to change leadership

A U.S. intelligence assessment completed shortly before the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran had determined that American military intervention was not likely to lead to regime change in the Islamic Republic, according to two people familiar with the finding. The National Intelligence Council’s assessment in February concluded that neither limited airstrikes nor a larger…
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