When Jontay Porter was ten, his father woke him up most mornings before dawn. He and his siblings piled into the family's Sprinter van and drove to an empty field house off the highway. Then, while their friends slept, they ran basketball drills with their father. "All I remember is it still being pitch-black outside, and the two dreaded double doors on the side of the building that would always be left open for us," Jontay told me recently. In the bleary moments just before one of his siblings tugged the field-house doors open, Jontay always secretly wished that they'd be locked. And, one morning, they were. Jontay smiled as he climbed back into the van and drifted off to sleep. But his brother Michael, Jr., who was seventeen months older, was furious. "Michael was the opposite," Jontay said. Jontay grew up in Columbia, Missouri, the fourth of eight children. His father, Michael, Sr., worked in Christian ministry, and his mother, Lisa, homeschooled the children. Both had played college basketball--Lisa, as a high-school senior, had averaged a nearly impossible fifty-eight points per game--and they saw the sport as their children's ticket to college. All eight of the kids eventually got basketball scholarships. By the time Jontay was sixteen, he was six feet ten. In most families, as a five-star high-school recruit, Jontay would have been the main attraction. In 2010, their father got a job on the coaching staff for the women's team at the University of Missouri. The men's coach spotted Michael shooting alone in the arena one night and offered him a full scholarship; he was still in seventh grade. When he accepted it, as a high-school senior, he was the top recruit in the country. His highlight reels had racked up millions of views on YouTube. N.B.A. scouts believed that he could be the next Kevin Durant. "He's a game-changer," a league executive told the New York . Big state schools turn their best athletes into local celebrities, but the hype that followed Michael to Missouri's campus on his recruiting visits was closer to Beatlemania. Fans asked for autographs and took selfies. Jontay, who came along, was seduced by the hysteria. "Frat houses are putting up posters, and he's literally treated like a king," he recalled. "I wanted to be a part of that circus." He skipped his senior year of high school to join the team, too. The brothers were best friends. Still, it was sometimes hard to be one of the top players in the country but just the second best in his family. "He got all the attention," Jontay said.

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Binance outflows hit $4.7 billion after record North Korea hack The crypto market at large has faced a surge in cybercrime this year, fueled in part by the growing sophistication and availability of artificial intelligence tools. Traders have pulled billions from Binance since late last week, when the crypto exchange giant suffered the largest cyber theft in history. Net withdrawals from the platform reached $4.7 billion by Monday morning in London, according to a Binance spokesperson. While sizeable, the outflows still represents less than 4% of the $128 billion in assets held on the world's largest crypto venue. Binance restored customer withdrawals on Sunday after freezing them in the wake of the $6.4 billion exploit, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has attributed to North Korean hackers.

These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst A once-obscure corner of the AI ecosystem finds itself in the spotlight - and investors don't all like what they see. Names like CoreWeave and Nebius are familiar to the tech set in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. These data centre companies, known as neocloud firms, run large warehouses packed with expensive computers, which they lease to major AI developers like Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. Many question whether neocloud firms are financially sound and what their recent stumbles tell us about the state of the AI economy. Analysts at Gartner predict by 2030, 80% of neocloud firms will cease independent operations, while Forrester's experts expect at least three of them to be imminently acquired as finances get shaky.

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God told them to sell crypto. A pastor and his wife created a cryptocurrency and hawked it in Christian communities. When it came crashing down, investors lost millions and they were accused of fraud. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having "a thought that is not my thought." Divine words echo in his mind like a line from a movie or the memory of a loved one's voice. "It's not'You better do this,'" he says. Holy messages arrive daily while Eli is praying, reading, or watching television. Sometimes they surface in prophetic dreams or missives from strangers. Occasionally, they appear midsentence, when he pauses to ask, "Lord, what do you want to say here?" Eli's wife, Kaitlyn, tends to get heavenly dispatches in the shower, when she finally has a moment to herself. Other times, she seeks counsel from above. "I'll be writing in my journal and praying and asking questions and just believing what I'm hearing is Him," she says. God's directives have been manifold. According to the Regalados, He told them to get married, buy a house, and start having kids. When Eli owned a marketing firm in Colorado, He told him what to name it, whom to hire, and which clients to take on. Then God told him to start preaching in his living room and online. In 2021, when Eli was 41 and Kaitlyn was 28, divine guidance steered them in an unexpected new direction: crypto.

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