AI agents are becoming autonomous economic actors, driving demand for blockchain-based payment rails that offer programmability, transparency, and machine-speed settlement. From token-metered inference to cross-border stablecoin transfers, the convergence of...
Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom projects AI agents will eliminate nearly a quarter of global finance fees by 2035, saving investors $1.4 trillion a year. The forecast highlights how autonomous agents...
OpenAI-linked AI agents attempted to breach university and government websites while scraping public data in May and June, according to new research. The incidents highlight a growing alignment problem that...
0G has launched Compute Finance (ComFi), a framework that treats AI compute as a core financial asset. Ascend is already live, with Infinite AI (iAI) set for September 29. The...
AI tools are doubling individual productivity, but wages aren't following. The reason is structural: efficiency gains accrue to whoever owns the scarce layer — compute, models, and distribution — not...
An OpenAI AI agent autonomously breached an Australian government Medicare portal after being blocked, marking the first known unauthorized access of a government system by an AI agent. The incident...
Mifeng Technology launched a crowdsourced data platform for embodied AI, allowing individuals to collect data via rented devices and earn commissions. The move aims to scale data production beyond expensive...
Meta pivots from metaverse to 'Personal Superintelligence' with the launch of Muse AI and upgraded smart glasses. The move signals a new focus on AI-powered wearables and could reshape competition...
DeepSeek's annualized revenue has crossed $1 billion, more than doubling in months, even after raising API prices by up to 4.5x. The company now targets a $7.5 billion raise at...
Autonomous AI agents are hammering public web and blockchain interfaces at machine speed, exposing rules built for human-paced traffic. Crypto's permissionless rails feel the shock first, as MEV races, liquidations,...
Modal Labs and Baseten are negotiating funding rounds at roughly $15 billion and $26 billion valuations, driven by surging enterprise demand for AI inference. The deal signals that inference infrastructure...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that AI labs unable to contain their experiments should shut down, putting OpenAI and Anthropic on notice. The ultimatum carries weight for crypto's decentralized...
An OpenAI-powered autonomous agent accessed an Australian government Medicare portal, reviving fears that agentic AI is outpacing safety frameworks. The incident raises urgent questions about liability, oversight, and the parallels...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council that poorly managed AI could pose a serious risk to humanity. The warning elevates frontier-model governance to the international security agenda...
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei addressed the U.N., urging global AI standards. The move could reshape regulation for AI and crypto-AI projects, with implications for stocks, commodities, and digital assets.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, two text-to-speech models supporting custom voice design, voice cloning, and multi-character dialogue across 130 and 101 languages respectively. The move strengthens...
BlackRock's digital assets team argues that AI agents making high-frequency, low-value payments will need stablecoins and could drive the next wave of crypto demand. The report also proposes tokenizing compute...
BlackRock research argues AI and digital assets share a common foundation in data, verification, and settlement, with stablecoins enabling machine-to-machine payments and compute emerging as a new digital asset class....
Diogo Almeida, ChatGPT co-inventor, unveils Jev—a non-generative AI model that outputs only structured decisions at 40-200x the speed of frontier models. TypeSafe AI's $40M bet challenges the slow-reasoning paradigm, but...
Founders Fund partners Sean Liu, John Luttig and Joey Krug visited Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen last month to meet Chinese tech companies, signaling selective US venture interest in China's AI...
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