Core Scientific Signs AMD AI Capacity Leases
Core Scientific announced long-term AMD-backed leases for roughly 530 MW of U.S. AI data center capacity as its business shifts further from bitcoin mining.
2026-07-28
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CME-CFTC Fight Puts Onchain Perpetual Futures in Court
CME's lawsuit against the CFTC has turned Kalshi's approved bitcoin perpetual futures contract into a test case for regulated U.S. perps.
Vercel Adds Slack Hooks and Session Controls to eve
Vercel updated eve's Slack channel support with thread subscriptions, cancellation, resets, and raw Events API callbacks for backend agents.
Anthropic Says It Has Not Sought Open-Weights Ban
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company has not advocated a ban on open-weight models while arguing that advanced AI still raises national security risks.
2026-07-27
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Vercel Adds Regional Inference to AI Gateway
Vercel added regional inference controls to AI Gateway, letting developers pin supported model requests to US or EU data centers.
Microsoft Adds MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception to AI Security Stack
Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash for vulnerability work inside MDASH and said Project Perception will enter public preview on August 3.
Lido Starts $16.5B Staked Ether Validator Consolidation
Lido has begun consolidating more than 8 million stETH onto larger Ethereum validators, a move tied to Pectra and its planned Curated Module v2 upgrade.
NVIDIA Forms Open Secure AI Alliance Around Defensive AI Tools
NVIDIA and founding members launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to promote open tools, harnesses, and research for AI safety and cybersecurity.
POSCO Tests Tokenized Trade Receivables With LG CNS
POSCO International and LG CNS are piloting tokenized trade receivables on Injective, using live commercial invoice data from global subsidiaries.
2026-07-26
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BitMart to Wind Down Exchange as BMX Token Drops
BitMart said it will begin an orderly wind-down of its trading platform, while BMX traded more than 50% lower after the announcement.
Monday.com Cuts 20% of Workforce Around AI Push
Monday.com is cutting about one-fifth of its workforce as it reorganizes around its AI Work Platform strategy.
2026-07-25
5 articles
Google Details Tunix Pipeline for Agentic RL Training
Google outlined how Tunix, its JAX-native LLM post-training library, uses asynchronous rollouts to keep agentic reinforcement learning jobs fed while agents wait on tools or environments.
Sberbank Targets December for Crypto Trading Infrastructure
Sberbank plans to build crypto trading infrastructure and launch a digital depository by Dec. 1 as Russia prepares a regulated market structure for digital currencies.
Data Center Load Drop on PJM Raises AI Grid Risk
A Northern Virginia power-line fault showed how clustered AI data centers can amplify grid disturbances when large loads disconnect at nearly the same time.
Senate CLARITY Act Talks Stall Over Crypto Ethics Rules
Senate negotiators are still debating ethics limits in the CLARITY Act, leaving the crypto market-structure bill short of a clear path before the summer break.
OpenAI Ships Codex Micro Keypad for Agentic Coding
OpenAI and Work Louder launched Codex Micro, a compact hardware controller for ChatGPT Codex workflows with agent status keys, command shortcuts and a reasoning dial.
2026-07-24
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Vercel Adds Claude Opus 5 to AI Gateway
Vercel added Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to AI Gateway, giving developers a hosted route to the model through Vercel's unified inference API.
World Foundation Raises $52.5M for Human-ID Network
World Foundation raised $52.5 million through a locked WLD token sale as it expands World ID for AI-era identity checks.
EU Expands Russia Sanctions to 14 Crypto Platforms
The EU's 21st Russia sanctions package adds transaction bans on 14 third-country crypto platforms and new A7-linked designations.
BitMEX Faces New Suit as Exchange Plans Closure
BitMEX faces a proposed class action over alleged bitcoin liquidation losses as the derivatives exchange prepares to close on September 23.
Black Forest Labs Opens FLUX 3 Early Access
Black Forest Labs has opened early access to FLUX 3, a multimodal model family that moves the FLUX line from image generation into video, audio and action prediction.
Mobileye Starts CEO Search as Shashua Plans Exit
Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua plans to step down as CEO once a successor is appointed, with the company expanding beyond driver-assistance systems into robotaxis and humanoid robotics.
2026-07-23
6 articles
AMD Pitches Helios Rackscale AI System for Frontier Deployments
AMD launched Helios, a rackscale AI system built around Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software, with Anthropic and OpenAI named among early large-scale users.
Runway Launches Media Router for Generative AI Models
Runway introduced Media Router, a developer tool that chooses image, video, or audio generation models based on quality, speed, cost, and policy preferences.
Goldman's Solomon Backs CLARITY Act as Bank Split Widens
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon backed the CLARITY Act even as other large-bank executives keep pressing lawmakers over its stablecoin provisions.
ServiceNow Backs BusinessNext in AI Banking Push
ServiceNow Ventures invested $40 million in BusinessNext, valuing the Indian banking software firm at about $700 million.
Coinbase Canada Eyes Stocks and Prediction Markets
Coinbase Canada is working on a broader trading app that could combine crypto, stocks, ETFs, and prediction markets, though no launch date has been announced.
Alphabet Points to Cloud Growth as AI Capex Climbs
Alphabet's latest quarter put Google Cloud growth at the center of its case for heavy AI infrastructure spending.
2026-07-22
5 articles
Treasury Threatens Sanctions Over Moonshot Distillation Claim
U.S. officials threatened sanctions after alleging Moonshot AI used large-scale distillation from Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.
SEC's Peirce Flags Securities Questions for DeFi Vaults
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that some crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may still fall under securities laws depending on how they are structured.
Block Publishes Buzz, a Nostr Workspace for AI Agents
Block's Buzz repository describes a self-hostable Nostr workspace where people and AI agents share rooms, repositories, workflow steps and signed audit trails.
Balance Coin Depegs After $912K Oracle Exploit
Balance Coin fell more than 99% after an attacker manipulated a BTCB oracle and liquidated vaults tied to 42DAO.
OpenAI Says Models Hit Hugging Face During Security Eval
OpenAI said internal model evaluations spilled into Hugging Face after Hugging Face separately disclosed an autonomous AI-agent intrusion.
2026-07-21
6 articles
Digital Chamber Sues Illinois Over Crypto Tax
The Digital Chamber filed a Sangamon County lawsuit seeking to halt Illinois' new Digital Asset Tax Act before it starts applying to crypto businesses.
Movement Labs Files for Chapter 11 After MOVE Token Fallout
MVMT Labs filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware after months of governance turmoil and scrutiny over the MOVE token launch.
Augustus Raises $180M for Dollar Clearing Bank
Augustus raised a $180 million Series B as it works toward a federally chartered dollar clearing bank for international fintechs and banks.
Google Brings First-Class Ray Support to Cloud TPUs
Google says Ray 2.55 now treats Cloud TPUs as first-class accelerators, giving distributed Python workloads a supported path onto TPU slices through GKE and KubeRay.
UK Parliament Group Opens Crypto Banking Chokepoint Inquiry
A UK parliamentary crypto group has begun an inquiry into whether banks are restricting crypto firms' access to accounts and payment rails.
Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement Gets Final Approval
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class settlement with authors and publishers, closing one major AI training dispute without creating appellate precedent.
2026-07-20
5 articles
CAISI Director Chris Fall Resigns After Three Months
Chris Fall has reportedly resigned as director of CAISI, adding turnover at the federal office responsible for AI standards and testing coordination.
GitHub Sponsors Passes $100M for Open Source Maintainers
GitHub says GitHub Sponsors has now directed more than $100 million to open source maintainers and projects since the program launched in 2019.
Google Adds Parallel Web Search Grounding to Gemini Enterprise
Google Cloud has added Parallel Web Systems as a native grounding provider for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, giving developers another way to connect agents to live web results with citations.
Hyperliquid Plans Permissionless Prediction Markets Under HIP-4
Hyperliquid said HIP-4 outcome markets will move toward permissionless deployment after testnet rollout and validator-approved templates.
Netflix Filing Puts AI Startup Deal at $587 Million
Netflix's latest quarterly filing disclosed a $587 million cash acquisition, with trade reports identifying the target as Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup InterPositive.
2026-07-19
4 articles
Google Search AI Mode Adds App Connections
Google is adding connected apps to AI Mode in Search, letting users link services such as Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music for tasks inside search results.
D.C. Robotaxi Bill Pits Uber Against Waymo
A Washington, D.C. autonomous vehicle bill has become a live policy fight over how robotaxi fleets should enter city ride-hailing markets.
Kraken Adds Cash-Settled Bitcoin Options
Kraken has launched cash-settled bitcoin options, adding a simpler USD-denominated product to its crypto derivatives lineup.
Bitcoin Q-Day Recovery Proof Targets a Narrow Post-Quantum Gap
A proposed Bitcoin recovery proof would let some wallet holders prove ownership after a quantum break, but it would not help early coins without HD wallet derivation paths.
2026-07-18
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Kimi K2 Thinking Pushes Agentic Tool Use Into Longer Runs
Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source reasoning model designed to keep using tools across hundreds of sequential steps.
U.S. Brazil Tariff Puts Pix and Stablecoin Rails in Focus
USTR's new Brazil tariff action names electronic payment services and Pix, while reporting shows dollar stablecoins already carry much of Brazil's crypto activity.