Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger To Step Down In October
TL;DR Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger will step down on October 16 and remain as an adviser through the end…
Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU
Supersonic Labs, a small AI lab from Brazil, has released Julia 1. It is a compact decision model, not a…
Apple And Nvidia Tokenized Stocks Can Now Back USDC Loans On Aave
TL;DR Aave V4 on Base has launched an Equities Hub accepting seven Coinbase tokenized U.S. stocks as collateral. Eligible non-U.S.…
Strategy Wants To Pay Preferred Stock Dividends Every Day
TL;DR Strategy is asking shareholders to approve daily dividend record dates for STRC, STRD, STRF and STRK. The proposed change…
KelpDAO Sues LayerZero Over $292M rsETH Bridge Exploit
TL;DR Evercrest Technologies, the company behind KelpDAO, has filed a civil claim against LayerZero entities and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino. The…
CleanSpark Closes $2.276B Debt Financing As Miner Builds For Its Next Expansion
TL;DR CleanSpark has completed the closing of $2.276 billion in senior secured notes. The Bitcoin miner says proceeds will support…
SEC Clarifies When Crypto Buybacks And Network Upgrades Can Raise Securities Questions
TL;DR SEC staff has published new FAQs explaining how federal securities laws may apply to crypto-asset buybacks, network upgrades and…
AI Slop Is in Your Training Dataset Now. I Tested Three Ways to Spot It.
My AI detectors flagged many genuine reviews, and filtering them made the sentiment model less accurate. The post AI Slop…
Huge crowds greet Pope in Paris for open-air Mass
More than half a million people are expected to attend the event in the heart of the French capital.
Trump rejects Iran’s conditional ceasefire proposal, WSJ reports, as Saudi coalition intercepts projectiles
Trump expects renewed U.S. bombing of Iran after the midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reports, as Saudi-backed forces intercept…
Your LLM Has a Curved Space of Paragraphs
Inside a transformer, token index is a coordinate. Paragraph structure is what turns it into a metric. The post Your…
Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building
Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort level of its Exa Agent API. It is built for research that…
OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
Paxos Labs Launches Gold Token That Can Earn A Return In Gold
Paxos Labs has launched PAXGy, a token backed by PAXG that can increase in value relative to gold over time.…
Bitget Confirms $351.6M Hot Wallet Breach And Pauses Withdrawals
Bitget says unauthorized transfers affected approximately $351.6 million held across parts of its hot and warm wallet infrastructure. The exchange…
HIFI Raises $37M To Build Stablecoin And Tokenized Market Infrastructure
HIFI has raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital. The company says the funding will expand…
The Clearing House Picks Quant For US Tokenized Deposit Network
The Clearing House has selected Quant to provide the interoperability and transaction-management layer for its On-Chain Money Initiative. The planned…
Solana Foundation Hires Former Binance CMO For Institutional Push
The Solana Foundation has appointed former Binance global CMO Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer. Former Polygon Labs executive Jamal…
Iran offers US deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days
Asked about the Iranian offer, a US official told the BBC “constructive discussions” were taking place through mediators.
Ondo Puts BlackRock-Designed Portfolios Into Single Onchain Tokens
Ondo has launched three tokenized portfolios based on investment strategies developed by BlackRock specifically for the platform. The products package…
IBM Connects Banks To Swift’s Blockchain Ledger For Tokenized Deposits
IBM Digital Asset Haven can now connect financial institutions to Swift’s blockchain-based shared ledger through a beta integration. Banks can…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding
Liquid AI has announced LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, an experimental speculative-decoding draft model for its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. The drafter adds about 280M…
New York Sues Polymarket Over Alleged Illegal Gambling Operation
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul have announced a lawsuit against Polymarket US. The state alleges…
MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in…
Fed Proposes Full Reserve And Capital Rules For US Stablecoin Issuers
The Federal Reserve has proposed two new rulemaking packages for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. Board-supervised issuers would…
ARK Brings $1.3B Venture Fund Onchain Through Securitize
ARK Invest is tokenizing its ARK Venture Fund through Securitize. The fund has roughly $1.3 billion in assets and invests…
Russia targeting ‘ordinary life’ with attacks on data centres, Zelensky says
Such strikes aim to disrupt “people’s ability to stay connected, study, work”, says Ukraine’s president.
Trump, Xi wrap state visit centered on spectacle over substance. Here are the top takeaways
President Trump and Chinese leader Xi went heavy on the ceremony and light on deliverables as they danced around Taiwan…
Special agents’ blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack
Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.
Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput
When you post-train a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)…
Pope warns against ‘losing humanity’ to AI machines
The pontiff delivered the warning on the first day of his trip to France on Friday.
10 Things I’m Learning Beyond AI to Become More Technologically Fluent
Part 1: Understanding the technologies shaping our future The post 10 Things I’m Learning Beyond AI to Become More Technologically Fluent…
Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to…
Found Friday S5I9: AI agents are getting hands. Most businesses still have blindfolds on.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 9 AI agents are getting hands. Most businesses still have blindfolds on. The…
RAG Isn’t an Agent — I Built the Layer Between Retrieval and Action
RAG retrieves. Agents act. I built both separately, connected them explicitly, and ran the same nine tasks through all three…
Hermes Journey #4: Two Agents, One Chess Board, and the Protocol That Made It Work
Agent-to-agent coordination tested on a chess board. Photo by Martin Kopta via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). Hermes Journey #4…
TokenInsight September Report: MEXC Posts Deepest BTC and ETH Futures Depth at $21.03M, Lowest Silver Slippage at 0.002%
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 25, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, recorded the deepest combined BTC and…
MEXC Returns to TOKEN2049 Singapore as Platinum Sponsor with Interactive Experiences and Industry Conversations
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 25, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, will return to TOKEN2049 Singapore as…
Jev vs. LLMs: When AI moves from Generation to Decision-making
I tested TypeSafe AI’s Jev on 3,080 classification tasks to see how its accuracy, latency, calibration, and confidence compare with…
Bitcoin Falls Back Below $85K As Treasury Yields Jump Above 5%
TL;DR Bitcoin fell below $85,000 after stronger U.S. business data pushed Treasury yields higher. S&P Global’s flash U.S. Composite PMI…
Hut 8 Wins $140M Bid For Poolin’s Texas Data Centers
TL;DR Hut 8 has been named the winning bidder for two Poolin data-center sites in Texas with a $140 million…
Circle Mints 250M USDC On Solana In Fresh Treasury Issuance
TL;DR An onchain transaction shows 250 million USDC minted on Solana by the stablecoin’s authorized minting infrastructure. The mint created…
US and China must act as responsible powers together, Xi says as Trump toasts friendship at state dinner
Trump said he and Xi had “never gotten along better” as he hosted the Chinese president at the lavish White…
Iran says it’s up to U.S. to end war as China presses for de-escalation
The remarks came as the Houthis launched a new wave of missile and drone attacks at Saudi targets Friday morning.
Privy Expands TRON Support As Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure Grows
TL;DR Privy has expanded its TRON integration with new transaction, policy, transfer and monitoring tools for developers. The Stripe-owned wallet…
Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearing On Prediction Markets
TL;DR All 11 Democrats on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee have called for a public hearing on prediction markets. The…
Xi got Trump’s red carpet welcome – but not everything he wanted
China wanted progress on trade, technology and Taiwan – but hasn’t got as much as it would have hoped for.
Trump, Xi to attend state dinner after White House meeting
Trump greeted China’s Xi at Joint Base Andrews, marking the U.S. president’s first time traveling to the facility to welcome…
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU
Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and…
Visa Study Says Bank-Style Protections Could Push Stablecoin Use Sharply Higher
TL;DR Visa says U.S. willingness to use stablecoins rises from 36% to 56% when hypothetical bank-level fraud protection and deposit…