A weekly security round-up highlights how attackers are abusing AI and LLM chatbots, including prompt injection against backend HR systems, a malware strain called x47.c whose "AI Stealth" feature use…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an October 6 blog post stating that "AI is by default a security and privacy nightmare" and detailing his move to run the open-source Qwen3.5:35B model en…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin described a three-layer privacy setup for AI use that runs Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a local model to rewrite requests before they reach remote systems, combi…
The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet on October 1, letting users prepay in ETH or USDC and receive capped, short-lived API keys through zero-knowle…
The Ethereum Foundation and The Open Anonymity Project unveiled zkAPI on Thursday, October 1, 2026, a tool that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let users pay for commercial large language model inferenc…
Cloudflare launched its Monetization Gateway on July 1, 2026, letting sellers charge for web resources in USDC stablecoin settled on Base and Polygon, with Will Papper, who joined Cloudflare as Direct…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a Wednesday post on X that AI will not give hackers an insurmountable advantage over cybersecurity, arguing that advanced models could make formal verificat…
Vitalik Buterin rejected the claim that capable AI hackers will make cybersecurity unwinnable, arguing in a Sept. 17 post on X that formal verification could give defenders a structural advantage, and…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a September 14 X post that the anti-collusion mechanisms he outlined in his September 11, 2020, essay "Coordination, Good and Bad" may matter more for AI sa…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued in a September 13 post on X that adversarial governance theory, particularly anti-collusion mechanisms from mechanism design, could transfer directly to AI s…
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said Bitcoin's security mechanisms are resilient to threats from artificial intelligence, countering assessments that AI could cause a more than 50% drop in BTC price …
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rejected a Sept. 7 prediction by investor Liron Shapira that artificial intelligence could undermine confidence in Bitcoin's security and cause its price to fall by…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly rejected angel investor Liron Shapira's claim that artificial intelligence could crash Bitcoin's price by more than 50% within two years, calling the proba…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on September 7 that Bitcoin can withstand emerging cybersecurity threats without relying on social consensus, arguing that simple client and mining pool upgrad…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released an updated roadmap, dubbed the Strawmap, on Aug. 10 that prioritizes native privacy, post-quantum scaling, and native rollups, reflecting advances in crypt…
Vitalik Buterin published the Ethereum Foundation's 2026 Strawmap, prioritizing quantum resistance, privacy, and native rollups, with a leaner protocol core that can be formally verified using AI tool…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the network has elevated quantum security, privacy, and AI-assisted verification as priorities since his 2023 roadmap, according to a post on X on Monday. Bute…
Freedom Factory announced the PQ1, a $179 quantum-resistant hardware wallet for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, on July 28, with shipping expected in Q4 2026. The device uses the NIST-recognized S…
The first essay in a series on the offense-defense balance argues that the concept of an offense-defense balance itself is the top misconception about reducing catastrophic risks from AI and emerging …
WebAZ is designing a protocol that enables verifiable contribution records for humans and AI agents without requiring global identity. The system uses contextual attestations and selective disclosure …