{"slug": "pearl-s-ai-mining-pitch-faces-a-112-mw-usefulness-test", "title": "Pearl's AI mining pitch faces a 112 MW usefulness test", "summary": "Pearl Research Labs claims to have built a live GPU-secured blockchain without proving the work is useful AI computation, facing a 112 MW usefulness test. A preprint estimates Pearl's network runs at roughly 24 EH/s, equivalent to about 320,000 RTX 3090 GPUs.", "body_md": "Omri Weinstein, the theoretical computer scientist behind Pearl Research Labs, has been trying to solve one of crypto's oldest credibility problems: how to make proof of work useful. A June 3 preprint now argues Pearl has built the hard part of that system a live GPU secured blockchain without proving the work is useful AI computation. Tom's Hardware reported Sunday on a preprint by Abhinaba Basu that estimates Pearl's network is running at roughly 24 EH/s, equal to about 320,000 RTX 3090 cla...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pearl-s-ai-mining-pitch-faces-a-112-mw-usefulness-test", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/pearl-proof-useful-work-112-mw-usefulness-gap", "published_at": "2026-06-14 11:39:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-14 11:46:02.596825+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Pearl Research Labs", "Omri Weinstein", "Abhinaba Basu", "Tom's Hardware", "RTX 3090"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pearl-s-ai-mining-pitch-faces-a-112-mw-usefulness-test", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pearl-s-ai-mining-pitch-faces-a-112-mw-usefulness-test.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pearl-s-ai-mining-pitch-faces-a-112-mw-usefulness-test.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pearl-s-ai-mining-pitch-faces-a-112-mw-usefulness-test.jsonld"}}