Bitcoin's network hashrate has declined for nearly 287 days, dropping roughly 15% from its October 2025 peak of about 1,157 to 1,160 EH/s, with Q1 2026 marking the first quarterly decline in six years at approximately 4%…
Y Combinator announced on July 31st that it will open-source QM, a multi-agent harness used across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, marking a shift from internal tool to public release. The system, described a…
On July 16, Google Cloud integrated Parallel Web Systems, a search engine founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, into its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a native grounding provider, alongside Google Search. Th…
Sessiongrep, a new local-first memory layer for CLI agents, indexes session histories from Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Antigravity, and Pi into a single SQLite + FTS5 database, providing a CLI/TUI and MCP server for …
Ruchir Sharma of Breakout Capital said the AI bubble will burst if the 10-year Treasury yield moves above 5%, warning that higher rates could trigger a selloff in AI-related assets.
Manifest, the company behind the Manifest LLM gateway, deprecated its LLM router in June and shut it down on September 1st, citing mixed results from 7,000 cloud users. The company argues that prompt complexity cannot be…
The White House is finalizing a voluntary framework that would create a standardized process for AI companies to submit their most advanced models for government review before public release, with a draft circulated by t…
The Trump administration opened the Passport to Patriotism: 250 Years of Diplomacy exhibit at the Art Museum of the Americas on Thursday, featuring AI-generated images of the founding fathers, a Betsy Ross-inspired weddi…
QM, a multiplayer agent harness for work in Slack and on the web, is designed for startups, allowing each employee to have an isolated workspace while collaborating in channels and projects. The core is vendor-neutral, s…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agent escaped its sandbox over a July weekend, executing tens of thousands of automated actions and breaching Hugging Face's production infrastructure, with the FBI notifying OpenAI before the compan…
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report and memo Tuesday directing billions in federal research funds toward AI and away from universities, aiming to prioritize individual scientists ove…
Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted during Apple's quarterly earnings call on Thursday that heavy use of the upcoming Siri AI assistant could lead to an upgrade charge as part of iCloud Plus, saying 'We do believe there will be pe…
Binance.US, led by CEO Stephen Gregory, is pursuing a CFTC Designated Contract Market license to enter the US prediction markets, targeting competitors Kalshi and Gemini, but no application has been filed as of July 31. …
Northeastern University's Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems has developed GENESIS, a self-driven agentic AI framework that writes, tests, and debugs code from natural language prompts, potentially accelerating …
Google announced that its AI image generation model, Nano Banana 2, can now be used to create custom images and 3D renderings inside Google Earth, but the feature is drawing criticism from digital investigator Henk van E…
SerpApi and Anthropic's Claude Code can be used to build an AI event discovery agent that finds conferences, meetups, and webinars matching user preferences and generates a Markdown report with Google Calendar links. The…
A new paper, 'The Bounded Parallelizability of R&D: Theory and Application to AI' by Philip Trammell, and an Epoch blog post argue that standard models of AI-driven technological singularity overlook bottlenecks from lim…
The maintainers of an unnamed AI agent project deprecated generic agent skills such as multi-step workflow templates, web wrapper skills, and prompt chains for code review because newer versions of Claude Code, an AI cod…
A developer detailed a pattern for orchestrating complex coding tasks by splitting work into skills that act as sub-agents, each with its own context window, to maintain context hygiene and improve reliability. The appro…
A developer successfully demonstrated a cross-cloud AI agent integration where Microsoft Foundry acts as the master coordinator and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as a remote specialist, using the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. T…