OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, alongside Terra and Luna, ending a two-week preview restricted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Sol in ultra mode tops Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 91.9% and matches Anthropic…
MARA Holdings, a Bitcoin mining company, agreed to acquire a 1,200+ acre powered site in Matagorda County, Texas, from HIF USA, gaining access to up to 2 GW of grid capacity by April 2028. The site wi…
MoonPay launched MoonAgents on Telegram on Thursday, allowing users to interact with its AI crypto assistant through the messaging platform. The integration lets users analyze markets, create dashboar…
Paradigm, a leading crypto venture capital firm, raised a $1.2 billion fund to invest in AI and robotics, expanding beyond its crypto roots. The fund has already backed drone-delivery firm Zipline and…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, less than half the cost of comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk claimed the…
Crypto venture firm Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fourth fund to invest in AI, robotics, crypto, and other technologies, broadening its focus beyond digital assets. The firm, which has backed compani…
BNB Chain announced plans for a new layer-1 blockchain designed for high-frequency trading and AI-driven transactions, targeting over 100,000 transactions per second and sub-second finality. The netwo…
Anthropic removed hidden tracking markers from Claude Code after a security researcher discovered the AI coding assistant used undisclosed Unicode markers and encoded domain lists to identify users' l…
A new study published in Frontiers in Education warns that universities are failing to adapt to AI-driven workplace changes, urging a shift from plagiarism detection to teaching critical AI literacy a…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, according to Reuter…
MediaFuse, the parent company of crypto-focused Chainwire, launched TechnologyWire, a press-release distribution network optimized for AI search tools and Google News. The service aims to make content…
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling humanlike agent features in their AI products Doubao and Qwen ahead of China's new Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Service…
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned that governments risk an 'AI Hiroshima' if they fail to establish global agreements on AI safety, comparing the challenge to nuclear safety efforts after Worl…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, warning that AI deployment is outpacing governance and that humanity cannot 'vibe code' its future. H…
Yield Guild Games is shutting down its crypto game publishing arm YGG Play, laying off 35 employees and retiring its website, launchpad, and games like LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper by August 1, citing t…
Coinbase's AI system sent users a false alert reporting Norway defeated Brazil 3-2 in a World Cup match hours before kickoff. The company fixed the error and updated its systems to prevent future inac…
Over 150,000 people applied to Joi AI's paid study testing AI-guided masturbation, forcing the company to create a public selection process. The AI companion platform aims to explore the relationship …
TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for a 401 MW AI data center campus in Kentucky, expected to generate ~$19 billion in revenue, and sold its stake in a Texas joint venture. Bitcoin mining…
Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski argued that AI safety rhetoric is being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm, citing Anthropic's reversed decision to silently degrade res…
Claude Fable 5's post-reinstatement performance drop on BridgeBench's debugging score from 86.2 to 25.9 was caused by Anthropic's safety classifier routing most tasks to Opus 4.8, not by a degradation…