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OpenAI Wants a Price War With Anthropic—Is It Proving DeepSeek Right?
Sam Altman is weighing drastic token price cuts to fight Anthropic. The problem is DeepSeek already made that argumen…
Microsoft President Asks Graduates to Stop Fearing AI and Start Adapting
Brad Smith published a 3,000-word essay urging empathy for graduates booing AI at commencements. The same week, Micro…
Anthropic Apologizes for Claude Fable 5 Secret Censorship—But the Fix Has a Catch
One day after the AI community erupted over invisible performance sabotage, Anthropic reversed course. Visible safegu…
Coinbase for Agents sets up dedicated accounts for AI bots to trade and pay for users
AI agents will get access to trade, manage money, and make payments on behalf of Coinbase users via dedicated accounts.
Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
"Coinbase for Agents" is a new platform that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to users’ Coinbase …
‘You sell what you can, not what you want’: Jack Mallers says bitcoin is pricing a global liquidity crisis
Strike CEO Jack Mallers says Bitcoin at $63,000 reflects a liquidity-starved world, and questions Strategy's perpetua…
SpaceX stock is coming to Solana on the same day it lists on Nasdaq
The firms making that possible say eligible shares can also be converted back into tokens, creating a bridge between …
Tether leads $1.4 billion funding round in German robotics company Neura
The investment is part of the stablecoin giant’s expansion into industries outside of crypto.
The Incentive Dynamic Engine: io.net’s Shift to Sustainable Tokenomics
DePIN Needs a Tokenomics Reset In recent years, DePINs have surged in prominence, offering a revolutionary model fo…
South Korean police book Bithumb CEO as bribery suspect in lawmaker hiring probe: report
Police are investigating whether Bithumb CEO Lee hired lawmaker Kim's son as a favor and whether Kim later used his p…
Google's DiffusionGemma AI Hits 1,000 Tokens Per Second—And It's Free
DiffusionGemma hits 1,000 tokens per second by ditching word-by-word generation entirely. It just doesn't run on most…
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Is Getting Too Powerful—While Releasing Powerful AI
In a new essay, Dario Amodei called for binding safety rules for frontier models as his company heads toward an IPO.
Bitcoin takes back seat to stablecoins and tokenization among financial advisors: Bitwise CIO
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said financial advisors are now showing more interest in stablecoins and tokenization than bi…
Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Back Humanoid Robotics Firm NEURA in $1.4 Billion Funding Round
Stablecoin giant Tether led a massive Series C round for German robotics firm NEURA, which will embed crypto payment …
The Internet Is Furious at Anthropic After Claude Fable 5 Release
Token burn, silent censorship, and a mandatory data grab—the biggest Claude release has become Anthropic's messiest.
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquires Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy
The acquisition comes amid a moment of consolidation in the crypto industry and during a resurgent interest in onchai…
AI Helped People Spot Fake News—Then Made Them Worse at It: MIT
An MIT study found AI assistants improved misinformation detection in the moment, but appeared to weaken users' abili…
Privacy returns to focus as Ethereum developers explore new token standards
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem.
MetaMask just gave AI agents a DeFi wallet with a leash
Agent Wallet lets software trade across DeFi, but every permission rule becomes part of the security boundary. The po…
Netomi CEO says $5 trillion AI customer experience market could boost stablecoin demand
Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise …
Mastercard prepares for a future where AI agents make payments
The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven comme…
Mastercard unveils Agent Pay for Machines to support autonomous AI transactions, including stablecoins
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines infrastructure will support high-volume, low-value payments by autonomous AI agents.
Ethereum could become a fully zero-knowledge proof-based protocol in 3 to 5 years, Joe Lubin says
Ethereum needs infinite capacity to meet the infinite demands of being a World Computer, making L2s necessary, Joe Lu…
MegaETH-based MNX raises $6.4 million pre-seed at $40 million valuation to build AI-focused futures exchange
MNX, a decentralized futures exchange focused on the AI economy, has raised $6.4 million in a pre-seed funding round.
Ripple launches toolkit for agentic payments on XRPL
A growing number of companies, including Ripple, want to create payment rails which would AI agents to execute transa…
Pyth launches 24/7 proprietary indices for US equities, oil and metals
Pyth is aggregating data from onchain and offchain sources to provide continuous price discovery for major equities a…
World Series of Poker adds Solana payments for tournament buy-ins
The move marks an integration of blockchain-based payments into a major live sporting and gaming event.
A 'Bitcoin DeFi' project just shut down with a brutal post-mortem: Users just didn't care
"It did not work," Botanix said. "At lest not in this market and not in this timeline."
Crypto’s killer app may be selling stocks after its own tokens failed retail
A Delphi Consulting analysis of 652 CEX listings from January 2025 onward found that a user buying every new token ac…
Claude Fable 5 Turns AI Into a Repository Auditor
Claude Fable 5, launched on June 9, 2026, is gaining attention for its ability to handle long software engineering t…