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Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligenc…
AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests
New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce…
Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit
Blockaid said an attacker tricked Jaredfromsubway.eth into approving fake trading routes, then used those approvals t…
OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark …
AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore
As AI-powered security tools become cheaper, faster and more widely available, researchers said they could reshape wh…
GPT-5.6 Rumors Heat Up as Users Swear ChatGPT Suddenly Got Smarter
Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.
Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment
Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $…
Microsoft found malware that hijacks crypto wallets and spreads through USB sticks
The software intercepts shortcut files and directs them to install a worm that harvests private keys from the Windows…
China’s Z.AI Releases GLM-5.2: A Model That Rivals Claude Opus—Using Zero Nvidia Chips
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 sits within 1% of Claude Opus 4.8 on long-horizon coding benchmarks, runs entirely on Huawei silicon, …
Midjourney Pivots From AI Images to Medical Imaging, Aiming to Build a Better MRI Alternative
Image generation company Midjourney is developing a full-body imaging system that combines ultrasound tech with AI sm…
Perplexity's AI Agent Now Has a Brain That Learns From Its Own Mistakes
Brain is a self-improving memory layer that tracks what Computer did, what worked, and what failed—then uses it ove…
Ethereum Foundation loses another key leader as co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang resigns
Wang's departure follows the resignation of fellow co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak and marks the latest in a s…
Algorand unveils roadmap to achieve quantum resistance by 2028
The announcement reflects a crypto's growing recognition that adopting quantum-resistant cryptography could take year…
Alchemy's AI-driven identity and payment service gains access to Visa network
The AgentCard integration with Visa Intelligent Commerce allows AI agents built on models from any provider, includin…
Alchemy unveils Visa-powered virtual payment card for AI agents
AgentCard will default to Visa-issued tokens, but will support crypto and agent-native payment protocols when available.
Hive shares jumps 10% on $220m Canada sovereign AI infrastructure deal
GPU cloud contract with Bell and Cohere strengthens HIVE's shift from bitcoin mining to high performance AI computing.
The great rotation: Investors desert the Magnificent 7, crypto for AI bottlenecks
Capital is flowing out of the largest tech companies and bitcoin as investors pile into semiconductors, memory stocks…
Live markets: Bitcoin and ether ETFs lost $111 million combined as rate-cut hopes died
Total market value has held flat near $2.26 trillion since Tuesday, with the recovery losing momentum after the Fed k…
Psychologists Say Patients Are Bringing AI Into Therapy Sessions: Survey
A new APA survey found that more than a third of psychologists have patients using AI as an additional mental health …
Nvidia Built Robots That Train Themselves Using AI Coding Agents
Nvidia's ENPIRE hands an entire robot fleet to coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, letting them write training …
Bitcoin layer-2s face a bear-market reality check
Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programma…
FIFA wanted Avalanche's blockchain to help curb World Cup ticket scalping. Here's how it's going
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at how FIFA is using the Avalanche blockchain to tes…
Estonia Wants to Give AI Agents Their Own National ID
Prime Minister Kristen Michal backed a proposal to issue AI agents a personal identification code separate from the p…
GLAAD Says AI Is Failing LGBTQ Users—And Warns the Risk Is Growing
GLAAD's report argues AI systems can amplify anti-LGBTQ bias, misinformation, discrimination, and privacy harms.
Allbirds Stock Pumps Again as Sneaker Firm Completes AI Pivot, Rebranding to Smartbird
Allbirds, meet Smartbird: The shoe brand has completed its AI pivot, rebranding while hiring a new president and CEO …
Trace Finance raises $32M for cross-border stablecoin settlement expansion
The raise comes as stablecoin regulation advances globally and financial firms invest in infrastructure connecting bl…
EarnOS launches anti-AI slop app, raises $6 million from 1kx, Circle and Coinbase
Ero app is designed to help brands verify human internet traffic, reduce wastes caused by bots, and reward "authentic…
Stablecoin infrastructure firm Trace Finance raises $32 million Series A, says valuation grew 10x from seed
CoinFund led the round, with Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, Jump Capital, Paxos, Chainlink Labs and others partici…
A new Bittensor proposal would turn validators into something like fund managers
Root Reborn would have TAO validators pick which subnets to back and reinvest yield into, rather than constantly sell…
Live markets: A bitcoin bottom signal flashed as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June
Bitcoin's Sharpe ratio hit a level that has marked every cycle low since 2015, but in each case it preceded months of…