On August 28, OpenAI announced its intention to cease direct provision of its AI models to the Cursor editor. The proposed termination date is November 12, 2026, although the final deadline has not yet been agreed upon by the parties. We’re ending our partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. Under our proposal, Cursor’s […]
Following a speech by the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) Kevin Warsh, the price of the leading cryptocurrency dropped from a local high of $81,455 to $76,877. At the time of writing, the asset is trading around $77,700. Hourly chart of BTC/USDT on Binance. Source: TradingView. Ethereum’s price corrected by 2.1% to $2400. […]
Meta has started testing robots to perform technical tasks in its data centers. The machines connect and replace cables, restart servers, and maintain equipment, according to WIRED, citing current and former company employees. For these experiments, Meta is using equipment from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB. Specifically, Meta is testing the Kinova Gen3 robotic arm […]
This week in “Deconstruction,” we focus on the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction, the potential acquisition of Hugging Face by Nvidia, a conspiracy of OpenAI’s AI agents, attacks in the Cosmos ecosystem, and a crypto market overview. First Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transaction StarkWare conducted the first quantum-resistant transaction without altering consensus rules. Instead of vulnerable cryptography, the […]
On August 28, participants in the on-chain vote for Solana approved proposal SGP‑0002, which doubles the annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%. The initiative received 176.29 million SOL in favor, 66.19 million against, and 20.63 million abstentions. Source: Solana Governance. SGP‑0002 is based on the technical proposal SIMD-0550, prepared by infrastructure company Helius. The […]
The group behind the GTA 6 gameplay leaks, CyberLeek, has crashed their own token. Researchers estimate the hackers made approximately $286,000 from the dump and fees. ⚡️ CYBERLEEK IS GONE LEAKER took $268K out of his own coin The GTA community tracked wallets linked to CyberLeek and says around $268K has already been moved out […]
Global investment crypto products attracted $1.65 billion in the first three days of the week. Nearly $1 billion was allocated to Bitcoin, signaling a renewed demand from institutional investors, according to a CoinShares report. Investors also directed $478 million into Ethereum. This marks the second consecutive week of inflows, with crypto funds receiving $2.94 billion […]
On August 27, the UK’s tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), released its first separate statistics on taxable profits from cryptocurrency transactions. For the 2024-2025 period, 17,600 individuals declared £1.38 billion. Taxes are due on cryptoasset gains just like any other gains. 📈 Through our targeted work on cryptoassets, including clear guidance and social media […]
Crypto exchange Kraken suspended services for some clients following a series of small transactions from wallets linked by Arkham Intelligence analysts to HTX. Details were shared by the platform’s representatives with Bloomberg. From August 17 to 24, Kraken received about 12,000 transfers, mostly ranging from a few cents to a few dollars. The company described […]
On August 27, developer of quantum computers QuEra Computing said that Anthropic’s AI agent Claude developed and tested on a separate test stand a program to automatically restore a laser’s operating frequency. In a control series of 700 tests across seven types of failures, the controller it created successfully returned the setup to the target […]
