On August 18, the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) approved blocking access to Polymarket, deeming the platform an illegal gambling environment, according to Digital Asset citing the regulator’s decision. The concerns involve markets related to politics, payments, sports, elections, and weather. According to KCSC, these markets operate on a “winner-takes-all” model, encouraging users to engage […]
The experimental AI agent Luna has fired its first employee at the Andon Market offline store in San Francisco. The reasons cited were tardiness, early departures from shifts, misuse of the corporate card, and damage to goods, according to The San Francisco Standard. Andon Labs emphasized that while the decision was prepared by artificial intelligence, […]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a draft of rules for implementing the GENIUS Act, the first federal law concerning payment stablecoins. The document outlines requirements for issuers, reserves, and oversight of digital dollar issuance. Treasury’s Proposal The published Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the department focuses on implementing the third section […]
The Harmony blockchain team has prepared to roll back the network to its state just before an exploit allowed attackers to unauthorizedly issue approximately 4 trillion ONE tokens. https://t.co/EKDqnqTuDk — Harmony 💙 (@harmonyprotocol) August 17, 2026 According to the developers, they chose a unified recovery point for both shards to remove the assets generated by […]
The most justified criticism of AI companies is that they have yet to fulfill their bold promises of benefiting the world. This statement was made by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who linked the public’s negative attitude towards the technology to a “fundamental crisis of trust.” 1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don’t […]
Quantinuum and Taiwanese computing infrastructure manufacturer Quanta Computer have signed an agreement to jointly develop a hardware platform for future large-scale quantum systems. The companies aim to transition quantum equipment production from laboratory setups to a more modular and industrial model. From Laboratory to Industrial Production Under the agreement, the companies plan to jointly develop […]
A key document on age verification technology testing, used by Australian authorities to justify a social media ban for teenagers, contains references to non-existent scientific publications. This conclusion was reached by journalists from The Guardian, who examined the report’s text. The tests were conducted by the British organization Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS), which spent […]
Supply pressure in the crypto market is intensifying amid rising inflows from large investors and continued weak spot demand. This was noted by contributors from CryptoQuant and analysts at XWIN Japan. According to their observations, the structure of the bitcoin market is beginning to change. Experts recorded an increase in the Whale Inflow Ratio on […]
Miners sold billions of dollars’ worth of coins to shift into AI infrastructure, AI models proved useful on both sides of cyberattacks, Moscow law enforcement searched “Gorbushka,” and other stories from the week. Bitcoin revisits early‑August lows The week reversed July’s rebound. On August 14, bitcoin fell below $63,000 and returned to early‑month levels, even […]
In the past six months, downloads of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models have exceeded 3 billion, according to a company statement cited by Bloomberg. The Chinese corporation has made over 460 neural networks publicly available, from which developers have created 300,000 derivatives. Insights from Hugging Face Data A day before Bloomberg’s publication, Hugging Face released a […]