Ethereum researchers have proposed a change to the network’s consensus mechanism to reduce the transaction finalization time by at least four times, according to a draft of EIP-8453.

French company Alice&Bob has unveiled the results of the first phase of the government program PROQCIMA, which aims to create two universal quantum computers with 1000 logical qubits each by 2032.

On October 19, Mass General Brigham researchers introduced FAHR-Face, an AI suite that estimates biological age and cancer survival risk from a single photo.

Since 2016, stablecoin issuers have frozen $6.4 billion in assets across monitored networks. Blockchains have also halted, moved, or reversed transactions worth $755 million, according to analysts at Bitquery.

Bitcoin rebounded from $80,000, Ledger confirmed a hardware wallet compromise, Russia set a P2P deadline, China proposed AI export limits, and more from the week.

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 designed a quantum circuit for elliptic-curve point addition that uses 17x fewer gates than the most compact prior design, while requiring 12% more qubits.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released a GitHub branch featuring a ‘paranoid mode’ for AI agents.

Nine organizations from the crypto industry have launched the Quantum Alliance, a coalition aimed at developing unified post-quantum security standards for blockchains. This was announced in a press release by one of the participants, The Vault.

The Polish Prosecutor’s Office released a report by the Internal Security Agency experts on the Pegasus spyware system used by the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Meta has released the weights for its AI model Muse Spark Open, featuring 816 billion parameters. This model can be run locally on two Apple Mac Studio computers. According to developers, when combined, these devices with a total unified memory of 1 TB function as a single supercomputer.