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on Jul 17, 2026
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Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 — the world’s first open 3T-class model with 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision, and a 1 million-token context window. By the project’s own estimates, overall it trailed only the proprietary Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol. Kimi K3 is built on the new Kimi Delta Attention […]

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on Jul 17, 2026
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On July 16, VentureBeat published the results of a survey on the security of corporate AI agents. Among 107 respondents, 18% reported a confirmed security incident, while another 36% mentioned an incident that was stopped before causing damage. Source: VentureBeat Pulse Research. Another 42% of participants did not identify such events. In 5% of the […]

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on Jul 17, 2026
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Payment company Visa has introduced the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) for stablecoin operations, aimed at banks and fintech companies. The platform supports issuance, redemption, storage, and transfer of assets within a single interface. The product also includes Wallet-as-a-Service, where Visa hosts and maintains the wallet infrastructure, and clients connect via API. Access is secured with […]

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on Jul 17, 2026
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Ledger has unveiled the Agent Stack toolset, enabling AI agents to interact with cryptocurrency wallets. These agents can check balances, analyze portfolios, and prepare transactions, but any signed operations require device confirmation. Clean build on the Ledger Agent Stack. The hardware-as-final-approval pattern is exactly right. https://t.co/TIKAaphw76 — Ledger (@Ledger) July 16, 2026 According to the […]

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on Jul 17, 2026
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Cards and stablecoins will occupy different niches in AI agent payments, according to a report by Visa and blockchain analytics firm Artemis. The authors identified two categories of such transactions: human-directed purchases: booking travel, managing subscriptions, and ordering goods. These transactions are similar to regular online commerce and can be processed through payment cards; frequent […]

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on Jul 17, 2026
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Zhipu, a leading Chinese technology company in the field of artificial intelligence, trained its GLM-5.2 model using responses from Claude and GPT. This was stated by Tarun Chhabra, head of national security policy at Anthropic, during the Aspen Security Forum, as reported by the South China Morning Post. According to him, the U.S. is six […]

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on Jul 16, 2026
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In a technical experiment, Nvidia increased the accuracy of the Cosmos 3 Nano model on a multiple-choice test from 54.41% to 93.35% in less than a day. The main retraining stages were performed by the AI agent Codex using pre-prepared instructions from TAO. The result was achieved using a specialized dataset—Woven Traffic Safety by Woven […]

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on Jul 16, 2026
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Researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management University identified signs of manipulation in the settlement of five-minute Bitcoin contracts on Polymarket. This is detailed in the paper Settlement Manipulation in Prediction Markets. The authors analyzed more than 60 million on-chain records, the platform’s order book snapshots, and high-frequency spot market data. The 821 wallets they […]

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on Jul 16, 2026
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OpenAI plans to enter the consumer electronics market with an AI-powered smart speaker designed as a home companion, according to Bloomberg sources. The product’s key feature is its “personality” and ability to interact with users on a human-like level, sources told the publication. The device includes a camera and other sensors to account for environment […]

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on Jul 16, 2026
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A day after the release of U.S. inflation data (CPI), Bitcoin rose above $65,000 and maintained most of its momentum. This development has renewed capital inflows into cryptocurrency funds. At the time of writing, the leading cryptocurrency is trading around $65,340, up 2% over the past 24 hours. Hourly chart of BTC/USDT on Binance. Source: […]