In August, the KGST stablecoin, pegged to the Kyrgyz som, became one of the top three most traded tokens among new Binance users in Kyrgyzstan. The exchange presented its results in the country on September 5 at a meeting of the National Council for the Development of Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies. The report was […]
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned from the latter company. He accused AI industry leaders of irresponsibility and creating a threat to humanity. I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing […]
Seventeen percent of farmers worldwide are now using generative AI for agricultural tasks, marking it as one of the fastest-growing technologies in the sector, according to the McKinsey Global Farmer Insights 2026 report. In contrast, other technologies like robotics, electric agricultural machinery, and sustainability software are not yet widely adopted. AI adoption is advancing most […]
A fault-tolerant quantum computer with approximately 20,000 physical qubits would require 26 days to break the cryptography of secp256k1, according to IonQ. The first complete, end-to-end fault-tolerant resource estimate for running Shor’s algorithm—the team used IonQ’s Walking Cat architecture to demonstrate how a specific application can be optimized for a trapped-ion quantum computer. This work […]
Advanced AI systems could pose an existential risk to humanity, with the loss of control over them threatening catastrophic consequences. This warning comes from Nobel Prize-winning physicist and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, as reported by The Times. “It would be extremely unwise to develop superintelligence now, when there is no scientific consensus on whether it […]
On September 8, bitcoin continued to trade below $80,000 after several failed attempts to hold above that level. At the time of writing, the leading cryptocurrency traded around $78,380, down 1.3% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Hourly chart of BTC/USDT on Binance. Source: TradingView. Market signals are mixed. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs notched a […]
American illustrator John Paul Ferrara has returned to work after losing his sight, thanks to AI. This was reported by News 12 New Jersey. Ferrara spent nearly 40 years creating covers for romance novels. In 2020, he underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, which resulted in almost complete vision loss. He turned to […]
On September 7, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) Protocol Cluster published priorities for the Hegota upgrade. Of 62 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), two received the top S-tier, or must-ship: FOCIL (EIP-7805) and Frame Transactions (EIP-8141). The Protocol Cluster has published two new posts: Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List evaluates and grades all 62 EIPs […]
On September 7, Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet published an open letter proposing to make coordinated vulnerability disclosure an industry norm. The initiative was supported by Trezor, Foundation, AnchorWatch, SEAL and other market participants. 📌 AI made finding bugs cheap, but it didn’t make responsible disclosure optional. Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities has never been easier. A […]
Irish criminal groups have started storing seed phrases and private keys for cryptocurrency wallets in rented bank safe deposit boxes. This practice was revealed by Michael Gubbins, head of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), in an interview with the Sunday Independent. He stated that the bureau uncovered this scheme during investigations and reported the findings […]