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With 75% of Tech Listings Asking for AI, Gen Z Weighs Specialist vs Generalist
31.8.2026
In June, 75% of tech job listings asked for explicit AI skills, up from 67% in March and a 178% year-over-year jump. That surge is forcing Gen Z to choose between hyper-specializing in areas like agentic AI and responsible AI or building a “geek polyvalent” profile that pairs technical range with...
Bullish Makes $100M AI Credit Bet With GPUs Serving as Collateral
30.8.2026
On Friday, the institutionally focused digital asset exchange Bullish announced it has extended a $100 million stablecoin debt facility to USD.AI in order to finance loans secured by graphics processing units (GPUs). Alongside this, the company noted that it plans to list USD.AI’s yield-bearing...
Don’t Trust, Verify: Poisoned AI Links Expose a Nightmare for Crypto Workers
29.8.2026
This week, the co-founder of Refi Hub, Numa Lunah, explained that he was compromised by following a download link delivered inside a Claude chat window. The warning is a wake-up call to blockchain and crypto industry workers, as links, skills, and other packages can lead to irreversible theft....
New York Warns of Fake Crypto and AI as Scam Losses Hit $8 Billion
29.8.2026
New York officials are warning that AI-generated content and fake cryptocurrency projects are making investment fraud more convincing. Reported investment scam losses exceeded $8 billion in 2025, rising 38% from the previous year. Investment Scam Losses Rise 38% Investment scams became...
Dunamu Partners With Visa to Build Stablecoin, AI Payment Rails
28.8.2026
Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, signed a strategic partnership with Visa on Aug. 27 to build stablecoin and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven payment infrastructure, the companies announced in San Francisco. Upbit’s Parent Company Teams up With a Global Payments Giant Executives from Dunamu...
Why Did a Judge Just Kill the Trump Administration’s Anthropic Ban?
28.8.2026
A federal judge tore up the Pentagon’s “supply chain risk” label on Anthropic late Thursday, ruling that the Trump administration illegally punished the artificial intelligence (AI) firm for refusing to let the military weaponize its Claude models. A Blunt Rebuke From the Bench...
Core Lightning Team Sounds the Alarm as AI Uncovers Critical Flaws
27.8.2026
On Wednesday, Core Lightning maintainers said that several vulnerabilities were found in Core Lightning (CLN), Blockstream’s Lightning implementation. Reports further say artificial intelligence (AI)-based CVE reports disclosed the issues, and maintainers are telling node runners to install...
Bitdeer Cranks up Bitcoin Mining Power While Rivals Stampede Into AI
25.8.2026
Bitdeer Technologies Group is dropping roughly 1.93 exahash per second (EH/s) of bitcoin mining capacity into a 28-megawatt co-mining deal with Soluna Holdings at a wind-powered data center in South Texas. Bitdeer Sends Its Own Mining Fleet Into Soluna’s Texas Wind Farm Under the deal announced...
Anthropic Co-Founder Ben Mann Says Elite Schools Matter Less in the AI Era
25.8.2026
Benjamin Mann, an Anthropic co-founder who previously worked at OpenAI, argues that AI is eroding the career advantage of elite credentials and top test scores. He points instead to traits like curiosity, empathy, and creativity, even choosing a Montessori-style education for his daughter, echoing...
Peter Schiff Says AI Could Turn Into Bitcoin’s Biggest Threat
23.8.2026
American economist Peter Schiff is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could become a threat to the leading crypto asset bitcoin. Schiff further argued that the two technologies compete for money, electricity and infrastructure, while increasingly powerful AI could potentially uncover...
Beyond the Kimchi Premium: Korea’s Institutional Shift
22.8.2026
Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park outlines South Korea’s transition from a retail-driven crypto market to an institutional digital finance hub. However, he believes institutional adoption relies on resolving unglamorous back-office realities supported by new frameworks...
South Korea Deploys AI to Bust Crypto Market Manipulation
22.8.2026
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has deployed an AI-powered surveillance system to monitor crypto markets and detect unfair trading practices in real time. Algorithms Track ‘Racehorse’ and ‘Cage’ Schemes South Korea’s financial regulator has reportedly deployed...
Coinbase’s x402 Handles 14 Million AI Agent Payments in 30 Days
19.8.2026
AI agents initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 payment protocol over the past 30 days, with Base and Polygon handling most of the activity. USDC accounted for virtually all transfers, offering an early indication that autonomous software may become a new source of stablecoin demand. USDC...
Trump’s WLFI Faces Scrutiny Over Pentagon-Flagged AI Ties
18.8.2026
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump’s family, is facing fresh scrutiny after nearly half the artificial intelligence (AI) models on its partner platform, Worldclaw, were found to come from Chinese companies the U.S. Department of Defense flagged...
Tether Pushes Into Artificial Intelligence as User Base Tops 650M
18.8.2026
Tether is expanding into artificial intelligence as it looks to build on a global user base of more than 650 million. CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company increasingly sees itself as a digital dollar and infrastructure business rather than a conventional crypto firm. Tether Expands Beyond Crypto...
China’s 5,500 Robot Shipments Put US AI Hardware Rivals on Notice
18.8.2026
Unitree’s 5,500-plus humanoid robot deliveries highlight China’s scale in humanoid robot manufacturing. Devere Group CEO Nigel Green says those exports offer investors an alternative to heavily financed U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure. Unitree’s Shipments Strengthen China’s Physical...
HIVE Digital Lands $350M AI Deal With 5-Year Cloud Contract
17.8.2026
HIVE Digital Technologies’ BUZZ HPC unit has signed a five-year AI cloud services contract worth about $350 million. The agreement will add roughly $70 million in annualized revenue and accelerate HIVE’s shift toward large-scale GPU infrastructure. BUZZ Deploys 2,016 Nvidia GPUs Under HIVE’s $350M...
Glassnode: Consumer Confidence Sinks as AI Stocks Soar, Bitcoin Left Behind
17.8.2026
Consumer confidence is sitting near its weakest levels in a decade even as U.S. stocks notch record highs, and Glassnode says bitcoin is being left out of the rotation entirely. A Confidence Paradox Consumer confidence remains, in Glassnode’s words, “among the weakest readings of...
SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor Deal in Major AI Compute Push
14.8.2026
SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, bringing the AI coding company and its model-development operation under SpaceX. The transaction deepens a partnership centered on using large-scale computing infrastructure to train more capable models. SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor...
Bitcoin Hashrate Slips 17% Off Record as Miners Chase AI
14.8.2026
Bitcoin’s network hashrate has fallen as much as 17% below its all-time high, per CryptoQuant, as publicly listed miners redirect power and capital toward artificial intelligence data centers instead of chasing new mining capacity. Hashrate Pulls Back From Record Highs Bitcoin’s network...