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OpenAI's new CEO for Applications says the long-heralded dream of AI optimists is near - the personalized AI assistant that proactively helps you achieve your goals.
AI Index for domains on Cloudflare is a web index that gives content creators the tools to make their data discoverable by AI, giving AI builders access to better data for fair compensation.
Large language models aren't capable of learning on-the-job, so no matter how much we scale, we will still need a new architecture to enable continual learning.
Anthropic's international growth is outpacing the company's most ambitious forecasts.
Imagine with Claude, which lets users interact with a classic desktop UI where windows and apps are managed by AI, will be released as a temporary demo for certain plans.
YouTube Labs is a new initiative that gives users early access to AI experiments.
US spot Ethereum ETFs saw ~$796M in outflows last week, their worst since launch in July 2024, as ETH briefly dipped below $4,000 before rebounding. BlackRock's ETHA lost ~$200M, while Fidelity's FETH shed ~$362M, marking the steepest two-day span of redemptions since mid-August. Spot Bitcoin ETFs also posted ~$903M in outflows, with BlackRock's IBIT holding up better than Fidelity's FBTC.
NYDIG's Global Head of Research, Greg Cipolaro, argues that the commonly used mNAV metric for valuing Digital Asset Treasury companies should be eliminated from industry reporting, calling it "misleading" at best and "disingenuous" at worst, following Strive's acquisition of Semler Scientific in the first-ever DAT merger. The firm criticizes mNAV for failing to account for operating businesses or other assets that DATs typically own, noting that most major bitcoin treasury firms operate value-adding businesses beyond their crypto holdings, while the metric often uses "assumed shares outstanding" that may include unconverted debt obligations. NYDIG warns that convertible debt holders would demand cash rather than shares for their debt, creating more onerous liabilities than simple share issuance, while convertible debt structures incentivize DATs to maximize equity volatility since converts function as debt plus call options.
Eliza Labs is migrating the ai16z token to elizaOS to support version 2's cross-chain operations through Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol and agent-native workflows that learn over time, evolving from the original ai16z proof-of-concept that demonstrated agents could capture attention and catalyze culture into a production framework. elizaOS v2 features 200+ plugins connecting to various interfaces and cross-chain cognition capabilities, allowing agents to observe signals on one chain, plan on another, and settle on a third while maintaining context through CCIP's secure token transfers and arbitrary data messaging. The framework enables "generative economies" where tokens behave like programs, treasuries function as adaptive engines, and strategies improve through experience, with agents capable of deploying liquidity, allocating reserves to productive strategies, and routing value efficiently while sharing learnings across the network.
Share combines three traditionally separate companies into one native iOS app: a social network where transactions become content and wallets become creators, a real-time block explorer indexing every transaction from onchain apps into human-readable events, and a wallet for research, trading, and portfolio tracking across Solana, Base, and Ethereum. Share addresses the observation that many users screenshot transactions to share on Twitter, Telegram, and Discord despite broken UX. The platform implements "Info Finance" principles by allowing wallets to contextualize onchain transactions with media in exchange for social capital and market influence, creating a real-time feed of financial market activity as every asset becomes tokenized from stocks to memes to predictions.
a16z crypto's newsletter features a deep-dive on prediction markets with economics professors Alex Tabarrok and Scott Kominers, exploring how these markets work, their design principles, and intersection with AI and futarchy trends, while addressing what prediction markets are good for and where blockchain technology fits into the ecosystem. The edition also includes fundraising advice for founders to abandon the "not-raising-raise" playbook popular during 2020-2021's zero-interest-rate environment, instead returning to structured, intentional venture capital pitching processes rather than hoping for preemption from opportunistic VC meetings. Industry updates highlight Morgan Stanley's partnership with Zerohash to offer crypto trading on ETrade in 2026, Coinbase and CloudFlare's x402 protocol foundation for AI-driven payments enabling direct web transactions without accounts or API keys, and CloudFlare's new dollar-backed stablecoin for "instant and secure" agentic web transactions.
Stablecoin giants Tether and Circle are "printing money" by keeping yields from US Treasuries backing their tokens while holders receive no returns, with Tether reporting $4.9 billion in net profit in Q2 and reaching a $500 billion valuation in new funding. New platforms like M^0 and Agora are emerging to address this issue by allowing stablecoin infrastructure to route yield directly to applications or end users rather than issuers capturing all profits, as elevated interest rates create pressure for yield-sharing models. Tether defended its approach by stating USDT serves as "a digital dollar, not an investment product" for hundreds of millions in emerging markets facing dramatic inflation rates of 50-90% annually, arguing that yield-bearing stablecoins target different audiences and carry additional regulatory risks.
Payments aren't inherently “crypto”, they're just an action made possible by crypto's trustless settlement. The real breakthrough is trustware, programmable trust primitives where identity, commitments, and fairness inherit the same finality and neutrality as onchain settlement. This creates digital interactions that can't be faked, revoked, or manipulated by boardrooms or governments. However, if trustware is built on half-decentralized, corporate rails, it mutates into a dystopia of permanent surveillance and programmable coercion. To prevent capture, the rails must be credibly neutral, auditable, and decentralized from the start, aligning even with the incentives of those in power, since neutrality protects them from political capture.
Credible neutrality means anyone, Democrat, Republican, anarchist, EU bureaucrat, or even a dictator, can trust that their code executes and property rights are respected without censorship or control. It's the guarantee of a global, common platform secured by thousands of independent validators, where you can store a billion dollars digitally and know it won't be seized. In this framing, Ethereum is the only Turing-complete platform that won't interfere with your money, code, or life. That's why, in 20 years, the entire planet will run on Ethereum, not out of preference, but because it's the only neutral substrate left.
The past weeks have seen an unprecedented wave of stablecoin activity.
Wall Street giants are accelerating their crypto integrations.
Plasma has shown strong execution from launch to partnerships to mainnet to TGE (token generation event), while comps like Monad and MegaETH have arguably lost momentum.
Self Protocol allows users to prove information about their identity without revealing sensitive information.
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Trump just approved a TikTok deal where American investors, including Oracle, Michael Dell, and Rupert Murdoch, will control 80% of a new US entity valued at $14 billion, with ByteDance keeping 20%. The new structure means the US company will control TikTok's algorithm and content, technically complying with the 2024 law requiring ByteDance's divestiture while keeping the app running.
YC's Early Decision allows students to apply while in school, securing a future spot in a batch post-graduation. Successful applicants receive immediate funding, ensuring they can complete their studies before starting with YC.
Meta is investing heavily in humanoid robots, focusing on software rather than hardware, according to CTO Andrew Bosworth. The company plans to develop a licensing software platform for other manufacturers, similar to Google's strategy in the mobile industry. Meta's new Superintelligence AI lab aims to create a "world model" for dexterous robotics, with key talent hired to lead this effort.
Venture capital funding is rising, with North American startups securing $184 billion, yet competition remains intense. Investors seek differentiation and scalability, and VCs require early market validation, while accelerators focus on the founder's problem-solving insights. Successful pitches emphasize clear, jargon-free communication, a distinctive future vision, and proof of traction to convert investors from skeptics to believers.
PostHog founders waited until 2024 to add AI, seeing most features as "fool's gold" - bolted on, rarely used, quick to tarnish. After a year of building Max AI, the team shares three hard lessons learned.
Effort and outcomes often don't align. Cheaper celebrity podcasts now out-earn costly narrative shows. Business degrees provide higher starting salaries than counseling degrees, despite the same time investment. Entrepreneurs should evaluate ideas and existing projects to ensure efforts yield substantial returns, focusing on projects that compound input effectively.
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KLING AI is a next-gen creative studio for generating high-quality images and videos from text prompts built for rich detail and diverse visual styles.
IndieMerger is an all-in-one platform where co-founders can match, chat, and build startups together with shared workspaces, Kanban boards, and AI-powered skill matching.
Wegic is the first AI website team that builds, optimizes, and updates your site automatically while collecting leads and boosting sales.
Google will launch a personal context search that adds everything it knows about you to queries. It would turn a search like "coffee" into "oat milk latte near my 2 pm meeting that won't make me late" automatically. This fragments SEO because profitable generic searches are split into millions of hyper-specific queries nobody can optimize for - sites dominating "best laptop" lose traffic to niche players matching individual contexts. The shift means SEO moves from keywords to being genuinely useful for specific moments, while Google's data moat makes this advantage permanent.
Just because AI lets anyone spin up an app in minutes doesn't mean they understand prototyping - real prototyping is about asking the right questions, not just building things. The best prototypes are disposable tools designed to answer one specific question: does this solve a real problem (Role), does it feel right to use (Look and Feel), or can we actually build it (Implementation)? Pick one lens, build just enough to learn something, then throw it away.
Experts writing AI evaluations have transformed them into essential sales tools and technical benchmarks for AI companies, driving rapid growth. Mercor leveraged this opportunity and reached $500M revenue in 17 months by partnering with top AI labs to provide expert evaluations that improve model performance. Brendan Foody, Mercor's CEO, highlights the importance of evaluations in addressing AI bottlenecks and shaping the future AI-driven economy.
How you spend your time reveals your operating philosophy - your unstated beliefs about how the world works.
The real test isn't what other people think, but what nature and free markets tell you.
It comes down to just making sure people who should pay you know who you are, get what you do, and trust you enough to call you first when they're ready.
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The traditional pen testing model is slow and expensive: pay thousands per day for a single test, wait weeks for scoping and scheduling, then get one snapshot report that's outdated on arrival.
A new ransomware gang called Radiant has hacked a chain of nurseries called Kido and stolen the data of 8,000 children. The breached data includes names, pictures, and addresses. The criminals contacted the BBC directly and stated that they hadn't asked for a high ransom and viewed it as compensation for performing a pentest, even though no pentest was authorized.
Mimecast is reporting on a low-volume spear-phishing campaign that has been active since 2022, targeting super admins of ScreenConnect instances. The attackers send an email warning admins of a new login attempt and prompting them to review it, and if they click through, it directs the admins to an EvilGnix phishing page that harvests their credentials. The attackers use the access to deploy compromised clients and ransomware.
A malicious advertising campaign offering "free access" to TradingView Premium has expanded from Facebook to Google Ads and YouTube, using over 500 website addresses and hijacking verified business accounts to spread the Trojan.Agent.GOSL spyware. The scammers take control of legitimate YouTube channels, delete the original content, and rebrand them to mimic the official TradingView page, using unlisted videos and paid advertising to avoid detection. The malware is designed to steal sensitive information, including passwords, personal data, and cryptocurrency wallet details. One fake video gathered over 182,000 views in just a few days.
Trail of Bits created a sophisticated CodeQL query to analyze 2,500 implicit integer conversion warnings in OpenVPN2, filtering them down to 20 security insights through iterative methods, including range analysis, and focusing on user-controlled inputs. Its five-step approach combined compiler warnings with static analysis techniques such as taint tracking and function modeling to differentiate between safe conversions and potential vulnerabilities. Although most conversions were safe, its team concluded that specialized analysis is necessary to identify risky cases. They did not find any exploitable vulnerabilities but did produce a reusable query for C codebases.
Security researchers utilized CyberChef to deobfuscate a Nanocore VBS loader, which encoded ASCII characters using mathematical operations and hexadecimal values. They utilized subsection tools and flow control to isolate operators, convert hex, perform calculations, and decode ASCII, demonstrating how advanced techniques can reverse complex obfuscations.
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Cloudflare Radar added two features: regional traffic insights showing sub-national Internet patterns via administrative divisions, and comprehensive Certificate Transparency (CT) data expanding on the Merkle Town dashboard. The regional insights reveal localized traffic trends, such as mobile vs. desktop usage, and the impacts of weather or infrastructure issues. The CT data provides analysis of certificate issuance, CA activity, and log metrics. These features enhance Radar's goal of detailed Internet health and security visibility through dashboards, APIs, and Radar's Data Explorer.
OmniProx is a command-line tool designed for security professionals to deploy and manage HTTP proxies across various cloud providers, including Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, and Alibaba Cloud, through a single interface. It offers IP and header rotation for web scraping, reconnaissance, or privacy, and is designed to utilize free tiers for cost efficiency. However, security teams should be aware that it could be misused for malicious activities such as bypassing rate limits, evading detection, or unauthorized reconnaissance.
WerDump is a Beacon Object File (BOF) for Havoc and Cobalt Strike that allows dumping Process Protected Lsass using WerFaultSecure.