The SEC meeting that wasn’t: State of Crypto
There were hopes that regulators could move if the Clarity Act didn’t advance, but those, too, may be paused.
Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started
On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site’s terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes would now be resolved through arbitration and said users agree to a class action waiver. Amazon framed this as a “fast and efficient” way to resolve issues, but it notably would … Read more
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google’s Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore
Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn’t produce a working file, Google’s budget tier zero-shots a playable game. It still can’t reason, and a free 27B model still writes better.
The AI Odyssey 2: Key Developments and Milestones in AI
Development of Neural Networks and Deep Learning The fields of neural networks and deep learning represent some of the most significant advancements in artificial intelligence, revolutionizing how machines learn and process information. This development has been pivotal in enabling machines to perform a wide range of complex tasks, from image and speech recognition to natural … Read more
Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals
Investors are starting to judge crypto tokens on usage, economics and value capture rather than market-cap rank, industry executives said.
BACnet/IP: A Packet-Level Study of Objects, Priority Arrays, and Event Services
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have traditionally relied on protocols that expose operational state through registers, coils, or cyclic polling mechanisms. BACnet follows a fundamentally different design philosophy. Rather than representing automation systems as collections of memory locations, BACnet models an installation as a distributed object database. Sensors, actuators, schedules, alarms, trend logs, and even the … Read more
A Six-Step Framework for Auditing Enterprise AI Agents
The pattern repeats across large companies. A year of enthusiasm produced agents everywhere. One team built an agent to summarize tickets. Another built a near-identical one. A third wired an agent into a workflow, shipped it, and moved on, and now nobody owns it. Each agent calls a model, so each one has a bill … Read more
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature … Read more
How I Run A/B Tests in a Chrome Extension (Without Re-Releasing to the Store)
Hi, this is Alexey Belozerov, author of PerfectPixel, a pixel-perfect design comparison tool used by 350k people. At some point of product growth an owner needs to launch experiments and measure impact against a reference group – i.e. A/B testing. Browser extensions are no different. Unfortunately there isn’t any lib or tool tailored for Chrome/web … Read more
The AI Credit Resale Economy
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Two-Factor Authentication: Because Apparently One Password Wasn’t Annoying Enough
Two-factor authentication was supposed to make our lives online safer. Instead, it has turned logging into an account into a small administrative procedure. Enter password.Receive code.Find phone.Unlock phone.Open authenticator.Find code.Enter code.Code expires.Request another code.Receive code.“Too many attempts. Try again later.” The theory is simple enough. Enter your password, prove you have your phone, and you’re … Read more
Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers’ order info
While the data breach exposed the personal order details of thousands of customers, all private keys, seed phrases, and crypto assets remain completely safe.
People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned
A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to “place guardrails” around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists.
MiCA’s cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union
Fraudsters impersonating regulators and licensed crypto exchanges to steal funds from users forced to migrate their accounts after the EU’s MiCA deadline are on the rise.
The stablecoin yield clash that won’t go away has banks, crypto battling over tradition
The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system as it’s existed for generations, and their argument is gaining ground.
Claude: System Prompts
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DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says
DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents … Read more
The ‘long bitcoin, short the bankers’ era is officially over as TradFi giants embrace digital assets
Financial firms are partnering with specialists to build infrastructure, blurring lines between traditional and decentralized finance into a unified sector.
Ethereum devs to narrow 66 proposals tied to Hegotá upgrade
The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications.
Your Healthcare Integration Is Only as Good as Its Data Mapping Decisions
Ask anyone who has sat through a failed healthcare integration what went wrong, and the answer almost never traces back to the interface engine or the network layer. It traces back to data mapping decisions made too early, with too little information, and never revisited until something broke in production. Having watched enough of these … Read more