CFTC issues second warning to prediction markets on cookie-cutter self-certifications
For the second time this year, the regulator told prediction markets to stop issuing overly broad, template-style certifications of events contracts.
Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules
How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
“The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!”
Russia’s Sberbank to launch crypto trading infrastructure this year
Russia’s biggest bank plans to create cryptocurrency trading infrastructure by Dec. 1 as the country is set to establish rules for market participants while allowing crypto assets to be used in foreign trade operations.
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
How Do You Know When AI Is Telling the Truth?
Artificial intelligence has matured from a research novelty into infrastructure — embedded in search engines, medical diagnosis tools, financial advisors, and enterprise software at scale. Yet a fundamental challenge persists at every deployment: how do we know when an AI is right? Unlike traditional software, which either executes a defined instruction or throws an error, … Read more
Design Is Compromise
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Before an AI Can Spend Your Money, Someone Has to Solve KYC for Robots
In the last article, I argued the idea of giving each person an AI agent that represents them online — one that can, in a meaningful sense, legally act on their behalf. I spent a lot of words on identity and trust, and then I did the thing every optimistic tech essay does: I gestured … Read more
Carrie is just trying to make a friend in the new trailer
The latest adaptation debuts October 7th. | Image: Amazon Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (this will be his fourth), is slated to make its debut on Amazon Prime on October 7th. The new trailer dropped at Comic-Con 2026 and doesn’t contain many surprises. If you’re familiar with Carrie at all, it hits all … Read more
You can get three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for almost half off
Subscribing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on a recurring basis has been tough to justify recently, even after Microsoft reduced the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99. But you can get a better deal on a three-month subscription (valued at $69) by grabbing a digital code at Eneba that costs $39.01 at the time of … Read more
Marvel announces Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, a new Black Panther, and more
Ryan Gosling on stage at Comic-Con | Image: Marvel Studios While perhaps less dramatic than in years past, Marvel nonetheless had some big reveals lined up for Comic-Con. The highest profile was certainly the announcement that Ryan Gosling would be joining the MCU as Ghost Rider, with the Shawn Levy-directed (Deadpool & Wolverine) standalone feature … Read more
Mira Murati’s Inkling AI Model Review: Best Open-Source Model in the West
After two years of silence from Thinking Machines Lab, Murati’s debut model is out and on OpenRouter. The MCP score is genuinely impressive. The price-to-performance math is more complicated.
The TechBeat: Multi-Agent Systems Need a Control Plane, Not Just Better Orchestration (7/26/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## The Anatomy of AI: A Developer’s Field Guide to the Internals By @syedahmershah [ 16 Min read ] A deep technical … Read more
204 Blog Posts To Learn About Digital Identity
Let’s learn about Digital Identity via these 204 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Digital identity is the electronic representation of an individual or entity’s attributes used for authentication and authorization in digital systems. … Read more
Bitcoin OG selling eases as dormant BTC movement hits 4-year low: Galaxy
Dormant BTC activity fell to its lowest level since Q3 2022, suggesting long-term holders have slowed distribution after heavy profit-taking.
U.S. regulator warns prediction markets against cutting corners in event contracts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission again issued an advisory that signals firms have been straying into cookie-cutter self-certification.
The vertical video takeover is here
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things vertical video, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started For a while, every social and media platform … Read more
Kill The Cookie Banner
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South Korea’s largest bank to launch payment service on JPMorgan’s Kinexys
South Korea’s largest lender will use JPMorgan’s blockchain platform to support US dollar cross-border payments for import and export businesses across 10 countries.
Europe’s high regulatory bar could spark new crypto industry M&A wave
As MiCA beds in and the U.K. finalizes its crypto framework, stringent regulation could spur mergers, acquisitions and closer ties with banks.
Systemd Linger
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Elevated Errors for Opus 5
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How MCP Is Changing AI Agent Development
Every team building AI agents eventually runs into the same wall. The model can reason, plan, and write fluent responses — but the moment it needs to touch a real system (a database, a file store, a ticketing tool, a search API), someone has to write custom glue code. Do that for every tool, for … Read more