Anti-Bitcoin Vanguard Might Be the Largest Institutional Holder of MSTR Stock

Vanguard, the $10 trillion asset manager known in crypto circles for blocking client access to bitcoin ETFs, has emerged as the largest institutional shareholder of Strategy (MSTR), a company whose business model is built around buying and holding bitcoin. According to Bloomberg, Vanguard now owns more than 20 million shares of MSTR — over 8% … Read more

The Node: GENIUS, Clarity and a CBDC Ban

Three different crypto bills could potentially pass through the House of Representatives in the next few days: the GENIUS Act, the Clarity Act, and the Anti-CBDC Act. The “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025” (GENIUS) Act would set up a framework for overseeing stablecoins. It has already passed the Senate, so … Read more

Crypto Markets Bifurcate With Institutions Focusing on BTC and ETH While Retail Chases Alts: Wintermute

The crypto market is splitting in two. Institutional and retail investors are taking increasingly different paths, with institutional players anchoring themselves in bitcoin BTC and Ethereum’s ether ETH while retail investors pour into altcoins and memecoins, according to a mid-year report from crypto trading firm Wintermute. Analyzing over-the-counter spot trading volumes, institutional trading volumes with … Read more

Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

Google is launching eight featured notebooks to start, with more to come. Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic. … Read more

ICP Rebounds Toward $5.50 After Early Morning Surge and Midday Volatility

Internet Computer (ICP) showed signs of resilience in a turbulent 24-hour window, climbing as high as $5.6781 before consolidating just below the $5.50 mark. Despite late-session selling, the token remains poised for potential recovery amid ongoing volatility. Starting July 13 at 17:00 UTC, ICP began a steady ascent, reaching its session high of $5.6781 early … Read more

House Gears Up for Crypto Market Structure Vote on Wednesday, Stablecoins Thursday

The U.S. House of Representatives’ so-called Crypto Week is steaming toward mid-week votes on two foundational pieces of legislation that would push the industry’s status forward significantly in the U.S., including what amounts to a final congressional action on regulating stablecoins. While that last necessary vote on the stablecoin bill known as the Guiding and … Read more

Why Bittensor Is AI’s Best Next-Gen Incubator

After nearly ten years in crypto, I’ve watched hundreds of projects promise to revolutionize everything from banking to art. Yet these revolutions have largely failed to materialize. The issue isn’t technology. It’s that we’ve been building solutions looking for problems, rather than focusing on solving real challenges and delivering real value. Most projects create tokens … Read more

Welcome to the Museum of AI Hallucinations

TLDR; This article explores the surprising creative potential of AI hallucinations in generative AI models like DALL·E. While typically viewed as flaws in deep learning, these “errors” can produce unexpected artistic brilliance. By comparing human imagination with AI’s pattern-based logic, the piece questions whether AI’s falsehoods might actually be a new kind of creativity. It challenges how we define truth, … Read more

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs

Canva users can now create, edit, and manage their designs by describing their requirements to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The connection is the latest of several integrations that allow Claude users to access third-party tools and services, including Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma, without having to leave their conversation with the AI chatbot. Starting today, Claude … Read more

Build AI-driven policy creation for vehicle data collection and automation using Amazon Bedrock

Vehicle data is critical for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to drive continuous product innovation and performance improvements and to support new value-added services. Similarly, the increasing digitalization of vehicle architectures and adoption of software-configurable functions allow OEMs to add new features and capabilities efficiently. Sonatus’s Collector AI and Automator AI products address these two aspects … Read more

How Rapid7 automates vulnerability risk scores with ML pipelines using Amazon SageMaker AI

This post is cowritten with Jimmy Cancilla from Rapid7. Organizations are managing increasingly distributed systems, which span on-premises infrastructure, cloud services, and edge devices. As systems become interconnected and exchange data, the potential pathways for exploitation multiply, and vulnerability management becomes critical to managing risk. Vulnerability management (VM) is the process of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, … Read more

Build secure RAG applications with AWS serverless data lakes

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Traditional data architectures often struggle to meet the unique demands of generative such as applications. An effective generative AI data strategy requires several key components like seamless integration of diverse data sources, … Read more

Prime Day event drove over $24B in U.S. e-commerce sales, gen AI traffic was up 3,300%

Amazon’s Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase in retail traffic driven by generative AI products, including chatbots and browsers. According to a post-Prime Day analysis by Adobe Analytics, gen AI traffic to U.S. retail sites increased by 3,300% year-over-year — which was … Read more