Month: August 2025

Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its ‘personality’ — and what makes it ‘evil’

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On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system’s “personality” – as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation – changes and why. Researchers also tracked what makes a model “evil.” The Verge spoke with Jack Lindsey, an Anthropic researcher working on interpretability, who has also been tapped to lead the company’s fledgling “AI psychiatry” … Read more

Polkadot’s DOT Suffers 5% Decline as Intensified Selling Pressure Overwhelms Market

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Polkadot’s DOT encountered substantial bearish momentum over the last 24 hours, retreating from $3.76 to $3.56, or more than 5%, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed that DOT initially demonstrated resilience, achieving an intraday high of $3.87 on July 31, yet subsequently confronted relentless selling pressure accompanied by pronounced volume surges … Read more

Verizon is upping its fees again

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Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments” that will raise the cost of your phone bill anyway. In a statement to The Verge, Verizon spokesperson Adria Tomaszewski says the “vast majority” of customers will see a price hike of “less than 30 … Read more

Regulators Handed the Crypto Industry a 5-Year Head Start. Can Wall Street Catch Up?

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With the passage of the GENIUS Act and growing momentum behind the CLARITY bills in Congress, regulatory clarity for digital assets is finally within reach—delivering the legal framework the crypto industry long demanded. But as that clarity arrives, are crypto incumbents the real winners? For years, the dominant narrative from the crypto industry was that … Read more

Observing and evaluating AI agentic workflows with Strands Agents SDK and Arize AX

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This post is co-written with Rich Young from Arize AI. Agentic AI applications built on agentic workflows differ from traditional workloads in one important way: they’re nondeterministic. That is, they can produce different results with the same input. This is because the large language models (LLMs) they’re based on use probabilities when generating each token. … Read more

Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss Says Trump CFTC Pick Quintenz Has ‘Disqualifying’ Views

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Tyler Winklevoss, the CEO of crypto exchange Gemini, is at the center of a rift over support of President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the obscure-but-highly-relevant regulatory agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He thinks former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz is a bad choice, and he’s been talking with officials from the Trump administration about … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Set Up a Cowrie Honeypot to Capture Real SSH Attacks (8/1/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 1, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, General Motors Filed for Bankruptcy in 2012, The First Email was Sent in 1971, Oxygen was discovered in 1774, and we present you with these top quality stories. … Read more

Reddit pauses its paywall plans

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Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday’s earnings. The company is making the change as part of a shift in how it’s prioritizing its resources. Huffman said last year that the company was looking into a way for users … Read more