Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
The AI hedge fund went from “the talk of Wall Street” to “subject of federal subpoenas” faster than you can say “diversify your portfolio.”
Month: August 2026
Lenovo confirms Legion Go issues after gamers report bricked devices
Cursed BIOS. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge When a company’s software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks so. But it’s not clear that computing giant Lenovo will go that far. Three weeks after a Redditor presented a nearly $300 … Read more
Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B
We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.
Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It
The open-source AI hub is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach and days after Stripe’s OpenRouter deal reset the price of AI infrastructure.
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Building Memory for AI Agents: From Episodes to Knowledge
Why episodic, semantic, procedural, and working memory should not be dumped into the same bucket. An AI agent completes a task successfully. It finds a flight, compares the options, applies the travel policy, and books the right itinerary. What should it remember? Everything, of course. Embed the conversation, persist the tool calls, store the final … Read more
CFTC, US soldier accused of illegal Polymarket bet spar over interpretation of prediction markets
A judge stayed the CFTC’s civil case against a soldier who allegedly used nonpublic information for a Polymarket bet, but the regulator is trying to weigh in on the criminal case.
Strive Buys $81.5 Million in Bitcoin After Issuing More Shares
The company increased its Bitcoin holdings by 5.5%, but its Bitcoin per fully diluted share rose only about 1.4%.
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.
I Planted 10 Goroutine Leaks to Test Go 1.27’s New Leak Detector
A worker blocks on a channel nobody reads, the handler that spawned it returns, and your process now carries a goroutine that will live until the next deploy. Nothing in your logs mentions it. Do that once per request, and you have a memory graph that climbs for days before anyone opens an issue. Go … Read more
Best AI Crypto Trading Bots in 2026: A Complete Guide to AI-Powered Crypto Trading Platforms
Introduction: The Evolution of AI Crypto Trading The cryptocurrency market operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, creating both opportunities and challenges for traders. Unlike traditional financial markets, crypto markets never close. Monitoring price movements, analyzing market data, and executing strategies manually can be extremely time-consuming. This has accelerated the development of AI … Read more
human.tech Launches Wallet Protocol on Ika Network for Decentralized Apps and AI agents
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/–The human.tech Wallet Protocol is live today on the Ika decentralized network. This extension lets developers build multi-chain apps across EVM, Sui, and Solana, with additional chains to be added. CEO of the parent company, Holonym Foundation, Dr. Shady El Damaty said, “This is the first chain-agnostic and decentralized … Read more
Gemini plans to distribute crypto prediction markets through Apex brokerages
The proposed deal would make Gemini the exclusive venue for crypto event contracts offered through Apex’s FCM, expanding its prediction-market reach to brokerage clients.
AI Model Ox Alpha Is Free, Beats Claude Fable, and Nobody Knows Who Built It
Ox Alpha is topping benchmark scores, reads a million tokens, takes video as input, and has developers guessing who’s behind it.
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case
Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.
FlyEdge Opens Public Preview of Aviation-Focused Blockchain for Tokenized Airline Loyalty
Seoul, South Korea, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/–FlyEdge, a B2B platform focused on tokenizing airline loyalty value, has opened a multilingual public preview that allows airlines and travelers to experience and independently verify the full on-chain process—from token issuance and conversion to transfer and redemption. The preview runs on StreamChain, an EVM-compatible mainnet founded by GW Lee … Read more
Why the Bitcoin Rally Looks Like a Vote Against the Dollar
Bitcoin and gold rose as the dollar weakened following expanded Treasury bond buybacks, reflecting concerns about U.S. fiscal policy, analysts say.
Bernstein sees new USDC growth cycle, sets $140 Circle price target
USDC supply increased by roughly $2 billion in seven days, with Bernstein citing higher transaction activity and several factors that could support further growth.
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage
As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit’s role in developing it.
The cat-and-mouse game over 3D-printed guns has begun
The creator of the world’s first 3D-printed gun claims he’s developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant to block 3D printers from making firearms. It’s an opening volley in what’s shaping up to be an evolving battle between regulators trying to stem the tide of ghost guns and individuals trying to create workarounds. Cody … Read more
Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Ethereum L2 Base
The tokens represent shares held by regulated custodian Alpaca and can be traded or used in decentralized finance applications on Base.
Bitcoin nears $80,000, but analysts say the next pullback will be key
Analysts say consolidation could strengthen bitcoin’s rally, while thin trading above $80,000 may set up sharper price moves.
Introducing new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod
Today, we are announcing new Ray capabilities on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that integrate Ray with the HyperPod purpose-built infrastructure for foundation model training and serving. Ray is an open-source framework that data scientists use to scale distributed Python workloads across clusters of GPUs, from distributed training with Ray Train to model serving with Ray Serve. … Read more
Coinbase-affiliated advocacy group endorses candidates for US midterms
With just over two months until the US general election, Stand With Crypto announced its pick for politicians in its efforts to “elect the most pro-crypto Congress in history.”
Coinbase tokenized stocks go live on Base with Chainlink price feeds
Coinbase’s B20 equities bring stocks including Apple and Nvidia onchain, allowing eligible non-US users to trade them 24/7 and use them across DeFi.