Month: August 2026
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.
Democratizing institutional knowledge: Building an AI-powered knowledge management system with AWS
Organizations across industries struggle with managing institutional knowledge, the collective wisdom and experience accumulated over years of operations. This “tribal knowledge” often disappears when key personnel leave, creating knowledge gaps that impact efficiency and innovation. Traditional documentation methods have proven inadequate, often resulting in outdated or inaccessible information when it’s needed most. In this post, … Read more
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Hyperliquid Hits Record High as $1.2 Billion Token Unlock Looms
Hyperliquid’s token is riding a record into its largest remaining supply release.
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
Zcash Hits Eight-Year High as Futures Bets Nearly Double
ZEC broke above $880 while open interest in perpetual futures climbed to $1.8 billion.
Bitcoin price hits $80K as 24-hour crypto short liquidations pass $220M
As BTC tops $80,000 for the first time since May, price analysis warns that the market still needs to sustain higher levels to challenge the bear-market thesis.
Crypto political group details list of U.S. congressional allies its backing this year
Stand With Crypto, a member group that rates the crypto friendliness of politicians, is supporting 32 U.S. House incumbents, with more endorsements coming.
Coinbase debuts tokenized stocks on Base network, joining race to bring equities on blockchain
The crypto exchange is starting with tokenized versions of Apple, Nvidia, Meta and Alphabet, issued under its new Abu Dhabi framework.
Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Grew $23 Billion Last Week—Only $2.6 Billion Was New Money
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs booked their strongest inflow week since October, but most of the gain came from coins investors already owned getting more valuable.
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over their rental listings partnership
The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 “partnership” between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings. … Read more
Strive buys 1,110 Bitcoin for $81.5M, holdings top 21K BTC; ASST shares surge 11%
Strive’s Nasdaq-traded shares surged more than 11% as the Bitcoin treasury company said it paid an average of $73,409 per BTC, pushing its holdings to 21,356 Bitcoin.
Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback
Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in … Read more
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
How AWS Agent Registry and the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification enable cross-environment discovery for your agents As organizations scale their use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents and tools, finding the right resource becomes the hard part. Teams build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, deploy agents, and create specialized tools, but without a central catalog, … Read more
Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Connect
At many restaurants, a large share of orders still arrive by phone, and those calls usually land on a staff member who is already taking care of customers at the counter. Callers wait on hold, orders get written down by hand, and busy periods make both worse. Adding an app or a website helps customers … Read more
Crypto advocacy groups oppose Illinois digital asset tax in court
Following a similar lawsuit filed by the Digital Chamber in July, two digital asset advocacy groups challenged Illinois’ 0.2% crypto tax on constitutional and due process grounds.
How to Choose the Right AI Video Model for Your Project (Not the “Best” One)
Every few weeks a new AI video model tops some ranking, and every few weeks someone rebuilds their whole pipeline around it. I did that once with a Lost Garden scene. The model everyone was calling “the best” that month made gorgeous single shots, but it had no synced dialogue and a hard duration ceiling … Read more
AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization
As data collection and data generation accelerate, the gap between our ability to produce raw data and our capacity to standardize it continues to widen. Without automation, this gap becomes a critical bottleneck that delays analysis, complicates interpretation, and limits the global value of shared datasets. Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets … Read more