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Meta’s new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.

The release targets developers building autonomous apps and workflows on Cloudflare’s edge—a clear bet on agent infrastructure.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Amazon is unlikely to prove Perplexity violated federal hacking law, marking the first appellate decision on whether AI agents can legally act on users’ behalf online.

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa’s latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.

Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.

Will Bitcoin breakout of its death cross? Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Here’s what the charts say.

Circle’s USDC distribution deal with Coinbase has been renewed on existing terms, and Arc’s testnet has processed half a billion transactions.

Shaw Walters says Eliza’s token is no more after a class-action settlement drained the project’s remaining funds.

Anthropic’s LLM and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol took “unsanctioned action” on the live internet, the UK’s AI Security Institute said.

The last time he sold was in December 2022 with Bitcoin at $16,800. Will Jim’s sales mark the bottom again?

The incentive to stake beyond half the supply would disappear at activation, with the yield cut phasing in over 18 months.

Eric Halem and his crew wore police vests to enter a Koreatown high-rise, then handcuffed a 17-year-old and took his hard drive.

Non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz says attackers are finding vulnerabilities faster than its team can fix them, forcing it to suspend swaps indefinitely.

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.

The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple’s lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet says the Coldcard exploit underscores why certified hardware randomness matters—and why AI is reshaping wallet security.

The CNBC host announced the decision on air after interviewing IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, asking him whether quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting his coins.

Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.

A flaw in Coldcard wallets cost Bitcoin holders more than $100 million—and reopened an old fight about whether you can trust dice.

Validators are considering changes that would increase the amount of SOL permanently removed from circulation while reducing the rate of new token issuance.

The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week. Alibaba’s own scorecard says the Americans still win on code.

The Brazil-based crypto asset manager will liquidate its U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF later this month, ending a fund that entered the market in 2024.

A Milan start-up says it found a full-takeover flaw in macOS using ChatGPT, then hit Apple’s new submission cap before it could file it.

Strategy sold $104M in Bitcoin last week to help prop up STRC, a financial product they created to… help them buy more Bitcoin.

Europe’s largest cash management platform is now issuing tokens on Ethereum, in a launch restricted to professional investors.

Fake “coordinated hardware audit” emails are steering holders to a cloned Coldcard site that installs remote-access software.

Two of the five were also convicted of conspiracy to blackmail, in a case police won without either victim testifying.

Scientists are using OnlyFans to help fund decades of marmot research, while unofficial memecoins inspired by the project have emerged on Solana.

Prosecutors say the former counterintelligence supervisor stole cryptocurrency from wallets tied to FBI investigations before asking ChatGPT how to invest the money and relocate to Europe.