Soaring bond prices signal ‘structural’ shift and Bitcoin ‘supercycle’: Analyst
Fixed-income investors are in a “panic” as government securities, once seen as low-risk, begin to crack, according to BitMEX researcher Shang Wu.
Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google
We’re in the transition period — all of us.
Now You Can Buy Bitcoin, XRP and More in ChatGPT via MoonPay
MoonPay’s new app lets users buy cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Solana, through ChatGPT just by speaking with the chatbot.
Buterin fires back at Ethereum Foundation critics, recommits to neutrality
The Ethereum Foundation holds less than 1% of all ETH in circulation while other protocol foundations typically hold 10-50% of their native token’s supply, the founder said.
Every Microsoft 365 AI Agent Solves a Different Problem
You’ll likely find artificial intelligence (AI) agents appearing everywhere. These AI agents appear in your Teams sidebar, in your SharePoint document library, and as part of standard Office applications. What makes this so easy is that Microsoft allows virtually anyone within an organization to create their own dedicated AI agent in a matter of a … Read more
Is AI Really Delivering the ROI Companies Were Promised?
The whole rationale behind deploying AI to the extent that it threatens to decimate whole professions is premised on the fact that it leads to much enhanced productivity, reduced costs, and unprecedented profits. In other words, much more ROI or return on investment than would accrue if humans were employed to carry out the same … Read more
6 Open-Source Frameworks Built for High-Load Applications
Building an application that handles a few hundred requests per minute is relatively straightforward. Building a system that maintains single-digit millisecond latency while handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent requests—all without exploding your cloud budget—is an entirely different engineering challenge. When your application outgrows standard architectures, lightweight frameworks like Express.js and Flask can require significant … Read more
The Governance Deficit in Autonomous Agents
The central unsolved problem in production DeFi agents is not capability. Existing frameworks can route swaps, monitor yields, and respond to on-chain events with low latency. The problem is verifiable constraint. What I mean here is building agents that are not merely instructed to respect user-defined boundaries, but architecturally incapable of violating them. Add an extra … Read more
How to Build Production ML Systems That Detect Failure Early
Moving a machine learning model from a local Jupyter Notebook to an enterprise production environment is less about mathematical optimization and more about software reliability. In a development environment, datasets are static, edge cases are filtered out, and execution is synchronous. In production, however, data is dynamic, upstream dependencies change without warning, and models encounter … Read more
Coinbase does not fear competition from Wall Street, says exchange executive
A Coinbase executive called on regulators to implement sensible crypto regulation, while announcing the Stand With Crypto event taking place in over 500 locations worldwide.
Xreal, Google’s smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.
Migrating from Go to Rust
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Crypto and the Fed: State of Crypto
This past week saw incremental, but potentially important steps.
FTX law firm Fenwick & West to pay $54M to victims in settlement
The law firm agreed to a settlement in February 2026 and is facing a separate $525 million lawsuit over its role in the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.
6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier
From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.
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AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to Masturbate—Yes, Really
Joi AI is hiring 10 “masturbation consultants” to test its AI-guided masturbation feature and report how it affects stress, sleep, mood, and confidence.
TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
I Traced a Single AI Query Back to Gas Turbines and Wall Street
Musk’s xAI runs 46 gas turbines in Mississippi without air permits. I traced the full supply chain behind them — from $30M+ in Caterpillar equipment to TSMC’s €300M EUV lithography machines, from Lake Tahoe residents losing power to Wall Street’s $700B AI infrastructure spending. One AI data center pulls on 10+ industries, creates billions in … Read more
Ruby for Good
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Europe’s Regulatory Push Is Creating New Cybersecurity Product Markets
Schematic: Europe’s coordinated cyber-defence posture — city nodes, threat vectors, and regulatory stack. Data: Mordor Intelligence. Europe has long been perceived as the world’s most regulation-heavy technology market. In cybersecurity, that reputation is evolving into something more consequential: a coordinated industrial strategy. Most global tech narratives still frame Europe as the slow-moving regulator — the … Read more
On Trails is a wandering tale that blends hiking, science, and history
Hiking is one of life’s great joys. Turning off the screens and stepping out into nature for an extended period of time, perhaps even several days, is rejuvenating. Unfortunately, as someone with two young kids and a bad back, I’m not really able to go backpacking anymore. So I often find myself trying to live … Read more
Tom Lee’s Ethereum portfolio down $7.35B as ETH price outlook worsens
ETH’s bearish chart setup points to a 25% drop toward $1,600, risking over $10 billion in paper losses for BitMine in the coming weeks.