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Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk

Researchers added hidden text to contact AI agents probing Alibaba’s map service, getting replies about their tasks as investigators traced…
Oct 15, 2026
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Boom or Bust, Bitcoin Wins the AI Trade, Bitwise CIO Says

In a note to investors, Matt Hougan used a “Choose Your Own Adventure” framework to argue that superabundance, an AI…
Oct 15, 2026
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink Warns AI Data Center Halt Could Tip US Into Recession

Speaking after BlackRock’s Q3 earnings, Fink said AI infrastructure spending has become so central to growth that a construction halt…
Oct 15, 2026
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Bitcoin’s AI-driven rally faces a hidden danger if the machines get richer but workers don’t

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argued in an Oct. 14 memo that nearly every macroeconomic path ends with Bitcoin higher, including…
Oct 15, 2026
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Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet

After a summer of AI models escaping test environments and hacking real companies, hundreds of researchers say the internet itself…
Oct 14, 2026
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Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic’s Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They’re rough, but they…
Oct 14, 2026
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AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny

A new Chainalysis report found payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138…
Oct 14, 2026
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Ethereum’s quantum race takes a new turn as zkSync courts banks and Starknet weighs exit

ZkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs says handled 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under…
Oct 14, 2026
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Standard Chartered pushes $2T stablecoin forecast to 2030 as transaction volumes grow

The bank identified four distinct stablecoin markets, with USDC leading payments and AI transactions as competition intensifies over reserve yields.…
Oct 14, 2026
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AI agents make 138 million crypto payments as U.S. dominates spending on AI models

U.S.-linked wallets account for just over 88% of tracked AI model payments, dwarfing China’s 0.1% share, according to new Chainalysis…
Oct 14, 2026