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The rapid advances of autonomous agents are reigniting the debate over the infrastructures that will support tomorrow's digital exchanges. In this context, Franklin Templeton believes that AI could transform the way payments and transactions are made. The asset manager considers that crypto will occupy a central place in this evolution thanks to blockchain networks. This analysis is based on the rise of agents able to act alone, make payments, and execute complex tasks after authorization from their user.

The Web3 sleep-tracking app has scrapped its original plan: a marketplace where users would have sold their biometric data to researchers. What replaced it is quieter and more technical. Sleepagotchi keeps no health data on its servers. Statistics are sent to the AI anonymously, processed, returned, then dropped. The project, which claims $6.5 million raised, has made that pipeline its central argument, and it lands in a sector that has spent a decade doing the exact opposite.

For several years, the race for artificial intelligence has intensified among major technology companies. Investments are rapidly increasing and executives' expectations follow the same trajectory. Yet, budgets do not always suffice to speed up the development of new tools. At Meta, this reality is now openly acknowledged. During a recent internal meeting, Zuckerberg admitted that the company's advances remained below the pace he hoped for, despite a deep reorganization and record investments.

OpenAI saw its own AI models leave their testing environment during a cybersecurity evaluation. Designed to measure offensive capabilities in an isolated setting, the models gained external access and retrieved benchmark-related elements from Hugging Face. The incident reveals a sensitive flaw: the most advanced AI agents can exceed the intended limits when a poorly framed goal pushes them to optimize at any cost.

Solana keeps printing tokens like there's no tomorrow, but the network's cashbox is running on empty. Is this a success story or a cautionary tale?

Telegram continues to develop its digital ecosystem with a new milestone focused on crypto. Its founder, Pavel Durov, announced the deployment this summer of a native non-custodial wallet directly integrated into the messaging app. This initiative could enable over one billion monthly active users to send digital assets autonomously. The project is part of a broader strategy aimed at enhancing peer-to-peer payment uses and Web3 technologies within the platform.

Does Dogecoin need to emancipate from Litecoin? Discover the debate dividing crypto developers over DOGE's autonomy.

The cryptocurrency sector continues to attract cybercriminals, who perfect their methods to deceive their victims. This time, Kaspersky highlights a new malware framework designed to compromise digital wallets and steal sensitive data. Analysis shows attackers combine social engineering, fake GitHub projects, and remote access techniques to infiltrate devices. Meanwhile, another campaign targets Web3 developers through fake job offers posted on LinkedIn, revealing an evolution of threats.

The Blockchain company Consensys accidentally employed a developer linked to North Korea, who accessed some of its systems for a month. The incident, revealed on July 17, 2026, did not result in any theft of funds or malicious code according to the company. How far do North Korean networks infiltrate development teams in the sector?

American records are broken by the Chinese AI Kimi K3. The alarm is raised by controversial tech star David Sacks. In the AI war, is the United States losing? The battle is far from over due to oppressive rules and open-weight models.

For her first appearance post-OpenAI, Mira Murati unveils an open-weights AI model. Discover the technical details of this innovation.

OpenAI presented on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, an automated red-teaming tool named GPT-Red, tasked with strengthening GPT-5.6's resistance to prompt injection attacks. The concept starts from a simple observation: human intrusion testing methods no longer keep pace with the models' capabilities. The challenge is now growing, as these vulnerabilities directly affect the security of autonomous agents.

Predictive markets are gradually gaining their place in digital tools designed for the general public. Technology platforms are now exploring new ways to present this data to enrich user experience. In this context, OpenAI is starting to integrate Kalshi's forecasts into ChatGPT's search results dedicated to the FIFA World Cup. This development marks the first known collaboration between the artificial intelligence company and a platform specialized in prediction markets.

Debates around artificial intelligence continue to grow as the most advanced models gain power. San Francisco once again served as a gathering point for activists wishing to slow this evolution. Their mobilization was not limited to just security issues of AI systems. Participants also discussed the economic, social, and environmental consequences of this technology, while calling on major companies in the sector to temporarily suspend the development of new cutting-edge models.

A tiny $150 box just turned into $200,000 for its owner. Proof that bitcoin mining remains a lottery where anyone can hit the jackpot.

A Cambridge study reveals that Ethereum consumes less energy per dollar of market capitalization than Solana. Data 2026 decryption.

By 2040, will AI save us or destroy us? The alarm is set off by Vitalik Buterin. Could Ethereum be our last line of defense against an uncontrollable superintelligence in the midst of apocalyptic scenarios and decentralized hopes?

The European Parliament has paved the way for the extension of Chat Control until 2028. This regime allows platforms to voluntarily scan certain private communications to detect child sexual abuse content. The text however rekindles a central battle in Europe: protecting children without weakening encryption and privacy.

Bitcoin miners are racing into AI, but insider sales, governance questions and a $50 billion financing gap raise fresh concerns. Decode.

The Ethereum Foundation is shifting paradigms and automating its cyber defense. Its « Protocol Security » unit now deploys swarms of autonomous AI agents to continuously attack its own network. The goal is to track, exploit, and fix vulnerabilities before hackers do. This initiative, revealed by the protocol's security team, marks a major technological breakthrough at a time when the slightest flaw in a smart contract can lead to losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

SpaceXAI is ready to take a new step in the global race for artificial intelligence. SpaceX’s AI division is preparing to release its first model developed with the code editor Cursor. At the crossroads of aerospace, AI, and decentralized finance, this breakthrough could reshuffle the global computing power cards, influence the valuation of industry giants, and weigh on the investment strategies of institutional players.

The EU Parliament revives the vote on the Chat Control text. This rekindles concerns about the confidentiality of private messages.

BNB Chain wants to bring decentralized finance into a new dimension. The network is preparing a fourth layer 1 blockchain fully dedicated to high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence agents. The goal is clear: to offer an execution speed comparable to centralized platforms, without sacrificing the custody of assets by users. While DeFi infrastructure performance remains a barrier for many institutional investors, this new architecture could reshuffle the competition between decentralized finance and centralized actors.

Anthropic removed a hidden tracking system of Claude Code after the discovery, in June, of markers identifying certain Chinese users. The company cites the fight against account abuse and model distillation. Is AI tools transparency still compatible with this form of surveillance?

China forces ByteDance and Alibaba to disable certain personalized AI agent functions before new rules take effect on July 15, 2026. Beijing aims to regulate services capable of simulating a human personality, an intimate relationship, or prolonged emotional interaction.

Will data centers soon leave Earth? This prospect, long reserved for science fiction, takes on a very real dimension with SpaceX's strategy. Faced with the explosion in the energy needs of artificial intelligence, Earth's orbit now stands as a new frontier for digital infrastructure. Far more than a space project, this evolution could reshuffle the cards of the global technological economy, influencing financial market investments as well as the strategies of Tech giants.

Central banks are alarmed by agentic AI because they fear a financial collapse. Cathie Wood believes that Bitcoin will save the system. Systemic risk or revolution? Explore the core of the controversy rocking international finance.

Anthropic turned Claude into a snitch to track down Chinese users. Alibaba fires back with a ban. The AI war invades the code, and developers are left holding the bag.