Theme Artificial Intelligence

The cryptocurrency sector is going through a new phase where several companies are redirecting their communication towards AI. This evolution is causing reactions within the industry, notably at Coinbase. Its CEO, Brian Armstrong, believes that this opposition between blockchain and artificial intelligence is based on a misreading of technological developments. According to him, these two fields should not be considered competitors but as technologies capable of working together to support future digital uses.

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.

While global markets continue to assess the impact of artificial intelligence on valuations, the South Korean stock market is going through a period of high tension. After several months of spectacular growth driven by semiconductors and major technology companies, a sharp correction hit the local market. The move caught investors' attention following reports of a significant market capitalization loss of about 260 trillion won and the plunge of the KOSPI. This drop reminds us of the risks linked to phases of excessive euphoria and markets heavily exposed to leverage.

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.

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.

The blockchain application ecosystem is evolving rapidly, and network priorities change at the pace of usage. Several players are now reassessing their strategic choices to meet user expectations. In this context, crypto takes a new turn with statements from Jesse Pollak, creator of Base. He publicly acknowledges that the platform took a wrong direction by favoring social experiences. He now believes that this choice caused a loss of valuable time in the face of the rise of prediction markets and perpetual contracts.

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.

The economy is changing thanks to AI chips and bitcoin, but their surges conceal a risk: speculative bubbles. How can I invest without falling into a trap?

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 venture capital market is evolving rapidly, driven by new technological priorities and increasingly distinct trade-offs. In this context, Paradigm announces the closing of a new 1.2 billion dollar fund aimed at financing projects related to AI and robotics while continuing certain activities in cryptocurrency. This operation illustrates a redistribution of capital towards emerging technologies, as crypto fundraisings become rarer and focus on a limited number of large-scale operations.

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.

Sam Altman offers 5% of OpenAI to Uncle Sam, fearing the administration might crack down harder than expected. A lesson in sharing that smells like good old American compromise.

Just after the GENIUS Act was passed, two Republican senators proposed to shield American AI from foreign threats. There are significant geopolitical, economic, and moral implications to this initiative. A bold plan that poses a risk to the United States itself?

Anthropic unveils Claude Science, OpenAI responds with GeneBench-Pro: the AI rivalry extends to global scientific research.

The militarization of cutting-edge language models is redefining the map of global technological power, turning computer code into a massive deterrent weapon. Artificial intelligence is now establishing itself as the heart of defense infrastructures. However, limited access to these technologies immediately causes deep geopolitical fractures. The recent restriction of foreign users by American industry leaders triggered an immediate industrial response in Asia. This regulatory decision, far from slowing the technological development of the countries concerned, served as a sovereign accelerator for Chinese laboratories.

After several weeks of tensions around the control of advanced artificial intelligence models, the American administration has changed its position towards Anthropic. The US government now allows certain organizations to use Claude Mythos 5, while other access remains limited. This decision comes in a context where Washington seeks to strengthen oversight of sensitive technologies. The measure mainly concerns selected American partners and marks a new step in managing innovative AI tools.

Global financial markets are undergoing an unprecedented transformation, where technological euphoria revives the specters of past systemic crises. In this period of extreme tension, the analysis of economic cycles by historical figures of traditional finance provides an essential framework for anticipating capital allocations. Jeremy Grantham, famous billionaire and co-founder of the institutional management firm GMO, has just issued a blunt diagnosis of the current state of technological valuations linked to AI and cryptos. In a lengthy interview with Steven Bartlett for the YouTube series "The Diary of a CEO", Grantham delivered alarmist macroeconomic forecasts, specifying that his statements represent his sole responsibility and not that of his management company, which manages 85 billion dollars in assets.