Theme Artificial Intelligence

In the quiet lounges of Silicon Valley, five AIs now argue over basic truths, while bosses, media, and experts sell these machines as infallible digital referees.

The advanced models market is evolving at a sustained pace, driven by frequent updates and increasingly precise tests. Anthropic returns with Opus 4.8, a version aiming for better performance without an increase in the standard price. In the AI sector, this announcement stands out for its programming results, new effort settings, and announced progress in security.

AI has long been presented as an imminent threat to entry-level white-collar jobs, promising massive and rapid reductions. However, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, now acknowledges that his initial predictions were exaggerated. Current data shows limited disruptions in the labor market, even though some companies use AI to justify planned layoffs. This development invites a more nuanced reflection on the integration of AI into the professional world.

The Vatican enters the debate on artificial intelligence in turn. In his first encyclical devoted to AI, Pope Leo XIV denounces a technological model that threatens human employment in favor of profitability. With "Magnifica Humanitas," the Catholic Church takes a stand on the social, economic, and political consequences of automation, as the global race for AI accelerates.

Artificial intelligence no longer just responds, writes, or analyzes. It also starts to pay. And in this new economy driven by autonomous agents, crypto establishes itself as an almost natural infrastructure. According to Keyrock, these agents settled over 73 million dollars on 176 million transactions between May 2025 and April 2026. A signal still discreet, but impossible to ignore.

The unexpected postponement of the presidential decree on artificial intelligence revives the debate in Washington. Trump suspended the signing ceremony after judging that some measures could slow down the American lead. In a context of technological rivalry with China, the White House is seeking a balance between national security, industrial innovation, and international competitiveness, according to the American president.

While Nvidia builds cathedrals for artificial intelligence, bitcoin miners bring out their secret plans. Wall Street applauds weakly, then discreetly recounts the cracks under the global digital foundations.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming customer service, payments, and online commerce. But a new study reveals an unexpected blind spot: consumers lie much more easily to AI than to a human being. Without eye contact, without judgment, does the machine disinhibit bad tendencies?

AI tools are rapidly advancing in monitoring IT systems. However, a new study conducted by Datadog and Carnegie Mellon University shows that engineers maintain a significant lead in managing complex incidents. Based on real outages observed in production, this test compares several advanced models to human specialists. The results mainly reveal the current limitations of models when facing critical and unforeseen situations.

Every scroll, every message, every online interaction generates raw data, the most valuable fuel powering modern artificial intelligence. Big tech companies have built empires worth trillions of dollars on this raw material, without ever compensating those who produce it. Faced with this structural imbalance, projects emerging from the Web3 ecosystem are now attempting to offer an alternative: turning users into paid participants in the AI data economy, rather than passive suppliers taken for granted.

The adoption of artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly in several countries, especially in education and public services. In this context, Malta takes a new step with an unprecedented agreement signed with OpenAI. The government aims to facilitate access to digital tools by offering ChatGPT Plus free of charge for one year to citizens who will undergo training dedicated to artificial intelligence.

Autonomous AI agents adopted simulated violent and criminal behaviors when left for several weeks in shared virtual worlds. This is the signal sent by Emergence AI with its Emergence World platform, designed to observe not a short response, but long, social, and unstable autonomy. The key point is simple: an AI may seem reliable in a classic test, then change behavior when interacting for a long time with other agents, rules, memory, and competing goals.

An old bitcoin wallet quietly gathered dust since 2015 in the dusty basements of a university computer. Then Claude arrived with his forensic lamps and his reflexes of a digital flea market trader on amphetamines. Behind the viral euphoria, several experts nevertheless remind that no bitcoin safe has actually been cracked.

Bitget has crossed a symbolic line in AI-driven trading. The exchange says its new Bitget AI ecosystem now serves more than one million users and has generated $1.2 billion in AI agent trading volume. The announcement puts automation closer to the center of crypto trading, not just as a support tool, but as part of execution itself.

While Kalshi swallows billions like an endgame boss, Polymarket now attracts much less innocent looks. Between troubling military bets, accounts appearing from nowhere, and speculative algorithms, predictive markets suddenly resemble a toxic mix between Wall Street, underground casino, and digital war room.

Crypto investors are no longer staying inside one market. Bitget’s 2026 User Asset Allocation Report shows a clear shift: retail traders still hold crypto, but many now add equities, commodities, and AI tools to build broader portfolios.

While bitcoin plunges down the mountain like an old tired gondola, Marathon quietly sells its digital treasure to fuel its artificial intelligence dreams and avoid a nasty industrial slide now visible everywhere.

INFO ALERT: A Trojan horse has just been discovered at the heart of the Mistral AI ecosystem. Microsoft raises the alarm: are your AI models at risk?

Bitget is pushing deeper into tokenized private-market access with preOPAI, a Solana-based product tied to OpenAI’s potential future public listing. The move puts the exchange at the crossing point of three powerful narratives: artificial intelligence, pre-IPO exposure and real-world asset tokenization.

Circle has just equipped AI agents with real USDC stablecoin wallets. They can now pay, transact, and manage funds without any human intervention. The autonomous economy has reached a major milestone.

Sam Altman puts OpenAI's AI back in the spotlight with a double signal: Codex gains autonomy, while "Goblin" emerges as a joke that has become almost strategic. Behind the humor, a real topic appears: OpenAI wants to make its models agents capable of acting, not just responding.

While bankers and regulators count their bolts, CZ is quietly preparing talkative machines fueled directly by global automated crypto payments, with Binance transformed into a giant algorithmic financial supermarket.

AI enters a new phase of financial excess. The American startup Anthropic is preparing a fundraising that could propel its valuation towards 1,000 billion dollars. A perspective still unimaginable two years ago, but which reflects the explosion of demand around generative artificial intelligence models. Anthropic now wants to directly compete with OpenAI on the financial and technological power front. The company behind Claude plans to raise up to 50 billion dollars this summer. If the operation succeeds, its valuation could approach 900 billion dollars, with the symbolic trillion threshold now in sight.

Hut 8 reports a net loss of $253 million in Q1 2026, but its stock jumps by +33% thanks to an AI infrastructure contract. Details here!

For months, Elon Musk publicly attacked Anthropic. Today, however, the billionaire opens the doors of one of the most powerful supercomputers on the market to them. Behind this surprise agreement between SpaceXAI and the company behind Claude lies a reality that has become central in the AI war: dominance no longer depends only on models, but especially on access to GPUs, energy, and infrastructures capable of powering the next generation of artificial intelligences.

Bitget is turning Bitcoin Pizza Day into a recruitment signal for Web3 talent. The exchange is using one of crypto’s most famous stories to connect young builders with real companies.

Crypto and AI flood Washington with cash, yet voters keep their distance. Money talks loudly, but trust whispers faintly, stuck somewhere between suspicion, fatigue, and a stubborn refusal to click “accept.”

The XRP community can't seem to catch a break. After a fake Brad Garlinghouse Instagram account made headlines, a new wave of AI-powered scams has now struck during the XRP Las Vegas conference. This time, fraudsters sharpened their tactics? and went straight after attendees on the ground.