AI Expo Europe takes place in Bucharest on November 1 and 2, 2026, with more than 100 announced speakers including NVIDIA, Microsoft, ING and crypto lawyers. Cointribune cross-checked the agenda, biographies and AI adoption figures in Romania.
Nvidia is no longer far from a threshold never reached before on the Stock Market. The AI chip giant is now worth about 5,780 billion dollars, after a new peak of its stock at 239.24 dollars. At constant capital, a rise of just under 4% would be enough to raise its valuation to 6,000 billion. The global race for artificial intelligence infrastructures continues to fuel the movement.
Donald Trump entrusts a new mission to Jay Clayton. Already director of American national intelligence, he becomes the new "tsar" of the White House AI and will head a Super Intelligence Force tasked with coordinating federal policy. Clayton will have 120 days to present a report on the risks, opportunities, and the government's role regarding artificial intelligence.
World Summit AI brings together on October 7 and 8, 2026, near Amsterdam, nearly 10,000 participants and 300 speakers expected, according to the organizer. The published program includes no sessions dedicated to crypto, but it gives a large place to AI agents, software capable of acting alone, which payment networks are already preparing to settle in stablecoins. Cointribune explains what a crypto reader can learn there, who speaks, and how much the ticket costs.
OpenAI is already preparing a new massive financial operation. The company is reportedly looking to raise at least $30 billion from investors, with a target valuation close to $1.4 trillion. This amount mainly shows how costly the AI race has become. Between data centers, chips, and computing power, financial needs continue to explode.
World Summit AI returns to Amsterdam on October 7 and 8, 2026 for its tenth edition, at Taets Art and Event Park. The summit annually brings together companies, major tech groups, researchers, investors, and public decision-makers around artificial intelligence. Cointribune is a media partner for the 2026 edition and provides a discount code for its community.
As it approaches its stock market debut, Anthropic delivers an unusual warning. In its prospectus, the Claude designer thinks that advanced AIs could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity".
On 1 April 2026, the Akash network reported that its customers had passed 5 million dollars in cumulative spending on compute, real money paying for real processing power on a blockchain marketplace. That figure captures the shift of the year: in 2026 the fusion of artificial intelligence and crypto stopped being a story the sector told itself and became a layer other things are built on. AI-focused crypto tokens are worth roughly 21 billion dollars as of August 2026, and 40 cents of every venture dollar invested in crypto companies in 2025 went to firms building both AI and crypto, more than double the share of a year earlier. The pitch is no longer that a token will moon; it is that AI is concentrating inside a handful of very large companies, and open networks can offer an alternative for compute, for training, for payments and for the agents that will transact on-chain. This article maps how that infrastructure actually works, layer by layer, and, just as important, what each part does not prove.
Claude's exclusion from the Pentagon's systems and contracts has just been validated by a U.S. court of appeals. This new setback weakens Anthropic ahead of an IPO that would value it at $2 trillion, but it does not close the legal battle.
Bill Gates thinks that artificial intelligence now holds enough power to trigger events that could lead to up to one billion deaths. Indeed, in an excerpt from an interview given to the American show "Meet the Press", the Microsoft co-founder essentially invokes the danger that the use of the most advanced models by malicious actors could represent. He calls for swift public authority intervention, as he considers self-regulation by tech companies insufficient.
From 2027, the EU will step up oversight of AI and tokenization as Washington and Beijing accelerate their technology race.
AI giants DeepSeek and Kimi are under Beijing's scrutiny following accusations of query transfers to Claude. The case reignites concerns about data and digital sovereignty.
Donald Trump wants to strengthen the oversight of artificial intelligence in the United States. On Saturday, the American president announced on Truth Social the creation of an "AI Force" and the upcoming appointment of an AI czar. This announcement comes as debates on the regulation of advanced models intensify in Washington.
Europe was not lacking in conferences on artificial intelligence. What it lacked, according to the organizers of the AI Summit Barcelona, was a place where the people building AI come with what they have already done, not what they promise to do. On September 22 and 23, 2026, the World Trade Center in Barcelona, on the waterfront, hosts the second edition of this summit which aims to be the European stage of applied AI. And the scale jump is spectacular: about 1,500 participants last year, more than 10,000 expected this year.
King Charles III will bring together several heavyweights of AI this week in Scotland, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and IonQ. The meeting will be held at Dumfries House and organized with the Ditchley Foundation. Discussions will focus on the responsible development of the most advanced models and the possibility of defining common principles. The summit comes a few days after new calls to slow down the race to artificial intelligence.
OpenAI will not go public in 2026. Sam Altman confirms it, security reasons oblige. But behind this virtuous discourse, Trump's ex-IA and crypto Czar, David Sacks, smells a cartel disguised as virtue. Meanwhile, the AI crypto market does not pause.
Anthropic's IPO is expected to welcome Nvidia as a lead investor for up to 10 billion dollars. Indeed, the designer of Claude could seek up to 100 billion dollars, however these amounts remain under discussion and neither company has confirmed them.
OpenAI seeks a legal answer to an unusual question: can several AI giants jointly decide to slow down the development of their models without violating U.S. antitrust law? According to WIRED, the company has questioned members of Congress in recent weeks. The move follows a call from its chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, for coordinated slowdowns when safeguards no longer keep pace with model capabilities. OpenAI has not announced a pause. It first wants to know if coordination with its competitors would be legal.
Now, Claude''s intrusions concern four cybersecurity exercises that reached real systems without authorization. The last reported case dates from January of this year, but Anthropic only discovered it in August.
Terence Tao sounds the alarm: AI outpaces theorists. Real threat or scientific revolution? Read our analysis.
One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona keeps the technology momentum going. AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026, at the World Trade Center, on the port. It is only the second edition, but its ambition is huge: to grow from around 1,500 participants last year to more than 10,000 this year, with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic on the bill. A Cointribune community rate is available for your pass.
Meta has launched Muse, an AI agent capable of booking a trip, sending an email, filling out forms, and especially making online purchases after user validation. Presented on September 8, Muse operates in a secure virtual machine and notably uses Stripe Link to pay. Meta is first deploying it in the United States on iOS, Android, and muse.ai.
Under the “AI crypto” label, search engines lump together networks that do not do the same job. Some sell an intelligence market, others graphics rendering, software agents, or model training.
Postponed to mid-October, Anthropic's IPO could become the biggest test in history for AI valuations. The details!
ByteDance has just closed a syndicated loan of 29.6 billion dollars. It is the second largest dollar transaction completed in Asia this year. For TikTok's parent company, the goal is clear: to finance its expansion in AI without relying solely on its profits.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, its first model classified as "Critical" in cybersecurity: according to the company, it discovers unknown vulnerabilities and writes the corresponding exploit without human guidance at each step. Its president Greg Brockman sees a possible milestone towards general artificial intelligence. For crypto, the stake is not theoretical, and it is already quantified. As early as February 2026, the EVMbench benchmark, published by OpenAI with Paradigm and OtterSec, measured this capability on smart contracts: the best agent exploited 72.2% of the tested vulnerabilities.
One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona is back at it on the technology front. AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026, at the World Trade Center, on the port. It is only the second edition, but its ambition is enormous: to grow from 1,500 attendees last year to more than 10,000 this year, with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic on the bill. Here is what you need to know, along with the code reserved for the Cointribune community.
The GPU shortage succeeded where no manifesto had. It turned "decentralized AI", until recently just a slogan, into a real market. High-end accelerators have been out of stock for months, with lead times stretching past a year, and that scarcity pushed developers toward networks that pool idle hardware from around the world. Except the label "decentralized AI platform" now covers very different realities, and confusing them is the surest way to pick the wrong one. Renting a GPU is not the same as training a model. Scoring machine-learning outputs is not hosting an unrestricted LLM. This guide sorts the main players of 2026 by what they actually do, weighs the strengths and blind spots of each, and sets an outsider, Qubic, against the rest: the only network on this list where mining itself trains neural networks. No investment advice follows, only a map of the landscape.
The acquisition of Cursor by SpaceX is already starting to change the AI market. OpenAI wants to withdraw its models from the code editor starting November 12. Anthropic takes the opposite direction: Claude will remain available and will even benefit from more computing capacity. Cursor thus finds itself in the middle of the old battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Kevin Warsh believes that artificial intelligence is likely to permanently change the growth potential of the United States. In his first speech at Jackson Hole as Federal Reserve chairman, he described the current period as a "turning point in history." However, he admits that the Fed still does not know when productivity gains will appear, how employment will progress, and which companies will capture the created value. These questions therefore do not yet influence rate decisions.