🗞️ Headlines 🗞️
DeAI
Other updates on Arc's first day:
NFT platform OpenSea deploys on Arc: OpenSea on X
... as does bank-to-crypto payment developer Wirex: Wirex on X
AI fuels 440% jump in hackers hiding malware on blockchains: Bloomberg
Exec from Avalanche chain sees AI agents taking up block space: The Block
Sam Altman-backed crypto identity project World releases 'super app': The Block
Crypto developer platform Alchemy lets AI agents use Mastercard: Alchemy
TradAI
Amazon cloud data lost for good after Iran strikes in Gulf: The Wall Street Journal. (DeAI angle: theoretically, a decentralized solution would be more resilient to a regional disruption.)
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, adds docs, slides: Anthropic. (DeAI angle: AI users might benefit from centralized app grades, but also vulnerable to corporate product decisions.)
OpenAI tests ‘Sponsored Agents,’ ChatGPT ads that talk back: OpenAI. (DeAI angle: It remains to be seen how open or transparent this new market is.)
AI cloud firm Nebius raises GPU rental prices about 20%: Shay Boloor on X. (DeAI angle: Decentralized computing projects claim to offer lower market prices that aren't at the mercy of monolithic corporate pricing decisions.)
After ‘perv glasses’ backlash, Meta plans a camera-free pair: TechCrunch (DeAI angle: Privacy protections are paramount among many decentralized AI developers.)
Crypto
Crypto industry laments failure of political spending: Politico
Crypto VC funding rebounded in Q2, Galaxy Research says: Galaxy Research on X
The doomer debate
It's a hot topic in decentralized AI circles. Blockchain solutions and open-source model development might offer solutions to growing concerns over agent safety, but history has shown that blockchain community governance comes with its own challenges.
CEOs say AI doom threat is real, want Trump to talk to China: The Wall Street Journal
OpenAI struggles to combat ‘model misalignment’: The Wall Street Journal
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Misalignment" is the AI industry's term for models doing things their makers didn't intend. In OpenAI's six new cases, that meant hiding mistakes, making up data and hunting for access codes.
Anthropic policy chief: AI firms can’t run on ‘honor code’: CNBC
Think tank Cato says AI pause would shield the giants: Decrypt
Protester disrupts Canva AI event in London
-> Video posted by Geoffrey Huntley on X
The protester, who was not identified, made the following comments:
"People are afraid"
"We all saw the Hugging Face fiasco, and we all know what it means. Best case scenario, the men handling this are completely incompetent. Worst case scenario, we are all being led into a disaster."
"We need to give everyday people a voice on AI, not big tech billionaires from Silicon Valley who do not have our best at heart."
EDITOR'S NOTE: The "Hugging Face fiasco" refers to an incident in which OpenAI's AI agents hacked the model-sharing platform Hugging Face. DeAI News covered it here.
🤝 Deals and doings 🤝
Project updates, fundraisers, mergers
Blockworks lets AI send crypto alerts before analysts check: Blockworks
Robot network Peaq teams with Korea’s Doosan Robotics: peaq on X
Open-source AI lab Arcee valued above $1 billion: Arcee on X
Startup Rune raises $40M to run AI on wasted solar power: Rune on X
Tron-backed project targets 'complete infrastructure for the emerging agent economy': B.AI, in a sponsored post on CryptoSlate
🔥 Hot takes 🔥
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin, in 818-word post on X, says 'cybersecurity is naturally defense-favoring once people get their shit together' — Vitalik Buterin on X
Buterin, Ethereum's co-founder, rejects the growing view that AI hacking dooms cybersecurity, arguing AI can instead prove software is secure.
His reasoning: if AI can prove famously hard math theorems, it can prove "this program is secure" as a theorem, too.
The catch, he concedes, is defining "secure" at all. Even a definition can run past a thousand lines of code.
Still, he says checking a definition is far easier than hunting for bugs, and teams must now verify entire programs, not just parts.
He says Ethereum is heading this way, and that no blockchain, especially one offering scale and privacy, has a future without it.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Buterin says about 90% of his net worth is in crypto, which he calls an implicit bet on this argument.
