Wednesday, September 16, 2026 →
Time travel is real, apparently.
According to Financial Times, criminal groups are increasingly using AI to conduct cryptocurrency scams, impersonation, deepfakes and fraudulent websites.
Interpol estimates AI-enabled fraud can be 4.5 times more lucrative than traditional fraud.
Anthropic says none of the identified attempts to make chikungunya virus more dangerous succeeded.
Should we trust them?
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
NFT sales rose 55.6% over a recent seven-day period with an increase in buyer addresses - up about 20%.
However, transaction counts declined by about 15% during the same period, meaning the larger sales total does not necessarily represent a broad resurgence in activity.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 →
Hot take: The physical collectibles do not need blockchain technology.
Unless the onchain component provides meaningful provenance, custody or transfer advantages, the blockchain layer risks becoming an unnecessary wrapper around an established collecting business.
Self-custody does not eliminate off-chain security risks.
More troublingly, Trezor says it had received assurances that the older data had been deleted when it had not been.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 →
Bitcoin network hashrate remains below its October 2025 peak.
That means 316 days without a new record - the longest such drought in roughly a decade.
A major reason for this unusual dynamic is the redirection of Bitcoin miners toward AI and high-performance computing.
European equities are near record highs despite the Iran war and higher energy prices.
The STOXX 600 has attracted $2.44B of inflows. Companies are expected to report 24.1% year-on-year earnings growth for Q2 - the strongest rate in almost four years.
Is Europe back?
OpenAI slows its own capability-development process in response to evidence that its models can behave in ways its existing controls did not adequately anticipate.
RWA deposits inside DeFi protocols grew sixfold in one year!
The amount of tokenized real-world assets actively deposited into DeFi protocols reached $7.4 billion in Q2 2026.
RWAs are gaining share of DeFi activity even as the broader DeFi ecosystem contracts.
A growing amount of onchain activity is moving toward tokenized traditional assets such as U.S. Treasuries.
Could tokenization be DeFi’s route into mainstream finance?
Apple has developed a proprietary large language model specifically for the Chinese market, with Alibaba supporting its training.
The company has reportedly received regulatory approval to deploy Apple Intelligence in mainland China, using Alibaba’s Qwen model alongside technology from Baidu.
Taiwan says its government agencies were targeted in July by a sophisticated campaign combining human operators with AI agents.
The Financial Times reports that researchers identified as many as 8 autonomous agents operating against 21 Taiwanese government systems.
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