Topic: #ai
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Vitalik Buterin urges calm as AI-driven math raises crypto signature concerns
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on Oct. 7 that AI-accelerated math could weaken crypto signatures and some post-quantum schemes, but warned holders against rushing funds into new wallets.
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Deus X Capital shuts down as Morton family backers split into AI and fintech arms
Crypto and fintech investment firm Deus X Capital told CoinDesk it has ceased operations as its Morton family backers split up, with CEO Tim Grant moving to lead AI venture TensorX.
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Italy data center study projects $41.5 billion in investment through 2036
An Italian Datacenter Association study projects €36.9 billion ($41.5 billion) in data center investment through 2036, driven by AI and cloud demand. Its own figures point to grid bottlenecks.
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Vitalik Buterin sees 'good chance' AI compromises lattice cryptography within two years
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said there's a "good chance" AI-driven math advances compromise lattice-based cryptography within two years, Crypto Briefing reported, naming ML-DSA and FHE as at risk.
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Ethereum's Justin Drake urges crypto 'bunker mode' over AI risk to ECDSA
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said in an X post that AI advances could eventually make it possible to break ECDSA, the algorithm securing crypto wallets, and recommended a gradual move of assets to fresh addresses.
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Google launches Playground, a web tool that turns typed descriptions into playable games
Google launched Playground on Wednesday, an experimental web platform that turns a plain-language description into a playable, shareable game with no coding, live for U.S. adults with tiered creation access.
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Microsoft shows Copilot upgrade with local file access and Windows-wide actions
Microsoft demoed a Copilot upgrade at its October 7 Windows and Surface event that lets the assistant reach local PC files and act across the OS, under a strategy it calls Hybrid Intelligence, Crypto Briefing reported.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT visual explanations cover 70+ math and science topics
OpenAI announced dynamic visual explanations for ChatGPT on March 10, 2026, per Crypto Briefing. The feature lets users manipulate 70+ math and science concepts and is available to all logged-in users.
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Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake proposes 'bunker mode', warning AI could break ECDSA
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged crypto holders on X to move assets to fresh addresses, warning AI could break ECDSA 'months not years' before quantum computers, Crypto Briefing reported.
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MIT CSAIL paper says minimalist JAZ agent beat Letta and ACE on two benchmarks
MIT CSAIL researchers say JAZ, a one-primitive agent framework, scored 70% vs Letta's 62% on StuLife and beat ACE by 4 points on AppWorld at lower cost, per Crypto Briefing.
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Ray Dalio says AI market nears bubble burst point as debt costs rise
Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio told Bloomberg Television on October 6 that the AI market shows classic bubble signs, citing hyperscalers' growing reliance on debt as borrowing costs climb.
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Samsung Q3 profit forecast near nine-fold jump on AI memory chip demand
Analysts expect Samsung to report about 106.1 trillion won in Q3 operating profit, nearly nine times last year's 12.17 trillion won, on AI memory demand. That's according to Crypto Briefing. Preliminary guidance is due October 8.
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Anthropic excludes charitable matching costs from adjusted profit ahead of IPO
Anthropic will drop stock-funded charitable matching costs from its adjusted operating profit after more than $660M in related noncash expenses, as IPO materials point to a valuation above $2 trillion, according to Crypto Briefing.
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Raoul Pal says pauses in AI stocks let capital rotate into crypto
Real Vision founder Raoul Pal told Cointelegraph's Trade Secrets that pauses in the AI stock trade have let capital rotate into crypto, and that AI agents could push more activity to Ethereum and Solana.
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DeepSeek nears $12 billion raise ahead of planned 2027 STAR Market IPO
DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion before a planned 2027 listing on Shanghai's STAR Market, Bloomberg reported, according to Crypto Briefing. LeoDex News couldn't independently verify the report.
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Hong Kong questions HSBC over Singapore AI Centre of Excellence plan
Hong Kong has questioned HSBC about its planned Global AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore, according to Crypto Briefing. The hub is expected to add more than 100 AI roles, and the bank calls it a resource allocation, not a withdrawal.
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Ghost exits stealth with $11M a16z-led seed round for $3,499 personal AI computer
San Francisco startup Ghost came out of stealth on Monday with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, unveiling Core, a $3,499 personal AI computer it says runs models locally and is expected to ship October 31, 2026.
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OpenAI plans visual ad test inside ChatGPT's image generator this month
OpenAI said on October 5, 2026 that it will test a visual ad format tied to ChatGPT's image generation feature later this month, starting in the US with an initial group of advertisers.
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Google pauses open source bug bounty submissions as AI-generated reports pile up
Google stopped taking new product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program on October 1, 2026, citing a flood of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Grok 4.7 ties MiMo-V2.6-Pro for first on Artificial Analysis Cyber Index
Grok 4.7 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro tied for first on Artificial Analysis's new Cyber Index with scores of 56, Crypto Briefing reported. Grok's $11.67 per-task cost was called high against cheaper rival models.
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Vitalik Buterin tests three-layer privacy setup for querying frontier AI
Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin said in an X post he used a local AI model, zkAPI and Tor to get diet and exercise advice from frontier models without leaking his private data.
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Michael Burry says AI bubble could burst within a year, swaps shorts for puts
Investor Michael Burry wrote in late-September Substack posts that a serious AI correction could arrive within a year, and has swapped Micron and Nebius shorts for 2027 put options, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Anthropic asks Claude users to opt in to sharing voice chats for training, report says
Anthropic asked Claude users to voluntarily share voice conversations to help improve its AI models, Crypto Briefing reported. The request builds on an August 2025 terms change that first let consumer chats feed training.
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Cerebras' 5nm wafer-scale chips skirt HBM and CoWoS supply bottlenecks, analysis says
Cerebras' WSE-3 chips skip HBM, CoWoS packaging and 3nm capacity, according to a Crypto Briefing analysis, which also flags execution risk on the company's $25.4 billion backlog.