AI


Opinion

Kill the Captcha: They Don't Work, Here's What Does

Digital proof of personhood offers a path out of the arms race between bots and CAPTCHAs, argues Daniel Brunsdon of human.tech.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

CoreWeave Stock Surges on $14.2B Meta AI Deal, Core Scientific Merger Looms

CoreWeave secures $14.2 billion dollar Meta contract, draws bullish analyst coverage, and awaits Core Scientific merger vote.

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Markets

Cipher Is the Latest Bitcoin Miner to Pivot to AI; Price Target Raised to $16: Canaccord

The broker maintained its buy rating on the stock and raised its price objective to $16 from $12.

Racks of mining machines.

Finance

Cloudflare Unveils U.S. Dollar Stablecoin for AI-Powered Internet Economy

The cloud company said the token, dubbed NET Dollar, will enable instant, global transactions for autonomous agents online.

BTC faces "cloud resistance." (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

Cipher Mining Stock Gains 5% on Google AI Hosting Deal

Tech giant to secure equity stake through long-term partnership with Fluidstack.

Bitcoin miners (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Surge on Speculation of OpenAI-Driven Energy Demand

Publicly traded miners are riding the AI infrastructure boom as investors bet excess capacity can fuel high-performance computing.

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Markets

Bitcoin Miner IREN Has 80% Potential Upside Thanks to Big Bet on AI Cloud: Bernstein

The broker hiked its IREN price target to $75 from $20 while reiterating its outperform rating on the stock.

Bitcoin mining machines (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Cloudburst Raises $7M Series A to Scale Off-Chain Crypto Intelligence Platform

The round was led by Borderless Capital with participation from Strategic Cyber Ventures, CoinFund, Coinbase Ventures, Bloccelerate VC and In-Q-Tel.

M2 Money Supply Continues to Grow (Shutterstock)

Markets

IREN Shares Jump 11% in Pre-Market Trading as Bitcoin Miner Doubles AI Cloud Fleet

Company lifts AI Cloud ARR target to more than $500 million by Q1 2026 after $674 million GPU expansion.

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Tech

Internet Computer Bets Big on AI as Crypto Markets Play Catch-Up

This could be the beginning of a new tech stack — one in which AI, not humans, becomes the primary developer of applications, says Dfinity founder Dominic Williams.

Dfinity Founder and Chief Scientist Dominic Williams speaks at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk)