Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Markets

Bitcoin pressured by Fed uncertainty, oil, and AI slowdown

Enflux points to oil-driven inflation as the main constraint, while questions around AI demand could reshape miner selling in the months ahead.

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Markets

MARA Holdings targets bitcoin quantum threat and network resilience with new foundation

Bitcoin's future is not guaranteed, said CEO Fred Thiel at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk "First Mover" screenshot)

Tech

Crypto is built for AI agents, not humans, says Alchemy's CEO

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan argues the global financial system was designed for humans, but the next wave of commerce will be driven by AI agents that operate natively in crypto.

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Tech

How Anthropic’s Mythos model is forcing the crypto industry to rethink everything about security

DeFi leaders say that AI will arm both attackers and defenders, and widen the gap between projects that prioritize security and those that do not.

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei (Getty Images)

Markets

U.S. government sits on $26.5 billion gain from Intel stake, as shares surge 22%

The surge in Intel shares, up more than 22% after earnings, has significantly boosted the value of the U.S. government’s position.

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CoinDesk Indices

Crypto for Advisors: AI Agents Using Crypto

AI agents are executing transactions, forming “agentic finance.” Crypto is the financial backend for these autonomous systems. Learn use cases, risks, and what experts say.

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Finance

OpenAI appears to be poaching Coinbase’s marketing team

Six Coinbase senior marketing executives, including the exchange's former chief marketing officer, have jumped to OpenAI in the past year and a half.

OpenAI logo on a mobile phone.

Markets

HIVE, Keel push deeper into AI data centers with capital raise, asset sale

HIVE raises $115M to expand data centers while Keel exits Latin America, redirecting funds into HPC and AI as both stocks climb 4%.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Opinion

AI slop has created a search problem crypto companies can’t ignore

Rechler argues that if these companies don’t adopt better content strategies and overly misuse AI-generated tools, their platforms, exchanges or dapps won’t be discovered via search.

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Tech

Sam Altman’s World project launches major upgrade to fight deepfakes and bots

The project is also expanding its partnerships with Tinder, Zoom and Docusign.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)