Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Tech

Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed

Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the most to lose if the filters fail.

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Finance

Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says

Tokenization is laying the groundwork for autonomous investing and real-time portfolio management, Ondo's new head of portfolio products John Hoffman said.

John Hoffman, Ondo Finance Managing Director, Head of Product Portfolios (Ondo Finance)

Tech

Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf

"Coinbase for Agents" is a new platform that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to users’ Coinbase accounts to trade crypto, access data and eventually make payments and purchases autonomously.

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether leads $1.4 billion funding round in German robotics company Neura

The investment is part of the stablecoin giant’s expansion into industries outside of crypto.

Robotics. (Gabimedia/Pixabay)

Finance

Netomi CEO says $5 trillion AI customer experience market could boost stablecoin demand

Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise software will increase demand for stablecoins and blockchain.

Puneet Mehta, the CEO and founder of Netomi, believes the AI Agent industry for enterprise will drive significant demand for stablecoins. (Puneet Mehta/Netomi)

Finance

Mastercard prepares for a future where AI agents make payments

The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven commerce.

(Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin inflows slow sharply in 2026 as investors chase AI, Bernstein says

Bernstein said bitcoin's increasingly diversified ownership base supports its long-term store-of-value thesis.

Digital representation of a physical bitcoin.

Markets

Why diehard bitcoin purists aren’t sweating the massive price crash that wiped out $200 billion

Mati Greenspan, Michael Saylor and Jameson Lopp blamed the AI boom for draining capital from bitcoin. Meanwhile, Jack Mallers refrained from sharing an outlook but recommended buying the dip.

Bitcoin (nopparit/Getty Images)

Tech

AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next

After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hiding across crypto and traditional financial systems.

A computer screen with code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Finance

Big tech is 'terrified' of AI agents wiping out ad revenue, says Billions Network CEO

Evin McMullen’s view on AI agents disrupting Google’s and Facebook’s business model was previously shared by Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson and Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen.

Evin McMullen of Billions Network. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)