OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Labs May Need to Slow Down
Jakub Pachocki is calling for mandatory safety standards as OpenAI finds it harder to monitor advanced AI models’ reasoning.
Ethereum arbitrage study reveals builders receive $5 for every $1 burned by the network
Ethereum arbitrage generated about $5.24 in builder receipts for every $1 burned in a 30-day sample reported by blockchain data provider Bitquery. Its allocation puts 49.3% of measured surplus toward block assembly, 9.4% toward burned fees and 41.3% with…
Brazilian Banks Expand Crypto Offerings as Regulation Takes Hold
Itaú, Nubank, and Banco do Brasil now sell more than a dozen tokens each to retail clients, even as none of them touch crypto with their own balance sheet.
DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked
Lending protocol Moonwell’s proposed rate changes could cut monthly interest accruing on bad debt by about 85%, according to Anthias Labs’ projection. Its Sept. 4 recovery update leaves access to USDC and a return to borrowing as separate…
Will the Crypto Trenches Show Up for Hunter Biden’s Meme Coin?
Biden’s LAPTOP meme coin drops this week. Most crypto traders out there so far don’t seem too enthused.
Liquid Hackers Return $270M in Bitcoin After Swiping $320 Million
Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding after Blockstream told the actors in an on-chain message that Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched.
Three DeFi projects face possible exclusion from future Arbitrum DAO programs
Arbitrum’s Watchdog Committee, a grant oversight body, has given three DeFi projects until a tentative Sept. 10 deadline to answer high-severity misuse findings and return funds it considers unresolved, or face separate votes on permanent exclusion…
Bitcoin’s faces a weird new macro reality as the Fed turns off the tap and Treasury opens the floodgates
Bitcoin’s current rally started when the Treasury Department announced on Aug. 19 that, beginning Sept. 9, it would at least double the maximum size of certain buyback operations for government bonds with 10 to 30 years left to maturity, raising…
How Bitmine could surpass its 5% Ethereum goal without buying more ETH
Bitmine is still buying Ethereum, even as staking may make further purchases unnecessary to reach its 5% ownership target. The Nasdaq-listed treasury company disclosed that it acquired 53,501 ETH in the week through Aug. 30, taking its holdings to 5.9…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Is Shockingly Good at Almost Everything
Early testers spent OpenAI’s launch weekend pushing Astra through 3D cities, playable games, Bach chorales and research papers.