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Adam Back urges gradual approach to protecting Bitcoin from quantum computers, a week after being named as its likely...

A rival proposal would freeze millions of coins that fail to migrate to new security standards, including holdings linked to Bitcoin's mysterious inventor.

Perplexity launches an AI assistant that takes over your Mac and works while you sleep

Personal Computer runs around the clock on an Apple desktop, handling files, emails and apps for $200 a month.

Anthropic takes 158,000 square feet in London as US artificial intelligence rivals race for British talent

The company's new office in the Knowledge Quarter has space for 800 staff, quadrupling its current London headcount

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable publicly available AI model, but token costs give developers pause

The new model outperforms its predecessor across coding, vision and reasoning, though it consumes significantly more computing resources.

Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital is raising $75m to fund a shift into artificial intelligence infrastructure

The company reported record revenue of $93.1 million in its latest quarter, up 219% on the year before

Attack on OpenAI boss Sam Altman reflects a growing backlash against the artificial intelligence industry

More than half of American voters now believe AI will do more harm than good, polls show

How retail investors found a way to buy shares in private AI giant Anthropic. And why some now can't sell

A crypto platform's Anthropic tokens have left one trader sitting on a $1.5 million paper gain with no way to cash out.

Nvidia quantum AI launch triggers buying frenzy across Asian and US tech stocks

The chipmaker's open-source Ising models target two critical bottlenecks standing between today's quantum processors and commercial viability

Cadence partners with Nvidia on robotics artificial intelligence

Cadence and Nvidia will integrate physics simulation with AI models to accelerate robot training.

Tesla shares jump 7% after Musk announces AI chip breakthrough

The electric carmaker's AI5 chip has completed design and is headed for production at Samsung and TSMC foundries.

NASA sets 2030 target for nuclear reactors on the moon as space race intensifies

The US agency will work with the Department of Energy and Department of Defense to deploy fission power in orbit and on the lunar surface.

Meta researchers unveil AI framework that rewrites its own problem-solving code

"Hyperagents" combine task execution with self-modification, raising both performance and safety questions

Tether moves 951 BTC to bitcoin reserve wallet

Tether transferred 951 BTC from a Bitfinex hot wallet into an address labelled as its bitcoin reserve, Arkham Intelligence data shows.

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

The model supports more than 70 languages, offers native multi-speaker dialogue and embeds an imperceptible watermark, SynthID

Snapchat owner set to cull 1,000 jobs

AI agents look set to pick up the slack

Kraken lists Sentio’s ST token for trading

Crypto exchange says deposits are open and trading is live, with app-based purchases to follow once liquidity conditions are met

Magna says token teams should line up six vendors before launch

Crypto infrastructure group says early coordination on legal, custody and distribution can help projects avoid avoidable failures at token generation event

Amazon launches Bio Discovery AI for drug research

The aim is to speed early-stage drug discovery by letting researchers run complex computational workflows without writing code.

Google cracks down on 'back button hijacking' in Chrome

Search giant is expanding its policy to target websites that stop users leaving via the browser back button.

Nvidia says cost per token is the only metric that matters for AI infrastructure

The chipmaker argues buyers who focus on raw compute costs are measuring the wrong thing entirely