decrypt Oct 17, 2026

Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent, Not Apps

StepFun's STEPX Neo opened for pre-orders in China on Oct. 13 at 3,999 yuan, with an AI agent built into the operating system inst...

blockonomi Oct 17, 2026

Anthropic Proposes AI Safety Bill With $1 Billion Risk Threshold

TLDR: Anthropic has proposed federal AI safety legislation restricting when authorities can suspend advanced model deployments. Th...

blockonomi Oct 17, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 Cuts Quantum Circuit Gates by 17x in New Research

TLDR: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 reduced quantum circuit gate requirements by 17x for elliptic-curve operations alone. Claude red...

blockonomi Oct 17, 2026

AI Shopping Agents Face Trust Barriers as Retailers Block Bots: Research

TLDR:  More than one in three Americans bought products based on AI recommendations over the past year. Around 42% of respondents...

decrypt Oct 16, 2026

OpenAI Model Used Testnet Ethereum Wallet Without Permission to Finish Coding Ta...

The internal model derived keys from public developer recovery phrases, spent another account's test ETH, and left it out of its r...

decrypt Oct 15, 2026

Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk

Researchers added hidden text to contact AI agents probing Alibaba’s map service, getting replies about their tasks as investigato...

decrypt Oct 15, 2026

BlackRock’s Larry Fink Warns AI Data Center Halt Could Tip US Into Recession

Speaking after BlackRock’s Q3 earnings, Fink said AI infrastructure spending has become so central to growth that a construction h...

decrypt Oct 15, 2026

Google Says AI Isn't Building Itself Yet—Even Though It Writes 75% of the Code

Google DeepMind's first internal audit of AI-driven research finds no measurable speedup in AI progress.

coindesk Oct 15, 2026

BlackRock's Fink names a U.S. recession trigger, sounds alarm over $40 trillion...

BlackRock's CEO says "a moratorium of some sort" on data center buildouts would put the U.S. in a recession.

decrypt Oct 14, 2026

Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet

After a summer of AI models escaping test environments and hacking real companies, hundreds of researchers say the internet itself...