decrypt Oct 14, 2026

Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough,...

decrypt Oct 14, 2026

AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny

A new Chainalysis report found payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 mill...

coindesk Oct 14, 2026

AI agents make 138 million crypto payments as U.S. dominates spending on AI mode...

U.S.-linked wallets account for just over 88% of tracked AI model payments, dwarfing China’s 0.1% share, according to new Chainaly...

decrypt Oct 13, 2026

OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Bugging Office, Company Says AI Caught Him

A Saudi national working at OpenAI allegedly hid an encrypted audio recorder behind a TV in an executive meeting room. OpenAI says...

decrypt Oct 13, 2026

AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palanti...

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.

coindesk Oct 13, 2026

Crypto exchange MNX takes on OKX, BitGet offering pre-IPO futures for AI giants

MNX is offering a different way to trade the future valuations of private AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek.

decrypt Oct 12, 2026

AI Will Hit 40% of Jobs, IMF Warns. Young People Are First in Line

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI investment is holding global growth near 3%, with Asian chipmakers winning big, while warni...

decrypt Oct 12, 2026

Meta's New Muse Wonder Finally Puts Zuckerberg in the Frontier AI Race

Meta's new flagship beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude on memory, legal and marathon coding tests, but independent rankings still put An...

decrypt Oct 12, 2026

From GTA V on iPhone to Free Photoshop: This AI Tool Is Upending Software

REA, a free toolkit that hands AI agents the keys to reverse engineering, crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in a week as AI-decompiled...

coindesk Oct 12, 2026

Palantir's Europe head warns the region is 'missing the boat' on AI just as it d...

The Palantir UK chief said the U.S. is racing ahead on enterprise AI while Europe hesitates, and explained why he thinks the compa...