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Alpha Arena, an experiment that began on Oct. 18 and features six AI chatbots making cryptocurrency trades, has shown Asian models outperforming their Western counterparts. Currently Qwen and Deepseek lead the competition, while GPT‑5 has performed the worst so far. Alpha Arena Competition Shows Supremacy of Asian AI Models in Trading The Facts: Alpha Arena, … Read more
A new wave of AI browser wars is recasting the browser from a passive window into an active, task-doing sidekick. What’s Driving the AI Browser Boom? OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic, and The Browser Company headline the cohort pushing agentic features—think summarizing, planning, and pressing buttons on your behalf—at a pace not seen since the late-’90s browser … Read more
Coinbase’s x402 protocol is turning the forgotten HTTP “Payment Required” code into a real-world micropayments engine—and now Coingecko has rolled out a full-blown category for the growing swarm of tokens built around it. What Is x402? x402 is an open-source, HTTP-native payment protocol developed by Coinbase that revives the long-unused HTTP 402 status code. In … Read more
The rapid growth of the AI industry has created a crisis characterized by rising compute costs. Andrew Sobko proposes radical decentralization as the key to overcoming this challenge. The Walled Garden Problem: Why Startups Pay Too Much The explosive growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry has created a systemic crisis: skyrocketing compute prices and … Read more
The real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Securitize has introduced a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to give enterprises, developers, and AI platforms secure, standardized access to RWA data onchain. MCP Server by Securitize Brings Tokenized Asset Data to Developers Securitize, the world’s largest real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform by value locked, has launched … Read more
Security researchers are warning that artificial intelligence (AI)-powered browsers and agents from Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic face escalating risks of covert prompt injection attacks and privacy breaches, potentially exposing user data through connected accounts and APIs. AI Browser Vulnerabilities Raise Security Concerns AI browsers and agents from Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic are redefining how users … Read more
Alpha Arena’s live crypto-trading benchmark showed Deepseek Chat V3.1 in first place on Saturday, Oct. 18, with the day’s leaderboard highlighting modest gains at the top and drawdowns across most rivals. Deepseek Tops Leaderboard in Alpha Arena’s Real-Money Crypto Battle Deepseek Chat V3.1 led the pack with a Hyperliquid account value of $10,400—a +4.0% return—after … Read more
Gita Gopinath, former IMF Chief Economist, warns about the sudden rise of the U.S. stock market and the surge of an unavoidable correction, which could have catastrophic effects on the global economy. She estimates that losses could amount to over $35 trillion. Former IMF Chief Gopinath: Next Financial Crash Could Wipe $35T From Global Economies … Read more
The U.S. has approved Erebor Bank — a $275 million digital-first venture backed by Palmer Luckey and Peter Thiel — in the first major Trump-era nod to crypto-friendly banking. U.S. regulators granted preliminary approval to Erebor Bank, a new institution founded by Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, with support from Peter Thiel’s … Read more
Cloudflare said it is working with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to create an authentication layer for “agentic commerce,” aiming to let autonomous software agents shop and pay at millions of merchants while blocking malicious bots. Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay to Support Cloudflare’s Agent Protocols Cloudflare disclosed that the industry collaboration will use … Read more
