What Are x402 Tokens? AI Micropayments Sector Jumps From $178M to $832M in 3 Days

The x402 ecosystem has exploded in just three days—expanding from 10 listed tokens worth $178 million on Oct. 25, 2025, to 44 coins with a combined value of $832 million as of Oct. 28, according to Coingecko. The Rise of x402 Tokens Three days ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on how Coingecko launched a new category … Read more

Bitcoin Miner Terawulf Secures 25-Year AI Compute Contract Worth $9.5B

Terawulf has inked a 25-year joint venture with Fluidstack to build a 168-megawatt (MW) high-performance computing (HPC) facility in Abernathy, Texas — a deal valued at roughly $9.5 billion and backed by Google’s $1.3 billion credit support. Terawulf and Fluidstack Launch $9.5B AI Compute Venture Backed by Google The agreement reportedly deepens Terawulf’s relationship with … Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grokipedia — A Real-Time, Truth-Seeking Rival to Wikipedia

Elon Musk’s xAI just lobbed another moonshot into the information galaxy with Grokipedia — an artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled encyclopedia gunning to give Wikipedia a serious run for its hyperlinks. The platform doesn’t just store facts; Grok claims it hunts them down, checks their pulse, and edits them on the fly. Inside Grokipedia: Elon Musk’s ‘Maximum … Read more

Kobeissi Letter: US Data Center Boom Outpaces Global Rivals as AI Frenzy Drives $40B Buildout

The Kobeissi Letter says the United States is undergoing a modern-day “gold rush” as artificial intelligence (AI) drives an unprecedented boom in data center construction that could redefine global power markets. ‘We’re Still Early’: Kobeissi Letter Calls Power the World’s Most Valuable Commodity In a thread posted to X, The Kobeissi Letter — a leading … Read more

Alpha Arena AI Trading Experiment Sees China Outperform Western Models so Far

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

AI Browser Wars: New Agents Turn Tabs Into Taskmasters

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

Coingecko Adds $178M x402 Token Category as AI Micropayments Heat Up

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

Argentum AI Founder: Skyrocketing AI Compute Costs Drive Demand for Decentralized Alternatives

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

Tokenization Meets AI: Securitize Expands RWA Access Through MCP Server

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

AI Browsers Under Fire: Hidden Web Prompts Can Hijack Your Agent and Connected Accounts

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