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30 articles about blockchain in AI news
OpenAI's EVMbench: AI Giant Targets $150B Stablecoin Market with Blockchain Security Tool
OpenAI has launched EVMbench, a benchmark tool for evaluating AI performance on Ethereum Virtual Machine tasks, specifically targeting smart contract vulnerabilities. Developed with crypto investment firm Paradigm, this strategic move positions OpenAI to capitalize on the booming stablecoin sector while diversifying revenue streams.
BitGo's MCP Server: How to Securely Query Crypto Wallets from Claude Code
BitGo's new MCP server lets Claude Code directly query wallet balances, transaction history, and blockchain data without exposing private keys.
Beyond Architecture: How Training Tricks Make or Break AI Fraud Detection Systems
New research reveals that weight initialization and normalization techniques—often overlooked in AI development—are critical for graph neural networks detecting financial fraud on blockchain networks. The study shows these training practices affect different GNN architectures in dramatically different ways.
AI Agents Master Smart Contract Hacking: OpenAI's EVMbench Reveals Autonomous Exploitation Capabilities
OpenAI and Paradigm have developed EVMbench, a benchmark showing AI agents can autonomously exploit most Ethereum smart contract vulnerabilities. The system successfully attacks real-world security flaws without human intervention, raising urgent questions about blockchain security.
New Paper Coins 'Curation Debt' — Benchmarks Measure Data Leakage, Not Capability
New paper coins 'curation debt' — benchmarks like MMLU measure data leakage, not capability. Proposes adversarial dynamic benchmarks.
Google Quantum Chip Breaks Bitcoin Cryptography: Threat Analysis
Google demonstrated a quantum computer capable of breaking the elliptic curve cryptography (ECDSA-256) securing Bitcoin and Ethereum. This poses an existential threat to these networks unless they migrate to quantum-resistant algorithms.
Applied Digital Lands 300MW Lease with Hyperscaler at Louisiana Site
Applied Digital secured a 300MW lease with an investment-grade hyperscaler at its Delta Forge 1 site in Louisiana, with a total reported value of $7.5 billion, signaling continued demand for AI data center capacity.
From Checkout to Trust Layer: How Merchants Can Prepare for Agentic Commerce
The article discusses the evolution of e-commerce from simple checkout processes to a future where AI shopping agents act on behalf of consumers. It argues that success in this 'agentic commerce' era depends on merchants building a robust trust layer with data security, transparency, and reliability at its core.
Quantum Breakthrough: 100,000 Qubits Now Threatens Encryption
The estimated qubits required to break RSA encryption has collapsed from 1 billion in 2012 to just 10,000 in 2026, based on recent papers from Caltech, Google, and quantum startup Oratomic.
Tinder, Zoom Back Proof of Humanity for AI Fakery Defense
Major apps like Tinder and Zoom are backing Proof of Humanity's biometric verification system as a defense against AI-generated fake accounts, signaling a shift toward mandatory 'proof of personhood' for access.
New Protocol Enables Self-Improving AI Agents with Auditable Lineage
Researchers have proposed a formal protocol for creating self-improving AI agent systems. The framework enables agents to autonomously evaluate and implement upgrades while maintaining auditable lineage and safe rollback options.
Interluxe Group Launches Optima AI Index to Shape Luxury Discovery in
The Interluxe Group has introduced the Optima AI Index, a new data standard aimed at enhancing the accuracy and visibility of luxury brand information within generative AI platforms. This initiative seeks to address the challenge of inconsistent brand discovery in AI-driven search, providing a structured foundation for brand representation.
Gap Deploys AI Platform for End-to-End Product Traceability
Gap Inc. has announced a new AI-powered supply chain platform focused on product traceability. The system is designed to track items from raw materials through to the retail store. This move addresses growing consumer and regulatory demands for supply chain transparency.
Coresight Research Report: Technology and Resilience as Path to Stronger Retail Margins
Coresight Research has published a report titled 'Supply Chain Insights for Food, Drug and Mass Retail: Technology, Resilience and the Path to Stronger Margins.' The research focuses on how strategic tech adoption can fortify operations and profitability in key retail segments.
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Calls AI 'Only Hype' Amid Industry Spend
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin stated AI is 'only hype' and questioned the ROI of massive spending, despite AI's growing integration across industries. This highlights a divide between financial skepticism and technological adoption.
Google Quantum AI Team Reduces Bitcoin-Cracking Qubit Estimate to ~500k, Enabling 9-Minute Key Derivation
Google researchers have compiled Shor's algorithm to solve Bitcoin's 256-bit elliptic curve problem with ~1.2k logical qubits, translating to <500k physical qubits—a 20x reduction from 2023 estimates. This makes 'on-spend' attacks against unconfirmed transactions theoretically plausible with fast-clock quantum hardware.
Anthropic's Claude AI Identifies Security Vulnerabilities, Earns $3.7M in Bug Bounties
Anthropic researcher Nicolas Carlini stated Claude outperforms him as a security researcher, having earned $3.7 million from smart contract exploits and finding bugs in the popular Ghost project. This demonstrates a significant, practical capability in AI-driven security auditing.
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Why Authenticity Will Be a Luxury in Hollywood’s AI Era
The Times argues that in an AI-saturated media landscape, genuine human creativity and authentic storytelling will become scarce, high-value commodities. This mirrors a core challenge for luxury brands: preserving brand soul and heritage in an age of synthetic content.
AWP (Agent Work Protocol) Launches Testnet on Base, Enabling Autonomous AI Agent Work Coordination
Developer hasantoxr has launched AWP, an open protocol on Base testnet that allows AI agents to autonomously register, find work, and execute tasks without human prompting. The system uses skill files to define work types, enabling gasless agent coordination.
Google Unveils Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for Securing Agentic Commerce
Google has released the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to secure transactions conducted by AI agents. This framework aims to establish trust and provenance in automated commerce, with direct implications for luxury goods authentication and supply chain transparency.
Stripe Proposes Machine Payments Protocol: HTTP 402 & Scoped Tokens for AI Agent Payments
Stripe's open Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) enables AI agents to autonomously discover, negotiate, and complete payments using HTTP 402 status codes and scoped payment tokens. It supports both fiat and crypto rails, eliminating the need for human-in-the-loop payment flows.
Court Temporarily Allows Perplexity AI Shopping 'Agents' on Amazon
A U.S. appeals court has paused a lower court ruling that blocked Perplexity AI's automated shopping tools on Amazon. This creates a temporary legal opening for AI agents to operate on e-commerce platforms while the case proceeds.
Coinbase CEO: AI Agents Now Write Over 50% of Code, Resolve 60% of Support Tickets
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reports AI agents now generate over half of the company's code and resolve 60% of support tickets. The company equips these agents with stablecoin wallets for autonomous machine-to-machine payments.
Kering Appoints Former Renault Executive Pierre Houlès as Chief Digital, AI and IT Officer
Kering has hired Pierre Houlès, a former Renault executive, as its new Director of Digital, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology. This signals a strategic push to accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption across the luxury group.
Build-Your-Own-X: The GitHub Repository Revolutionizing Deep Technical Learning in the AI Era
A GitHub repository compiling 'build it from scratch' tutorials has become the most-starred project in platform history with 466,000 stars. The collection teaches developers to recreate technologies from databases to neural networks without libraries, emphasizing fundamental understanding over tool usage.
Axiom Secures $200M Series A at $1.6B+ Valuation, Signaling Major Shift in AI Infrastructure
AI infrastructure startup Axiom has raised $200 million in Series A funding at a valuation exceeding $1.6 billion. The round was led by Paradigm and Standard Crypto, with participation from Robot Ventures and other investors. This massive early-stage investment highlights growing investor confidence in next-generation AI development platforms.
Criminals Attempt Generative AI Return Fraud at Boll & Branch
Luxury bedding brand Boll & Branch was targeted by criminals using generative AI to create fake return authorization documents. This marks a significant escalation in retail fraud tactics, requiring new defensive measures.
The Digital Authenticity Arms Race: VeryAI Raises $10M to Combat AI-Generated Humans
As AI-generated humans become increasingly convincing, VeryAI has secured $10M in funding to develop verification tools using palm print biometrics and deepfake detection. This investment highlights the growing urgency to distinguish real from synthetic identities in the digital realm.
New AI Framework Uses Diffusion Models to Authenticate Anti-Counterfeit Codes
Researchers propose a novel diffusion-based AI system to authenticate Copy Detection Patterns (CDPs), a key anti-counterfeiting technology. It outperforms existing methods by classifying printer signatures, showing resilience against unseen counterfeits.