Daily Crypto & AI News

🤖 AI

• When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
  TechCrunch AI
  On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
• Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
  TechCrunch AI
  Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
• Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
  TechCrunch AI
  "These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
• In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
  TechCrunch AI
  So ... what's your In the Weights score?
• The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
  The Verge AI
  Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent...
• Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
  TechCrunch AI
  Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
• From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone
  TechCrunch AI
  For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
• Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
  TechCrunch AI
  Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an...
• The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care
  TechCrunch AI
  Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an...
• Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home
  TechCrunch AI
  Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

💰 Crypto

• Are perps swaps? A quick look at that CME suit: State of Crypto
  CoinDesk
• Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
  Decrypt
  Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade.
• Bitcoin tipped for $66K top as trader flags 'suspicious' BTC price gains
  Cointelegraph
  Bitcoin pushed for a $64,000 reclaim despite the US-Iran war making a partial comeback and Binance spot sellers keeping up pressure from earlier in the week.
• Bitcoin price may hit $24K if US stock market crashes by 50%, analyst warns
  Cointelegraph
  Bitcoin’s drop to $23,980 remains the worst-case scenario as weaker ETF flows and low US demand show big investors are still cautious.
• AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests
  Decrypt
  New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions.
• Dash eyes Philippines as market for crypto payments
  Cointelegraph
  Dash is assessing the Philippines for a crypto payments push as regulators promote easier business registration, though industry participants say compliant market entry can still take years.
• Bitcoin price is down over 40% since STRC launched: Is Strategy 'fine'?
  Cointelegraph
  STRC’s slide below par has emboldened critics, slowed Strategy’s Bitcoin buys and sparked debate over whether Michael Saylor’s BTC flywheel is still fine.
• Japanese corporate pension fund plans 1% crypto allocation: Nikkei
  Cointelegraph
  A Japanese corporate pension fund with about 1,200 participating small and medium-sized businesses plans to allocate roughly 1% of its assets to crypto.
• Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit
  CoinDesk
• Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as a renewed Hormuz threat clouds US-Iran ceasefire talks
  CoinDesk