Daily Crypto & AI News

🤖 AI

• T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit
  Ars Technica AI
  T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
• SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
  TechCrunch AI
  SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.
• Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
  TechCrunch AI
  Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.
• Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
  TechCrunch AI
  Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
• LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.
  MIT Tech Review AI
  Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work ever...
• Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
  TechCrunch AI
  Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
• Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
  TechCrunch AI
  Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
• Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
  TechCrunch AI
  The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations. and Q&A on what it takes to build and scale successful companies. Register now to save up to $330.
• Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
  TechCrunch AI
  Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math
  MIT Tech Review AI
  This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers yesterda...

💰 Crypto

• Bitcoin tops $60K amid Fed inflation talks: Is bull trap or $65K next?
  Cointelegraph
  Bitcoin rallied above $60,000 despite Federal Reserve rate hike fears and steady outflows from the BTC spot ETFs. Is the rally a bull trap?
• Robinhood rolls out public blockchain, plans crypto trading for UK residents
  Cointelegraph
  The company announced a suite of DeFi products, plans for launching crypto trading in the UK and its public mainnet after months of testing.
• Ethereum Institutional launch draws support from across the Ethereum ecosystem
  CoinDesk
• The 2036 Issue: The Future Is Now, Words of Wisdom from Jeff Booth
  Bitcoin Magazine
  Bitcoin Magazine The 2036 Issue: The Future Is Now, Words of Wisdom from Jeff Booth From The 2036 Issue: An interview with Jeff Booth on where Bitcoin is going over the next decade, by Frank Corva. This post The 2036 Issue: The Future Is Now, Words of Wisdom from Jeff Booth fi...
• Robinhood Launches 'AI-Native' Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Tokenized Stock Trading
  Decrypt
  Brokerage and crypto exchange Robinhood opened the public mainnet for its Arbitrum-powered Ethereum layer-2 network on Wednesday.
• Bitcoin Price Reclaims $60,000 As Strategy (MSTR) and Strive (ASST) Jump More Than 10%
  Bitcoin Magazine
  Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Reclaims $60,000 As Strategy (MSTR) and Strive (ASST) Jump More Than 10% Bitcoin price climbed back above $60,000 on Wednesday, lifting Bitcoin treasury stocks, with Strategy (MSTR) and Strive (ASST) surging more than 10% intraday. This post Bitc...
• Venice AI Valued at $1 Billion as Erik Voorhees Makes the Case for Private ChatGPT Rivals
  Decrypt
  Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.
• Tradeweb executes real-time tokenized US Treasury transaction on Canton Network
  Cointelegraph
  Franklin Templeton transferred a tokenized US Treasury to Virtu Financial in what Tradeweb said was the first real-time transaction settled against USDCx.
• Bitcoin bounces off 21-month low, but leverage data signals caution: Was $57K the bottom?
  Cointelegraph
  Bitcoin found its footing after bulls took steps to reclaim the $60,000 level, but data casts doubt on whether it will flip back to support.
• LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along
  Decrypt
  The 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model spent two months disguised as "Owl Alpha" before Meituan claimed it—and it undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on price by a wide margin.