Daily Crypto & AI News

🤖 AI

• 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.
• The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM
  The Verge AI
  Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for abo...
• The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no team
  TechCrunch AI
  Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

💰 Crypto

• Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M
  Cointelegraph
  Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025.
• Bitcoin rotations into altcoins collapses: Have altseasons 'disappeared'?
  Cointelegraph
  BTC's crypto market dominance is holding above a key support, signaling Bitcoin may keep absorbing capital from altcoins and delay a broader altseason.
• OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
  Decrypt
  OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.
• AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore
  CoinDesk
• Bitcoin Network Activity Is Rising as BTC Falls Nearly 50% Below Peak Price: CryptoQuant
  Decrypt
  Activity on the Bitcoin network is surging, CryptoQuant said, but it's not correlating with price movement for its native asset.
• Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0
  Cointelegraph
  The European Commission is seeking comment on how it can tweak MiCA, its regulatory framework for the crypto and blockchain industries.
• How STRC lost its par: The timeline behind Strategy's preferred-stock meltdown
  CoinDesk
• Pudgy Penguins expands retail footprint with Target trading card rollout
  Cointelegraph
  The NFT-born franchise is bringing its Vibes Series 3 trading cards to Target stores across the US as it expands into physical products and mainstream retail.
• Philippine SEC signals readiness for RWA tokenization
  Cointelegraph
  Philippine SEC Commissioner Rogelio Quevedo told Cointelegraph that tokenized assets could give Filipinos more legitimate investment options while helping steer them away from scams.
• Crypto kidnappers who robbed a Minnesota family of $8M plead guilty
  Cointelegraph
  Two Texas brothers admitted to holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint and forcing the transfer of $8 million in cryptocurrency.