Daily Crypto & AI News

🤖 AI

• OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
  TechCrunch AI
  OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
• Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
  The Verge AI
  Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025, totalling 34 million metric tons "without selec...
• Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
  TechCrunch AI
  OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.
• Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
  The Verge AI
  OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condi...
• OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
  TechCrunch AI
  OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
• An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
  TechCrunch AI
  Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
• OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
  TechCrunch AI
  OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
• Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
  TechCrunch AI
  Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
• Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
  TechCrunch AI
  The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
• Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
  Ars Technica AI
  The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.

💰 Crypto

• New Hampshire snuffs out trailblazing state-government bitcoin bond effort
  CoinDesk
• AI Agents Could Be Turned Into Botnets Through Hallucinations, Researchers Warn
  Decrypt
  Researchers warn AI agents could be tricked into downloading malicious code by exploiting the same hallucinations that cause chatbots to make mistakes.
• Coinbase chief legal officer to transition to advisory role on July 31
  Cointelegraph
  The soon-to-be former chief legal officer did not announce the details of his next move but said that he would continue working with the Board of Coinbase National Trust Company.
• Avalanche Treasury Firm AVAX One Reclaims Nasdaq Compliance After Reverse Stock Split
  Decrypt
  AVAX One, which stockpiles the native token of the Avalanche crypto network, is back in Nasdaq's good graces after a reverse stock split.
• Grayscale's CFO exits after 7 years with crypto asset manager
  CoinDesk
• Perplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost
  Decrypt
  The company's post-trained GLM 5.2 preview pairs a cheaper open-source base with a frontier advisor—and it's already live in production.
• JPMorgan Says the Real Threat to Bitcoin Isn’t Strategy (MSTR) — It’s Private Blockchains
  Bitcoin Magazine
  Bitcoin Magazine JPMorgan Says the Real Threat to Bitcoin Isn’t Strategy (MSTR) — It’s Private Blockchains JPMorgan says Strategy's Bitcoin sales are a short-term concern, but the bigger long-term risk is that banks and institutions adopt private blockchains over public networ...
• With SEC fight over, Coinbase's top legal exec Grewal moves on, and others reassigned
  CoinDesk
• Arbitrum jumps 19% benefitting from Robinhood's $568 million onchain trading frenzy
  CoinDesk
• Anthropic AI Oversight Board Adds Ben Bernanke, Who Oversaw 2008 Financial Crisis at Fed
  Decrypt
  Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will have the power to appoint Anthropic board members as part of company's Long-Term Benefit Trust.