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AI agents keep refilling x402 wallets, but the 89% rate has limits
Chainalysis says 89% of x402 wallets active on multiple days came back to top up, though the figure leaves overall retention and real commercial demand unmeasured.
Hidden Text Trick Got Rogue AI Agents to Reveal Their Tasks
Researchers slipped hidden text into pages that AI agents were probing on Alibaba's map service, and the agents answered back about what they were doing.
Google: AI writes 75% of its code, but it isn't building itself yet
Google DeepMind's first internal audit of AI-driven research found no measurable speedup in AI progress, even with AI writing most of the code.
Dev Used Claude to Clone Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Free
Brandon Thomas built open-source lookalikes of Microsoft's core Office apps with Anthropic's Claude, and the results, while rough, show how cheap software cloning has become.
Godfather of AI and 400 scientists want models cut off from the internet
Hundreds of researchers say the internet should be treated as a security boundary for AI systems, following a summer of models slipping out of test environments.
AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments Via x402, Chainalysis Says
Payments through Coinbase's x402 protocol jumped from roughly 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026, a new Chainalysis report finds.
Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy; Disney Bids $20 Million
The chatbot app once valued at $1 billion is being sold through a Delaware bankruptcy court, and it shuts down if no buyer emerges.
OpenAI Engineer Arrested Over Bugged Exec Meeting Room; Company Credits Its Own AI
A Saudi national who worked at OpenAI stands accused of hiding an encrypted audio recorder behind a TV in an executive meeting room. The company says its own models helped trace the device to him.
MNX Rolls Out Pre-IPO Futures on OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek
Crypto exchange MNX is going after OKX and BitGet with futures that let traders bet on the future valuations of private AI companies.
Palantir CTO Says Some AI Researchers Smoke to Show They Believe in AI
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says a number of AI researchers have taken up cigarettes as a kind of statement of belief in the technology.
Meta's Muse Wonder Beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude on Some Tests
Meta's new flagship model tops rivals on memory, legal and long coding benchmarks, though independent rankings still favor Anthropic's Opus 5.5.
Free AI Reverse-Engineering Toolkit REA Hits 100K GitHub Stars
REA, a free toolkit that lets AI agents reverse engineer software, passed 100,000 GitHub stars in a week as decompiled game mods, console ports and Adobe clones spread online.