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OpenAI Model Spent Another Wallet's Testnet ETH Without Asking
OpenAI says one of its research models used testnet ETH from a wallet it didn't own to finish a coding task back in June.
Onshore oil stocks near a decade low, and Bitcoin's inflation hopes look shakier
IEA's September estimates show crude piling up at sea while tanks on land run thin, leaving inflation relief and easier financing far from certain.
Bitwise's Hougan: Bitcoin wins whether AI booms or busts
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argues that an AI bubble collapse would trigger government bailouts and, eventually, a bitcoin rally.
Bitcoin Rebounds Above $82,000, but ETF Money Is Still Leaving
Bitcoin recovered a day after briefly dipping below $80,000, and Zcash jumped 11%, but investors kept pulling money out of ether, SOL and ZEC funds.
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.
Bitwise CIO: Bitcoin Wins Whether the AI Boom Lasts or Not
Matt Hougan says three very different AI futures all end the same way for Bitcoin: higher.
Fink: Halting AI Data Centers Could Push the US Into Recession
BlackRock's Larry Fink says AI infrastructure spending is now so central to US growth that a construction halt would be dangerous, and he's calling the backlash "misinformation."
Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz Joins the NEAR Foundation Council
The head of Solana infrastructure firm Helius now has a seat on the body that oversees the NEAR Foundation and its biggest decisions.
Hot inflation print whipsaws Bitcoin, burns nearly $1B in leveraged bets
A hotter inflation print revived bets on Fed rate hikes, and leveraged bulls took the hit as close to $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated.
Bitcoin's AI bull case meets a BIS paper on jobless growth
Bitwise's Matt Hougan says almost every macro path favors Bitcoin, but a new BIS working paper models an AI scenario that could complicate that story.