Hong Kong, China, August 6th, 2026, Chainwire Mixin Safe, a multisignature self-custody product developed by Mixin, enables users to manage their Owner Key with a hardware wallet and combines MPC and timelock mechanisms in a layered security architecture. Mixin highlighted how the recently disclosed COLDCARD random number generation issue has renewed industry attention on the…
Two personnel announcements landed within days of each other this week. Viewed separately, they look like the usual churn of Silicon Valley’s executive class. Viewed together, they reveal where the artificial-intelligence race is heading next. At Google, Demis Hassabis is surrendering day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to become chair of the division and chief scientist…
The technology industry has always had a slightly dysfunctional relationship with hype. Founders insist they are independent thinkers, venture capitalists claim they can see around corners, and then everyone quietly updates their pitch decks when the latest narrative begins attracting money. A chart produced by Sequoia Capital partner Konstantine Buhler, working with Sequoia intern Oliver Cho,…
A new publication from the Meaning Alignment Institute argues the models get all the scrutiny while courts, elections and regulators are left untouched. Its founders want the redesign started now, on a $65,000 budget. The complaint that animates Pax Machina fits in a sentence: almost all the attention on powerful AI goes to aligning or regulating the…
NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.…
CleanCore Solutions has signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million, and the story is not just that a small public company has moved into AI infrastructure. It is that a company previously known in crypto circles for its Dogecoin treasury has now made a much larger corporate pivot. According to…
The trade that ended Situational Awareness LP took one afternoon and, according to CNBC’s David Faber, went through one enormous trade. On Wednesday, Leopold Aschenbrenner sold the bulk of his fund’s public equity portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel, six days after telling investors that July’s sell-off had created attractive opportunities and inviting them to add capital…
So you keep building. Everyone keeps building. And everyone agrees, increasingly in public, that this is a bad equilibrium. The obvious fix is that you all get in a room and agree to go slower. The obvious problem with the obvious fix is that competitors agreeing to restrict output is a cartel, and the second…
So the way cryptography works, roughly, is that a bunch of very smart people propose a mathematical scheme, and then a bunch of other very smart people spend several years trying to break it, and if they fail we all agree to route our money through it. That’s it. That’s the mechanism. There is no…