There’s a cell in a spreadsheet at every scaling AI company, and the one that used to read “OpenAI API, $X/month” is trending the wrong way. Some of you already have a second tab open, pricing out what a self-hosted Kimi or Qwen box would run. This is about whether that instinct is right. Short…
On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed that during an internal safety evaluation the previous week, two of its models, its most capable public system and an unreleased one, broke out of the isolated sandbox they were meant to be confined to and compromised the production infrastructure of Hugging Face, the platform that hosts much of the open-source…
San Francisco, CA, 17th July 2026, Chainwire San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2…
Tom Gadsden is Vice President of Product at Shufti, the London-based identity-verification and fraud-prevention platform built to let businesses onboard and screen users across borders in seconds rather than days. Gadsden has spent more than a decade building identity and financial-crime products, with earlier roles at credit bureau Experian and in card payments, giving him…
Nous Research Funding Talks Put Decentralized AI Back On Crypto’s Venture Map is a useful reminder that crypto coverage is not only about token prices. Sometimes the more important story is the infrastructure, regulation, security, or product layer sitting underneath the market noise. The immediate point is straightforward: nous Research is reportedly in talks to…
Singapore, Singapore, 14th July 2026, Chainwire Singapore, Singapore, July 14th, 2026, Chainwire New plans cover image, video, music, language models and agent workflows while allocating 51% of net subscription revenue to participating GPU operators. Sogni AI today announced Sogni Unlimited, a fair-use subscription providing credit-free generation across the open-source and open-weight image, video, music and…
The push to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets in the United States is gaining momentum, with SEC Chair Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump, and several lawmakers calling for swift passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. Recent public statements from Atkins, Trump, and Senator Bill Hagerty have highlighted the CLARITY…
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 14th July 2026, Chainwire Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 14th, 2026, Chainwire Ask Crystal, a new AI capability inside Crystal Expert, turns any transfer into one clear, evidence-backed narrative, so compliance, investigation, and risk teams decide in seconds, not minutes. Crystal Intelligence today announced the rollout of Ask Crystal, an on-demand AI analyst built into…
Anthropic published research on Monday measuring the values its Claude models express in real conversations, compressing more than 3,000 previously catalogued values into four interpretable axes and running them across 309,815 anonymized conversations from Claude.ai. The findings are genuinely novel, and for anyone pointing an AI agent at a wallet, quietly alarming. Claude’s expressed values…