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…
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…