ByteDance and Alibaba to Pull Agent Features as China Cracks Down on Humanlike AI
Beijing’s first rules targeting emotional AI are forcing the country’s biggest apps to shut down custom agents. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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UK Foreign Secretary Warns of ‘AI Hiroshima’ if Policymakers Don’t Act
Yvette Cooper said governments must agree on AI safeguards before frontier systems transform warfare, crime, and society. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents
“The reality is, when you’re optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance,” Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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Bitcoin nears $63.5K into weekly close as trader warns of ‘terrible’ Monday
Bitcoin reached its highest levels in nearly a fortnight over the weekend, but BTC price action faced an “absolutely terrible” Monday track record. Source: cointelegraph.com Read Full Story
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Funds are buying crypto stocks. Are they exposed to less risk — or more?
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought roughly $77 million of crypto stocks in June, adding $44 million of Coinbase (COIN), $25.25 million of Circle (CRCL), and $8.2 million of Bullish (BLSH) during Bitcoin’s worst month in four years, according to ARK’s daily trade disclosures. The purchases extend a thesis both Wood and other funds have held…
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Alex Karp, frontier models and the real fight for Enterprise AI
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s argument is that frontier model vendors (he didn’t mention Anthropic and OpenAI by name) intend to suck the knowledge out of enterprises and destroy the “alpha” companies enjoy through…
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Tokenization’s next use case is personalized portfolios, NYLIM executive says
Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfolio construction that’s not yet possible in traditional finance. Source: www.coindesk.com Read Full Story
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The World Cup sends prediction market volumes soaring to record highs
Trading volumes on Kalshi and Polymarket both hit record highs in June. Rothera, a new prediction market platform, was also able to manage $2 billion in volume. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
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Claude Fable 5 Isn’t Nerfed. The Router Is Just Paranoid
Did Claude Fable 5 get dumber? Two benchmarks, two wildly different conclusions—and one routing layer that explains the whole mess. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
