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Monday, July 27, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 4:35 PM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

NY Attorney General Letitia James warns Clarity Act would ‘dilute’ states’ ability to go after fraud as pressure mounts

NYAG Letitia James urged Congress to tighten a crypto bill, warning that it would weaken states' ability to police the industry.

The Block · 4 minutes ago

AI · lede

Kimi K3 on HF Viewer!

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CryptoNY Attorney General Letitia James warns Clarity Act would ‘dilute’ states’ ability to go after fraud as pressure mountsCryptoSparkKitty Malware Found in App Stores Targets Crypto Wallet Seed PhrasesCryptoBitcoin shrugs off AI selloff but high-stakes Fed meeting could determine what's nextCryptoFanatics Buys CFTC-Registered Exchange in Prediction Markets Land GrabCryptoBitmine keeps buying Ether as ETH outperforms BitcoinCryptoRepublicans Hope For Democratic Support on Crypto Clarity Act AIKimi K3 on HF Viewer!AINifer is insane. 700t/s with Qwen 3.6 35B (no thinking). Purpose build for RTX5090. Full 250k context too.CryptoMicrosoft Says MDASH Beats Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol in Cybersecurity TestCryptoEthereum, Solana and Avalanche get busier and cheaper even as token prices fall: BitwiseCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoSecuritize Capital becomes SEC-registered investment adviserAIFunny how wide the spectrum has gottenCryptoYour Shared Claude Chats Were Being Quietly Published on GoogleCryptoSecuritize expands regulated platform with SEC adviser licenseCryptoCompromised owner contract just let hackers print 5.2 million WEMIX stablecoins out of thin air, forcing a complete network freezeCryptoCrypto’s favorite $90 trillion trading product is coming to Wall Street, but big banks are taking it slowCryptoNvidia, Microsoft and IBM Launch Open Secure AI Alliance to Strengthen AI CybersecurityAIKimi K3 text-only for llama.cppCryptoA Man Gave Border Agents His Phone Passcode. It Wiped Everything. Now He's Facing Federal ChargesCryptoTD Cowen cuts David Bailey’s Nakamoto target 58% after bitcoin outlook resetAIViable ways to run K3 locallyCryptoDigital asset trading platform Uphold cuts 17% of global headcount as crypto winter bitesCryptoTether’s XAUt gold token receives Shariah certification to expand Islamic finance accessCryptoKraken parent Payward acquires Magic Labs’ wallet businessCryptoLawsuit claims BitMEX used server freezes and internal trading to seize 622 Bitcoin ahead of its September closureCryptoBitcoin ETFs Bled Nearly Half a Billion Dollars End of Last Week, Reversing SentimentCryptoOndo launches new execution network, calling it ‘evolution’ of Ondo ChainAIAI labs are about to have a blast of a day. (Composer v3 coming soon lmfao)CryptoBitmine Nears Goal of Controlling 5% of Ethereum Supply With $11.8 Billion TreasuryCryptoRussia’s Sberbank Sets December Deadline for Crypto Buildout: ReportCryptoCircle Buys IBM Blockchain Patent Estate—And Becomes America's Biggest HolderAIKimi K3 weights now released.AIKIMI K3’s WEIGHTS ARE OUT!AIHere it is boys, The Kimi K3 2.8TCryptoMetaplanet’s brokerage deal ‘badly undersells’ plans for bitcoin-backed ‘Bitbonds,’ Benchmark saysCryptoOn-chain data shows 5,280 ETH draining into single address following quiet Triple-A wallet breachCryptoLido begins consolidating $16 billion worth of staked ETH as Curated Module v2 rolls outCryptoWhat are perps, anyway? Everything you need to know about crypto’s hottest trading instrumentCryptoBitcoin price eyes $66K as US stocks rise on Iran-strike pauseCryptoFanatics buys regulated exchange in bid to grow prediction markets businessCryptoCantor is advising crypto bank AMINA on path to potential public listingCryptoStrategy Skips Bitcoin Again, Buys Back $25M of STRC StockCryptoBitmine adds nearly 10,000 ETH while repurchasing 6.1 million common sharesCryptoIBM portfolio acquisition makes Circle the largest US blockchain patent holderAIKimi K3 weights drop today. We're deploying on A100s, H200s and B300s this week and the A100 math is already roughAINvidia CEO Jensen Huang defends Open Source AI by saying distillation is fundamental to learningCryptoLido begins moving $16.5 billion in staked ether to cut validator count by a thirdCryptoSEC warning over crypto yield vaults puts DeFi’s secret human controllers in the crosshairsCryptoHong Kong crypto giant HashKey merges regional exchange into oneCryptoBenchmark reiterates $570 Strategy target, says cash reserve strengthens bitcoin acquisition planCryptoThailand's SEC alleges Bitkub concealed cyberattack that led to $50 million hackCryptoRate path still divides investors: Five things to know in Bitcoin this weekAIImport AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker CryptoNvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or GoogleCryptoBinance disappears from Google Play in certain EU countriesCryptoUSDC issuer Circle to acquire nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patentsCryptoStrategy Adds $525M to Cash Reserve, Skips Bitcoin Buy for Fifth WeekCryptoSecuritize builds Wall Street credentials with SEC adviser license as tokenization expandsCryptoCrypto is rewriting how Wall Street traders spend their weekendsCryptoBitmine buys more ether as Tom Lee says rising ETH/BTC ratio points to stronger crypto pricesCryptoBitMart’s sudden shutdown triggers withdrawal delays and on-chain panic, echoing the ghosts of 2022CryptoCircle buys nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBMCryptoStrategy sells MSTR shares, buys back $25M in STRC preferred stockCryptoCrypto Firms Pivoting to AI Is 'Zero-Sum' Thinking: Coinbase CEOCryptoStrategy extends bitcoin pause to five weeks, sells $544.5 million in MSTR as USD reserve hits $3.75 billionCryptoKraken parent Payward acquires Magic Labs’ embedded wallet businessCryptoMichael Saylor's Strategy boosted cash reserve to $3.75 billion, repurchased $25 million of STRCCryptoMorning Minute: Tokenized Stocks Jump 5x on Robinhood ChainAIJensen Huang: During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion. That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.CryptoBitcoin options traders are dropping their hedges going into the Fed meetingCryptoSTORJ token falls 20% as decentralized storage firm files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid crypto shutdown waveCryptoSparkKitty malware hidden in mobile apps scans photos for crypto wallet seed phrasesCryptoBitcoin ETFs Shed $465M Over Two Days, Led by BlackRock's IBITCryptoBitcoin’s $65,000 rebound looks like a relief rally, but Wednesday’s Fed decision could turn it into a trapCryptoBNY Mellon unit joins MiCA register as ESMA adds 15 providersCryptoBitMart Becomes Latest Crypto Exchange to Shut DownAIThe entire tech industry (save for Anthropic) has come out in favor of open source AI. So what happens next? Will Anthropic change its lobbying efforts? Not likely. Now the gaslighting begins: “Nobody is trying to ban open source.”AINVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical RoboticsCrypto31 newly discovered vulnerabilities expose 99% of x402 crypto payments to asset theft and free shoppingCryptoBrazilian police bust cocaine traffickers in crypto-linked transnational probeAIChinese Chipmaker CXMT's market capitalization surpassed IntelCryptoThailand's SEC Files Criminal Complaint Against Bitkub Over Undisclosed $47M HackCryptoCoinbase CEO touts agentic finance as Base tops 100M AI paymentsCryptoInside the $87 million BTC sell-off driving a Bitcoin treasury pivot into AI data centersCryptoSouth Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank to launch cross-border payment service on JPMorgan’s Kinexys: reportCryptoTriple-A confirms treasury-wallet breach after losses reach $11.8M AIWe could really use Qwen3.8 in 27B, 35B, 122B and 397B sizesCryptoWhy Hashdex’s new crypto ETF keeps 100% of your initial staking yields and 40% of everything elseAIAn Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and FraudCryptoThe brutal $346M math behind Galaxy’s high-stakes race to build CoreWeave’s Texas AI mega-centerCryptoMira Murati’s Inkling AI Model Review: Best Open-Weights Model in the WestAIRuff v0.16.0AIQuoting Boris ChernyAIIntroducing Claude Opus 5CryptoMorgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF Nearly Notches $400M in AssetsCrypto$7 Trillion Investment Giant Fidelity Backs New Crypto Clarity ActCryptoState Department to Debut Freedom Tech Program with Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir as Founding PartnersCryptoNational Fraternal Order of Police Gives Green Light to Clarity Act in Latest Support for Crypto BillCryptoSealed in Foil: BMAG’s New Focus on Trading CardsCryptoTop Crypto Industry Groups Pen Letter to Senate Leaders Urging Them To Support the Clarity ActAIThe first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?AIQuoting Seth LarsonAIBringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to DiffusersAIQuoting Thomas PtacekAIOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedAIAre AI labs pelicanmaxxing?AIOrchestrionsAIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextAICalifornia Sea LionAINativ: Run AI models locally on your MacAIA Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code teamAIGrabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation dataAIReverse-engineering is cheap nowAIWho’s Afraid of Chinese Models?AIKimi K3: The open-weights escalationAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan AIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAINewer Models, Same AdvantageAISecurity incident disclosure — July 2026AIWhat building Shippy taught us about building agentsAIModel Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.AIWelcome Inkling by Thinking MachinesAIIntroducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AIAI6 months to live for open modelsAIProfiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profileAINative-speed vLLM transformers modeling backendAIFrom Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one clickAIHugging Face Models on Foundry Managed ComputeAIRun AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilotAILeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, ImproveAIImport AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computationAIImport AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human eraAILatest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystemAIUsing Local Coding AgentsAIGLM-5.2 is the step change for open agentsAIImport AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASIAIBanning Open Source AI Would Be A MistakeAIState of the blog, mid-2026AIFrontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr TimbersAIImport AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research internsAIWelcome to the AGI era of AI governanceAIClaude Fable 5 and new AI safety fablesAIImport AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racingAILLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)AIFarewell Ai2AIImport AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systemsAIOpen and closed models are on different exponentialsAISome ideas for what comes next, May 2026AIImport AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity storyAIImport AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment AILatest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment.AIRecent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed AttentionAIHow open model ecosystems compoundAIImport AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer AIImport AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.AIImport AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4 AIMy Workflow for Understanding LLM ArchitecturesAIImport AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowermentAIImport AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting AIComponents of A Coding AgentAIA Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMsAIA Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026AIAfter Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI AlignmentAICategories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM ReasoningCryptoVenezuela’s sanctions are stablecoins’ proof of conceptCryptoThe Strategy playbook looks different in 2026CryptoRanger’s ICO starts today, and MetaDAO eyes a resetCryptoETH derivatives reset and the next retail tradeCryptoFriday charts: Finding good news, in spite of bad headlinesCryptoDePIN and crypto gaming led a surprising end-of-year reboundCryptoCanton’s $6T RWA rails and Lighter’s Hyperliquid multipleCryptoThe long wait for crypto’s “coffee pot” momentCryptoFailure is an option in crypto financeCryptoYield Basis is making native BTC yield a realityCryptoUsers are the best investors to haveCryptoA sleeper in the perps categoryCryptoThe old story of investing in new technologyCrypto2025 ReflectionsAIThe State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and PredictionsAILLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)CryptoThe perps wars are heating upAIFrom DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL UpdatesAIBeyond Standard LLMsAIUnderstanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)AIUnderstanding and Implementing Qwen3 From ScratchAIAGI Is Not MultimodalAIShape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning ResearchAIWhat's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of PurposeAIWe Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in WellbeingAIFinancial Market Applications of LLMsAIA Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AIAIMamba ExplainedAICar-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen?AIDo text embeddings perfectly encode text?AIWhy Doesn’t My Model Work?AIDeep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cellsAISalmon in the LoopAINeural algorithmic reasoningAIThe Artificiality of Alignment