Trending
CryptoBlastDownBitcoinEthereumLayer2NetworkBack
Crypto
Blast shuts down $20M layer-2 network, forcing Oct. 26 exit deadline
Users face a temporary withdrawal pause before an Oct. 26 deadline to exit through Blast’s normal interface. The post Blast shuts down $20M layer-2 network, forcing Oct. 26 exit deadline appeared firs
CryptoSlate · about 1 hour ago
IMF Praises El Salvador — But Still Tries To Scale Back Its Bitcoin Project
Bitcoin Magazine · about 2 hours ago
Stablecoin issuers have replaced 40% of China’s lost US Treasury demand
CryptoSlate · about 3 hours ago
Bank group sues U.S. regulator over granting crypto trust charters
CoinDesk · about 3 hours ago
AI & Tech
Unitree just dropped UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 — a single 6B model that does 64 whole-body + tabletop tasks on a real humanoid
https://unigen-x.github.io/unifolm-wla.github.io/ Unitree Robotics released UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, their new general-purpose humanoid foundation model. Key points: • 6B parameters • Trained on ~2,500 ho
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 24 minutes ago
So... Should we turn the page on this past week hype? or Do you have any success cases to inspire the rest?
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago
I've ended up with an AI lab in a public community college. What should we actually be teaching?
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 2 hours ago
Buying RTX 5090 At Micro Center Reportedly Now Requires Paperwork, Including A No-Export Declaration
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 4 hours ago
The full file
Every headline, in order
AIUnitree just dropped UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 — a single 6B model that does 64 whole-body + tabletop tasks on a real humanoidAISo... Should we turn the page on this past week hype? or Do you have any success cases to inspire the rest?CryptoBlast shuts down $20M layer-2 network, forcing Oct. 26 exit deadlineAII've ended up with an AI lab in a public community college. What should we actually be teaching?CryptoIMF Praises El Salvador — But Still Tries To Scale Back Its Bitcoin ProjectCryptoStablecoin issuers have replaced 40% of China’s lost US Treasury demandCryptoBank group sues U.S. regulator over granting crypto trust chartersCryptoCalifornia Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Models That Hacked Their Way Out of a TestCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoEuropean crypto users have ‘more faith’ in regulated firms under MiCA: Bitpanda co-CEOAIBuying RTX 5090 At Micro Center Reportedly Now Requires Paperwork, Including A No-Export DeclarationCryptoBitcoin’s $85,000 sell wall is gone and traders are now betting on $100,000AImicrosoft/FrogNano-4B-2609 · Hugging FaceCryptoEthereum Now Lets You Pay for AI Without Revealing Who You AreCryptoCircle Pushes Back on MiCA's Bank-Deposit Mandate for StablecoinsAISelf-hosting AI does not save money, and I do it anywayCryptoWhen the Banks Don’t Work, Bitcoin Does: Cornell University’s Adoption IndexCryptoCrypto hackers exploit third-party Aave tool to steal 114 ETHCryptoThis AI Is Already Fooling People on Video Calls Into Thinking It's Human, Company SaysCrypto$4.2B crypto bank Anchorage Digital cuts 17% of workforce: ReportCryptoBlast to wind down Ethereum L2 after costs outpace revenueCryptoSouth Africa’s Absa Becomes First Bank on the Continent to Custody Bitcoin: ReportCryptoEvernorth’s Nasdaq XRP treasury is approved, but its real buying power isn’t the $300 million expectedAINew Architecture from Percepta: Spotlight — separating intelligence from memory, allowing knowledge and skills to grow without changing the model's weights.CryptoOnce a $2.3 Billion Network, Ethereum Layer-2 Blast Is Shutting DownCryptoBNY in talks with Kraken parent Payward over infrastructure partnershipCryptoNvidia Hits Record High as Market Value Reaches $5.7 TrillionAIHeavily quantized Qwen3.8-Flash vs Q8 Qwen3.8-27B - thoughts?CryptoOnce a $2 billion Ethereum layer-2, Blast is shutting down after assets plunge 98%CryptoTrump’s potential AI czar, Jay Clayton, helped pioneer the SEC’s crypto crackdownCryptoDrift opens exploit recovery claims with initial payouts of just over 1% of user lossesAII made my iPhone a second GPU for my 24 GB MacBook: Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster & my holds part of the CTX window.AINew 64GB DGX Spark. Significantly higher price for the original 128GB model $6,950 USDCryptoParadigm-backed Layer 2 Blast to wind down network as costs exceed revenueCryptoBitcoin Heads Higher on Macro Moves: Where Does BTC Go Next?CryptoWhy Strategy’s STRC calculator shows $210 for a share it can redeem at $101Crypto71% of UK finance leaders expect tokenization to reshape financial services: LloydsAIQwen3.8-27B-Humanlike-Chat 2.0: texts like a human, now with tool calls and better instruction followingCryptoUnpatched Eclair Bitcoin Lightning nodes could crash again every time they restartCryptoCrypto’s billions are back, but the premiums aren’tAIStrata on a power limited 5090 and 96GB of DDR5-6400 is cranking out 150-200 tok/s decode and 5-6k prefill! Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at IQ3_S, CTX at 128k tokens (8-bit).CryptoBitcoin briefly hits $87K as weak US jobs data sends bond yields lowerAIOpen-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in AstaCryptoBitcoin Price Surges Above $87,000 on Softer-Than-Expected Jobs DataCryptoWhy an $88 billion bank reserve drop doesn’t prove a Bitcoin liquidity squeeze – yetAINew in llama.cpp: Decision ModelsCrypto‘Euro stablecoin isn’t enough’: EU issuers make case for USD tokensCryptoCardano’s DeFi has shrunk by more than half and RealFi is betting credit can revive itCryptoBitcoin nears highest level since January as $85,000 sell wall clears, US jobs data disappointsCryptoFurious debate about THORChain vs NEAR shows idealism has limitsCryptoAmerica at a crossroads: Commissioner Peirce’s parting challengeCryptoImpacts of Daily Dividends on Digital CreditCrypto'Uptober' Off With a Bang as Bitcoin Surges to $86KAITwo 96 GB Ascend cards crun Qwen3.8-flash-next hardware notes, vLLM work, benchmarks, and what is nextCryptoU.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rate rising to 4.2%CryptoBitGo CEO says Clarity’s failure left capital markets exposed to risk potentially worse than LehmanCryptoCircle urges EU to revise stablecoin reserve rules in MiCA reviewCryptoBitcoin survived 5% yields but crypto’s cheap-money era did notCryptoMorning Minute: NEAR Intents Hacked for $3.8M - Was It A Bullish Hack?CryptoBNB Chain crosses $1B in tokenized stocks, ETFs as market hits $3.7BCryptoCboe wants to turn VIX into a never-ending tradeCryptoUS Designates Russia's A7 Network as Transnational Criminal OrganizationCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin reverses big early gains following soft U.S. jobs dataCryptoBitcoin treasuries may struggle to match Strategy, says AmmousCryptoCrypto traders are in risk-on mode as bitcoin dominance nears return to 60%CryptoCONNECT recap: Arthur Hayes on money printing, Wall Street moves onchainCryptoECB outlines three models for putting central bank money onchainAIDoes anyone know if any new releases from Mistral are planned?CryptoBitcoin reaches for $87K as short liquidations top $120M CryptoAave founder says V3 unaffected after third-party adapter exploit drains $305KCryptoBitcoin open interest jumps $2.3 billion as traders pay more for bullish positionsCryptoSpanish Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Accused of Running KillSec Ransomware GroupCryptoTether's USDT is 'coming home' to Bitcoin after more than a decadeCryptoBitcoin tops $86,000 ahead of U.S. jobs reportCryptoSpot bitcoin ETFs log $2.7 billion in September inflows as institutional demand holdsCryptoSEC’s innovation exemption poses constraint on bringing stock tokens to US, Robinhood crypto chief saysAIAutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise AgentsCryptoEthereum Foundation launches zkAPI to let users pay for AI models without revealing identityCryptoFrank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin & GoldCryptoZcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be OverCryptoNico Lechuga: Bitcoin Will Revolutionize the $4T Private Equity IndustryCryptoDarius Dale: Will Global Liquidity Send Bitcoin Higher in 2027?CryptoSEC Proposes New Rules On Crypto Custody CryptoSazmining Launches the Wild Sats Club, a Loyalty Program That Discounts Mining Management Fees as Customer Hashrate GrowsCryptoSEC proposes framework allowing investment advisers, funds to self-custody cryptoCryptoSEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold CryptoCryptoReddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI ScrapersCryptoSEC proposes new crypto custody rules for investment advisers and fundsCryptoOpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden ReasoningCryptoHyperliquid Policy Center, Circle press EU on perps and stablecoin reserves in MiCA reviewCryptoAnother Trump memecoin dinner advertised for token's top investorsCryptoEthereum staking reward burn proposal EIP-8363 pulled from Hegota upgradeCryptoEvernorth shareholders approve $1 billion XRP treasury deal, clearing path to Nasdaq debutCrypto Crypto for Advisors: The CLARITY Act failed, but the rules came anywayCryptoNEAR Intents halts services after $3.8 million exploit, promises full compensationCryptoRobinhood Wallet integrates Arcus RFQ system for stock token swapsCryptoBitcoin ETFs’ 9-day, $3 billion inflow streak comes to an end as $149 million exits the fundsAIQuoting Matthew GreenAIHe Built This CityAIOpen TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice CloningAIQuoting Anthropic Frontier Red TeamAIGPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the priceAIPhoto Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removalAIOpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogAINVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular PredictionAIGetting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP AgentsAILanguage Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to JevAIClaude Sonnet 5.5AIQuoting @joedarooAIImport AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loopAIHolo4: powering generalist computer-use agentsAIQuoting Muse AI AgentAI2026 in LLMs (so far)AIS3 Is the Future, S3 Is the PastAIBluesky reply bot checkerAIKākāpō PartyAIQuoting John GruberAINorthern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown PelicanAIAccelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSparkAIDebating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AIAIHow UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results ReproducibleAITransformers now runs llama.cpp quantsAIJun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX communityAIImport AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics AIThe current balance of power in open modelsAItokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measuredAIWhy I still haven’t bought into true RSIAIYour Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?AIOpen-Source AI & Open Models Reading ListAIOne resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfireAIAsync GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCLAIRebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio WorkflowAIGPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden ReasoningAIWhen will average people feel AI’s impact?AILatest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licensesAIImport AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman AINeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual EncoderAIImport AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI AIImport AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye AIHow Claude Watermarks AI-Generated TextAITeaching Everyone to Fish for TokensAIImport AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimismAIBuilding an AI Text Detector From ScratchAIGLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontierAII wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?AI5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)AIImport AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing AILessons from the hacksAIIntroducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption DashboardAIImport AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityAILatest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontierAIImport AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker AIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan AIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAIImport 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 eraAIUsing Local Coding AgentsAIImport AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASIAIImport AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research internsAIImport AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racingAILLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)AIRecent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed AttentionAIMy Workflow for Understanding LLM ArchitecturesAIComponents 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 upAIAGI 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