A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 7:13 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

This Bitcoin Bridge Shut Itself Down Because AI Was Finding Bugs Too Fast

Non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz says attackers are finding vulnerabilities faster than its team can fix them, forcing it to suspend swaps indefinitely.

Decrypt · 27 minutes ago

AI · lede

GPT-OSS has turned one year old today!

It is one of the best local models ever released, in both 20B and 120B versions. I always come back to it, especially the 120B version. Its only competition is, in my opinion, Qwen 3.5 122B, but that

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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