A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Friday, September 25, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 8:25 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows

Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 million in cash.

Decrypt · 24 minutes ago

AI · lede

PSA for M5Ultra owners running LLMs: set your prefill step to 8192

Prefill step size affects both PP performance and your drafter fetching logits for MTP (affects dflash as well, mlx-vlm needs to be patched slightly to support chunked prefill for dflash). It also ne

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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