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Thursday, June 25, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 9:54 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Bitcoin crash below $60,000 triggers $1 billion loss as markets now price Fed rate hike by October

Bitcoin price fell below $60,000 this week and touched its lowest level since October 2024 as traders abandoned expectations for interest-rate cuts and began preparing for the Federal Reserve to raise

CryptoSlate · 24 minutes ago

AI · lede

New Apple Memory Prices

https://preview.redd.it/00o5xtaznf9h1.png?width=696&format=png&auto=webp&s=60a3306ea86a9b0d1f58c435b7dbb0a42761a415 Apple raised the prices across the product line this morning: https://www.reuters.c

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 7 minutes ago

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AINew Apple Memory PricesCryptoBitcoin crash below $60,000 triggers $1 billion loss as markets now price Fed rate hike by OctoberCryptoFour arrested in Poland over crypto SIM-swap attacks; ZachXBT links ‘Merry’ to caseCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoCoinDesk 20 performance update: AAVE gains 10.1% as index rises CryptoSBI to acquire Bitbank in $289M deal creating Japan's biggest crypto exchangeCryptoUniswap, Spark aim to build stablecoin FX market as banks, fintechs enter the industryCryptoPost-prison CZ says time behind bars didn't hurt the billionaire's business after BinanceCryptoAbout 60% of World Cup bettors on Polymarket are first-time crypto usersCryptoSpark migrates $150M in stablecoin to Uniswap to advance shared liquidity CryptoSpark, Uniswap build stablecoin ‘FX Layer’ seeded with $150 million liquidity migrationCrypto‘Waiting for buyers’: Bitcoin holds fragile $60K floor ahead of $10.6B quarterly expiryCrypto$47M in Crypto Frozen in Global Infostealer Takedown: EuropolCryptoCircle and Nomura join forces to target a $440 billion daily foreign exchange market in Japan CryptoBitplanet’s Antalpha mining deal tests whether Bitcoin treasuries can grow without constant buyingCryptoBinance faces EU service limits next week as MiCA rules take effectCryptoMorning Minute: Strategy’s MSTR and STRC Crash to 52-Week LowsCryptoCircle, Nomura eye Japan corporate FX with stablecoin settlement: ReportCryptoWhy anti-CBDC Trump refuses to sign bill banning a digital dollar through 2030AIAre there any modern completion (non-chat) models?CryptoBitcoin derivatives signal panic. A weak core PCE reading could trigger snapback.CryptoCoinEx denies claims it served as $3.84 billion gateway to sanctioned Iranian crypto firmsCryptoCrypto relief rally fails to shake persistent bearish derivatives signalCryptoSBI Holdings agrees to acquire Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank in $288.6 million dealAINew sampler + verifier *drastically* improves tiny 0.5b model coding performanceCryptoKalshi Seeks $40B Valuation Weeks After $1B Raise: FTCryptoBitcoin supply in loss reaches record high 10.83 million BTCCryptoHalf of UK wealth advisors say most clients’ crypto sits outside their oversight as 61% of European peers face firm restrictions: CoinSharesCryptoMicron delivers blowout earnings, surges 16% and deals crypto bulls a blowCryptoKraken expands OTC lending through an onchain warehouse facility with MapleCryptoIran-linked entities moved $3.8B through CoinEx, TRM saysCryptoThailand issues arrest warrant for Chinese businessman tied to $28 million illegal crypto mining probe: reportCryptoOn-chain data says Bitcoin price at $60k is cheap, but buyers are still nervousCryptoIndonesia sets certification rules for influencers recommending crypto AINVIDIA has released Nemotron-TwoTower-30B-A3B-Base-BF16, an unusual diffusion-based language model built from the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B backbone.AIUSB4 RDMA seems doableCryptoPolish crypto exchange Kanga secures MiCA license in LatviaCryptoSouth Korea fines Bithumb for sharing user data overseas without consentAIHas anyone tried to hack into their own system using a local model?CryptoForget max pain theory. Bitcoin is well below the $72,000 magnet going into $10 billion options expiryAIWorse quality with MTP - Qwen 3.6, Gemma 4CryptoUS arbitration giant rolls out ‘legal layer’ for agentic commerceCryptoTokenized SpaceX stocks hit by $50M in liquidations as crypto leverage reaches Wall StreetCryptoLive markets: Bitcoin plunges under $59,000 as early bounce fadesCryptoCoinEx processed $3.8 billion in Iran-linked funds, acting as crypto gateway: TRM LabsCryptoHouse Democrats seek SEC answers on AI investment advisersCryptoMemeCore's M token suddenly crashes 80% with no clear triggerAIIf LLMs are so good at coding…CryptoRipple's RLUSD stablecoin goes live in Japan after regulatory approvalCryptoBitcoin has a new line in the sand. Thursday’s core PCE could stress test it.CryptoXRP slides 2.8% as weak bounce keeps $1 support in focusCryptoRipple launches RLUSD stablecoin in Japan after regulatory approvalCryptoAbracadabra takes emergency action as MIM stablecoin depeg worsensAIAnthropic accuses Alibaba of campaign to ‘brazenly’ and ‘illicitly’ extract AI capabilitiesAILocked Dell quote for 6x RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q at $8,960 — expires tonight. What would you do?CryptoKalshi seeks funding at $40B valuation, nearly doubling last raise: FTAIFor users with 4x-8x 6000 PROs, how is your experience with bigger models lately? (GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro)CryptoKalshi in talks to raise funds at $40 billion valuation: FTAIGemma4-26B-A4B & 31B-QAT Uncensored Balanced are out with MTP (35% & 53% speed boost)!AIsimonw/browser-compat-dbCryptoAave Token Could Climb 50x by End of 2030, Standard Chartered Says—Here's WhyCryptoHYPE down 22% from record highs: Will spot demand revive the uptrend?CryptoWhy viral public whale liquidations are becoming a real trading signal on HyperliquidCryptoBitcoin miners face deepening margin squeeze as revenue falls below production costsCryptoKalshi Sues Illinois Over New State Tax on Sports-Related Prediction MarketsCryptoFTX exec’s wife scheduled for November trial on campaign finance chargesCryptoThe Next GameStop? Meme Stock Traders Make Biggie-Size Bet on Wendy'sCrypto'Painful' Bitcoin Sell-Off Drags Ethereum, XRP and Dogecoin Lower as Crypto Stocks DiveCryptoYour Hermes Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing—And That’s the PointAIGefen is a drop-in replacement for the AdamW optimizer, claims 8x memory reduction in training (GitHub available)CryptoMeta wants in on prediction markets – has it learned anything from the metaverse?CryptoWho gets a direct line to the Fed? Congress weighs risks of Fed ‘skinny accounts’ for crypto and fintech firmsCryptoLeaked Code Suggests Anthropic Is Preparing to Bring Fable 5 BackCryptoSaylor’s STRC Bitcoin machine is turning shareholders into its cash backstop – causing a dilution trade-offCryptoResearcher Throws Cold Water on Microsoft Quantum ClaimsCryptoPump.fun offers up to $5 million salary for chief legal officer roleCrypto'Stop Buying Bitcoin': Strategy Needs More Cash Fast, Analyst Says as STRC Hits New LowCryptoBitcoin Price Collapses to $59,000 — and the Worst May Not Be OverCryptoSuperstate co-founder raises $3.6 million pre-seed for Ground to help fintechs access onchain yieldAIQuoting Tom MacWrightCryptoStrategy (MSTR) Stock Craters 10%, Hits Two-Year Low as Bitcoin Crashes Below $60K, CryptoQuant Warns Company to Stop BuyingCryptoWhy Bitcoin crashed below $60K as support fails when buyers are needed mostCryptoThe 2036 Issue: Here Come The SovereignsCryptoBinance Withdraws MiCA License Application in Greece, Leaving EU Users in LimboCryptoFake Crypto Influencer Gets 15 Months for $1.4M Telegram Staking FraudCryptoAmerica’s Bitcoin buying turns negative as BTC drifts closer to the $57,300 liquidation trapCryptoBitcoin Hasn't Broken the 4-Year Cycle Yet, Says 21Shares as BTC Dives Below $60KCryptoSouth Korean Officials Meet With US SEC, Weigh Unified Crypto Rules Amid Local ScandalsAIAccelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModelCryptoLaw Enforcement, Catholic Groups Send Letters to U.S. Government Warning CLARITY Act Would Create Crypto Crime LoopholesAIThe Swiss Federal Supreme Court is evaluating HereticCryptoStrategy (MSTR) Stock Falls Below $100 for First Time Since March 2024CryptoBitcoin Price Crashes Toward $61,000 as Bloodbath Engulfs Crypto StocksCryptoStrive (ASST) CEO Says Company Is Buying Bitcoin ‘Hand Over Fist’ as Treasury Hits 19,864 BTCCryptoBlackRock Tells Investors to Put Bitcoin in Their PortfoliosAIIntroducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real WorldAIdatasette 1.0a35AIOPFS + Pyodide test harnessCryptoCongress Schedules CLARITY Act Hearing for July 17 in New YorkCryptoCraig Raw Built One of Bitcoin’s Best Wallets for Free. Apple Might Kill It by June 30.AIBuild real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harnessAIShipping huggingface_hub every week with AI, open tools, and a human in the loopAIExperimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.jsAIPrompt Injection as Role ConfusionAIPorting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude CodeAIGLM-5.2 is the step change for open agentsAIPP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M ParametersAIImport AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASIAIWe got local models to triage the OpenClaw repo for FREE!*AIsqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactionsAIsqlite-utils 4.0rc1AITemporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agentsAIQuoting Sean LynchAIBest Local Agents - Jun 2026AIBanning Open Source AI Would Be A MistakeAIDatasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside DatasetteAIdatasette-acl 0.6a0AIMosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret?AIBeyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique?AIIs it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own toolingAIGLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMAIQuoting Charity MajorsAIMolmoMotion: Language-guided 3D motion forecastingAIState of the blog, mid-2026AIFrom the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobotAIGLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon TasksAI<click-to-play> — a still that playsAIAgentic Resource Discovery: Let agents searchAIFrontier 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 governanceAIProfiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLPAIClaude 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 AINotes from inside China's AI labsAIThe distillation panicAIImport AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.AIReading today's open-closed performance gapAIImport AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4 AIMy Workflow for Understanding LLM ArchitecturesAIMy bets on open models, mid-2026AIImport 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 AgentAIImport AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer AIImport AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks AIA Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMsAIImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative textAIImport AI 448: AI R&D; Bytedance's CUDA-writing agent; on-device satellite AI AIA 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 ScratchAIFrom GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural AdvancesAIThe Big LLM Architecture ComparisonAIAGI 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