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Friday, July 24, 2026

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$7 Trillion Investment Giant Fidelity Backs New Crypto Clarity Act

Bitcoin Magazine $7 Trillion Investment Giant Fidelity Backs New Crypto Clarity Act The investment giant is the latest big player to back the bill. This post $7 Trillion Investment Giant Fidelity Ba

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Stripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal for AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter

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Crypto$7 Trillion Investment Giant Fidelity Backs New Crypto Clarity ActCryptoStrategy now publishes the Bitcoin return threshold below which it may have to restructureCryptoState Department to Debut Freedom Tech Program with Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir as Founding PartnersCryptoHouse passes bill on lawmakers using insider information for stock trading CryptoSamsung Wallet Will Add Stablecoin Support, Including USDCAIStripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal for AI Model Marketplace OpenRouterCryptoFBI used Google cookies, 500 food orders and a Monero seed phrase to identify Steam malware funderCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoCardano co-founder Hoskinson says Bitcoin could lose top spot if governance fails quantum testAICachyLLama’s: llama.cpp fork with persistent KV cache that makes long local-agent sessions much less painfulCryptoClaude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the PriceAI[Paper] Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language ModelsCryptoClarity Act on the Ropes as Ethics Fight and Shrinking Calendar Threaten PassageCryptoBlackRock’s IBIT accounted for 90% of a $225 million Bitcoin ETF reversal after a seven-day buying streakCryptoPoolin, Once One of Bitcoin's Biggest Mining Pools, Files for BankruptcyCryptoWise plans to resubmit national trust bank application under GENIUS Act frameworkAISpent two weeks on a kernel that benchmarked 29x faster. End to end it's maybe 6-10%, and it's not even wired in yet.CryptoNational Fraternal Order of Police Gives Green Light to Clarity Act in Latest Support for Crypto BillCryptoCrypto advocacy groups support CLARITY passage as ethics rules face pushbackCryptoA 7 year Ledger bug lets attackers rebuild a private key from five signatures in secondsAIWhy won't he sign the letter then?CryptoNvidia, Meta, and Microsoft Tell Washington: Don't Kill Open-Source AIAIIt appears that the anti opensource AI lobby is far outgunned alreadyCryptoStrategy Overhauls Bitcoin Metrics, Debuting 'Net Bitcoin Per Share'CryptoSealed in Foil: BMAG’s New Focus on Trading CardsCryptoBitcoin ETFs Shed $225M, Snapping Seven-Day Inflow Streak as Iran Tensions Spook MarketsCryptoTop Crypto Industry Groups Pen Letter to Senate Leaders Urging Them To Support the Clarity ActCryptoInternet Freedom Foundation calls India’s BitChat GitHub takedown order ‘unconstitutional’CryptoCLARITY Act splits Wall Street and crypto as Goldman Sachs breaks with banks and Charles Hoskinson backs WarrenAIUsing the Bonsai 27b 1b quant locally - regularly.CryptoCrypto Biz: Is the AI-to-crypto rotation underway?CryptoGalaxy cuts Clarity Act passage odds to 30%, says bill needs ‘last-ditch effort’CryptoWorld Foundation raises $52.5M in Pantera-led funding to expand World ID infrastructureCryptoSenate Dems should accept the victory they won on Trump's crypto limits: White HouseCryptoSam Altman-backed World Network secures $52.5 million in fresh funding to fight online AI deepfakesCryptoWorld Foundation Raises $52.5M to Scale Sam Altman’s ‘Proof of Human’ IDCryptoWorld Foundation raises $52.5 million in WLD token sale with one-year lockupCryptoInstitutional crypto trading platform LMAX is exploring sale, IPOCryptoBitcoin declines below $65,000 as Trump threatens Iran after tanker attacks send Oil above $100CryptoBitcoin falls under $64K as surging US bond yields boost Fed rate-hike oddsCryptoEU Names Justin Sun's HTX in Russia Sanctions, Two Months After UKAIMore than 20 companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Hugging Face have signed a letter urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open weight models.CryptoCrypto home invasions jump 20x as wrench-attack exposure hits $124 millionCryptoDemocrats Push Back on GOP Ethics Text as Thune Doubts a Pre-Recess Clarity VoteCryptoA quantum roadmap would push Bitcoin much higher: Charles EdwardsCryptoSaylor and team overhaul Strategy's bitcoin metrics as bear market persistsCryptoBrazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank lending limitsAILaguna s.2.1 updated 2 hours ago. A post to show appreciation for the work they are doing.CryptoThailand SEC files complaint against Bitkub over alleged false disclosuresCryptoArthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founders face fraud claims over alleged ‘Insider Trading Desk’ as exchange winds downCryptoBitcoin mining giant Poolin files for bankruptcy owing 11,700 users $164 millionCryptoMorning Minute: Bitcoin's New $15M Quantum Defense FundCryptoIndia Orders GitHub to Take Down Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Amid ProtestsCryptoOdos Protocol to shut down, gives users until July 30 to withdraw assetsCryptoEU hits Russia with massive 21st sanctions package targeting $120B crypto networkAIHugging Face releases The Stack v3 – largest open code dataset yetCryptoCrypto market maker B2C2 held sale talks with multiple potential buyersCryptoRWAs become Hyperliquid’s largest trading categoryCryptoCrypto's institutional influx has killed the memecoin crazeCryptoA $5 billion cluster has formed in bitcoin options. It tells a bullish storyCryptoDeFi’s next institutional hurdle is deciding who can be trusted to price real-world assetsAI[BIG DATASET RELEASE] - SupraLabs/reasoning-corpus-4K-5M-v1 - Train your tiny SLMs to think!CryptoBitcoin settles near $65,000 as oil's march toward $100 fails to spook the marketCryptoPoolin was bitcoin's biggest mining pool and now it's filing for bankruptcyCryptoBitcoin treasury companies sell up, repay debt, pivot to AI as share prices collapseCryptoThe debt clock ticking inside corporate Bitcoin treasuries could force billions back onto the marketCryptoBrazil puts tokenized cows to work as loan collateral: ReportCryptoIndia orders takedown of Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin-linked messaging app BitchatCryptoSamsung Wallet plans stablecoin support in digital payments expansionCryptoPhilippine bank BPI plans stablecoin payments pilot CryptoBitMEX faces proposed class-action suit for theft, insider trading as crypto exchange shuts downCryptoFormer bitcoin miner Poolin files Chapter 11, sets $52 million floor bid for Texas operationsCryptoBTC supply in profit eyes 60%, but analysis hints recovery may ‘roll back over’CryptoPolymarket Account in Farage Backer's Name Took $9M in Crypto From Unknown Sources: FTAIFLUX 3 - Real World Models: Towards Multimodal Flow Models as the Backbone of Visual IntelligenceCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin gives up gains, falls below $64,000 as stocks retreatAIswiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5 70B/8BCryptoThe Largest Stablecoins RankedAIThe "distillation" claim is just ridiculous in natureCryptoHow Do Stablecoins Maintain Their Peg?AIThe first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?CryptoBlack Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3 AI: Ditches Stills for Video—And Robot HandsCryptoBitcoinist.App Brings Private Mining Pools to iOSCryptoGoldman Sachs CEO Breaks With Wall Street to Back Crypto Clarity ActCryptoElizabeth Warren Claims Clarity Act Would Help Trump — And ‘Criminals and Cartels’CryptoNasdaq-Listed Zhibao Wants a Bitcoin Treasury, Plans to Sell $220M in Stock for BTCCryptoSmarter Web Company Sells Bitcoin to Clear $11.7 Million Debt FacilityCryptoBitcoin Slumps But These Mining Stocks Are Up Thanks to AI DealsAIThe LLM distillation process simplified for politicians:CryptoRobinhood CEO’s X account hacked to promote Vladhood memecoin flagged as ‘scam’CryptoMoonPay now accepts Discover Network cards for crypto purchases and sales in USCryptoSwan CEO claims Twenty One serves Tether’s US political interests, calls Mallers’ role ‘ceremonial’CryptoCoinbase calls AI payments its ‘most high-conviction bet’ as businesses begin accepting agent paymentsCryptoStrategy, BlackRock form Bitcoin Security Consortium to prepare for quantum computing threatCryptoProof of Reserves: What It Means for Exchange TrustCryptoLayerZero, Keeta enable tokenized bank deposits across Ethereum, Solana and BaseAIQuoting 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 nextAIThe State of Simulation for Physical AI: An OverviewAICalifornia 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 AIQuoting Sam AltmanAIAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-MakingAIClaude Code uses Bun written in Rust nowAISQLite Query ExplainerAIControlling 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 AgentAIImport AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer AIA 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