A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 12:24 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

OpenAI's Rogue AI Hacked Four More Platforms Besides Hugging Face

OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face. Only one has been named so far.

Decrypt · 8 minutes ago

AI · lede

First Kimi K3 results on home lab ~ 4t/s

I've got better results than expected for 768gb DDR5 and 2x5090. Using fork https://github.com/pwilkin/llama.cpp/tree/kimi-k3-text and https://huggingface.co/GrEarl/Kimi-K3-GGUF Q2_K quant. Prefill

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 11 minutes ago

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Over and Over. Is there really nothing better under 120B?CryptoCrypto Giant DCG Warns Senate: Pass Clarity Act or Lose Ground to Singapore, UAECryptoEthereum Foundation names pcaversaccio to board amid leadership changesCryptoTether’s GENIUS-compliant USAT stablecoin launches on Celo, marking first expansion beyond EthereumCryptoThe inside story of how a hike in Hong Kong changed crypto trading foreverCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoBNY to bring transfer agency records onchain in blockchain pushCryptoAbout $80 million ZEC crosses into Zcash's new Ironwood pool in the first dayCryptoNew Cardano partnership promises to monetize your private data, but payouts likely start at just $1.25 a yearCryptoThe 100x obsession: Fundamentals grow in importance as crypto maturesAI"Uncensored" LLMs are measurably more optimistic than their base modelsAIThe idea: on a CPU the decode speed depends on the active params per token, not the total. My objective is trying to run a 10B at 100tok/s on a mid level PC (No GPU).AIUnderstand Kimi K3 from first principles: a recommended order for anyone trying to understand this beastCryptoThe systemic-risk debate over perpetual futures is aimed at the wrong targetCryptoMoonPay launches PayBox, an AI payment vault for ChatGPT and ClaudeAIA slide deck you can edit with a local model or in Chrome — the whole deck is a JSON block in one HTML file (~640KB with editor and viewer included)CryptoBernstein cuts Circle price target to $140, says Open USD threat will fadeCryptoSafe smart accounts process nearly 130 million transactions in record quarterCryptoBitcoin miners pour billions into AI – but the pivot could leave them regretting it within a yearCryptoBNY targets $8.6 trillion transfer agency market on blockchain railsCryptoMorning Minute: Claude Mythos Breaks Post-Quantum CryptographyCryptoEmirates enables UAE residents to pay for flights through Crypto.comCryptoCrypto Scams Cost Americans an Estimated $80.7B in 2025: ReportCryptoSchwab rebrands $232M crypto ETF with NLP buzzword without changing a single investmentCryptoTelegram founder Pavel Durov internationally wanted, Russia’s FSB saysCrypto3 reasons Wednesday's Fed meeting is pivotal for BTCAIMicrosoft did it .... again! (404 for their Mage-Flow models on HF)Crypto‘Sleepy July’: K33 says bitcoin spot volume on track for weakest month since late 2023CryptoBitcoin steadies above $64,000 as crypto looks to Fed interest-rate decisionCryptoApple Sued After Fake iPhone Wallet App Drained $1.8M in BitcoinCryptoTrump promised to save crypto, but his personal business might kill its landmark CLARITY lawCryptoBinance offers gold and silver options after commodity futures pull in billions in daily volumeCryptoCrypto TradFi grows fivefold to $6.6B as exchanges expand into stocks, commodities: ReportCryptoRussia Charges Telegram's Pavel Durov With Aiding TerrorismCryptoIonic Digital jumps 26% in Nasdaq debut, giving Celsius Network claimholders an exit routeCryptoHungary repeals crypto checks as first MiCA license is grantedAII built a GBNF grammar compiler that makes 8B models reliably call tools - here's how it works (deep dive)CryptoRussia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorismCryptoXRP is running a $2.4B debt trap that could wipe out spot buyers the second the Fed speaksCryptoCoalition of 44 state attorneys general says CFTC lacks authority over sports prediction marketsCryptoTrump teleprompter operator accused over Kalshi bets leaves government: APCryptoKevin Warsh’s no-guidance Fed breaks a 30-year playbook – leaving Bitcoin vulnerable to surprise rate hikeCryptoSpaceX is a battleground Solana must winCryptoRussia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism, issues arrest warrant: reportCryptoArk Invest buys $12 million in SpaceX as it trims Block, Bullish and Robinhood holdingsCryptoBitcoin ETFs extend outflow streak as BTC fails to hold $65KCryptoUK policy sprint finds cross-border payments are stablecoins’ top use caseCryptoTrade.xyz to cover SK Hynix perp liquidation losses tied to price anomaly CryptoUniswap founder rejects claims v4 fees reduce LP earningsCryptoSouth Korea plans stablecoin rules as opposition pushes crypto tax repeal AIAnyone tried the Q1 Kimi K3 yet? (555GB)CryptoCelsius-linked Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital gains 26% in Nasdaq debutAIA.X-K2 releasedAINvidia is expected to raise GeForce RTX GPU prices again by up to 30%AIZuck's opinion: The AI Future Is for EveryoneCryptoMarkets Don’t Buy the US Ceasefire Against Iran Will LastAIDiscovering cryptographic weaknesses with ClaudeAISK Hynix stock fell some 40% in the last 30 days, finally cheap RAM and GPUs again?CryptoApple Overtakes Nvidia—Which Will Be Bigger by End of July?AIQuoting Akshat BubnaCryptoSEC Chairman Says He’s ‘Committed’ to Helping Advance Crypto Clarity Act AIuv 0.12.0AIUnsloth has begun dropping Kimi K3 GGUFs. The MXFP4 (it's 1.5 TB) and mmproj are already there.AIAnatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 IncidentCryptoClaude Mythos Cracked Post-Quantum Cryptography That Humans Spent Years Failing to BreakCryptoIonic Digital jumps 25% in Nasdaq debut after expanding Celsius bitcoin mining assets into AI infrastructureCryptoTeacher Arrested for Clapping at AI Data Center Public HearingCryptoDubai-Based Emirates Airline Adds Bitcoin and Crypto Payments AIShould we be calling Elon a liar?CryptoCrypto hacks hit record high in H1 2026 as losses top $1 billion, Blockaid saysCryptoMichael Saylor: Bitcoin Code Is a Constitution, Changes Are Attacks on 'Economic Rights'CryptoAI firms are shredding physical books because copyright law is quietly rewarding themCryptoMorgan Stanley Expands Crypto Push With Ethereum and Solana ETPsCryptoBitcoin Dips As Crypto Clarity Act Hopes Fade CryptoXRP Price Slides as Senate Drops Clarity Act and Fed Decision LoomsCryptoZcash Activates Ironwood Upgrade After Counterfeiting ScareCryptoEthereum L2 ecosystem loses momentum as TVL drops to 2-year lowCryptoApple’s App Store promoted fake Bitcoin wallet that stole $1.8M after developer spent a year warning themCryptoI Scanned the Entire Bitcoin Blockchain for Images. What I Found Will Shock YouCryptoThe Dumbest-Looking AI Prompt Just Beat Months of Careful Game-Design Prompt EngineeringCryptoQuick Maths On STRC Buybacks: The Truth About Net Bitcoin Per Share and AccretionCryptoZcash activates Ironwood upgrade, launching new shielded pool after Orchard vulnerabilityCryptoCore Scientific Adds More Bitcoin To Balance Sheet in Q2 Despite Selling StrategyAIThe OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scaleCryptoRobinhood Chain deposits climb but volume and users fade after memecoin-fueled launchCryptoBank of Russia Creates New Rules For Crypto Trading AILFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPUCryptoHyperscale Ups Bitcoin Stash, Bridging Holdings to Over 1,106 CoinsAImoonshotai/Kimi-K3AIAn opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffAIImport AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker AINVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical RoboticsAIAnatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 IncidentAIAn Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and FraudAIsqlite-utils 3.39.1AIRuff v0.16.0AIQuoting Boris ChernyAIIntroducing Claude Opus 5AIThe first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?AIQuoting Seth LarsonAIBringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to DiffusersAIQuoting Thomas PtacekAIOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedAIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextAIGrabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation dataAIKimi K3: The open-weights escalationAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan AIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAINewer Models, Same AdvantageAISecurity incident disclosure — July 2026AIModel Routing Is Simple. 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