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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 9:40 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Core Scientific’s 75% return on AI deal isn’t the template for bitcoin miners, Bernstein says

Bernstein pegs TeraWulf at 5% and Cipher at 4% stabilized ROA, calling Core Scientific's 75% figure a capex-advantaged outlier.

The Block · 1 minute ago

AI · lede

Bonsai-27B & Ternary-Bonsai-27B - Updates (on PRs)

Below Upstream Status sections are from https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo Upstream Status for Binary Q1_0 is supported out of the box in upstream llama.cpp across many backends: CPU (gene

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