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Ethereum Foundation launches clear signing to make wallet approvals easier to understand
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (281+ words) ERC-7730 aims to replace blind signing with human readable transaction descriptions across Ethereum wallets and protocols. The Ethereum Foundation said Clear Signing is now live, introducing an open standard designed to make wallet approvals readable by default and reduce the…...
Tether unveils developer grants program to fund on-device AI and open-source payments tools
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (325+ words) The initiative focuses on reducing reliance on cloud-based AI and centralized financial infrastructure. Tether, whose USDT token has a market cap above $189 billion, has introduced a structured grants program to accelerate development of open-source tools for local-first AI systems and…...
TON Core launches Acton, a new tool for smart contract development
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (377+ words) The AI-powered toolkit turns smart contracts into autonomous 'robots' and aims to make building on TON as easy as deploying a template. TON Core just shipped Acton, an AI-powered development toolkit that lets builders convert smart contracts into autonomous agents…...
David Moscatelli: Organizations are hesitant about public AI due to privacy concerns, local AI solutions are preferred in banking and healthcare, and the Go One device enhances on-premises AI scalability | TWIST
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (352+ words) Go Abacus revolutionizes AI deployment for banks with a $250, 000 device ensuring data privacy and control. David Moscatelli is founder and CEO of Go Abacus, a company building secure, on-premises AI infrastructure for regulated industries like banking. He has achieved significant…...
Open AI Codex installs surge to 90 M in a single week, fueled by GPT-5. 5 rollout
4+ day, 27+ min ago (395+ words) The AI coding assistant's explosive growth puts it ahead of Anthropic's Claude code, signaling a new phase in the developer tools arms race. Open AI's Codex racked up 90 million installs in a single week. That's not a cumulative lifetime number....
Bittensor unveils Taon Square, a directory for AI tools and services
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (366+ words) The decentralized AI network launches a centralized hub to help users actually find the tools its subnets are building. Bittensor has launched Taon Square, a directory that aggregates AI tools and services running on its decentralized network. Think of it…...
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Agentic engineering ensures quality in large code bases, VLC's versatility includes VHS recording, and the global impact of the VLC logo | Lex Fridman Podcast
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (443+ words) VLC's global impact is highlighted by its ability to record VHS videos and support niche audio formats. Jean-Baptiste Kempf is the lead developer of VLC media player and president of Video LAN. He founded Video LAN as a student project…...
Anthropic brings dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration to Claude agents
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (384+ words) The research preview helps agents review past sessions, find recurring patterns, and improve long running workflows with less human steering Anthropic launched a new set of Claude agent features Wednesday, including a dreaming tool designed to help its AI agents…...
Ash Ashutosh: The shift to agent-centric systems is revealing flaws in data retrieval, AI agents struggle with task completion rates below 50%, and vector databases are key to enhancing knowledge engines | AI + a16z
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (333+ words) Vector databases are revolutionizing AI efficiency by boosting data retrieval accuracy from 68% to over 90%. For years systems like databases and search were designed around human interaction" but with the rise of agents that model starts to break down. Think of…...
Greg Brockman: AI now writes 80% of code, Open AI is 70-80% toward AGI, and Sovereign AI is reshaping data ownership | MLST
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (370+ words) AI coding tools now write 80% of code, dramatically boosting productivity but still needing human oversight. Greg Brockman is co-founder and President of Open AI, where he leads the Scaling organization focused on expanding technical infrastructure for the company's rapid growth…...