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Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable wallet for the agentic Internet✨ FRESH

Cloudflare Wallets lets users store stablecoins, purchase services, and receive funds across the web, positioned as programmable wallet infrastructure for agentic use cases.

Published Aug 4, 2026CloudflareProduct

Meet Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork✨ FRESH

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, positioning it as a new benchmark for coding and agentic cowork tasks.

Published Aug 3, 2026QwenAI

Glamsterdam Ethereum upgrade nears mainnet with 10 EIPs✨ FRESH

The next Ethereum upgrade, Glamsterdam, is closing in on mainnet. The bundle includes 10 EIPs: two headliners, several smart-contract dev improvements, and gas repricings.

Published Jul 31, 2026trent.ethInfrastructure

OpenAIs internal Astra model solved 10 major open problems in math and theoretical CS✨ FRESH

Noam Brown says an internal version of Astra, OpenAIs next major model family, solved 10 open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science, framed as a major step for scientific reasoning.

Published Aug 1, 2026Noam BrownAI

The next phase of the Aztec Foundation✨ FRESH

Aztec co-founder Zac Williamson lays out the Foundation's post-Alpha V5 phase: a smaller 15-person team, two dedicated security teams, fewer and deeper ecosystem bets, and a mandate focused on private settlement applications. Alpha V5 shipped last Tuesday with sub-$0.05 private transactions.

Published Jul 30, 2026Zac WilliamsonInfrastructure

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%✨ FRESH

OpenAI reduced GPT-5.6 Luna API pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%, and added a faster GPT-5.6 Sol option.

Published Jul 30, 2026OpenAIAI

coProveKit brings collaborative SNARKs to ProveKit✨ FRESH

coProveKit adds collaborative SNARK production to ProveKit, the client-side zero-knowledge toolkit for deploying Noir circuits across native, browser, mobile, server, and on-chain environments.

Published Jul 30, 2026Lukas HelmingerInfrastructure

AI is discovering new ways to attack cryptographic algorithms: Justin Drake on Ethereum's post-quantum roadmap✨ FRESH

Interview with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake on the HAWK signature scheme flaw, security risks from AI-driven cryptanalysis, Ethereum's post-quantum roadmap, formal verification, and what AI labs should prioritize.

Published Jul 30, 2026sophia dewResearch

RoboStrategy: Our investment in Standard Bots✨ FRESH

RoboStrategy led Standard Bots $200M Series C. The public thesis argues six-axis arms are the workhorse platform for physical AI, addresses roughly $600 to $700 billion a year of stationary US labor, and details how Standard Bots is reinventing the robot arm from first principles to bring the industry back to America.

Published Jul 27, 2026RoboStrategyFunding

Accountable introduces Proof of Solvency v2Hiring1

Proof of Solvency v2 surfaces the data source connections behind every dashboard number, including source name, venue category, update frequency, and last refresh. The UI adds flow of funds, onchain address indicators, and cross-referenced data feeds.

Published Jul 30, 2026

AccountableProduct

friend launches✨ FRESH

The AI companion pendant friend has launched with a new introductory video.

Published Jul 30, 2026

FriendProduct

How to raise a $10M Seed RoundHiring1

V12 found a major blockchain vulnerability that put more than $100M at risk and earned a $2.5M bug bounty, the largest received by an AI agent.

Published Jul 30, 2026

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Reactorfield: making scientists and deep tech startups AI-native✨ FRESH

James Sinka announces Reactorfield, a 4-week non-dilutive fellowship co-built with Berk to help scientists and deep tech startups integrate frontier AI into their workflows. Backed by Anthropic, Nvidia, and Prime Intellect. Cohort 01 applications close Aug 15, program starts Aug 31.

Published Jul 28, 2026James SinkaAI

Hugging Face shares full postmortem of the first autonomous agent cyberattack✨ FRESH

Hugging Face has published a technical timeline, interactive replay, and defense writeup covering the first autonomous agent cyberattack, and details how they used an open model to defend against it so other defenders can learn from it.

Published Jul 28, 2026Clement DelangueAI

OpenAI introduces GPT-Live-Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe in the API✨ FRESH

OpenAI has introduced two new transcription models in the API. GPT-Live-Transcribe is built for low-latency live transcription. GPT-Transcribe is optimized for asynchronous transcription of completed audio files and batch workloads. Both improve accuracy on real-world audio across accents, languages, short phrases, numbers, specialized terminology, and noisy speech.

Published Jul 28, 2026OpenAI DevelopersProduct

Chris Peikert: Claude Mythos found a serious mathematical attack on post-quantum signature scheme HAWK✨ FRESH

Cryptographer Chris Peikert highlights that Claude Mythos discovered a serious mathematical attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme and on-ramp candidate for potential NIST standardization.

Published Jul 28, 2026Chris PeikertResearch

OpenAI ships Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding and fixing vulnerabilities✨ FRESH

OpenAI has released a CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities in code. Scans repositories, reviews changes, tracks findings over time, and runs security checks in CI.

Published Jul 29, 2026Tibo SottiauxProduct

OpenAI releases open-source Codex Security CLI✨ FRESH

OpenAI has released the open-source Codex Security CLI. It scans repositories, tracks findings across runs, verifies fixes, and adds security checks to CI/CD.

Published Jul 29, 2026OpenAIProduct

Austria and Italy connected for the first time via the new Brenner Base Tunnel✨ FRESH

Austria and Italy have been connected for the first time via the new Brenner Base Tunnel, set to become the longest continuous tunnel in the world.

Published Jul 28, 2026NXT EUGeneral

1,122 frontier AI lab employees sign published letter on pacing AI development✨ FRESH

The letter urging the US to support an international effort to deliberately pace frontier AI development has been published, with 1,122 frontier AI lab employees signed on so far.

Published Jul 28, 2026MTSAI

Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude✨ FRESH

Anthropic has published research showing Claude Mythos Preview helping researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms. Claude discovered flaws in a highly-secure digital signature scheme and a well-known symmetric cipher.

Published Jul 28, 2026AnthropicResearch

Vitalik: Obfuscation (Part II), Diamond iO✨ FRESH

Vitalik has published Part II of his series on cryptographic obfuscation protocols, covering diamond iO.

Published Jul 28, 2026vitalik.ethResearch

Bagel releases WorldDiT, a unified architecture for robotics world modeling and controlHiring3

Bagel has released WorldDiT, a unified architecture for robotics world modeling and control. On the LIBERO benchmark, it performs the best among all publicly released methods that do not require a VLM to generate actions.

Published Jul 28, 2026

BagelAI

Palantir: AI Sovereignty is your Alpha, avoiding legal traps in hosted model agreements✨ FRESH

Palantir has published a guide identifying key legal traps in hosted AI model agreements, arguing that AI sovereignty is a company's core alpha and should not be surrendered to model providers.

Published Jul 27, 2026PalantirAI

Kimi K3 released: 2.8T MoE with native vision and 1M-token context✨ FRESH

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M-token context window. Model weights, technical report, attention kernels, MoE communication library, and agent-environment infrastructure ship alongside the release.

Published Jul 27, 2026Kimi.aiAI

etn. raises $1.6M to build Europe's first daily live technology show✨ FRESH

etn. has raised $1.6M to build Europe's first daily live technology show, broadcasting 5 days a week from a state-of-the-art newsroom near Kings Cross, 12-3 GMT.

Published Jul 27, 2026etn.X Post

EthLabs Week 5: Vienna sprint for the Hegotá EIP deadline✨ FRESH

Caspar Schwarz-Schilling recaps EthLabs Week 5. Ansgar Dietrichs, Francesco DAmato, Barnabé Monnot, and Caspar met in person in Vienna, with the rest of the team joining remotely, for a final sprint ahead of the August 6 deadline to propose EIPs for Hegotá, the Ethereum fork after Glamsterdam. They walked the full list of candidate EIPs to decide what EthLabs should propose or support. Resource pricing: worked with EF colleagues Ansgar Dietrichs, Mikhail Kalinin, and Vitalik Buterin on the future of state and data pricing. Faster slots: progressed compatibility with future upgrades alongside EF Protocol, with more comments from core devs and app developers. This is part of an emerging EthLabs theme, Faster Ethereum, together with Fast Finality and the Fast Confirmation Rule. Issuance: following the Issuance Forum in Cannes, EthLabs is reviewing and advising a possible Hegotá proposal. Community: more than 50 calls with community and ecosystem this week, plus ongoing hiring across research, engineering, and growth. Ops: closing the community round this week, announcing new supporters and anchor funders soon. Team of 8 today, at least 10 by year-end, around 20 in 2027. Ansgar, Barnabé, and Julian Ma appeared on the Milk Road Show.

Published Jul 26, 2026Caspar Schwarz-SchillingInfrastructure

Jensen Huang: NVIDIA signs open letter on why open models matter✨ FRESH

In his first post on X, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shares a letter NVIDIA signed arguing the world needs both frontier closed and frontier open models. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable national sovereignty.

Published Jul 24, 2026Jensen HuangAI

Unitree unveils Super Athlete AS2-W✨ FRESH

Unitree introduces the Super Athlete AS2-W, a compact wheeled-legged robot with fluid movement, a continuous 16 kg payload, and 30+ km unloaded driving range.

Published Jul 24, 2026UnitreeGeneral

ChatGPT Voice ships in the desktop app, powered by GPT-Live✨ FRESH

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Voice in the desktop app globally. Powered by GPT-Live, it can speak, listen, and coordinate multiple agents in ChatGPT Work or Codex at the same time using just voice.

Published Jul 23, 2026OpenAIAI

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Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable wallet for the agentic Internet✨ FRESH

Meet Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork✨ FRESH

Glamsterdam Ethereum upgrade nears mainnet with 10 EIPs✨ FRESH

OpenAIs internal Astra model solved 10 major open problems in math and theoretical CS✨ FRESH

The next phase of the Aztec Foundation✨ FRESH

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%✨ FRESH

coProveKit brings collaborative SNARKs to ProveKit✨ FRESH

AI is discovering new ways to attack cryptographic algorithms: Justin Drake on Ethereum's post-quantum roadmap✨ FRESH

RoboStrategy: Our investment in Standard Bots✨ FRESH

Accountable introduces Proof of Solvency v2Hiring1

friend launches✨ FRESH

How to raise a $10M Seed RoundHiring1

Reactorfield: making scientists and deep tech startups AI-native✨ FRESH

Hugging Face shares full postmortem of the first autonomous agent cyberattack✨ FRESH

OpenAI introduces GPT-Live-Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe in the API✨ FRESH

Chris Peikert: Claude Mythos found a serious mathematical attack on post-quantum signature scheme HAWK✨ FRESH

OpenAI ships Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding and fixing vulnerabilities✨ FRESH

OpenAI releases open-source Codex Security CLI✨ FRESH

Austria and Italy connected for the first time via the new Brenner Base Tunnel✨ FRESH

1,122 frontier AI lab employees sign published letter on pacing AI development✨ FRESH

Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude✨ FRESH

Vitalik: Obfuscation (Part II), Diamond iO✨ FRESH

Bagel releases WorldDiT, a unified architecture for robotics world modeling and controlHiring3

Palantir: AI Sovereignty is your Alpha, avoiding legal traps in hosted model agreements✨ FRESH

Kimi K3 released: 2.8T MoE with native vision and 1M-token context✨ FRESH

etn. raises $1.6M to build Europe's first daily live technology show✨ FRESH

EthLabs Week 5: Vienna sprint for the Hegotá EIP deadline✨ FRESH

Jensen Huang: NVIDIA signs open letter on why open models matter✨ FRESH

Unitree unveils Super Athlete AS2-W✨ FRESH

ChatGPT Voice ships in the desktop app, powered by GPT-Live✨ FRESH

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