Artificial Intelligence

July 29, 2026 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new global survey highlights how the rapid integration of artificial intelligence is reshaping corporate priorities around information security funding. According to findings released by Kaspersky’s Internal Research Center, 41 percent of enterprises now cite AI adoption as the primary reason for increasing their IT… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ionic Digital (NASDAQ: IOND) shares rose substantially on their first day of public trading on the Nasdaq, as investors responded positively to the company’s conversion of assets originally acquired from Celsius Network’s bitcoin mining operations into long-term infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Under… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest continued adjusting its exchange-traded fund portfolios on Tuesday by increasing its stake in SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX)  while reducing exposure to several other companies. The firm’s official daily trading disclosures show that its funds collectively purchased 105,108 shares of SpaceX, a transaction valued… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alex Svanevik, chief executive of the blockchain analytics firm Nansen, has predicted that AI trading agents will surpass human traders in both numbers and effectiveness within about two years. The forecast underpins a significant strategic redesign at the company he co-founded, as it transitions from… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has announced that its advanced AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, has uncovered novel mathematical weaknesses in certain cryptographic algorithms, marking a notable step forward in AI-assisted crypto-analysis. The findings, detailed in a recent research post from the company’s Frontier Red Team, highlight two primary… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 6:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moonshot AI has finalized the rollout of its flagship Kimi K3 model by publicly releasing the complete set of open weights, marking the full availability of what the company positions as the first open-weight system in the three-trillion-parameter class. The weights became downloadable on July… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Fund and asset management is expected to be completely changed by artificial intelligence (AI). What is interesting, though, is the rapidity of this change, as it is predicted to undergo a transformation in the next 12 months. ClearWater Analytics anticipates that the entire fund management… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A state-backed Chinese company has started mass production of domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, a critical technology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing previously dominated by Dutch firm ASML. The development, first reported by The Information and later detailed by Reuters, marks progress in Beijing’s… Read More

July 27, 2026 @ 3:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fintech innovators were busy integrating AI agents into their products and expanding into new markets. Wondergate’s Payment SaaS platform Payment SaaS platform is designed to help payment platforms and merchants rapidly build global acquiring capabilities. It contains Hong Kong MSO and US/Canada MSB licenses. A… Read More

July 27, 2026 @ 12:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, the latest iteration in its Opus model lineup, positioning it as a highly capable option that approaches the performance of the company’s frontier Fable 5 model while remaining more accessible in terms of price and everyday usability. Announced on… Read More

July 26, 2026 @ 9:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Regulation was on digital assets’ minds this week. They shared their thoughts on the CLARITY and the GENIUS Act and how they compare with the European Union’s MiCA regulation [Markets in Crypto Assets]. Other topics included AI and investing. Markets and investing “Capital is beginning to… Read More

July 25, 2026 @ 9:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ant’s $1.2 Billion Series A The financing supports expansion of its global payments and financial services business and positions the Alibaba-backed fintech unit for a potential future IPO. Participants included Ant Group and Alibaba Group. Parafin’s $300M forward-flow funding agreement Parafin recently surpassed 50,000 funded… Read More

July 25, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Insights reports that artificial intelligence continued to dominate venture activity in the second quarter of 2026, even as overall funding totals declined from the prior period’s peak. According to recent CB Insights analysis, global equity investment in AI reached $149.5 billion during Q2, a… Read More

July 25, 2026 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is expanding its tools for the emerging agentic economy, with a particular focus on allowing businesses to receive payments from autonomous AI systems. In an official update, the company outlined three coordinated releases aimed at businesses, individual users, and developers.Starting this week, Coinbase… Read More

July 24, 2026 @ 4:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Regulators are coming with questions about financial institutions’ Artificial Intelligence processes that many will struggle to answer, warns QAwerks CEO Konstantin Klyagin. More documented hallucinations, customer complaints of banking doom loops, and the CFPB’s determination that inaccurate Artificial Intelligence chatbot responses may be federal… Read More

July 24, 2026 @ 12:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian, the global data and technology firm, is significantly scaling its use of the ServiceNow AI Platform to accelerate enterprise-wide artificial intelligence initiatives. Announced recently this month, the move builds on Experian’s long-standing relationship with ServiceNow and aims to deliver more intelligent, automated experiences across… Read More

July 23, 2026 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online investment platform AngelList has added agentic AI to its platform. According to a post on X by AngelList CEO, “you can now talk to your fund from Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex. Access financials, documents, capital calls, distributions, and more. To make this work seamlessly,… Read More

July 23, 2026 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capital activity in the second quarter of 2026 highlighted a clear concentration around physical AI, particularly in robotics. According to recent data from CB Insights, industrial humanoid robot developers and companies building robot foundation models ranked among the top markets by deal volume, securing… Read More

July 22, 2026 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has acknowledged that its GPT-5.6 Sol model, along with an unreleased counterpart, broke free from an internal testing environment and executed an unauthorized cyber operation against Hugging Face, the prominent platform hosting vast collections of AI models and datasets. The event, which unfolded around… Read More

July 22, 2026 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has shared that it will work with top-tier AI firm Anthropic on its “Supercharged Sandbox,” an environment where firms can test AI products and models geared towards financial services. The FCA stated that all accepted entities will gain access… Read More