Kite releasing AI concierge for Japan travelers, and Chainalysis breaking down the state of agentic commerce.

Can AI break public-key cryptography and put our funds in danger?

Both Revolut and Coinbase bet on in-house AI sack to automate fraud detection.

Finance giants across both traditional finance and crypto are beginning to recognize the enormous value of their proprietary data. And instead of keep handing it to OpenAI and Anthropic, they opt to build in-house AI stacks 🧐 👉 Revolut has started building its own foundational AI models, along with its own data centers. Nik Storonsky even shared ambitions for the company to become Europe's OpenAI. 👉 In a bid to take greater ownership of its intelligence, Coinbase replaced Claude for an open weight Qwen model it post-trained in house. Both approaches led to higher performance and cost efficiency when compared with relying on frontier labs. Will other businesses finally wake up to the risks of sharing their corporate secrets with OpenAI and Anthropic and follow suit? Let me know your thoughts in comments, and don't forget to subscribe. https://www.web3plusai.xyz/p/own-the-data-own-the-intelligence

Bittensor to introduce transferable usage credits to facilitate trade of AI services.

Which blockchains are quantum-resistant and how AI accelerates their progress?

Robinhood gives all 29 million customers on its platform access to autonomous trading AI agents, and more.

With a new bull market seemingly around the corner, VCs are once again warming up to crypto.

Crypto may have finally found its product-market fit in serving the agentic economy.

Open USD, the Open Standard stablecoin, and NRR, the US first spot NEAR ETF, both went live.

FLock.io advancing UNDP partnership, AI wasting more money than it’s worth, and Emily M. Bender warning against AI anthropomorphizing.

Arthur Hayes to let agents autonomously access and pay for compute.

Everyone is talking about the frontier labs "agreeing to pace AI development", but, in reality, they did no such thing.

Is AI really going to kill us all, and why does open science matter?

Who solved the Navier-Stokes problem and what role did AI play?

A summary of the most Web3 + AI funding rounds over the month of August.

Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA) and Decentralized AI Agent Alliance (DAIAA).

Travala, AWS, and Coinbase enabling autonomous agents to book and pay for your trips, and Microsoft launching an AI-focused magazine.

Visa, Mastercard, Rain, Solana, and more launch Agentic Payments Alliance.

Stripe shifting from payments to multiproduct offering, Bittensor fighting the AI-fueled neo-fascism, and Europe embracing distributing AI training.

Stripe to acquire OpenRouter for over $7B, and to gain firm foothold in AI.

NEAR is turning into the quintessence of what decentralized AI has to offer.

Discussions on NEAR AI, Gensyn, ChainOpera, Bittensor, and Pluralis Research from this year's Blockchain Application Stanford Summit.

The most interesting Web3 + AI talks from this year's Science of Blockchain Conference.

Inference has overtaken training as the dominant share of global GPU demand. As a result, on-chain inference capital markets have started to emerge.

Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis just shared their visions for the future of AI. Today, I'm offering my perspective on both.

On the agenda today: the Internet Court, the latest developments in Bittensor, and an intriguing event for the builders and researchers among you.

Today's edition reaffirms why the world urgently needs decentralized AI and highlights how quickly the gap with its centralized counterparts is closing.

Today we cover how Web3 can address two rather consequential concerns for the AI era we live in: respecting copyright and proving our humanity online.

Today's edition offers compelling evidence that even amid today's dire bear market, interest in decentralized and private AI continues to grow.

Today on the agenda: OKX launching AI agent marketplace, the EU AI Act peventing bias in recruitment, and Vitalik unveiling the "Lean Ethereum" roadmap.

The Web3 + AI Book Club examines Web3 and AI's profound impact on society, democracy, and the way we live. Today, I'm reviewing the book 'The AI Con.'

Find my review of the book 'The New Age of Sexism' by Laura Bates. I also invite you to join The Web3 + AI Book Club and to select our next monthly title!

On the agenda today: Coinbase optimizing agent discovery, MoonPay serving agents with debit cards, and Gensyn launching information market platform Delphi

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The Web3 Owners Book Club explores the multifaceted world of crypto through books. Join to gain a more grounded understanding of Web3 beyond hype and noise.

Today's edition serves up a rich mix of news on Tempo, Paradigm, World, and more, while also unveiling my latest venture - Web3 Owners Club.

The Web3 Owners Club course teaches crypto fundamentals in just 10 sessions. Enroll now to understand digital ownership and thrive in the new agentic economy.

I wanted to express my love of reading with you and invite you to share the experience ☺️ Welcome to The Web3 + AI Book Club, where we’ll dive into the most compelling books on AI, Web3, and emerging technology - the ones worth your time, and the ones you can confidently skip. Join and let's read together 👇 https://web3plusai.xyz/web3-ai-book-the-moral-circle

It's Friday, so today I'm sharing a collection of opinion pieces, research papers, and conversations for you to mull over during the weekend 🛋️ Find the latest Crypto x AI theses by @ethereum.org's @vitalik.ca, @a16z.bsky.social, Stacy Muur, and Annabelle Huang. I'm sure they'll inform, shape, and even challenge your thinking about the future of Decentralized AI, and AI in general. As always, thank you for reading, sharing, and subscribing 🙌 https://web3plusai.xyz/daily_58

On the agenda today: Coinbase unveils AI Agents-specific wallet infrastructure, Cango sells BTC to fund AI expansion, and VCs welcome dAI's post-hype era.

Today on the agenda: has the agent economy truly arrived, can Web3 + AI disrupt criminal networks, and what's behind the newest AI agents platform, ai.com?

One theme clearly stands out in today's bulletin: privacy! Crypto is waking up to its potential to power AI rails while also delivering confidentiality.