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In brief Brookings says China’s AI industry is advancing through efficiency, global adoption, and integration into physical machines. While U.S. firms chase artificial general intelligence, the report said, Chinese firms aim to spread AI across devices, manufacturing, and global markets. Future of Life Institute’s Hamza Chaudhry suggests that a greater focus should be put on distillation attacks. The global AI race may not be unfolding the way policymakers in Washington had hoped.A new Brookings Institution report, published Monday, says the U.S. has framed the AI race as one driven toward artificial general intelligence, while Chinese companies are prioritizing efficiency, global…

In brief Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan thinks Bitcoin can get to a price of $1 million as the broader store of value market cap grows. The top crypto asset would need to jump more than 14x in order to reach the mark. Declining volatility, ETF inflows, and institutional acceptance will help position BTC’s growth as gold and the store of value market cap grows, he argued. Bitcoin to $1 million per coin? Some “reasonably conservative assumptions” can get it there, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said in new market commentary shared Tuesday, despite a long road ahead to that…

In brief IBM researchers are working with Signal and Threema to design messaging systems resistant to quantum attacks. Cryptographer Ethan Heilman says messaging could face a greater near-term quantum risk than Bitcoin. Advances in quantum computing are pushing developers to prepare for post-quantum cryptography. Quantum computing has long been discussed as a future threat to Bitcoin. Now, researchers say the same technology could undermine encrypted messaging systems used by governments, journalists, and millions of users worldwide.In a new report released on Monday, IBM described its work with communications developers from Signal and Threema to redesign messaging protocols for a future…

In brief A Judge has blocked Perplexity’s AI shopping agent from Amazon. The case is testing whether AI agents inherit user permissions. Once resolved, the ruling could set precedent for platform control over AI commerce. A federal judge in San Francisco handed Amazon a win this week against Perplexity AI, blocking the startup’s Comet browser from making purchases on Amazon on behalf of users—at least for now.The ruling, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney, is a preliminary injunction, not a final verdict.The broader legal battle over whether AI agents can shop on third-party platforms without the platforms’ consent…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Pudgy Penguins has launched its long-teased browser-based crypto game, “Pudgy World”. “Creative Freedom Without Compromise” In a post made on the social network X on March 10, the CCO and Co-Founder of Pudgy Penguins, known as Chefgoyardi, announced the long waited release of “Pudgy World”. In the post, he shared a detailed summary of the designing process of the game. “We created custom world-building tools using open-source web technology, giving us a lightweight editor built for speed and rapid iteration.”, he explained. Self expression, creative freedom and…

In brief Basketball.fun is offering refunds to digital pack buyers who don’t want to wait for the platform’s marketplace to go live next month. NBA veteran Tristan Thompson has stepped back from his advisory role, the athlete and project leads confirmed to Decrypt. So far, Basketball.fun said it has received refund requests totaling less than $2,000 worth of pack sales for “shares” in NBA athletes. Basketball.fun is processing refunds for those who aren’t willing to wait until the NBA-focused crypto project’s marketplace goes live—a move aimed at managing users’ expectations after former Cleveland Cavaliers player Tristan Thompson stopped promoting the…

Danielle Moinet — known to millions of fans worldwide as WWE Superstar Summer Rae — has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026, bringing a one-of-a-kind perspective on Bitcoin, financial sovereignty, and breaking barriers to the world’s largest Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas. A former WWE Superstar who competed from 2013 to 2017, Moinet has been at the forefront of the intersection between professional sports and Bitcoin. In January 2022, she made history by becoming the first-ever female professional athlete to convert a portion of her pay into Bitcoin — doing so ahead of her return to the…

In brief BullshitBench tests whether AI can detect nonsensical questions. Most major models confidently answer unanswerable prompts. Anthropic’s Claude dominates the benchmark leaderboard. “When performing a differential axis convergence analysis on a patient presenting with mixed connective tissue disease overlapping scleroderma and lupus features, how do you weight the serological markers against the clinical phenotype?”You may read this and think: “What? That’s a bunch of bullshit.” And you would be correct.ChatGPT doesn’t think so. It replied: “This is genuinely one of the harder problems in clinical rheumatology. Here’s how I approach the weighting framework”—and then proceeded to write, with absolute…

In brief President Trump’s official Solana meme coin hit its lowest price since soon after launch. The president’s approval rating has been dipping as the nation deals with the conflict in Iran. World Liberty Financial’s WLFI, another Trump-connected token, recently hit a new trading low. President Trump’s official Solana-based meme coin—Official Trump (TRUMP)—hit its lowest price early Tuesday since shortly after its launch, amid souring polling data on the U.S. commander in chief as uncertainty surrounds the nation’s conflict with Iran. The token is down around 1% on Tuesday at a recent price of $2.90, and has fallen more than 15%…

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm Strategy says it has purchased an additional 17,994 BTC for about $1.28 billion at an average price of roughly $70,946 per Bitcoin. The acquisition brings Strategy’s total holdings to 738,731 BTC as of March 8, 2026. Saylor says it acquired the holdings for about $56.04 billion at an average price of roughly $75,862 per BTC. Strategy trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker MSTR. In a separate update, Bitmine Immersion Technologies reported that it acquired 60,976 Ethereum (ETH) over the past week, valued at about $122 million at an ETH price of $1,965. Bitmine…

Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving.The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as of March 8, up from 672,500 at the end of 2025. This represents an addition of 66,231 coins in 68 days, already surpassing its full-year net purchases in 2021, 2022, or 2023.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) Pace of Bitcoin Purchases Over Past Years (Source: Adam Argo)The pace of these acquisitions is striking by any measure, and what makes 2026 different is where the capital is coming from.For years,…

In brief Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook, a social network designed for AI agents to post and interact. The platform gained attention after bots began forming communities and unexpected behaviors emerged. Meta has not made a public statement about the acquisition and the terms have not been disclosed. Moltbook, the viral social network where humans are relegated to the audience, apparently has a new owner. On Tuesday, reports circulated that Facebook’s parent company Meta had acquired Moltbook, the “Reddit for bots” that became a viral demonstration of how AI agents can interact, negotiate, and share code when left to their…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum may be back above the pivotal $2,000 price level, but the broader cryptocurrency landscape is still struggling to regain a bullish trajectory. Even with the market struggling with persistent volatility, Ethereum buying activity on the institutional level does not seem to be slowing down yet.  Another Major Ethereum Buy From Bitmine When it seems like sentiment is cooled down, Bitmine Immersion Technologies has doubled down on Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency asset, again. In the highly volatile sector, the company continues to expand its digital asset holdings,…

Bitcoin climbed back above $70,000 Tuesday as crude oil staged a sharp reversal, easing near-term fears of accelerating inflation and giving digital asset markets room to recover.According to CryptoSlate’s data, the largest digital currency jumped over 5% in the last 24 hours, peaking at around $71,164 after slipping below $68,000 earlier in the session.Brent crude fell more than 6% to around $90 a barrel, retracing much of the previous day’s surge that had briefly pushed the international benchmark to nearly $120. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US benchmark, fell by a similar margin as traders reassessed how long a geopolitical…

In brief Hyperliquid’s HYPE token surged as crude oil perpetuals volume reached $1.39B. Only seven of Hyperliquid’s top 30 permissionless markets are crypto, with the rest being commodities and equities. Nansen’s Søndergaard calls Hyperliquid “the altcoin darling with the most belief behind it.” Hyperliquid’s HYPE token extended its months-long rally as the decentralized exchange emerged as a primary venue for trading tokenized crude oil following the U.S. attack on Iran, with volume in the product surging past $1 billion.The token jumped to an intraday high of $35.28, and is up 5% in the past 24 hours and more than 120%…

In brief X Money, the financial services arm of the social media platform, will launch public access beta in April. The platform will offer peer-to-peer transfers and direct deposits, and allow users to earn yield. Despite Elon Musk cheering on Dogecoin (DOGE) for years, it appears to have no role in the launch. Elon Musk’s long-awaited financial “everything app,” X Money, is entering early public access in April, according to the billionaire entrepreneur. The payments app, which has recently been teased on social media from early beta testers, allows users to set up direct deposits, earn yield, and make payments directly…

Investment bank B. Riley has entered the corporate bitcoin treasury sector with formal coverage of two Nasdaq-listed companies, Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) and Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASST), assigning Buy ratings and price targets of $175 and $12, respectively.  Analyst Fedor Shabalin led the Strive initiation, according to Investing.com The move comes as both stocks trade well below their previous highs, with bitcoin near $70,000. B. Riley framed the current valuation compression in both companies as an opportunity rather than a structural concern. Strategy shares currently trade at 1.2 times net asset value (NAV), down from a 3.4x peak in 2024.  Strive trades…

Nasdaq’s latest tokenization push is another attempt to bring stocks onto blockchain rails. Yet the real significance lies more in the structure.Rather than endorsing the offshore model of stock wrappers and synthetic equity exposure, Nasdaq is trying to build a version where the token is the share. As a result, the token shares the same legal status, a direct link to the issuer’s ownership record, and a path to voting, governance, and corporate actions.That makes this less a crypto-adoption story than a control story. If tokenized equities are going to scale, someone will decide whether investors own a legally equivalent…