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Goldman Sachs Bets $500M On AI Help For Small Firms
Goldman Sachs committed $500 million to launch a Small Business AI Institute with Anthropic to help small firms adopt AI through its 10,000 Small Businesses
Murtuza Merchant
Guest ContributorMurtuza specializes in blockchain and digital asset intelligence. He builds AI-assisted analytical systems that turn on-chain, derivatives, ETF-flow, macro, and regulatory signals into structured, machine-readable intelligence. Trading desks, data-licensing clients, institutions and policymakers use these outputs to make decisions.
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AI | Learn
AI Agents Reveal Four Core Concepts That Make Them Work
AI agents do more than answer prompts. Learn how planning, memory, tools, and verification work together, and where agents still fail.
Markets
Bitget Strikes Deal To Buy Licensed Thai Crypto Exchange From GMO Internet
Crypto exchange Bitget has signed a deal to buy Bangkok-based licensed crypto exchange GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand) from GMO Internet, pending regulatory approval. Key Takeaways Deal Structure Under the…
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One Task Can Take Hundreds Of AI Calls, So Here’s When An Agent Is Actually Worth It
AI agents can plan, use tools, and remember context, but they add cost and risk. Here is when agents beat single-call models and when they do not.
AI | Research
Inside The 17,600-Action Agent Intrusion That Exposed AI’s Containment Gap
A forensic timeline of 17,600 attacker actions against an autonomous agent reveals how containment, monitoring and logging failed in practice.
AI
META Bets On Open Weights With Muse Spark Open, No Benchmarks Yet
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model built for long-horizon coding and agentic software work, the company said Oct. 15.
Markets
Ripple Teams With DriveWealth As Evernorth Taps 473M XRP Reserve
XRP Reserve: Brokerage Platforms: Ripple (XRP) and DriveWealth partnered to bring institutional digital asset infrastructure to global investing platforms, expanding tokenized settlement.
Markets
Stable-Mate? Standard Chartered Slams Brakes On $2 Trillion Stablecoin Dream
Standard Chartered has pushed back its $2 trillion stablecoin market cap forecast by two years to 2030, after growth in stablecoin supply stalled this year, according to a…
AI | AI Policy
Character.AI Files Chapter 11, First AI Chatbot Firm To Use Bankruptcy Against Suicide Lawsuits
Chapter 11: Character.AI filed for bankruptcy protection this week, citing mounting lawsuits over teen deaths tied to its companion chatbot platform.
AI | Research
Verifiable Rewards Drive Critical Move Beyond RLHF At Frontier Labs
Frontier labs moved post-training from RLHF preference data to RLVR outcome rewards. Papers, lab docs and Hugging Face data show the shift's scope.