NFT & Metaverse

If you’ve been following the local AI scene, you probably know Qwopus—the open-source model that tried to distill Claude Opus 4.6’s reasoning into Alibaba’s Qwen, so you could run something resembling Opus on your …

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX’s sister company Alameda Research “unstaked” roughly $16 million worth of Solana’s SOL token and moved the same to an address linked to creditor repayments, according to data source Arkham. Unstaking …

Momentum is rapidly building in Washington around the long-debated CLARITY Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that could finally define how digital assets are regulated in the United States. What was once another stalled …

In brief Anthropic researchers identified internal “emotion vectors” in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that influence behavior. In tests, increasing a “desperation” vector made the model more likely to cheat or blackmail in evaluation scenarios. The …

Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are among the Big Tech firms named as founding members of the newly launched x402 Foundation, established to govern and standardize the x402 protocol for agentic AI payments …

The NFT market kicks off the second quarter with the launch of the Nefarious Werewolf Society (NWS), a 10,000-piece Ethereum-based collection that opens minting today and runs through April 8. Positioned as a community-driven …