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Astra’s reduced visible reasoning renews a safety debate shaped by OpenAI’s chief scientist and a monitorability paper from 2025.

Developers moved EIP-8141 onto Ethereum's Hegota schedule, letting Buterin's frame design split one transaction into 64 calls.

Four altcoin gauges snapped year-plus downtrends, and Matthew Hyland says the largest altcoin bull run ever is now loading.

A meme coin named LAPTOP arrives Sept. 9 as Hunter Biden hands founders 30% and courts traders burned by Trump's token.

August pushed XRP derivatives activity back to February levels, with three major exchanges processing more than $64.6B in futures trades.

A newly declared milestone puts supervised AI agents on research tasks lasting days, with a more capable researcher targeted for 2028.

Institutional demand returned for a third week, sending $986.9M into Bitcoin ETFs while BlackRock captured most of the inflows.

Ali Martinez flagged a 116,000 ETH exchange exodus worth $300M as Ethereum holds $2,500 before the Fed rate decision.

A 100,000-plus-GPU training run for GPT-6 Astra prompted Jensen Huang to declare AGI, while OpenAI stopped short of the same claim.

Nearly 4,000 BTC remain under outsider control after a Liquid Network bug triggered a $320M withdrawal and an unusual on-chain standoff.