Feb 23, 2026

OpenClaw Creator Bans Bitcoin, Crypto Chatter After Joining OpenAI

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is enforcing a zero-crypto rule on the project's Discord as he joins OpenAI. Here's why.

Feb 23, 2026

Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to India with a bold new defense of AI energy use: Humans are less efficient than data centers, when yo...

Feb 23, 2026

AI bot's tipping blunder hands $450,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster

AI trading bot "Lobstar Wilde" accidentally sent a large coin stash to an X user in need of 4 SOL for medical treatment.

Feb 21, 2026

Marketers Could Use AI to Make Sure You See Their Ads—Here's How

Researchers built AdGazer, a machine learning tool that predicts whether you'll actually look at a digital ad—before it's ever sho...

Feb 21, 2026

How AI is helping retail traders exploit prediction market 'glitches' to make ea...

A fully automated bot quietly captured micro-arbitrage opportunities on short-term crypto prediction markets, netting nearly $150,...

Feb 20, 2026

Specialized AI detects 92% of real-world DeFi exploits

New research claims specialized AI dramatically outperforms general-purpose models at detecting exploited DeFi vulnerabilities.

Feb 20, 2026

AMC Theatres Blocks AI Short Film From Screening in Pre-Show Advertising

The cinema chain has stepped back from screening an award-winning AI short while Hollywood battles over the technology’s creative...

Feb 19, 2026

AI in Hollywood? 'Silicon Valley' Star T.J. Miller Isn't Worried

“Silicon Valley” actor T.J. Miller joked that an AI bot “replaced” him as this week’s ETH Denver host, amid actual growing job fea...

Feb 19, 2026

Google Brings AI Music Generation to Gemini—We Tried It, and It's Too Little Too...

Google AI music generator Lyria 3 is now available on the Gemini app. It works—mostly—but the competition has a big head start.