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While developers debate the likelihood of an AI apocalypse and regulators warn about the threat cryptocurrencies pose to the financial system, blockchain and artificial intelligence are already finding applications in medicine and scientific research. ForkLog has compiled notable projects that show how distributed databases and AI help solve practical problems far beyond the financial sector. forklog.com/en/where-ai-an…

Hugging Face, which runs one of the largest platforms for hosting and developing AI models, disclosed details of an attack on part of its production infrastructure. The company said the attacker accessed a limited set of internal data and several service credentials. forklog.com/en/hugging-fac…

On July 21, Bitcoin’s price reached $66,400, marking a monthly high. This increase coincided with the fifth consecutive trading day of net inflows into U.S. spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on the asset. forklog.com/en/bitcoin-hit…

@Google plans to release a specialized chip called Frozen v2, according to The Information. forklog.com/en/google-to-d…

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has revived discussions of measures that could make it harder to use Chinese open-weight AI models, Axios reported, citing people familiar with the matter. forklog.com/en/axios-us-re…

Researchers from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Nvidia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and NASA have proposed a model to evaluate the interaction between quantum processors and classical supercomputers. forklog.com/en/researchers…

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission approved the second phase of Project Hangang, a central bank digital payment experiment based on CBDC. forklog.com/en/south-korea…

The UK may face a water shortage for planned data centers, according to a report by industry organization Water UK. forklog.com/en/uk-faces-wa…

U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to incorporate ethical restrictions into the CLARITY Act. This was reported by The Block, citing an anonymous source. forklog.com/en/trump-agree…

Ethereum co-founder @VitalikButerin has introduced a demo version of an anonymous message board with moderation for the L2 network Aztec. The project’s source code is available on GitHub. forklog.com/en/buterin-unv…

What is driving the mass issuance of corporate tokens, and how could this trend lead to pervasive censorship and a radical reshaping of the global financial system? forklog.com/en/why-corpora…

The success of artificial intelligence implementation in companies may depend on employee involvement in training specialized models, according to Financial Times columnist Sarah O’Connor in a report. forklog.com/en/ft-employee…

Streaming service @netflix has paid approximately $587 million for the AI project InterPositive, founded by actor and producer Ben Affleck. The deal was finalized in March, according to @Variety. forklog.com/en/netflix-acq…

Developers of the perp-DEX @HyperliquidX will introduce open deployment of prediction markets as part of HIP-4. forklog.com/en/hyperliquid…

The Coinbase Premium Index for $BTC has remained in negative territory for 60 consecutive days, marking a record low. forklog.com/en/bitcoin-pre…

Primary developers of #Cardano blockchain @IOGroup have transferred control of a Haskell-based network node to the community. forklog.com/en/cardano-dev…

"Deconstruction" examines the main news of the past week: - freezing crypto transfers in Russia; - neural networks replacing developers at @coinbase; - rate manipulation on @Polymarket; - the threat of economic collapse due to AI; - new crypto laws in China and Japan; - wallet deanonymization using OSINT. youtube.com/watch?v=-xqQr2…

The modern world is built on speed, efficiency, and relentless action. But what if the cult of productivity is precisely what has driven civilization into a dead end? Anatoly Kaplan argues for non-action as a new social consensus—and an alternative to war. forklog.com/en/the-non-rel…

ForkLog examined which countries are actually making digital assets part of reserve policy and which have gone no further than talk. forklog.com/en/why-the-u-s…

The increase in Strategy’s dollar reserves and capital inflow into futures are positive indicators for Bitcoin’s prospects, according to JPMorgan analysts, as reported by The Block. forklog.com/en/jpmorgan-li…