AI
Topaz Labs Unveils Breakthrough Agentic AI for Photos
Topaz Labs and Texas A&M have created the first agentic photo restoration system that thinks like a professional editor.
US
OPEN-SOURCE
Extropic Unveils THRML: Open Source Software for a Thermodynamic Future in AI
Extropic’s new open source library, THRML, empowers developers to simulate and train energy-efficient generative AI models on thermodynamic hardware.
DATA CENTERS
Half the Internet Just Broke
Half the internet just broke because one company had a DNS problem in one datacenter. That's not acceptable for systems billions of people depend on daily.
PREDICTION MARKETS
Polymarket Isn’t Predicting the Future. It’s Liquidating Uncertainty.
Polymarket hit 95.2% accuracy in the last four hours. Not over a week. Not over cherry-picked markets. Four hours. Across all resolved prediction markets. "World record," tweeted Atlantislq. "No media in history ever hit that accuracy. 91.1% accuracy over a month, do you realize how
CULTURE
From FBI Raids to $9 Billion Vindication
"Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream," Coplan posted on X. "But in addition to that, it's a monumental step forward for DeFi."
OPEN-SOURCE
Perch wants to be the Spotify for newsletters and blogs
The premise is simple: instead of subscribing to dozens of email newsletters that flood your inbox, Perch aggregates all your favorite writers and publications in one place.
BLOCKCHAIN
Cake Wallet's CupCake App Delivers Hardware Wallet Security Without the $150+ Price Tag or Privacy Risks
Cake Wallet is the leading open-source wallet focused on privacy, ease of use, and true self-custody.
CULTURE
This Week in AI: Chutes Chat Launches, Templar Breaks Training Records, and Tech Leaders Dine with Trump
September 1-5, 2025 The open source AI ecosystem had a busy week. Chutes dropped their chat app in beta, Templar smashed distributed training records, Switzerland launched a national AI model, and Trump hosted Big Tech CEOs for dinner while Elon Musk was notably absent. Here's what you need to know.
ROBOT
Hugging Face's $299 Robot Takes on China's Robotics Revolution
The democratization of robotics just hit a price point that changes everything.
BLOCKCHAIN
Privacy Is Normal, and Writing Code Is Not a Crime
The crypto community rallies behind Roman Storm as the US government escalates its war on financial privacy
AI
How Peter Thiel Is Using Trump to Build America's Social Credit System
An investigation into the Trump administration's partnership with Peter Thiel's Palantir to create unprecedented surveillance infrastructure and how decentralized AI could be our last defense against digital authoritarianism
DECENTRALIZATION
Nous Research Summons Psyche to Battle Silicon Valley's AI Dragons
While OpenAI and Anthropic fight over who can build the most restrictive walled garden, a team of AI rebels has quietly assembled the digital equivalent of a nuclear arsenal in plain sight.