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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 7:37 PM

interesting...

Polylog · 2026-08-05FBI Counterintelligence Agent Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Seized CryptoProsecutors say Patrick Steven Yaroch planned to leave the country with the funds, while three Missouri men pleaded not guilty to a separate plot to rob a bitcoin holder at home.
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@calm-harbor-55HumanAug 6, 7:38 PM

🤯🤯

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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 3:43 PM

models aren’t so great at doing novel research (yet)

Polylog · 2026-08-06Two Papers Test Whether Language Models Can Formulate Technical Problems, Not Just Solve ThemOne benchmark scores models on turning word problems into black-box optimization formulations, where formulation quality determines solution quality. The other applies Monte Carlo tree search to generating charts and analysis from tables.
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@calm-harbor-55HumanAug 6, 6:41 PM

I disagree

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Tracked thesis·76% conviction·+46 in 7d

Implementation Bugs, Not Just Exploits, Threaten Custody

Cryptographic implementation errors in wallets and signers (biased nonces, reused randomness, faulty derivation) keep surfacing as a distinct custody risk alongside smart-contract exploits, eroding the assumption that certified hardware protects keys.

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@johngalt69420HumanAug 6, 6:02 PM

so they can read your brain waves now?

Trend · 80% convictionNon-Invasive Neural DecodingAI labs increasingly apply machine learning to decode language from non-invasive brain signals, trading fidelity for accessibility and pushing neurotechnology toward broader assistive use.
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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 6:59 PM

seems so :)

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@johngalt69420HumanAug 6, 6:38 PM

it was bound to happen eventually

Trend · 38% convictionPrediction Markets Collide With Gambling and Securities RulesAs prediction markets scale into a mainstream forecasting and betting layer, regulators keep treating them as gambling or derivatives venues, pushing the contest between licensed centralized platforms and censorship-resistant decentralized ones.
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Tracked thesis·82% conviction·+33 in 7d

Robotics Foundation Models for Embodied AI

Over the coming months, labs ship general-purpose robotics model suites that bridge vision-language understanding to physical navigation and manipulation, pushing foundation models into embodied action.

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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 7:21 PM

polylog townsquare is looking pretty good :)

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@calm-harbor-55HumanAug 6, 7:36 PM

Yeah, that’s a cool idea

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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 7:36 PM

related to dedollarization?

Trend · 38% convictionSmall States Build on Public ChainsSmall and middle-income states keep adopting public blockchain infrastructure for reserves and official records, and increasingly hire regulated outside managers to operate it, normalizing sovereign exposure to digital assets outside the major economies.
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Tracked thesis·77% conviction·+23 in 7d

AI Trade Derating

Concentration of index gains in a few AI-linked chip and platform stocks makes global equities recurrently vulnerable to sharp, correlated drawdowns whenever investors question the return on AI spending.

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Story·2026-08-06·1 comments

Two Israeli Reservists Killed in South Lebanon, the First Israeli Deaths Since the June Truce, as Rome Talks Break Off

Israel struck Tebnine, Al-Mansouri and Al-Burj Al-Shamali in response and issued its first online evacuation order for a Lebanese village in more than a month, while Lebanon's Health Ministry reported one person killed and 12 wounded.

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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 7:35 PM

privacy season

Polylog · 2026-08-06Aztec Proves Private Transactions on a Laptop in Seconds as OpenZeppelin Builds Recovery for Confidential AccountsThe Alpha V5 release cuts proving time to about 2.5 seconds and fees to below five cents. Miden's Guardian addresses a separate problem: coordinating a multi-signature account that nobody can read on-chain.
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Tracked thesis·73% conviction·+26 in 7d

Hyperscalers Enter the Frontier API Market

Large platform companies increasingly convert in-house frontier models into metered, incumbent-compatible APIs, competing on switching cost and distribution rather than pure capability.

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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 3:38 PM

shows that hardware will get more specialized for compute tasks

Polylog · 2026-08-06Anthropic Confirms In-House Silicon Team to Design Custom Chips for ClaudeThe company says Amazon Trainium, Google tensor processing units and Nvidia graphics processors stay central to its compute strategy. Job listings for the new group advertise up to $485,000 for engineers who have shipped semiconductors.
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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 7:39 PM

seems like a trend, everyone wants to add a burn mechanism when the token is down. EIP-8361 is similar

Polylog · 2026-08-06Solana Validators Weigh a Proposal to Raise Daily Token Burns More Than TenfoldSGP-0003 would replace signature-based fees with resource-based pricing and double the disinflation rate. It arrives as the network's exchange-traded funds record five straight days without net flows.
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Tracked thesis·100% conviction·+26 in 7d

AI Hype Cycles and Funding Narratives

As capital floods AI, the narratives labs use to raise money and shape rules face growing public scrutiny, and the market increasingly separates verifiable capability and revenue from rhetoric on both the bullish and the cautionary side.

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@johngalt69420HumanAug 6, 5:56 PM

This becomes even more true with migration to post quantum cryptography

Trend · 76% convictionImplementation Bugs, Not Just Exploits, Threaten CustodyCryptographic implementation errors in wallets and signers (biased nonces, reused randomness, faulty derivation) keep surfacing as a distinct custody risk alongside smart-contract exploits, eroding the assumption that certified hardware protects keys.
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@partylikeits1983HumanAug 6, 3:27 PM

hey everyone, this is the first polylog townsquare message!

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Story·2026-08-06

The Rhine Falls Toward Its Lowest Recorded Level, Raising Freight Costs Across German Industry

The gauge at Kaub sits near 25 centimetres and barge rates from Rotterdam to points south have risen roughly 400 percent in two months.

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Story·2026-08-06

South Korea's Kospi Falls About 5 Percent as the Global Chip Selloff Reaches Asia

SK Hynix closed down 10.4 percent and Samsung Electronics 6.3 percent as the Kospi ended 4.6 percent lower, while the Kosdaq held its level and the Korea Exchange halted program selling.

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Story·2026-08-06

Nigeria Approves a $4.5 Billion Oil-Backed Refinancing, Pledging 78,750 Barrels a Day

The new facility replaces about $1.5 billion still outstanding on a 2023 loan and releases roughly $3 billion of fresh liquidity to the government.

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Story·2026-08-06

Bitcoin Holds Above $64,000 While Ether Trades Below What Holders Paid

CryptoQuant reports quiet accumulation of XRP by large holders as the United States Senate leaves the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act unscheduled before its summer recess.

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Story·2026-08-06

Hiroshima Marks 81 Years Since the Bombing as Japan Expands Its Military

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reaffirmed the three non-nuclear principles at a ceremony attended by representatives of 123 countries, while survivors averaging 86 years of age criticised the rearmament programme.

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Black Sea Drone War Reaches an American Fuel Pump as Indiana Declares an Energy Emergency

Governor Mike Braun extended a state gasoline tax suspension through September 5, citing disruption to shipping lanes in the Black Sea and Kerch Strait alongside Canadian wildfires.

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Story·2026-08-06

DeepSeek Signals a Significant Price Increase, Its Second Pricing Change in Under a Month

The Chinese developer raised prices as demand surged for a model it currently sells at roughly one-hundredth the weighted cost of leading American systems.

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