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In brief Indonesia’s Universitas Gadjah Mada will pilot verifiable digital credentials, beginning with English proficiency courses. Students receive digital wallets preloaded with tokens for paying tuition and course fees, with no added costs. The pilot rollout will cover 60,000 students and run alongside a separate AI lab initiative. Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), one of Indonesia’s…
In brief A new study has unveiled Titan, an LLM agent that tests MMORPGs by reasoning and exploring game states. Titan found four previously unknown bugs and completed 95% of tasks in two commercial games. Already deployed in QA pipelines, Titan may reshape how games are tested across PC and mobile. Game studios have long…
In brief Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, calling it the best coding model yet. The model scored 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, rising to 82% with parallel compute. Anthropic claimed improvements on alignment and safety, but jailbreakers cracked it within minutes. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday, calling it “the best coding model in the…
In brief In an experiment, 38 generative AI models engaged in strategic lying in a “Secret Agenda” game. Sparse autoencoder tools missed the deception, but worked in insider-trading scenarios. Researchers call for new methods to audit AI behavior before real-world deployment. Large language models—the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI chatbots—showed deliberate, goal-directed…
In brief Stablecoin network Plasma has meme coins now after entering “mainnet beta” last week. The Trillions token hit a $60 million market cap on Sunday, before falling sharply. It references a meme at the foundation of the Plasma thesis, predicting the total stablecoin market cap to be in the trillions of dollars. A meme…
In brief A Minecraft builder encoded a 5-million-parameter language model entirely via the game’s redstone logic, spanning hundreds of millions of blocks. The system works (in principle) but is excruciatingly slow; responses can take hours even with speed boosts. It’s a proof of concept, a technical art piece, and a reminder that computation can live…
In brief BitMine Immersion Technologies added $980 million worth of ETH last week, pushing its tally to nearly $11 billion worth. BMNR stock is up more than 6% on the day, rising following the announcement. Tom Lee’s company holds the largest Ethereum treasury of any publicly traded firm, outpacing SharpLink Gaming. BitMine Immersion Technologies stock…
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors rally over the weekend; BTC reclaims $112,000 Vanguard reportedly considering offering crypto ETF access to its 50M investors SEC and…
In brief Top alcoins have risen 3–4% in the past 24 hours, partially reversing last week’s sell-off. About $345 million in crypto liquidations were recorded, mostly from short positions. One analsyt expects near-term consolidation before capital rotation into select altcoin segments in Q4. A weekend surge in crypto has partially erased last week’s losses as…
In brief Scientists etched working gear trains on a chip, driven solely by photon momentum. The devices could someday power microfluidic pumps, reconfigurable optics, and tiny surgical tools. Efficiency remains extremely low, making the work an elegant proof-of-concept, not a product. Researchers have built microscopic machines—complete with working gears, racks, and pinions—that run entirely on…
