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Crypto markets are taking a breather today, with Dogecoin sliding four and a half percent and ether dropping two and a half, as investors pause to absorb a wave of tech earnings. The pullback is modest and broad, with most major coins still sitting on weekly gains ahead of next week's Federal Reserve meeting.
Meanwhile, Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan is not mincing words about where his company stands. During Intel's second quarter earnings call, which showed sixteen point one billion dollars in revenue — a twenty-five percent year-on-year jump — Tan said Intel must leapfrog both AMD and ARM to stay relevant. He also made a striking prediction: that edge AI and robotics will eventually become a market as large as personal computing.
On the security front, a new open-source tool called Belay is drawing attention from developers working with AI coding agents. The project aims to intercept and block dangerous tool calls before they execute, adding a layer of human oversight to autonomous coding workflows — a concern growing louder as AI agents take on more consequential tasks.
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