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Core Scientific is making a decisive break from its crypto past, striking a new deal with AMD to build out AI data centers. The company had already cut ties with Block's bitcoin mining hardware operation, and this agreement makes clear which direction its future is pointing — away from proof-of-work and toward the power-hungry demands of AI infrastructure.
On the subject of AI reaching further into everyday computing, Perplexity has now brought its Personal Computer tool to Windows, giving the world's most widely used operating system access to a locally run AI agent. The system can navigate your files, open applications, and complete tasks on your behalf — raising familiar questions about how much autonomy we're comfortable handing over to software running quietly in the background.
And in a story with real consequences for law enforcement, a new report says Binance quietly changed its compliance procedures in ways that now force international investigators to work through slow government treaty processes just to obtain user data. Critics argue the move effectively raises a wall around the platform at exactly the moment regulators are pushing crypto exchanges toward greater accountability.
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