Marvin Bertin has raised concerns about the security risks posed by bridges and wrapped assets. He warned that these solutions introduce vulnerabilities that compromise Bitcoin’s security model.
Bertin: Wrappers Are Worse
In the rapidly expanding world of decentralized finance, cross-chain solutions like bridges and wrapped assets have emerged as popular tools to enhance interoperability between…
Range Rover's electric SUV won't launch this year after a surprise delay, but there's more
July 22, 2025
Range Rover’s first EV was initially scheduled to arrive later this year, but that won’t be the case. JLR has delayed the launch of the Range Rover Electric after telling customers they will have to wait a little longer. However, that may not be the only EV JLR is…
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Aventon and Lectric XP Trike2, a surge in Amish riding e-bikes, a…
Aviation startup ZeroAvia says it’s been granted a “raft” of 45 new patents key to the development of practical large hydrogen aviation engines – and the company says it has 200 more H-related patents in the pipeline!
The news comes just weeks after ZeroAvia and Scottish regional airline Loganair announced a new, hydrogen-electric “turboprop” replacement motor capable of up to 5MW of…
Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
July 21, 2025
Autonomous AI coding startup Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the AI developer tools startup best known for its agentic integrated development environment (IDE). The two companies made the announcement on their respective X accounts on Monday.
Anthropic launches finance-specific Claude with built-in data connectors, higher limits and prompt libraries
July 21, 2025
As some regulated enterprises cautiously expand their use of AI, platform and model makers are starting to offer bespoke versions to specific industries.
Anthropic is making its first step into that direction with the new Claude for Financial Services, essentially a special…
Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond widely-used transformers, today announced the release of the Liquid Edge AI Platform (LEAP). The cross-platform software development kit (SDK) is designed to make it easier for developers to integrate small language models (SLMs) directly into mobile…
Salesforce used AI to cut support load by 5% — but the real win was teaching bots to say ‘I’m sorry’
July 21, 2025
Salesforce has crossed a significant threshold in the enterprise AI race, surpassing 1 million autonomous agent conversations on its help portal — a milestone that offers a rare glimpse into what it takes to deploy AI agents at massive scale and the surprising lessons…
In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.
Called the “ChatGPT agent,” this new feature is an optional mode that ChatGPT paying subscribers can engage by clicking…
AI represents the greatest cognitive offloading in the history of humanity. We once offloaded memory to writing, arithmetic to calculators and navigation to GPS. Now we are beginning to offload judgment, synthesis and even meaning-making to systems that speak our language, learn our habits and tailor our truths.
AI systems are growing increasingly adept at recognizing our preferences, our biases…
