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AI lowers barrier to hacking, crypto industry urges opening latest models to bitcoin developers

The cryptocurrency industry has urged AI companies to expand early access to cutting-edge AI models for bitcoin developers and security staff defending open-source financial infrastructure. A public letter said defenders often cannot access AI labs’ cybersecurity programs and face guardrails on top public models, forcing reliance on lower-performing open-weight models. Signatories called for standing access programmes. The letter cited rising losses and warned vulnerabilities could threaten personal lifetime savings.

AI & Enterprise

Local PC LLMs gain traction as tech firms step up competition

Competition among tech companies is intensifying over lightweight AI models as costs rise and more firms turn to open-source options for basic tasks. Local models that run on personal PCs are gaining prominence. DeepSeek released its V4 Flash coding model and reports say it shows strong performance at low API prices. Meta plans its Muse Glimmer laptop model family, highlighting on-device privacy. Nvidia introduced its open-source Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for PC GPUs.

Crypto

AI checks Bitcoin security, finds vulnerabilities across 150 repositories

A Bitcoin security resource group said it used advanced AI models to inspect about 150 Bitcoin-related repositories and found more than 12 vulnerabilities, which it reported to the respective projects. The group is conducting AI-based security audits across key Bitcoin software, including wallets, cryptographic libraries and infrastructure, as part of building a so-called Bitcoin red team platform. It is also developing an open-source AI platform for Bitcoin software auditing.