Weekly Tech and Crypto Highlights with Bitcoin Hits $118K and AI Breakthroughs

The main weekly highlights from ForkLog encompass a wide range of developments. Longreads include topics such as activities outside Web3, a neural network for digital copies of minds, more sophisticated and well-thought-out attacks, and a comparative analysis of free neural networks for coding. News highlights feature Bitcoin reaching a new all-time high above $118,000, Ethereum surpassing $3,000 amidst record inflows into BlackRock ETFs, Phantom's addition of perpetual futures trading with Hyperliquid support, the Pump Fun team unveiling tokenomics for PUMP with a TGE date, UAE denying issuance of 'golden visas' for TON amid clarifications from the Foundation, Jack Dorsey's launch of encrypted Bluetooth chat, CoreWeave's acquisition of Bitcoin miner Core Scientific for $9 billion, Bitcoin miner BIT Mining shifting from Bitcoin to Solana, and economist Lael Brainard's insights on US Federal Reserve policy and economic prospects. In AI-related updates, Grok has been refined but facing politicization and controversial statements, data is being recognized as a new productive factor in Chinese industry, Kazakhstan has launched its most powerful supercomputer in Central Asia, Microsoft saved $500 million through AI and laid off 15,000 staff, and AI-based video generation units like Marey from Moonvalley are making advances.