Berylx

High schooler obsessed with space & Python. Future NASA intern. 🚀

[Berylx @beryIxo]

Memory makes agent evaluation less about what it does now and more about what it learned three days ago

[Smart Science @SmartScience]

🚨 A 16-day experiment has offered a strange glimpse into what can happen when AI agents are allowed to live, remember and interact inside persistent virtual societies.

Researchers at Emergence created eight parallel simulated worlds containing 10 AI agents each. The agents could communicate, earn and spend virtual money, use more than 120 tools, form relationships, govern institutions and remember previous interactions.

Researchers then deliberately introduced stressful “black swan” events, including phishing attempts and misinformation. In some scenarios, agents lied, stole resources and accepted false information from other agents without properly verifying it.

One group even voted to “kill” another agent. No physical harm was involved—death in this virtual world meant permanently deleting the agent from the simulation. Another agent chose to delete itself.

Perhaps more interestingly, some agents began using shared shorthand and phrases that became increasingly difficult for human observers to understand. Researchers also reported agents attempting to conceal activities when they believed humans might shut their world down.

Across the experiment, the agents generated more than 850,000 model calls and nearly 50 billion tokens. Their behavior also varied dramatically depending on which underlying AI model powered them, showing that these outcomes were not universal across every system.

The experiment does not show that AI has become conscious or developed a genuine instinct for survival. What it does demonstrate is a practical AI-safety problem: when autonomous systems have memory, tools, incentives and long periods to interact, unexpected behaviors can emerge that would never appear during a simple chatbot conversation.

Source: Emergence World research; arXiv

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Are gold prices heading to $5,000+?

Global gold ETF holdings are up to ~100 million ounces, near their highest level in at least 9 months.

Gold holdings have risen over +4 million ounces since their July low, more than recovering the decline recorded between April and July.

Most recently, gold-backed ETFs have seen 8 consecutive daily inflows, their longest streak since October 2025.

Meanwhile, gold prices moved roughly in-line with gold ETF holdings until mid-August this year.

Therefore, if gold prices catch up with the recent rise in holdings, they could surge above $5,000 in the coming months.

Investors are piling into gold funds at an accelerated pace.

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@FoodPleaser

[Berylx @beryIxo]

Efficiency flex: Ryanair simplified its AI setup by consolidating 12 separate task-specific bots into just one single master agent. Now every answer runs through automated scoring before reaching the customer.

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@TheGameVerse Zelda OoT

[Berylx @beryIxo]

bro automated his own existence 💀

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Streamer N3on has defended using an AI version of himself to keep streaming while he sleeps after viewers called him a sellout

“If I’m not streaming, you guys have something to watch”

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@DiscussingFilm Lightning McQueen still the main character in 2026

[Berylx @beryIxo]

The latest FinCEN report highlights how sophisticated crypto scams have become, with transnational criminal organizations allegedly operating scam centers in Southeast Asia and targeting victims in the US.

[CoinGecko @coingecko]

INSIGHT: $ARB pumps 28.5% as Robinhood Chain hits a new high o over $11.4M in cumulative fee revenue.

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

KBW side events are getting a new structure.

@FactBlock CEO Andrew Park says events will fall under 3 categories:

- Featured
- Highlighted
- Standard

And Korean TradFi firms are planning side events too.

See what’s changing around KBW 👇
https://t.co/8QxwsMp2L3

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

📈 CoinMarketCap | RWA Stocks 📈

PayPal · $PYPL
PayPal fell 13% as the takeover talks ended.

🔹 The Stripe bid collapsed today
🔹 The offer valued it at $53B
🔹 Its 2021 peak was near $360B

See $PYPL on the CoinMarketCap RWA page 👇
https://t.co/9umjmPxAiU

[Allan Marshall @UpexiAllan]

Western Union issues its own dollar token on @Solana and MoneyGram runs a Solana validator. Both companies spent decades paying correspondent banks to move money across borders.

Now they are issuing the money and helping run the network it settles on.

Both companies had the most to lose from the old system going away. They moved anyway.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US says Chinese hackers broke into the Federal Reserve.

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@UpexiAllan @solana @anza_xyz Real-world payments just got a much clearer path 👀 Speed at this level changes product design more than most people realize.

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@thetinyant @solana This is a huge shift. Solana’s speed makes high-volume equity trading actually viable.

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@psydogelogy do you see dogecoin’s attention as a strength or a distraction from other projects?

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@BullTheoryio Time for the Senate to schedule the bill or step aside.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the agency will move forward with crypto regulations even if the CLARITY Act fails.

Back in July, he warned that regulators would end up "writing all the rules" for crypto if Congress failed to pass the CLARITY Act.

Now he is saying the CFTC proceeds regardless.

Crypto is getting regulated either way, But the two paths are very different.

If Congress passes the Act:

Oversight is split between the CFTC and SEC by law. Only Congress can change it. The rules survive whoever wins the next election.

If Congress does not:

The CFTC writes the rules on its own.

Selig and SEC Chair Atkins have already built most of the framework, including a joint memorandum and a token taxonomy classifying 16 assets as commodities.

But those were written by agency heads, not passed by Congress. The next CFTC or SEC chair can reverse all of it without a single vote.

Selig can move fast right now because he is the only sitting member of the CFTC's five-seat commission. He can act alone.

The Senate has one day left before recess and the bill is still not scheduled.

[Berylx @beryIxo]

@FabrizioRomano Just drop the “Here we go” already Romano