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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 41 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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The Best Money For Agents
Written by Mat Balez
Everything is moving at AI speed now.
As recently as a few months ago, the question “how will my agent pay for things?” didn’t have a great answer. Humans had to intervene frequently to help agents log in to services...
Meet Loupe: AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning for Open-Source Bitcoin
Written by Elias Rohrer, Jordan Mecom, and Thomas Kilbride
You’ve heard this a hundred times, making this the one-hundred-and-first time, but AI is changing the way we do almost everything. This includes one of its lesser-known, or less ac...
Metacognition is the AI Skill of the future. Always has been.
Written by Spiral Grantee Austin Krauss
Key Takeaways
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84% of respondents use AI every single day, and 64% spend more than $100/month.
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Brainstorming matched code writing as the #1 use case, suggesting that builders value AI as...
A Decade of Workarounds
Written by Spiral’s Bitcoin Wizard @theinstagibbs
Imagine you’re building a layer 2 protocol on bitcoin with a system that supports time-sensitive transactions. If those transactions don’t confirm within a certain number of blocks, someone...
Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious
Written by Matt Corallo
At this point, we can all agree that AI agents are more capable than humans at many basic tasks. We might not want to admit it, but like the fact that your phone knows more about you than your spouse, facts are fact...
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Spiral is an open-source, not-for-profit, pro-bitcoin organization within Block, Inc. We contribute to bitcoin by writing code, supplying grants to projects and individuals, educating, and entertaining.
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