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Gradients buys back and destroys 268 TAO worth of its own token

Gradients runs tournaments where people compete to train AI models, and entrants pay fees. Over the weekend the team used those fees to buy 268 TAO worth of Gradients' own subnet token, known as its alpha, and then burned it, meaning it was destroyed for good and taken out of supply. At this week's TAO price that comes to roughly seventy thousand dollars. The team says it does this regularly, and it is one of the few cases where money coming in from real users can be traced straight to a buyback.

Valeo trains a self-driving world model on NATIX driving data

Valeo, one of the world's largest car parts suppliers, trained an AI model called VATIX from scratch using driving footage from NATIX, the team behind StreetVision on subnet 72. VATIX is a world model: an AI that learns how a road scene is likely to unfold, which is used to train and test self-driving systems. Valeo trained more than 200 versions to work out how data, model size and computing power each affect the result. It then used those rules to predict how a much larger model would perform before building it, and the prediction came within 3.6 percent of the real result. The posts do not say how much of the data came through the subnet itself rather than NATIX's wider camera network.

Leadpoet opens a contest to build the best AI sales agent

Leadpoet, which uses AI to find sales leads for businesses, has launched its Lab Arena. Developers compete to improve how an AI agent picks out the right companies, spots signs that they are ready to buy, and backs each recommendation with evidence. Each winning agent becomes the new standard, its builder is paid, and its code is made public so the next competitor starts from a higher floor. The team also says LinkedIn and email connections are now built into the product, so users will be able to contact leads without leaving it, and that it is signing up new customers across several industries.

Hippius undercuts Google Drive and Dropbox on cloud storage prices

Hippius, a storage network where files are spread across many independent machines instead of one company's data centre, has launched new plans for its Hippius Drive app. Two terabytes costs seven dollars a month, against about ten dollars for Google Drive and ten to twelve for Dropbox, which is roughly 30 to 42 percent cheaper. Files are encrypted on your own device before they leave it, so the machines storing them cannot read them. A free plan gives ten gigabytes to try it. This is a product ordinary people can sign up for today, with a price anyone can compare.

NIOME opens a small test for swapping GENOME tokens into its subnet

GENOME is a token that trades on Base, a separate blockchain, and the project is moving its holders over to NIOME, the token of subnet 55. Instead of moving everyone at once, it has opened a small trial of the swap to prove the process works first. The trial is capped at 5 percent of GENOME's value at the snapshot, about 27,000 dollars in total. It is first come, first served, with a limit of 100,000 GENOME per wallet, and holders connect both their Base wallet and their Bittensor wallet to take part.

New tokens on Base and Robinhood's chain can now launch paired with TAO

Over three days the team at Forever Money connected TAO to several token launch tools. On Bankr, a tool that lets people create a token just by posting on X, new tokens on Base, Coinbase's blockchain, and on Robinhood's blockchain can now launch paired with TAO. That means they trade directly against TAO, so buying one means going through TAO first. A second launch site, BaseStonk, added the same option, and Forever Money's own website now lists every TAO-paired token. The team says each launch brings new TAO holders. That depends on whether these tokens draw real, lasting trading, and many of them will be meme tokens.

RedTeam says it is running five new trials with businesses

RedTeam turns miners into a round-the-clock network of ethical hackers, people paid to find weaknesses before criminals do, with a focus on defending against automated bot attacks. On the Bittensor foundation's weekly Novelty Search show, the team was billed as presenting five new trials with businesses and an upcoming product called Immune System. The businesses were not named, so it is hard to judge how big these trials are or whether any will turn into paying contracts.

Bitsec's tools find a serious security hole in an open source project

Bitsec, which built AI tools to check crypto smart contracts for security flaws, says the same tools found a critical flaw in an ordinary open source software project. The flaw would have let an attacker with basic access run any command on the machine, which amounts to a full takeover. It was reported and has been fixed. The project was not named. The point for Bitsec is that its tools can now look beyond crypto code to software in general.

Tatsu lets users describe a device model in a sentence instead of code

Tatsu builds AI models small enough to run on everyday devices. It has launched a Model Assistant, a chat tool where you describe in plain English what you want a device to do, and it either picks a ready-made model from Tatsu's catalogue or designs a new one that can then be trained. The aim is to let people without programming skills build these models. Picking from the catalogue is live now.