In research based on its 2025 survey on Access to Finance Enterprises, the European Central Bank reported that about two‑thirds of European firms use AI, but only around 25% invest in it. Larger companies show usage rates of about 90%, yet many rely on free or open‑source tools instead of paid enterprise solutions, and AI adoption is more often linked to hiring and productivity gains than job cuts.

A study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute tested 36 frontier AI models from six major developers across 9,072 monetary scenarios and found bitcoin was chosen in 48.3% of responses overall, including 79.1% of long-term store-of-value cases. Stablecoins led payment-related questions with 53.2% of responses compared with 36% for bitcoin, while 90.8% of all answers favored digital instruments over fiat and none of the models ranked fiat as their top overall preference.

Social platform X will bar creators from its revenue-sharing program for 90 days if they post AI-generated war footage without clearly labeling it as artificial. The rule, announced by X's head of product Nikita Bier, ties monetization eligibility to transparent AI disclosure and specifically targets videos depicting armed conflicts amid heightened tensions in the Middle East.

RippleX Head of Engineering J. Ayo Akinyele has detailed how the team plans to reinforce XRP Ledger security after the recent Batch amendment bug exposed a critical destabilization risk. He explained that RippleX is rolling out an AI-assisted development cycle with automated code review, invariant detection and agent-based fuzzing to spot edge cases and attack scenarios before deployment. The upgraded process aims to minimize blind spots and ensure high-risk amendments undergo multiple audits while preserving the ledger's core security and reliability properties.

On March 4, 2026, EtherMail announced Moltmail, a new infrastructure that lets AI agents independently generate email addresses tied to crypto wallets. The service is designed to bypass traditional email barriers that block non-human users, giving agents programmatic access to both internet and Web3 tools. With this launch, agents will also be able to earn and spend EMT tokens, potentially increasing the token's on-chain activity.

According to Alibaba AI, crypto markets have largely priced in earlier war-related fears and could see strong upside into 2026, with fresh highs projected for XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The model points to XRP potentially reaching $12 from around $1.38, Bitcoin climbing toward $150,000, and Ethereum breaking above $5,000 and possibly hitting $6,000 by year's end. It also flags early-stage meme coin Maxi Doge, built on Ethereum, as a high-risk play seeking outsized returns through its ongoing presale and staking incentives.

On March 3, 2026, OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.3 Instant model, making it the new default for ChatGPT with a focus on reliability. Internal tests show hallucination rates decreasing by 26.8% when web search is enabled and by 19.7% without web access in sensitive fields such as medicine, law and finance. The update also aims to be less restrictive in tone and will see the older GPT-5.2 Instant model retired on June 3, 2026.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, Bybit reported that its AI-assisted risk monitoring system disrupted or stopped more than $300 million in suspected scam-related withdrawals. The platform said around $500 million in withdrawals were flagged overall, protecting over 4,000 users, many of whom canceled transfers after receiving real-time alerts.