The AI sector continued its slide this week, shrinking by 3% as just north of $1 billion was shed from its market capitalization.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a wild week. Trump\u2019s controversial World Liberty Financial just launched, and many are expecting it to drain liquidity from altcoins<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) is struggling to hold the $110,000 threshold, and the CMC Crypto Fear and Greed Index has returned to the fear zone.<\/p>\n September is historically one of the worst months for crypto, but odds are the Fed is likely to slash rates this month\u2014which could set the stage for a bullish Q4.<\/p>\n With that in mind, here\u2019s how the AI sector has evolved since our last update<\/a>.The AI sector continued its slide this week, shrinking by 3% as just north of $1 billion was shed from its market capitalization (mcap<\/a>).Source: Top AI Tokens Page<\/a><\/p>\n The AI sector has now retraced its entire mid-August pump and then some. Overall, it\u2019s down 0.8% over the last 30 days.<\/p>\n As you might expect, most prominent AI tokens are performing poorly, with eight of the top 10 largest by mcap in the red this week.<\/p>\n Just Story (IP)<\/a> and Filecoin (FIL)<\/a> were able to buck the downtrend, with a 31.3% and 2.1% gain, respectively.<\/p>\n A handful of smaller AI tokens were completely unfazed by the dump and put on an impressive display. Some of the best performers and their catalysts (if known) include:<\/p>\n Next up\u2026 The losers. More than a few AI tokens suffered devastating losses this week, with the worst performers each losing upwards of 20% week-on-week.<\/p>\n These include:<\/p>\n Source: Artemis<\/p>\n Overall, the sector performed worse than most since our last update<\/a>. Per data from Artemis, it was the sixth-worst-performing sector out of the 24 tracked by the platform when measured by change in the simple average fully diluted market capitalization<\/a>.For comparison, the Oracle sector<\/a> was the best-performing sector this week.<\/p>\n Another week, another wave of major updates in the crypto AI space. AI agents were a key talking point this week.<\/p>\n Below, we\u2019ve summarized the most significant to bring you up to speed on the latest news:<\/p>\n CreatorBid Taps The Graph for Instant Agent Data: <\/strong>The Graph published a case study showing how CreatorBid integrated Subgraphs to give AI agents immediate access to on-chain data while cutting infra overhead, streamlining agent workflows for Web3 apps.<\/p>\n Bio Protocol Unveils \u2018Aubrai\u2019 Scientific AI Agent: <\/strong>Bio Protocol introduced Aubrai, a decentralized AI agent aimed at accelerating longevity science via open, incentive-aligned coordination. This positions BIO at the intersection of on-chain research and agentic tooling.<\/p>\n