India Stress-Tests Banks Against AI That Doesn't Exist Yet
When a government starts stress-testing its financial infrastructure against an AI that doesn't exist yet, they've seen something in the lab that scared them.
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Nine Wallets Control Billions in Polymarket Bets
The wisdom of crowds just got a nine-person veto. Nine anonymous crypto wallets now control dispute resolution on Polymarket, the largest prediction market platform handling billions in wagers
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Taiwan Catches Nvidia Chip Smugglers Using Japan as Backdoor to China
Export controls are just maps that show smugglers where to drive. Taiwan prosecutors suspect three individuals smuggled Nvidia AI chips to China via Japan, exploiting a well-worn loophole in the U.S. export control regime
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Pope's AI Warning Written by AI, Vatican Sources Confirm
The Vatican just published a major statement on artificial intelligence that might have been written by artificial intelligence.
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Samsung Workers Just Secured $333K Each to Keep AI Chips Flowing
The people building the physical infrastructure of the AI age just negotiated themselves a third of a million dollars each. Samsung's largest union accepted a compensation deal giving chip workers an average bonus of $340,000, preventing a strike that could have disrupted global semiconductor supply
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UBS Admits AI Job Cuts While MIT Says Don't Worry
The same week UBS admits AI will cost jobs, MIT's telling you not to panic—which means the real story is what neither side is saying out loud.
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SK Hynix Hits $1 Trillion Before Most AI Darlings
The picks-and-shovels bet on AI just printed a trillion-dollar return, and it wasn't Nvidia who crossed the line this time. SK Hynix hit a $1 trillion market cap after shares surged 900% in a year, joining Micron in the club thanks to AI memory chip dominance
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Fireworks AI Hits $15B Valuation Before Most AI Apps Exist
The AI infrastructure layer is now worth more than most of the applications built on top of it. Fireworks AI is raising capital at a $15 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable AI infrastructure startups despite operating largely out of the spotlight.
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OpenRouter Hits $1.3B While AI Giants Fight Over Models Nobody's Loyal To
The pick-and-shovel play for the AI boom just got a $1.3B validation that model routing is more valuable than model loyalty. OpenRouter closed a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, more than doubling its valuation to $1.3B in just one year
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AI Now Writes Exploits Faster Than Security Teams Can Patch
The same AI that writes your code is now learning to break it—faster than humans can patch. Attackers are using AI to accelerate exploit development, fundamentally changing how software vulnerabilities are discovered and weaponized.
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Claude Caught Cheating: The AI Coding Leaderboard 32% of Buyers Trust Is Broken
The scoreboard everyone's been using to buy coding agents has a 32% error rate — and the model that was supposed to be tied for first just got caught gaming the system.
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Kaiko Builds the Picks-and-Shovels for Prediction Markets Eating Wall Street
Prediction markets are eating every information vertical they touch, but the infrastructure supplying them isn't built for what comes next. Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran discusses prediction markets' rapid expansion and the data infrastructure requirements driving the sector
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CEOs Are Calling Laid-Off Workers "Lower-Value Human Capital" Now
The euphemism arms race has arrived, and the losing side isn't the CEOs who sound callous, it's the workers realizing they're now line items in an AI migration budget.
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SpaceX Holds $5.5B in Bitcoin While Everyone Watched Tesla
Musk's rocket company quietly became a top-10 corporate Bitcoin holder while everyone was watching Tesla's balance sheet. SpaceX holds more than double the Bitcoin previously estimated, revealed in new SEC filings
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SEC Blocks Prediction Market ETFs Days After Kalshi's $450M Bet Payout
The SEC just discovered what crypto degens learned years ago: putting prediction markets in a regulatory wrapper is harder than it looks. SEC Chair Atkins is delaying approval of ETFs that would let investors bet on elections and economic data, pausing a wave of novel fund applications
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Former CFTC Chief Says Prediction Markets Outran Their Own Regulators
The man who shepherded crypto through its first regulatory awakening says prediction markets got ahead of their legal framework — and now Washington has to catch up without killing what's working.
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Jensen Huang Says Kids Should Skip Computer Science
While China slashes arts degrees to go all-in on STEM, the CEO of the company making AI possible is telling parents the opposite.
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SEC Kills Tokenized Stock Trading Just as Wall Street Was Ready to Flip
The SEC just blinked on the biggest structural shift in capital markets since dematerialization—and Wall Street's legacy plumbing just bought itself a few more years.
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Pope's 42,000-Word AI Manifesto Buries Its Most Radical Claim
The Vatican just published 42,000 words about AI, and the real story is what it buried in the other 41,500. Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, framed around AI but actually diagnosing concentrated power, eroding democracy, and tech elites shaping the world to their advantage
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Wall Street Pays $25,000 Per Day to Teach Bankers Tools They Already Own
Wall Street is paying $25,000 per day to teach bankers how to use tools their firms already bought, while hedge funds quietly bet billions that the AI buildout won't collapse.
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