Today on The Signal we're covering a new Telegram app that rewards whistleblowers, a company planning to mine Bitcoin from space, why crypto's wild early days are behind us, and how the AI boom is driving up costs for phones, cars, and everyday electronics.
AGI definitions keep shifting as researchers debate timelines and capabilities. Meanwhile stablecoin transfers reach $1.8 trillion with USDC leading February gains. We look at coding agents attempting open source relicensing, Donald Knuth weighing in on Claude Opus, and
Bitcoin pushes toward $60K as fresh US job losses signal economic trouble. Strike wins BitLicense for New York expansion while Kazakhstan's central bank commits $350 million to crypto assets. Mainstream adoption accelerates as traditional markets wobble.
Travis Wright breaks down how tokenized assets hit $25 billion while Latin America's crypto adoption explodes past US growth. Plus Wall Street predicts an AI market rotation and OpenAI faces backlash over potential government surveillance access.
Wall Street analysts predict a major rotation in AI investments while bitcoin searches for its place in the emerging market cycle. OpenAI faces internal turmoil as its robotics chief exits over controversial Pentagon partnerships raising surveillance concerns. Meanwhile escalating Iran tensions thre
