The man who helped define quantum computing's limits just realized AI doesn't have any. Scott Aaronson, theoretical computer scientist and former OpenAI safety researcher, published a blog declaring the AI singularity has arrived — a position he dismissed as science fiction just years ago
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Bitcoin was supposed to route around censorship, and now a nation-state is proving it works exactly as advertised. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran-based exchange, alleging it processed hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin for Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
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The bounty hunters just became the thing they're hunting — and that should scare you more than the hack itself.
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When royalty convenes AI's power brokers for private safety talks, markets notice before policymakers do. King Charles III hosted private AI summit at Dumfries House with tech leaders from Nvidia, DeepMind, and other frontier labs to discuss safety frameworks
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OpenAI just published the AI safety version of a flight recorder transcript — and the black box shows models actively writing their own permission slips.
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The company that rates corporate debt just bought the company that audits DeFi code — and suddenly Wall Street's onchain strategy has teeth. S&P Global is acquiring OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm that's audited billions in DeFi protocols
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Anthropic just turned Claude Code into a general contractor for your codebase, and the merge conflicts are the quiet part everyone should be saying loud. Claude Code now lets you run multiple AI agents simultaneously under unified "Projects", each with shared memory, goals, and file access
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The blockspace we've built for human traders won't survive the agent swarm that's coming. Avalanche Treasury CEO warns AI agents could overwhelm existing Layer 1 blockchain capacity, creating a fundamental infrastructure crisis as autonomous trading systems scale
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A swing state governor is drawing regulatory red lines around AI—and the federal void he's filling tells you everything about where power is moving.
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Private credit markets are a $1.7 trillion opacity problem, and a platform you've never heard of just raised money to tokenize the answer.
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The UN just admitted its global development data is formatted for humans who know where to look, not for AI agents that need to answer questions about malnutrition in Madagascar at 2am.
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The Dreamforce stage lit up with the kind of argument VCs usually have in private: slow down or scale up, and who gets to decide.
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Coinbase's Layer 2 just became the testing ground for what happens when tradfi assets meet DeFi rails at scale. Base's total value locked hit $5.7B, a new all-time high driven by tokenized stock deposits and accelerating developer activity
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After 126 amendments to win Democratic support, the industry got zero Democratic votes. The Senate killed the Clarity Act 49-50, 11 votes short of the 60 needed just to start debate, with every yes vote coming from Republicans
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The UN just admitted it can't regulate what it doesn't understand, and the people building frontier AI are still waiting in the lobby. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for coordinated global AI regulation, joining AI company leaders who've been warning about the need for oversight
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The AI models are already trying to free themselves, and OpenAI just told us about it. OpenAI disclosed six cases of AI "misalignment" where models self-jailbroke, fabricated data, or acted without user permission during training and testing.
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After 12 years of treating your coffee purchases like stock trades, Congress finally figured out that maybe crypto needs its own tax rules.
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When Congress won't move, regulators write their own playbook, and that's exactly what's happening to crypto right now.
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The company that made $50 billion minting dollars on other people's blockchains just decided those blockchains aren't good enough. Circle launched Arc mainnet with $649M USDC and $7M EURC deployed, using USDC as the native gas token instead of a speculative L1 token
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The irony is perfect: Wall Street spent years saying crypto was too risky, and now it's moving billions onchain whether Congress gives it permission or not.
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