A Fictional Memo Just Moved Real Markets. Here’s Why It Matters

A memo envisioning an AI-driven economic collapse logged 9.5 million views on X in 48 hours. Michael Burry amplified it. The Dow fell over 800 points. Are you listening?
Opinion

How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents. This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...
CoinDesk

Elliptic flags Russia-linked crypto platforms’ ongoing sanctions evasion

Elliptic says Russia-linked crypto exchanges are processing transactions tied to sanctioned entities, underscoring stablecoin ...
CoinDesk

To freeze or not to freeze: Satoshi and the $440 billion in bitcoin threatened by quantum computing

In the event that quantum computers one day become capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography, roughly 1 million BTC attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin network, could become ...