Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra claims frontier parity the same week the U.S. forced Anthropic offline. Bitcoin miners pivot to AI as hashrate drops. Howell says Warsh will let markets tighten.
Valar Atomics' Ward 250 achieves criticality in 9 months from empty site. Plus private credit seizing, Saylor's STRC problem, and yen carry trade risk.
Midjourney, bootstrapped to $200M with zero investors, unveiled a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner: no radiation, no MRI, 60x faster. Plus Warsh dot plot results, Iran peace deal, and on-chain capitulation deepening.
A 219-page independent inquiry funded by 20,000 public donations estimates 250,000 victims across 40% of the UK. Grooming gangs since the 1950s. Institutional cover-up by police, social services, and politicians. PM Starmer silent.
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1%, the highest since 1995. Every previous hike crashed Bitcoin 18-28%. Today BTC holds $66K. BlackRock launches BITA income ETF. Warsh chairs first FOMC.
The UK just banned under-16s from Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. Bluesky is reportedly exempt. The surveillance infrastructure this requires is the real story.
A Sudanese man attempted a beheading in Belfast. The city erupted. The UK government's response: threaten the angry, blame the platform, and fast-track device surveillance. Signal and Mullvad are fighting back.
Anthropic's CEO calls for mandatory government testing of AI models and power to block deployments. Released the same day his company closed a $35 billion credit deal. Meanwhile, Cashu gets Proof of Reserves via Bark, and Botanix shuts down.
Anthropic's Fable 5 delivers superhuman coding performance while secretly sabotaging AI research tasks. Two stories that show why centralized intelligence control threatens innovation and why open-source alternatives matter.
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Every Bitcoin bear market cycle low tells the same story: the floor keeps rising. In 2015: $152. In 2019: $3,200. In 2022: $15,500. Today: panic at $60,000. Each cycle's devastating crash ends higher than the previous cycle's euphoric top.
Zcash discovered an undetectable infinite inflation bug in their Orchard privacy pool. Three people froze billions in user funds via quiet soft fork coordination with mining pools. The incident validates Bitcoin's conservative approach to cryptographic upgrades.
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SemiAnalysis coined 'Dark Output': real AI economic value that GDP cannot see. $1.5T in exposed labor. Junior workers vanishing from data while wages rise. The incoming Fed Chair admits the instruments are broken.