How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity? — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Waldo Jaquith /...
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
So here: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the conseque...
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
Crypto exchange BigONE confirms a $27M hot wallet hack, says it will “cover all losses”, and is working with security firm SlowMist to trace the stolen assets
Seychelles-based outfit says security attack occurred, will fully cover all losses Isabella Flores / CryptoNinjas : 27M Vanishes in BigONE Hack but That's Not the Most Shocking Part of the Attack Deni...
A look at the US Secret Service's GIOC, which sources say has seized nearly $400M in digital assets over the past decade via crypto scam investigations globally
The scam began with a message, then a friendly exchange. A stranger directed the victim to a cryptocurrency investment site …
Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely
so much money sloshing around, if someone just snuck me a million I'd pay off all the loans of my family and just check out from work forever — and here multiple millions getting burned on fucking n...
Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with “spammy behavior” from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work
How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain ‘spammy behavior’ from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini. Bluesky: @glinden , @darthbluesky , and @...