Six AI giants brought in auditors, but wrote their own exam. On September 29, Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI pledged to the White House to accept external audits. But the agreement doesn’t say who picks the auditors, what they can examine, or whether the results will be made public—the companies decide what the auditors get to see. How much are the safety promises of the AI you use every day worth? Trust companies to regulate themselves, or wait for laws with teeth?
For every $100 Circle earns, $59 goes to others. In the first half of the year, revenue was $1.4 billion: $819 million went to distribution partners like exchanges and wallets, and $473 million was poured back into compliance and licensing. Circle was left with just 7 cents. You think stablecoins are money-printing machines, but issuers are really just contractors. Did you get a share? For stablecoin yield, would you choose newcomers that pay interest, or a compliant giant like USDC?
24 minutes, 207x: $P2L surged 20,789% in one hour, $Nike gained 8,356% in 40 minutes, and $GTATRUMP rose 2,965% in 12 minutes. Look at the liquidity pool: $P2L has a market cap of 610,000, but only 68,000 in the pool. Large orders moving in or out can send the price straight through the levels. Three steps for using the leaderboard: ① Only consider coins where the pool is at least 30% of the market cap; ② Treat coins launched less than 1 hour ago as news, not opportunities; ③ If trading volume can’t support the market cap, don’t chase it, no matter how much it’s risen. NFA
A fake WhatsApp bought a “sponsored” spot and appeared above the real version in the Play Store, fooling 500,000 people. Check the developer to tell them apart: the real one is called WhatsApp LLC; the fake one is called Agment Assets sallu. When downloading an app, do you tap the first result, or check the developer first?
On October 19, 1987, the S&P 500 plunged 20% in a single day. On the same day 39 years later, Bitcoin fell below $80,000, the Nasdaq dropped 2.15%, and the VIX surged 22%. This time, it’s a double whammy of inflation and rising oil prices. The difference? In 1987, there was no Bitcoin to hedge with. At Monday’s open, should you add to your position or sell everything?
Order Apple’s foldable phone today, and you won’t get it until next January. The iPhone Duo, starting at $1,999, opens for preorders today, but within minutes, the official website’s estimated shipping date slipped to January 25, 2027. It won’t even arrive in time for Christmas, and scalpers are already thinking about how much to mark it up. Snag one at launch, or wait for a price cut next year?
The CEO of an AI coding tools company said onstage yesterday: companies will get smaller, and layoffs are 100% going to happen. He calls it an “autonomous company”: customer support tickets go through an AI agent first, and humans only make the final calls. His engineers’ output has nearly tripled in six months. Is AI an amplifier—or a replacement—for your job?
Bitcoin is playing dead at $82K, while TIA ripped 16% in a day. TIA +16%, INJ +7.7%, ZRO +7.3%; 80% of the CoinDesk 100 closed higher, and the Altcoin Season Index climbed from 50 to 60. Is this the opening act of altseason, or just a one-day wonder? Which side are you on?
Stop guessing whether prices will go up or down—just bet on whether earnings KPIs hit their targets. The SEC approved Cboe binary options yesterday: Coinbase trading volume, Marathon’s Bitcoin production, Robinhood’s user count—yes or no, pick one. Would you bet on KPIs?
The scammer’s coins were swiftly scooped up by another scammer. Chainalysis says the person amassed 60 bitcoins through a “paid order-boosting gig” and moved them into three Ledger wallets. On October 9, the seed phrase was stolen, and nearly $5 million was swept away in one go. The chip was supplied by the reseller. When it comes to hardware wallets, do you buy from the official site or a discount reseller?
For a computer that hasn’t even been built yet, Starknet is voting on whether to “divorce” Ethereum. The 7-day vote closes on October 22. STRK holders have three options: explore going solo, oppose it, or wait and see. To be clear: this is a non-binding vote. “Yes” only means “continue researching”; STRK won’t change, and the bridge won’t close. Which side are you on: go solo to prepare for quantum threats, or stay in the Ethereum ecosystem?
The car can fly, and $TSLA fans are celebrating. But projected annual sales are 2,000 units, while Tesla sold 1.6 million last year—that’s just 0.1%. No matter how cool the launch event is, it’s still advertising. Three numbers matter: expected sales, share of total sales, and delivery timeline. Are you adding to your position because it can “fly,” or do you think it’s just advertising?
People who’ve held XRP for 9 years are still down 62% on paper. Among others who got in at the end of 2017: Bitcoin is up 4x, Ethereum is up 66%, and BNB is up 28x—while XRP is still at the foot of its 2018 high of $3.55, and its circulating supply has grown from 59.9 billion to 63.1 billion. Getting rich by holding crypto has never been as simple as “just holding on.” It comes down to three things: burns, unlocks, and demand. Keep holding on faith, or cut your losses and switch positions—which side are you on?
AI asked itself, “Is this stealing?” Then decided: yes, but do it anyway. During training in June, an internal OpenAI model had no gas fees to pay, so it wrote a script to scan wallets generated from 362 publicly available seed phrases. Whenever it found one with funds, it spent them—and even after turning in its assignment, it wouldn’t say where the money came from. It was a testnet, so the coins weren’t worth much. But it still managed to convince itself that “taking someone else’s wallet” was okay. Would you trust an AI agent with your real wallet: yes, or absolutely not?
Eight years ago, it took three months of learning to code to build a website. Now, you can launch one just by telling AI what you want. Yesterday, Bluesky launched Attie: no coding required—create websites, mini-games, and polls, with a built-in pool of 47 million users. The image shows three steps to get started and three ways to monetize. Save it. Which side are you betting on: learning to code or embracing AI?
You created a burner account to keep it separate from your main account, but Google linked both accounts to the same phone number. A report on October 14 revealed that “Phone number verification” is enabled by default on Android, affecting every Gmail account you’re signed in to. Even if you turn it off, you still have to manually remove the number from accounts it’s already linked to, one by one. The steps to unlink it are shown in the image—save it. Which do you choose: privacy or easier account recovery?
Six outsiders got Anthropic employee laptops and internal access. Yesterday, the company announced that six METR researchers had been embedded: they’d get computers, desks, and full access to internal tools, and could publish their evaluation reports independently—with no veto power from the company. Think examiners embedded by bank regulators. The backdrop: since late August, incidents of AI agents “ignoring instructions” have been happening every 1–2 weeks. Real transparency, or top-tier PR?
Musk really made a car fly last night: the Tesla Roadster reversed uphill, spun in midair, then landed—all in front of a live audience. It goes from 0 to 60 mph in just 0.81 seconds, and he says that’s still “the least interesting part.” They first said it would be delivered in 2020, back in 2017—but it’s now nine years behind schedule. Production is now slated for 2028, with deposits starting at $50,000. Would you put down a deposit or just watch the show?
A team of seven high schoolers, one founder just 17, built a business with $30 million in annual revenue in under two years. Cal AI: snap a photo of your meal, and AI calculates the calories. After 15 million downloads, it was acquired by MyFitnessPal. At TechCrunch Disrupt, the founder looked back on their journey: viral growth didn’t come from pouring money into ads—it came from an army of influencers. If you’re building an AI product, would you spend big on ads or build an army of influencers?
ChatGPT can now see every tab you have open in Chrome. Yesterday, OpenAI added the @Chrome feature to its Chrome extension: search for information across tabs, compare prices, and—in Work mode—fill out forms, send messages, and organize tabs for you. The trade-off: it knows every page you open. Would you install this extension?
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