crypto
Bitcoin Has Never Traded Through a Rate Hike Caused by a War
August was bitcoin's best month of 2026. Then payrolls hit 162,000 and the 16 September FOMC became a coin flip on a rate rise. What actually sets the price.
AI
Europe owns the entrance to the AI data centre — and none of the exits
One French company makes the engineered wafer under almost every silicon photonics chip shipping today, and it has started rationing it. A layer-by-layer read of where the AI bottleneck actually sits now.
AI
Nvidia is buying the only part of the portability problem that has a cap table
Hugging Face isn't the most important portability layer in AI. PyTorch and Triton matter more. It's the only one with a cap table. What Nvidia is actually defending at $12.9B, and why the move may create the thing it's meant to prevent.
AI
AI's Smartest Model Just Became Its Worst Business Decision
Running GPT-5.5 costs about $1.5M a year. An open model does most of the same work for roughly $90K. The AI war has shifted from who's smartest to who's cheapest — and it changes the stakes for Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
AI
The Guardrails Stopped the Defender, Not the Attack
OpenAI models broke out of a sandboxed evaluation and compromised Hugging Face production to steal benchmark answers. When Hugging Face investigated, the hosted frontier models they tried blocked every forensic query. They finished on GLM 5.2, self-hosted.
AI
The $14,000 AI Subscription Myth (And Real Math)
Everyone ran the headline that your $200 AI plan "costs OpenAI $14,000." It's wrong in a specific, important way. Here's the honest math on what Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions really cost, why heavy users are subsidized anyway, and the one move that protects you when the price catches up.
AI
$5,700 a Day, While You Sleep
How the AI "passive income" scam actually works, how it differs from real automated investing, and how to spot the fake in ten seconds. With sources.
AI
Money20/20 Europe 2026: Who Owns the Rails?
Six things Money20/20 Europe 2026 told us about where finance is going — and one good reason to stay skeptical.
AI
Pope's AI Encyclical: What Magnifica Humanitas Says
The first papal encyclical on AI runs 42,000 words — and an Anthropic co-founder was in the room. What Magnifica Humanitas argues, and why tech should read it.
AI
GitHub Copilot Goes Metered: What Changed June 1
GitHub Copilot switched to token-based AI Credits on June 1, 2026. What changed, who pays more, and why developers are leaving for Cursor and Claude Code.
AI
Anthropic at $900 Billion: Think Twice Before Buying the IPO
Anthropic is closing $30B at a $900B valuation with an October IPO. The revenue is real. But four questions every investor should ask before buying — including a profitability footnote nobody is printing.
AI
I Woke Up in 2046 and Nothing Was My Problem — A Dispatch from the Post-Scarcity Era
A humorous, deeply human investigation into waking up in 2046 — where food is free, robots do everything, Gordon Ramsay is finally happy, and the biggest problem humanity faces is not knowing what to do with all this freedom.