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Ken Griffin Says AI Is 'Almost Certainly' in a Bubble—And Compares GPUs to Airline Seats
Ken Griffin, founder of the Wall Street giant Citadel, said Tuesday that investors are “almost certainly” in an AI bubble—though he isn’t telling them to dump their AI stocks. “What’s left in the wake of these bubbles, if we want to use that word, is often game changing for the world. And the companies that are on the other side of that bubble are the market leaders for decades to come,” Griffin said at Citadel’s Future of Global Markets Conference in New York on Oct. 20 Myriad: How low will Nvi...
Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Unveils Its Full-Stack Blueprint to Contain and Monitor AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence
Who Found the PHP Bug That Made Governments Unplug Their Websites? ChatGPT, Of Course
Oct 21, 2026
Technology
PHP Panic: Two Critical Bugs Put 70% of the Internet at Risk, and Everyone Is Freaking Out
If you’ve been online at all today, you’ve seen the panic: a critical vulnerability is threatening to “pwn” just about every website on the planet. Finland just started unplugging government websites on Wednesday, the NSA is recommending all organizations using PHP to shut down their sites, and the Netherlands and France did the same. And no, it wasn't a cyberwar. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The culprit was PHP, a programming language most people have neve...
Oct 21, 2026
Technology
Solana Alpenglow Goes Live in 'Most Ambitious' Upgrade Since Ethereum's Merge
Solana's largest consensus upgrade since the network launched in 2020 went live on Wednesday, cutting the time it takes for a transaction to become irreversible from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, core engineering team Anza said. Validators retired TowerBFT, the consensus protocol Solana had used since March 2020, at slot 459,653,000 at around 14:00 UTC. They switched systems on the running network while carrying its existing ledger forward, with independent operators coordinati...
Oct 21, 2026
Gaming
GTA 6 Trailer Features 'Dacity' Meme Coin—Here's What Traders Think It'll Do
The recent Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer briefly mentioned a "Dacity Coin," and crypto traders are speculating on how involved the apparent meme coin will be in-game. Some believe it'll feature in a few side missions, while others believe it'll be a fully tradeable in-game asset. In response, crypto degens have created an unofficial Solana meme coin of the same name and pumped it to a peak market capitalization of $15 million. Traders say they are essentially gambling on the prominence of Da...
Oct 21, 2026
Opinion
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Tops JPMorgan’s Ten-Year Forecast for All Assets
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our daily news show 'FOMO HOUR' covering all of the top stories and market action. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green up led by ZEC +13%; BTC at $83.5k Staked ETH hits ATH at 35.9% after 6 straight quarters of growth Seven more major companies object to tokenized stock trading Collector Crypt smashes records in p...
Oct 21, 2026
Business
OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules Ahead of January Deadline
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued its final rule implementing the GENIUS Act on Wednesday, setting out the requirements that stablecoin issuers under its oversight will have to meet when the law takes effect on January 18, 2027, the banking regulator announced. The rule applies to payment stablecoin issuers that fall under the OCC's jurisdiction, including subsidiaries of national banks and federal savings associations, nonbank issuers approved at the federal level and some st...