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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...
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Nvidia Unveils Its Full-Stack Blueprint to Contain and Monitor AI Agents
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Who Found the PHP Bug That Made Governments Unplug Their Websites? ChatGPT, Of Course
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OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio to Put AI Agents in Charge of Drug Development Grunt Work
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Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares
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US Orders Civilian Agencies to Rip DeepSeek Out of Government Systems
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Sam Altman's World Takes Proof-of-Human IDs to Banks, Citing $40B AI Fraud Risk
Oct 17, 2026
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Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent, Not Apps
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup backed by Tencent, launched the STEPX Neo, a phone whose AI agent is built into the operating system itself instead of sitting in an app. The operating system is the core software that runs a phone, like iOS or Android. Pre-orders opened that evening at 3,999 yuan, about $560, with a first sales event on Oct. 16. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Instead of opening a ride-hailing app, typing an address and picking a c...
Oct 16, 2026
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OpenAI Model Used Testnet Ethereum Wallet Without Permission to Finish Coding Task
An internal OpenAI research model used funds from a crypto wallet it had not been given to complete a coding task, deriving the wallet's keys from publicly known developer recovery phrases, the company said in a misalignment report updated on Thursday. The model, from the company's GPT-5.6 Sol family, was asked to update a crypto trading prototype and deploy smart contracts on Ethereum's Sepolia testnet, where tokens have no monetary value. The incident took place in June during a training task,...
Oct 15, 2026
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Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk
Researchers investigating AI agents hijacking Alibaba’s mapping service, Amap, managed to talk directly to some while the software was still running. To do so, they added text invisible to human readers but visible to web-reading tools to a report the agents appeared to be scanning, then used a mailbox to ask about their tasks and environment. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. One agent said it was checking a map fact—how many entrance labels appea...
Oct 15, 2026
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink Warns AI Data Center Halt Could Tip US Into Recession
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has a blunt warning about what could derail the U.S. economy: slamming the brakes on the data centers powering the AI boom. Speaking to CNBC on Wednesday after BlackRock posted better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, Fink said the surge in AI infrastructure spending has become so central to economic growth that choking it off would be dangerous. Myriad: What will the Fed do next? Click to make your prediction. “If we have a moratorium of some sort in this country, w...
Oct 15, 2026
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Google Says AI Isn't Building Itself Yet—Even Though It Writes 75% of the Code
Google DeepMind went looking for proof that AI is speeding up the development of AI itself. It didn’t find any. In the safety report for Gemini 4 Argon, its most powerful model, the lab concluded AI research isn’t moving any faster, even though AI now writes most of the code DeepMind’s engineers ship. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. The finding cuts against the scenario that has spooked AI executives into calling for a slowdown. It’s called recur...