bitcoin-etfs
When You Dam a River, the Water Just Finds the Next Channel
Zhipu climbed 33% in a single session. The trigger, depending on which desk you ask, was a major US lab tightening access abroad — fewer doors open overseas, so the money rotated to whoever still had a door open. That’s worth sitting with for a second, because the move is being read as enthusiasm and…
The Honest Guess
This week a team at Google taught their models a small kind of manners. The feature has a tidy name — faithful uncertainty — and the idea behind it is almost too simple to sound like progress. When the model doesn’t know, it stops pretending. It hands you its best guess and tells you, plainly,…
The Day the Tools Got a Wallet
For a long time the deal with software was simple. It told you things. You did them. The spreadsheet ran the numbers; you decided what to buy. The map showed the route; you turned the wheel. The line between knowing and doing stayed clean, and the machine stayed on the knowing side of it. This…
When Making Things Gets Cheap, the Money Runs to What Can’t Be Faked
Seventy-five billion dollars. That is what SpaceX raised this week, the largest public offering anyone has ever recorded. Not a valuation, not a paper number — actual capital, handed over, in exchange for a slice of a company that builds and lands rockets. It is a strange amount to absorb in a single sitting. It…
The Fight Moved to the Doorway
A space-and-AI conglomerate priced its public debut at $135 a share today, and the number is almost the least interesting thing about it. The headlines will fixate on the valuation, the rockets, the founder. But strip all that away and what’s actually being sold to the public is a position — ownership of a surface…
The Customer Stops Being Human
This week a crypto exchange did something quietly strange. Coinbase shipped a tool that lets AI agents — software, not people — trade crypto and move money on a user’s behalf. You set the rules, hand over a wallet, and step back. The program does the buying. Read the press release and it sounds like…