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Artificial intelligence—in both its agentic and robotic forms—was all over last week’s TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore. Humanoid robots, emblazoned with the logos of digital asset platforms, rubbed shoulders with 25,000 attendees.  And soon, the most active traders on cryptocurrency exchanges may not be humans at all. “By 2028, the norm will be to trade with […]

Earlier this year, Block CEO Jack Dorsey laid off 40% of his entire staff, part of a structural overhaul within the company as it ballooned its adoption of AI to automate workflows.  As more companies pour investments into the burgeoning technology, expected to exceed $730 billion this year, they are having to make sweeping changes […]

Bond market turmoil and the simultaneous mass student protests at French schools are not a coincidence and point to the generational tradeoffs made in government spending, according to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. In a Substack post on Thursday, the economics professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center acknowledged that the high debt […]