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Jensen Huang made headlines this week with a blunt take on AI safety. The Nvidia CEO told the New York Times that if frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic cannot contain their experiments, the answer is simple — shut them down. It is a pragmatic position, and a striking one coming from the man whose chips power most of those labs.
That conversation connects directly to a quieter but sharper argument being made by engineer Rob Bowley, surfaced through Martin Fowler's blog. Bowley is frustrated with the media fixation on some future machine deciding to wipe out humanity. His concern is more immediate — today's AI being wired into critical systems carelessly and at speed, in a landscape where cyber attacks already cost millions without any AI involvement at all.
And on the financial side of the technology world, Bitcoin is showing signs of growing up. Analysis from CoinDesk finds that the most recent bear market was notably milder than previous crashes, with ETF adoption and institutional money appearing to smooth out the historic volatility that defined the asset's earlier years.
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