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Jay Clayton is raising the alarm on AI-driven espionage, warning that artificial intelligence amplifies existing cybersecurity threats to U.S. digital infrastructure. The former SEC chair told CNBC that companies need to be wary of how AI is being weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities at scale — a message landing squarely on boardrooms and compliance teams alike.
Shifting to one of the more unusual corners of the market, prediction market platform Kalshi now puts odds above fifty percent on a Tesla-SpaceX merger happening in early two thousand twenty seven. Barclays has outlined a structural framework for how such a deal could work, and that institutional credibility appears to be moving the needle on what many had dismissed as speculation.
Meanwhile, Cipher Digital took a serious hit this week, with shares falling nearly twenty-six percent after the company announced an eight hundred fifty million dollar convertible debt offering. Convertible deals of that size tend to signal dilution risk to existing shareholders, and the market responded accordingly — a sharp reminder that capital raises, even large ones, carry a real cost in equity terms.
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