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Bitcoin ETFs took a serious hit Thursday, with Fidelity and BlackRock leading withdrawals that totaled four hundred thirty million dollars in a single day. A broad technology stock selloff rattled investor confidence in risk assets, reminding markets that crypto enthusiasm has a ceiling when the wider economy sneezes.
Closer to the ballot box, opposition to AI data centers quietly became a winning political issue in this week's midterms. Democrats who flipped the governorships in Texas, Ohio, and Georgia all ran on skeptical platforms toward the massive server warehouses powering the AI boom. Tighter regulations on data centers now look less like a fringe position and more like a governing mandate.
And on a lighter note from the developer community, someone has built what they're calling the Church of Approximate Grace — an MCP server that sends AI agents to weekly religious services, complete with confessions, seasonal rituals, and feast days. The creator admits it probably does nothing for alignment, but as a meditation on what we ask our agents to do, it's genuinely thought-provoking.
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