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Anthropic, one of the leading AI labs in the world, is raising an alarm about the pace of its own industry. The company is warning that artificial intelligence systems may soon be capable of designing their own successors, and it's calling on companies globally to consider slowing development before that threshold is crossed. It's a rare moment of public caution from a lab that's also a major commercial competitor in the space.
On the financial front, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citi are joining forces on a shared blockchain network that would allow tokenized transactions between institutions. The move is widely seen as a defensive play against stablecoins, which have been quietly chipping away at traditional deposit models. The network is expected to launch next year, marking a significant shift in how legacy banking thinks about digital infrastructure.
And across the Atlantic, Britain's National Crime Agency is facing a damning assessment of its technology. A government watchdog found that officers are effectively fighting serious organized crime despite their systems, not because of them. Legacy infrastructure so broken that frontline staff describe working around it rather than with it — a stark reminder that outdated IT isn't just an inconvenience, it's a public safety issue.
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