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subtl daily briefing
Good morning, founders and investors. While Iran tensions continue driving oil prices up $1 per gallon, Bitcoin is surprisingly holding above $69K in what might be resilience—or dangerous complacency. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to trade on prediction markets around the clock, and a massive supply chain attack just hit one of Python's most popular AI packages.
In today's briefing
- 1.Bitcoin's Calm Amid Chaos
- 2.AI Agents Go Autonomous
- 3.Supply Chain Attack Hits AI
- ⚡Quick hits on other news
Latest Developments
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Everything else in the news today
Obex began deploying up to $1B in USDS across eight real-world asset projects including mortgages and solar energy→
Coinbase launched the first Fannie Mae-eligible crypto mortgage letting BTC holders use crypto as collateral→
Google's TurboQuant algorithm reduces AI memory usage by 6x while delivering 8x performance gains→
ARC-AGI-3 benchmark launched where humans solve all tasks but top AI systems score under 1%→
Cursor launches self-hosted agents that run inside user infrastructure with Kubernetes support→
Apple reportedly testing 200MP camera sensors while working on smaller AI models from Gemini→
OpenAI paused erotic ChatGPT plans indefinitely amid ongoing safety discussions→
McDonald's viral Big Arch burger sparked competitive responses from Burger King and Wendy's→
MLB exclusively aired Opening Night on Netflix as part of shift toward new media platforms→
Salesforce Agentforce achieved 72% open rates on 1,000 previously dead leads using CRM history→
Reflection startup seeks $25B valuation to build open source AI alternatives to Chinese models→
Study shows over 80% of top-ranking pages use AI assistance for content creation→
Only 11% overlap exists between domains cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity in search results→
Ethereum Foundation released controversial 38-page mandate document sparking governance debate→
Canton blockchain processes over $8T in tokenized transactions monthly including $350B of US Treasuries→