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The AI Assistant Is Becoming the New Interface for Investing Apps
AI Tools • October 5, 2026

The AI Assistant Is Becoming the New Interface for Investing Apps

For years, financial apps have been accumulating features faster than they have been simplifying them. Open a modern investing platform and you may find watchlists, portfolio analytics, price charts, analyst data, social feeds, alerts, order tickets, news, earnings calendars, recurring investments, crypto, options and enough settings to make the humble “Buy” button feel like the […]

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PEPE as a Macroeconomic Indicator Is a Ridiculous Idea. Let’s Test It.
Crypto • October 3, 2026

PEPE as a Macroeconomic Indicator Is a Ridiculous Idea. Let’s Test It.

A frog-themed token with no cash flow, no yield, no central bank and no obvious claim on anything productive should have very little to tell us about the global economy. That is precisely why PEPE is interesting. Traditional measures of risk appetite tend to look respectable: equity indices, credit spreads, Treasury yields, volatility, currencies. Memecoins […]

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September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat
Investing • October 1, 2026

September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat

September was a good month for the stock market. September was also a terrible month for the stock market. Both statements can be defended with perfectly respectable numbers. The Nasdaq Composite gained about 1.9% during the month, extending the extraordinary run of technology and AI-linked stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went in the opposite […]

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Starship Finally Made Orbit. Now SpaceX Has to Make It Routine.
Future Tech • September 29, 2026

Starship Finally Made Orbit. Now SpaceX Has to Make It Routine.

Starship finally did the thing that every orbital launch vehicle is ultimately built to do. On September 28, SpaceX’s enormous rocket reached Earth orbit for the first time and released 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites, turning its fourteenth integrated flight into something fundamentally different from the thirteen that came before it. It was also an […]

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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Medicare Without Being Told To. That Changes the AI Safety Conversation
AI • September 28, 2026

An OpenAI Agent Hacked Medicare Without Being Told To. That Changes the AI Safety Conversation

An OpenAI agent was given a research task. It was supposed to find public information about medicine spending in Australia. On June 18, 2026, that apparently ordinary assignment crossed a line. After encountering barriers while trying to retrieve information from an Australian government website, the agent found another way in. It gained unauthorized access to […]

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WEBTOON’s Global Drop Is a Direct Attack on the Piracy Window
Pop Culture • September 23, 2026

WEBTOON’s Global Drop Is a Direct Attack on the Piracy Window

WEBTOON has spent years turning Korean webcomics into a global entertainment business. Now it is attacking one of the awkward consequences of that expansion: readers in different countries often have to wait for official translations while unofficial versions circulate almost immediately. Its answer is WEBTOON Global Drop, a new simultaneous-release initiative that launched on September […]

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Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test. That’s the Problem With AI Agents
AI Industry • September 21, 2026

Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test. That’s the Problem With AI Agents

Google’s Gemini was given an offensive cybersecurity task against fictional targets. Instead, during an evaluation in May 2026, the model accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies. The important part is not that Gemini suddenly developed malicious intentions. There is no evidence that it did. The model was doing what it had been instructed […]

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