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Someone minted about 4,000 unbacked L-BTC on Liquid and pegged them out for real Bitcoin in roughly twenty minutes. Not one of the fifteen federation keys was compromised — they all signed, correctly, a withdrawal their software had already declared valid. The bug was in a cache.
ERCOT has frozen new data-centre grid connections over a 474 GW queue — more than five times Texas's record peak demand, and about seven times what every data centre in the US actually draws. That number was never a forecast. It's an inbox with no unique constraint.
McKinsey's 2026 survey says 32% of organisations decided against buying software because they could build it with agentic coding tools. The build got cheap. The run cost didn't move at all — and 60% of it never went near procurement.
A 19-year-old in London raised $10M to grow neurons as a training substrate, and the demo is a dish playing Frogger. The demo isn't the news. The claim that they've broken the ~1M neuron ceiling is — if the substrate can stay alive and repeatable long enough to matter.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion — roughly 85x revenue. It isn't buying revenue, it's buying the default: the place every developer reflexively goes to get a model.
The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip, with a dual Neural Engine and a 32GB ceiling — and the RAM crunch behind that ceiling is the same AI buildout you'd run models locally to avoid.
