Paul Brody

Self-driving car tech start-up Nuro raises more than $200mn at $6bn valuation California start-up secures new funding amid growing investor appetite in autonomous vehicle technology

#WorthReading Self-driving car tech start-up Nuro raises $200mn at $6bn valuation

Stablecoin News: MetaMask Confirms mUSD Launch, Backed by M0 and Stripe's Bridge MetaMask's upcoming digital dollar is the first example of the partnership, combining Bridge's regulatory and reserve management with M0’s blockchain expertise.

#WorthReading MetaMask Joins Stablecoin Race With mUSD, Backed by M0 Protocol and Stripe's Bridge

Hank Green’s Focus Friend swapped my screen time for bean time Focus Friend gamifies my attention in just the right ways.

#WorthReading Hank Green’s Focus Friend swapped my screen time for bean time

China is quietly upstaging America with its open models How worried should OpenAI and other labs be?

#WorthReading China is quietly upstaging America with its open models

Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction

#WorthReading Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI

Hyperliquid Now Dominates DeFi Derivatives, Processing $30B a Day A new RedStone report says Hyperliquid’s on-chain order book, HIP-3 market creation, and dual-chain design have propelled it to over 80% market share.

#WorthReading Hyperliquid Now Dominates DeFi Derivatives, Processing $30B a Day

Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.

#WorthReading Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment

Coinbase Sees Stablecoin Market Growing to $1.2T by 2028 The target translates to stablecoins growing almost five-fold from the current market size of $270 billion.

#WorthReading Stablecoin Market Could Hit $1.2T by 2028, Maybe Affecting U.S. Government Debt Yields: Coinbase

The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier The industry’s apocalyptic voices are becoming more panicked—and harder to dismiss.

#WorthReading The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier

The decline in reading for pleasure - Marginal REVOLUTION We measure reading for pleasure and reading with children from 2003 to 2023, using a nationally representative sample from the American Time Use Survey (n = 236,270). We found marked declines in the...

#WorthReading The decline in reading for pleasure

U.S. Justice Department Official Says Writing Code Without Bad Intent 'Not a Crime' Despite this month's trial conviction of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, the DOJ signaled to a crypto crowd in Wyoming that it's not chasing developers.

#WorthReading U.S. Justice Department Official Says Writing Code Without Bad Intent 'Not a Crime'

MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo The oddest part about the whole situation is that CNBC is being spun out into Versant, too, but while they’re losing the NBC peacock logo, they’re just keeping their name, unchanged.

#WorthReading ‘Micro-Soft’

‘America First’ Does Not Mean ‘America Everywhere’ It’s time for Europe and America to accept how different they actually are.

#WorthReading ‘America First’ Does Not Mean ‘America Everywhere’

#WorthReading US OCC terminates 2022 order targeting Anchorage Digital over AML

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants You all deserved better.

#WorthReading A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

Winklevoss Twins Donate $21 Million in Bitcoin to Pro-Trump, Anti-Democrat Crypto PAC - Decrypt The Digital Freedom Fund will focus on supporting President Trump’s crypto agenda—first and foremost by trying to beat Democrats in next year’s midterms.

#WorthReading Winklevoss Twins Donate $21 Million in Bitcoin to Pro-Trump, Anti-Democrat Crypto PAC

Silicon Valley Throws $100M at AI-Powered Mattress With a Subscription - Decrypt The startup's $500 million valuation shows Silicon Valley will throw money at AI-powered anything—even a high tech mattress.

#WorthReading Silicon Valley Throws $100M at AI-Powered Mattress With a Subscription

Tether (USDT) Taps Bo Hines, Trump's Crypto Advisor, to Guide U.S. Strategy Hines will guide Tether’s U.S. market push, focusing on policy engagement and digital asset growth, the firm said.

#WorthReading Tether Taps Bo Hines, Former White House Crypto Council Head, as Advisor for U.S Strategy

U.S. Federal Reserve's New Supervision Chief Sold on Bringing Crypto to Finance The Fed vice chair who leads banking oversight, Michelle Bowman, comes across as a crypto evangelist as she echoes industry views on its regulatory needs.

#WorthReading U.S. Federal Reserve's New Supervision Chief Sold on Bringing Crypto to Finance

The Growing Cohort of Single Dads by Choice For some men, fatherhood is an answer to questions about modern masculinity.

#WorthReading The Growing Cohort of Single Dads by Choice

CLEAR Launches Biometric eGates At Airports, In Partnership With TSA CLEAR is rolling out eGates at TSA checkpoints for members, which will simplify the security process. Here's what to expect.

#WorthReading CLEAR Launches Biometric eGates At Airports, In Partnership With TSA

Records Topple as Runners Crush Punishing Leadville 100 Ultramarathon Anne Flower broke a 31-year-old record held by Ann Trason, while David Roche set a record for the second year in a row at the 2025 Leadville 100 Mile.

#WorthReading Records Topple as Runners Crush Punishing Leadville 100 Ultramarathon

#WorthReading Circle’s Arc blockchain to debut with institutional access via Fireblocks

These Microsoft Copilot Wearables are what I imagined Google Glass would look like in 2025 - Yanko Design It's been 12 years since the Google Glass experiment. We've moved on miles since then, with smaller wearables, face-worn cameras, HUDs, and even actual voice AI... but the companies that gave us all these...

#WorthReading These Microsoft Copilot Wearables are what I imagined Google Glass would look like in 2025

Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning Developers are free to create and distribute derivative models. Importantly, Nvidia does not claim ownership of any outputs generated...

#WorthReading Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning

Google, Kairos and Tennessee Valley Authority ink landmark nuclear power deal TVA becomes first US utility to agree to buy electricity from advanced generation IV reactor

#WorthReading Google, Kairos and Tennessee Valley Authority ink nuclear power deal

The Collapse Of American Judgment Western allies are abandoning American leadership while we stand by, morally bankrupt and intellectually spent, watching children starve in Gaza with weapons we provided to a corrupt authoritarian …

#WorthReading The Collapse Of American Judgment

SoftBank to invest $2bn in Intel to back US chipmaking Masayoshi Son’s investment group touts ‘commitment to advancing US technology and manufacturing leadership’

#WorthReading SoftBank to invest $2bn in Intel to back US chipmaking

Core Scientific (CORZ) Stock News: Jefferies Boosts Price Target The bank reiterated its buy rating on CORZ and raised its price target for the bitcoin miner to $22 from $16 to reflect the CoreWeave acquisition.

#WorthReading Core Scientific Faces Valuation Disconnect; PT Hiked to $22: Jefferies

Data Shows ICE Deportation Efforts Are Way More Aggressive In ‘Blue’ States Trump and his GOP enablers wouldn’t know subtlety if it held them down and punched them in the face repeatedly. Being a little bit crafty is never an option for an administration that prides …

#WorthReading Data Shows ICE Deportation Efforts Are Way More Aggressive In ‘Blue’ States