BlackRock Predicts AI Agents Could Be Major Crypto Demand Driver
BlackRock report says AI agents will need crypto payments, with stablecoins for transactions and bitcoin for value storage.
BlackRock report says AI agents will need crypto payments, with stablecoins for transactions and bitcoin for value storage.
DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are raising funds at high revenue multiples, with valuations far above US peers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
OpenAI has added an invisible ChatGPT text watermark in the EU, meeting the AI Act, and is limiting its detector to approved researchers for now.
South Korean retail traders have driven a surge in AI crypto tokens, with Worldcoin drawing $7.41 billion in volume, according to Chainalysis data.
Dan Niles still favors Alphabet and Meta, citing Google Cloud's 82% revenue growth and Meta's Muse agent.
Jeff Kilburg picked Fortinet and Cloudflare as Q4 buys even though both trade above analyst targets; Arista is about 20% below its target.
Retail CEO Jan Kniffen says AI agents could worsen Nike's 47% decline by directing shoppers to competitors.
Nvidia reached a record $5.78 trillion intraday market cap. Dan Ives says earnings estimates are too low, but Lehman-style risks are debated.
IRS risk chief warns AI payments already happening at scale, regulators may need automated oversight.
The Justin Sun Prize honored human-AI teamwork on Erdős problems, with Wouter van Doorn, Quanyu Tang, and Yanyang Li recognized for six solutions.
Morgan Stanley kept its $300 price target on SpaceX, saying the AI business is undervalued, even as at least 40 clients own no shares.
China has cut America's AI benchmark advantage to 3%, with DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash model narrowing the gap. Trump defends fast AI progress citing China…
Mark Cuban warns AI skills, not AI itself, determine job security. Over 750,000 AI jobs added since 2023, but layoffs citing AI doubled.
Schwab's Kevin Gordon cautions that one mega-cap capex miss could disrupt earnings, with the S&P 500 near highs but average stock down 14%.
Egan-Jones predicts AI disruption will first hit professional services, venture capital, and housing, citing KPMG fee cuts and IBM's stock drop as evidence.