Coinbase CEO Calls for AI Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenized RWAs

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Primer has announced a $100 million Series C funding round, as it continues to build the AI-enabled operating layer for global payments and finance. The round is led by Sofina, with participation from Peak XV Partners, and continued backing from all existing investors, including Balderton, Accel, ICONIQ, Tencent, and Speedinvest. You can’t build […]

Pontiff says it is ‘not permissible’ to entrust lethal decisions to artificial systems

IBM has partnered with Scuderia Ferrari HP to overhaul the team’s fan app using enterprise AI, bringing the technology giant into Formula One — one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States and an increasingly competitive arena for tech companies including AWS, Oracle, and Anthropic. The partnership centres on transforming the millions of data points generated […]

Brian Armstrong said the financial system still needs eight major upgrades, with real-world asset tokenization and 24/7 global markets sitting at the center of his argument. The Coinbase CEO described a financial system that is becoming more global, more automated and more dependent on on-chain infrastructure. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has again put forward a [...]

The backlash was inevitable. For the past year, Silicon Valley has been telling us that software development is on the verge of becoming a prompt-and-ship exercise. You know, just describe what you want and let an AI coding agent build it. Sure, maybe you could keep a few token senior engineers around to bless the output…or maybe not. I mean, Google’s Sundar Pichai says 75% of its new code is now AI-generated and reviewed by engineers, up sharply from earlier levels. Hurray! Right??? Well… The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted warnings from Mario Zechner and Armin Ronacher, two engineers behind core pieces of the popular OpenClaw AI agent, who argue that AI coding tools are flooding software with what they call “vibe slop.” Their complaint is that too many people are using AI to skip the parts of software development that actually matter: design, judgment, testing, ownership, and deep understanding of the system being changed. This is worth taking seriously. When people who help

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Most companies have adopted AI, but they haven’t become meaningfully more intelligent as organizations. One person prompts an assistant, gets an answer, and the context disappears into a private chat window. The result is real productivity at the individual level, with very little compounding across teams. Dust, the multiplayer agentic AI system, was […]

Insider Brief An autonomous quantum materials research system has taken a step toward turning AI from a digital assistant into a physical laboratory scientist by autonomously creating graphene and fabricating atomically thin transistors inside a robotic mini-lab, according to a new study from researchers at Princeton University and collaborators. The system, described in a paper […]