Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Juridique

EU's financial regulator to make AI and tokenization a supervisory priority in 2027

European regulators will map how financial firms use the technologies in client-facing products and begin checks on the most affected businesses.

ESMA offices. (ESMA/Media)

Marchés

BlackRock says AI agents could drive stablecoin and crypto adoption

The asset manager sees payments as the nearer-term opportunity, while markets for computing capacity remain at an early stage

Larry Fink

Marchés

'We have lost control': Crypto pioneer warns AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks

Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.

Mining equipment (Shutterstock)

Finance

TikTok developer ByteDance arranges $29.6 billion loan as it builds AI ambitions

ByteDance was reportedly considering spending $70 billion on AI data centers and infrastructure. The news comes as U.S. AI giants call for slowing the AI race.

ByteDance headquarters in China. (ByteDance/Press)

Technologies

Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down citing safety. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.

 Anthropic's Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei. (Chance Yeh/Getty Images)

Finance

Ditching bonds for bitcoin: How crypto can tackle the AI-heavy portfolio dilemma

Bitcoin Suisse says rising AI investment, government debt and weakening stock-bond diversification strengthen the case for adding bitcoin to traditional portfolios.

An investment portfolio. (Shutterstock)

Finance

BIS chief warns AI capex arms race relies on opaque debt, posing systemic risks

Pablo Hernandez cited historical railway and dot-com bubbles to caution that spending driven by hype over actual profits risks broad economic corrections.

BIS Basel, Switzerland headquarters. (BIS/Press)

Technologies

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a $1 million math problem. Now mathematicians are fighting

An internal model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, though questions are emerging over how independently it got there.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, who has proposed Universal Basic Compute as a fix for automation-driven global equality. (Village Global/Flickr)

Marchés

Bitcoin’s complexity paradox: How layer-2 scalers became AI's main target

A string of incidents involving Coldcard, Lightning and Liquid highlights how AI is changing the economics of finding bugs in bitcoin infrastructure.

A bug walking across a keyboard. Developers are increasingly discovering software bugs using AI. (Unsplash)

Technologies

OpenAI says its new 'Astra' AI can build attacks without human help

Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can find previously unknown vulnerabilities and develop ways to exploit them across hardened systems.

OpenAI logo on a mobile phone. (Unsplash)