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Weekly Roundup 09/04/26 (HuggingFace hack breaks containment, Hyperliquid onshoring, RSA260 factored, is the stablecoin sandwich cheaper?) (EP.738)
About this episode
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- We determine the winner of the bad boys theme song competition
- Dwarkesh ignites controversy with his OpenAI hack recap
- What actually happened with OpenAI and Huggingface?
- Gwern's and Matt Huang's short story competition
- Will AI make us dumb?
- 200m Americans KYC data has been hacked
- Prediction markets lawsuit heading to SCOTUS?
- Robinhood Chain is taking off
- Strategy is buying Bitcoin again
- Should Members of Congress be paid more?
- Cronos suffers a defi hack
- Revolut gets a bank charter
- Is the stablecoin sandwich cheaper for cross border?
- RSA260 factored - panic?
Content mentioned in the episode:
- GPUworld.com
- Wenxin Du, Three Myths About Payment Innovation
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