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Bots passed human web traffic for the first time, per Cloudflare's CEO. The S&P 500 rejected fast-entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX. Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA, Meta hid face-recognition code in its app, and Cambridge trialed the first AI-designed vaccine. Cloudfla ...  Show more

Google released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model that runs locally on 16GB devices. TSMC's CEO warned chip supply won't meet demand for years. Ramp raised $750M at $44B, and Anthropic says 80%+ of its merged code is now Claude-authored. Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-param ...  Show more

A reading of two pieces on Europe, technology and regulation. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.   On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads: On the EU Giving Up - Punk6529  Crypto Should Disrupt Current Anti-Money Laundering Practices, Not Adopt Th ...  Show more

Can Elon Musk fix Twitter’s original sin?  This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.  Elon Musk is officially buying Twitter. In today’s show, NLW argues that the debate and discussion around the move is largely focused on content moderation policies, when the mor ...  Show more

Plus BlackRock leads a massive round for Circle. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.  On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW explores whether large firms – either from traditional finance or big tech – can be good actors in the Web 3 space? He specifical ...  Show more

Plus a look at recent news from around the crypto industry. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.  On today’s episode, NLW looks at recent crypto industry news, including:  Yuga Labs’ purchase of CryptoPunks and Meebits A leak deck about Yuga’s metaverse amb ...  Show more