10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (589+ words) Texas’ AI data center boom is colliding with water scarcity, local zoning disputes and questions over who has the authority to stop new projects....

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (785+ words) Leveraged buyouts were once a precision tool, effective when used selectively and with discipline. Today, leverage has become a default setting. Not to over indulge in contrastive negatives, but debt isn’t just part of the strategy, in many cases, it…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (244+ words) It seems the large model makers are currently engaged in a tit-for-tat battle over whose AI bot poses the largest existential threat to society, in some kind of morbid marketing strategy. This, however, is not a new trend. It has…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1479+ words) August showed that AI power is no longer defined only by who possesses models, chips, capital, or data. It increasingly depends on who can authorise, connect, audit, secure, route, and deny the interfaces through which those assets become usable capability....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1149+ words) A friend of mine works in compliance at a mid-sized bank. Last quarter, she got pulled into an incident that I keep thinking about, though not for the reasons she does. An automated underwriting system had denied a loan application....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (411+ words) Three examples worth looking at side by side: LCX, Coinbase, and Kraken. Each is approaching the same problem: how does a licensed, centralized business plug into non-custodial, on-chain finance from a different angle? LCX, a Liechtenstein-based exchange operating under Liechtenstein's…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1016+ words) If you build agents for a living, you’ve probably noticed two things this year. First, the frontier closed models keep getting better, at least on paper. Second, more and more devs are saying that the models they pay for feel…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1023+ words) European regulators published a list of things that suggest a crypto firm is soliciting EU clients. Read it as a designer and it is a list of website, SEO and distribution decisions. MiCA and design, part one of two. Written…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (561+ words) Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! Every day, on nearly every website and…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (892+ words) As opposition to data center development spreads across the country, the industry is reaching for familiar tools: more project briefings, more public meetings, more fact sheets, more economic-impact claims. Those tools have their place. But they miss a deeper point…...