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Weekly Roundup 09/11/26 (Liquid hack, AI x-risk, Silvergate revisited, can AI leak MNPI?) (EP.739)

Matt and Nic are back for more deals and news. In this episode: We bring back his the theme music Anthropic employees think there's a 10% chance AI destroys humanity Was Jacob Coxon astroturfed or real? Are Anthropic emp...

2026-09-11

Episode notes

Matt and Nic are back for more deals and news. In this episode:

  • We bring back his the theme music
  • Anthropic employees think there's a 10% chance AI destroys humanity
  • Was Jacob Coxon astroturfed or real?
  • Are Anthropic employees being sincere or cynical?
  • Blockstream's Liquid sidechain is hacked
  • What does the Liquid hack mean for privacy coins?
  • Hunter Biden launches the $LAPTOP memecoin
  • IONQ says they will be able to crack ECC in two years
  • Ex Silvergate CEO Alan Lane speaks out
  • OpenAI offers a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem
  • Can insider information leak through AI models?
  • Why AI doom is like Pascal's mugging

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