Apocalypse Now??? Only 21% of US men aged 18–29 have a 401(k) or similar retirement plan, while 26% own cryptocurrency, perhaps underscoring a generational shift toward digital assets over traditional long-term savings vehicles.
No, I am not calculating our fee percentage… The global race to build AI has triggered the single largest deployment of investment capital in history, with capital expenditures projected to reach a cumulative $6.4 trillion through 2030.
Mirror, mirror on the wall… China is preparing up to $70 billion in semiconductor incentives to boost domestic chip production, reduce US dependence, and accelerate AI and fabrication self-sufficiency, its largest tech-sector support initiative amid escalating global competition.
Pardon the interruption… Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for orchestrating a massive $40 billion crypto fraud tied to the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna, which the judge said caused “real people to lose real money.”
“And I’m goin’ down all the way, I’m on the highway to hell”!!! Outgoing SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, warning against reckless deregulation: “The appetite to deregulate has been rapacious; the analysis of the costs and benefits of our policies has been non-existent; and, the repercussions, I would argue, could be dire.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go”… The House Rules Committee advanced the bipartisan INVEST Act of 2025, a major step toward replacing the SEC’s wealth-based accredited-investor test with a free knowledge-based exam, echoing ICAN’s lawsuit demanding access based on sophistication, not net worth.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it”… Chinese state-linked hackers used Anthropic’s Claude model to automate about 85% of 30 cyberattacks on companies and governments, performing reconnaissance and data exfiltration with minimal human direction, marking the first major AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign on record.
“Waiting is the hardest part”… The SEC granted DTCC a limited no-action letter authorizing a 3-year pilot to tokenize a small group of US securities in a controlled environment, a cautious but historic step toward merging regulated markets with DeFi infrastructure, potentially boosting transparency, settlement efficiency, and long-term liquidity while preserving investor protections.
“The sands of time were eroded by the river of constant change”… President Trump’s new Genesis Mission executive order creates a Manhattan-Project-scale AI initiative led by the Department of Energy to double US scientific productivity, unify federal data and supercomputing, and trigger $50 billion-plus in infrastructure investments across AI, energy, and robotics.
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