Tracking Wealth Through the AI Lens
Tracking Wealth Through the AI Lens
Let’s get one thing straight. A company called D-Wave, which was trading for about a dollar a year ago, is now worth around $12 billion. Its stock, `QBTS`, shot up over 3,000%. Why? Because it helped a police force in Wales schedule their p...
So, a Bitcoin miner slaps an "AI" sticker on its forehead and suddenly its stock shoots up 500%. Give me a break. You're telling me a company called IREN, which most of us had never heard of a year ago, went from digging for magic internet...
The End of the Hometown Bank: Why a Stadium's Name Change Reveals the Future of the American Economy When the news broke that Comerica—a name etched into the Detroit landscape for over 175 years—was being acquired by Cincinnati’s Fifth Thir...
Of course. Here is the feature article, written in the persona of Dr. Aris Thorne. --- I want you to forget, just for a moment, about the stock tickers and the dizzying charts. Forget the breathless headlines about a 2,000% surge and the Wa...
When I was at MIT, we used to spend late nights debating the precise moment a technology crosses the threshold from a laboratory curiosity to a genuine force in the world. Is it the first major patent? The first billion in venture capital?...
Alright, let's cut the crap. Every few months, Wall Street and the tech blogosphere get together and decide on a new "no-brainer" stock. It’s the one company so dominant, so essential, that you’d have to be a complete moron not to buy it. F...
I was up before dawn this morning, not because of an alarm, but because of a feeling. It’s a strange, electric hum in the air that you get when a paradigm is about to shift. The glow from my monitor cut through the dark, painting the room i...
In the first week of October 2025, two fundamentally different blueprints for the future of Puerto Rico were laid on the table. One arrived via a court order, the other via a Pentagon press release. One depicts a decentralized island powere...
For the last decade, we’ve lived through the Great Unbundling. The old cable package, that monolithic beast, was shattered into a thousand glittering pieces. We were promised freedom, choice, a la carte entertainment. And what did we get? A...
Of course. Here is the feature article, written in the persona of Dr. Aris Thorne. * You’re hearing the numbers, and they sound insane. Citi, a titan of traditional finance, is projecting a bitcoin price of $181,000. They see the price of e...