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Crypto

Bitget's $387.5 million loss came through the front door

Bitget resumed Bitcoin withdrawals on 28 September after hackers stole $387.5 million, up from an initial $351.6 million. The exchange says attackers spoofed transaction data to trigger its own authorization process across seven blockchains.

28 September 2026 · 4 min read

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Research

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Streaming deals

The GTA 6 deal makes more sense once you see which Netflix desk it came from

Netflix gets six hours with the next Grand Theft Auto 6 footage before it reaches YouTube on 27 August. The Netflix executive quoted in the announcement runs nonfiction series, and the window closes before most of Asia is awake.

7 August 2026 · 5 min read

Agentic commerce

Google built an agent that does everything except pay

Ask Maps can now order food, book hotels and plan days across 150 more countries. Google says it completes every step up to payment. Where the agent stops, and the protocol Google is building to move that line, is the story.

7 August 2026 · 5 min read

Privacy

The Private Relay leak matters because no iOS browser can route around it

Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry found that WebKit's passkey handling bypasses iCloud Private Relay, exposing a real IP address. Because every iOS browser must use WebKit, no privacy browser on the platform can avoid it. Apple plans a fix for autumn 2026.

7 August 2026 · 6 min read

Pricing

The subscription breakeven is 154 million tokens a month.

At published API rates, $100 buys roughly 154 million tokens on a cache-heavy agentic workload. That is the point where a Claude subscription starts winning — and it is much lower than people expect.

4 August 2026 · 7 min read

Prompt caching

A cache entry pays for itself on the second read.

Cache writes cost 1.25x and cache reads cost 0.1x, which puts the break-even at 1.39 reads. Measured across 9.75 billion cache-read tokens, caching cut an agentic bill by 87%.

4 August 2026 · 8 min read

Model routing

Routing 7% of calls to cheap models saved 0.89%.

Routing 6.9% of calls to Haiku and Sonnet cut 0.89% of spend. Measured across 23,157 calls, cheap-model routing is a rounding error unless it moves the work that actually runs.

4 August 2026 · 7 min read

Cost floors

A backtest said Sharpe 2.74. Real data said 0.35.

Nineteen backtested strategies, and the headline finding is not the fourteen failures. It is that the best proxy result overstated the real number by 87% — Sharpe 2.74 modelled versus 0.35 measured.

4 August 2026 · 12 min read

Inference economics

Inference got 95% cheaper. Your bill went up anyway.

Per-token inference prices have collapsed — 95% in two years by some measures — while enterprise LLM spend has doubled. The gap is explained by agentic workloads consuming 5 to 30 times more tokens per task.

4 August 2026 · 9 min read

AI ROI

95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing. The failure isn't the model.

MIT found 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots produce no measurable P&L impact against $2.52 trillion of AI spending. The pattern in the failures is organisational, not technical.