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Claude introduced a new Personal Finance tool; all financial experts are now cancelled. What else happened in AI this week? • OpenAI reportedly raised an additional $11B at a $1.25T (TRILLION!!!) valuation. The company could be IPO-ready in 2027. • OpenAI introduced its Images 2.6 model, which generates visuals twice as fast and supports animated GIF creation. • OpenAI officially released GPT-6 Cyber (built for advanced security research, vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and authorized penetration testing). (This week is owned by OpenAI, mostly—heh.) • Today’s BenchLM AI leaderboard: Gemini 4 Carbon → Claude Opus 5.5 → GPT-6 Astra → GPT-6.1 Sol • For abstract reasoning and frontier math, top-1 is GPT-6 Astra. • For expert-level science: Claude Sonnet 5 → GPT-6 Astra

2026 in a nutshell. List of companies that experienced major data breaches in the last 60 days ↓ Nov 6 – Gnosis Nov 3 – Baanx Oct 30 – Chainalysis Oct 29 – Bithumb Oct 28 – Coinbase Oct 28 – Amplitude Oct 28 – Daishin Securities Oct 28 – Mirae Asset Global Investments Oct 21 – State Bank of India Oct 4 – OFX Oct 1 – Shinhan Bank Oct 1 – KB Kookmin Bank Sep 30 – DriveWealth Sep 12 – Revolut Sep 11 – Trezor Sep 10 – BitBox Sep 10 – Brevo Sep 9 – CoinTracking Welcome to the AI era.

The best tip I can give any emerging creator is this: content is a system. The closest thing to growing a personal brand / blogger profile is actually being a solo founder. Analytics, feedback loops, and consistent strategy experiments are the three things that divide winners from losers. Tbh, one of the first things I built with Claude was my content analytics system – weekly reporting and analysis on engagement, growth signals, and churn. When I was just getting started, many posts I expected to go viral performed average; the ones I never expected to do well went viral. Writing content is a skill. And if you don’t have an analytics system, you don’t have facts – just gut feeling. Not saying it can’t work – it’s just way slower. If you’re interested, give me a "+" and I will drop a detailed guide on how I built my analytics flow (GA4 + Typefully + Sheets + Claude). It’ll take some time to put together, so I need your interest confirmed first, haha.

Never deleting this app.

Corruption is a widespread issue today. According to Transparency International's 2025 CPI, here are some examples of the worst corruption scores in the world (0 - worst): • South Sudan: 9/100 • Venezuela: 10/100 • Nigeria: 26/100 Let me put that to scale - in Nigeria, people paid an estimated $1.2B in cash bribes to public officials last year alone. Just wanna express my deep respect to the entire @Logos_network team for trying to push these issues and help real people around the world. It's part of Logos' "Past. Present. Future." initiative, which explores how broken institutions affect ordinary people and why communities need ways to operate independently. I've been a big supporter of their great work for a long time. Few.

Robinhood Chain fees ↓ Aug 31 week – $30.8M Oct 26 week – $291K A 99% collapse in 8 weeks. What happened?

7 new things you should know about how ChatGPT searches for info (that will help your site optimization) ↓ 1️⃣ ChatGPT now runs more fan-out searches per prompt, and the free and cheaper tiers are catching up to higher-tier models. Fan-out means the AI autonomously rewrites your single question into multiple, hyper-specific sub-queries. You ask: "What are the top gyms in Dubai?" ChatGPT will search: • Search 1: "top gyms Dubai 2026 reviews" • Search 2: "Dubai gyms pricing comparison" • Search 3: "site:reddit.com best gym Dubai" 2️⃣ Being named in ChatGPT's first fan-out query drives a much higher chance of being cited: brands mentioned there were cited 68.9% of the time, versus just 2.1% for pages that were only fetched. 3️⃣ The number of unique domains cited per ChatGPT response dropped from 19 to 15 after the 5.3 update, even as more pages are retrieved. 4️⃣ Product pages now make up 16.39% of retrieved pages in ChatGPT fan-out queries, overtaking listicles. 5️⃣ For facts, ChatGPT fan-out queries go to official brand sites. For opinions and product reviews, they favor reddit and review platforms. 6️⃣ 21 of 27 ChatGPT initial queries contained brand names never mentioned by the user. 7️⃣ ChatGPT sometimes guesses the wrong brand domain, directing site: queries at parked or unowned domains, especially for lesser-known brands. Practitioner notes based on the above: 1. Trying to create content to target individual fan-out queries is not a good strategy and can land you in Google's spam filters. 2. Monitor your site's impressions in search console tools to understand how often fan-out queries are reaching your site. 3. If your brand shares a name with other businesses or domains, consider adding 'Official Site' to your title or meta description to help ChatGPT and users identify the right site. 4. Make sure your key facts are in plain HTML on your brand's domain so ChatGPT can retrieve them via site: searches. S/o to @lilyraynyc for this data; originally shared on Substack ↓ lilyraynyc.substack.com/p/wh…

"Don't trust, verify." For some reason, we apply this logic to blockchains but not AI models. Imagine this: you're paying for a specific AI model through an API, while the provider runs a lower-precision version or limits its capabilities. It's why @miranetwork built Sterling, an AI inference platform that independently verifies whether providers are serving the models and capabilities they claim. It runs five checks: → Model identity → Tool calls → Parameters honoured → Silent failures → Declared context window Then Mira publishes the verification scores, and Sterling uses them to route requests to providers that pass its checks. At launch, users can access Claude, GPT, and Gemini models through Sterling, with up to 50% off select models and payment options in USDC or $MIRA. If verification is the standard in crypto, I think it should be the standard for AI providers, too. You can try Sterling yourself here: sterling.mira.network

Crypto is full of scams that look normal at first glance. They can be very sophisticated and hard to spot: → Fake support accounts → Suspicious links in DMs → Fake interview links → Messages from compromised accounts The list goes on. At least there are Bitcoin wallets like @chimera_wallet taking the initiative to educate users about online safety. They're building a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet that keeps your keys on your device, with plans to make everyday crypto and DeFi easier to access through partner services. And since managing your own funds comes with responsibility, they've created a fun 6-question Safety Check quiz to test how well you recognize scams. I took it personally and scored 5/6. It goes to show you how easy it is to get fooled, even with a lot of experience under your belt. You can try the quiz here: survivor.chimerawallet.com/ Share your score in the replies here, will be checking replies actively. (No X sign-in, wallet connection, or deposit required) #ChimeraSafetyCheck

Stablecoin supply is down 3.6% in a month to $293.7B, which works out to roughly $11B less outstanding. $USDT and $USDC are both shrinking, so the decline extends across the two biggest issuers. I’m cautious about calling a sustained recovery because trading can pick up while existing money just moves around faster. My read is that demand to hold stablecoins could be weakening, though supply alone doesn’t explain why. The shrinking stablecoin base makes the recovery look less convincing to me. Are you reading this as a pause or something worse?

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Yeah, so crypto is pretty cooked rn. How are you supposed to trust any of this with all the crazy shit happening? I don’t blame normal people / retail investors for being hesitant to even enter the space. Often, when I tell people I work in crypto, they respond with, “Oh, that’s cool, but it sounds complicated, and idk how I’d even get into it.” And tbh, I don’t think it’s a good time to enter crypto as a newbie anyway. You have to worry about your hardware wallet getting compromised, and putting your money on the #1 exchange feels like a gamble too. So wtf are you supposed to do? I think the best answer right now is to just touch grass and leave it alone for a bit. Cause this is insane.

2026 in a nutshell: Nov 3 – Django Nov 3 – Next.js Nov 3 – Docker Engine Oct 26 – Docker Desktop Oct 26 – NGINX Oct 26 – Python Oct 21 – Node.js Oct 21 – PHP Oct 21 – Vite Oct 14 – React Oct 14 – Next.js Oct 6 – Django Sep 26 – simple-git Sep 22 – Next.js Aug 25 – Next.js Aug 25 – Next.js Aug 20 – Spring Security Jul 29 – Ruby on Rails Jul 21 – Next.js Jun 19 – NGINX Jun 9 – Spring Security Apr 29–May 11 – npm/PyPI Apr 16 – Axios Apr 6 – Vite Mar 31 – Axios/npm Feb 3 – Django Jan 26 – React In total, 30+ security incidents were reported across major developer ecosystems this year. Security is the moat.

At this point, Binance looks almost invincible. Less than a week ago, it was hacked for $6B. Now it’s back in the lead, with a 4x gap over its closest competitor. Love them or hate them, you gotta respect the dominance.

Big congratz to @arc for this milestone. They have come a long way and for good reason. Arc has been giving $USDC more places to work, from lending on @aave and @Morpho to trading on @extendedapp. So this hasn’t come out of nowhere. Looking forward to seeing what else they have planned for the coming months.