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View More NewsSentiment in crypto has dived lower than a snailfish in the Mariana Trench in recent months. Miners are capitulating to AI, cold wallets are getting exploited, and you can hardly fire up LinkedIn without reading another message from a newly unemployed crypto journalist searching for new opportunities. Even for an industry that’s endured nation-state bans, exchange blowups, and years of regulatory pressure, morale has rarely felt this low. With business models failing and public interest dropping, many long term crypto fans have begun to question whether we’ve all wasted a decade of our lives on a pipe dream.Source: Ash CryptoUntil…
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Beijing’s Cold War with the West entered a new phase this month. The chastened creators of AI agent Manus are preparing a return to Singapore, after witnessing the forced collapse of their US$2 billion sale to Meta. Manus was originally developed in China, before its parent company relocated to the city-state. But three months after the big sale to Meta was announced, the founders were summoned back to Beijing and prevented from leaving until the deal was scrapped.In the midst of the Manus fallout, China’s State Council issued revised exit and entry regulations. Citizens can be prohibited from travelling outside…
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