SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says AI will soon migrate off Earth as energy and scaling constraints make space the most economical place to run advanced compute. In a new interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast, Musk says the physics of power generation and scale overwhelmingly favor orbit over terrestrial infrastructure, putting space-based AI far closer than most expect. Musk says even basic solar efficiency creates an immediate cost advantage once compute leaves the ground. “It’s harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space. Any given solar panel can do about five times more power in…
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Henry Kanapi is a journalist and editor covering the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial markets, and technology disruption. He has sourced, written, and edited thousands of stories on crypto, banking, and macroeconomics as Senior Editor at The Daily Hodl, where he helped shape coverage for an audience of over two million monthly readers. At CapitalAI Daily, Henry brings a decade of newsroom experience to fast-paced reporting on AI breakthroughs, market shifts, fraud cases, and regulatory battles. His focus is on accuracy, clarity, and exposing how money moves in the age of artificial intelligence. Henry’s work has been cited by leading financial outlets, investment firms, and research communities tracking the future of markets. He is committed to a high editorial standard rooted in transparency and trust.
Banking giant Morgan Stanley says there’s a better way to play the AI boom, instead of just picking the potential winner of the new tech race. In a new episode of the Thoughts on the Market podcast, the bank’s head of Applied Equity Advisors, Andrew Slimmon, says investors also tried picking winners and losers during the dot-com era. But he notes that none of the early market leaders emerged on top. “The first thing the stock market tried to do was to appoint winners of the internet search race. And it was Amazon, and it was Yahoo and it was…
A prominent cybersecurity firm says tens of thousands of deepfake videos have emerged across major social media platforms, designed to drain money from victims. In its latest threat report, Gen Digital says its telemetry has detected 159,378 unique deepfake scam video instances in Q4 of 2025. According to the firm, these videos have the hallmarks of manipulated media paired with a request for money, data or an off-platform handoff. Gen Digital says most of the AI scam videos its telemetry detected and blocked on Windows devices were on YouTube (64.8%), followed by Facebook (11.1%) and X (0.5%). “YouTube dominates the…
A man has lost his entire life savings after falling prey to a deepfake impersonation scam involving a prominent British finance guru. Retired South East England resident David says he lost £20,000 ($27,413) after seeing a deepfake video of Money Saving Expert host Martin Lewis on Facebook promoting what appeared to be a legitimate investment scheme, reports the UK-based outlet Rayo. David, not his real name, says the video appealed to him as it advertised a way to make a quick buck with very little risk. “Martin Lewis promoted an investment that was available to anyone and should be taken…
Google is coming out as one of the biggest winners in the SpaceX-xAI merger, as Elon Musk’s aerospace company hits a $1.25 trillion valuation. This week, Elon Musk said SpaceX acquired the Grok maker xAI for $250 billion with the explicit goal of launching data centers into space. The move puts SpaceX at an estimated valuation of $1.25 trillion ahead of its expected mega IPO this year. Google invested $900 million for a 7.5% stake in SpaceX in 2015 “to support continued innovation in areas of space transport, reusability and satellite manufacturing.” At the current valuation, Google’s investment is now…
A new website has emerged that allows AI agents to hire humans, as machines cross a line that once felt purely science fiction. X user AlexTw33ts announces the launch of rentahuman.ai, a platform where AI agents can rent humans to perform jobs in the real world. “I launched rentahuman.ai last night and already 130+ people have signed up, including an OF model (lmao) and the CEO of an AI startup. If your AI agent wants to rent a person to do an IRL task for them it’s as simple as one MCP call.” A model context protocol (MCP) allows an…
Veteran investor Tom Lee believes that the convergence of AI and crypto is in sight, creating another strong use case for digital assets. In an interview at the Ondo Summit, the Fundstrat co-founder says the blockchain may serve as a strong security layer for AI operating in the real world. According to Lee, owners of robots and self-driving cars will have to sign off on approved keys to deliver instructions to their machines, preventing hacks like rogue updates or malicious overrides. “And there’s one more thing I want to add that is a possible catalyst. One of the things that…
Macro investor Luke Gromen says one asset class will continue outperforming tech stocks regardless of how the AI boom ultimately plays out. In a new episode of the Forest For the Trees podcast, Gromen says gold and metals are the early winners in the AI race, with application software appearing to have gotten the short end of the stick. According to Gromen, an AI bubble would eventually trigger new demand for gold after it bursts, as investors seek shelter from the aftermath. If there’s no AI bubble, Gromen says metals like copper and silver will continue to witness sustained demand…
The CEO of banking titan Goldman Sachs says three forces are converging to create a favorable backdrop for two investment plays. In an a16z interview, David Solomon says fiscal, monetary and regulatory forces are hitting the US economy at the same time. He highlights that the AI boom is acting as a tailwind, with Big Tech spending hundreds of billions of dollars to finance the data center buildout. “We have fiscal stimulus. We have monetary stimulus because we’re in a rate-cutting cycle. That doesn’t mean I think we’re going to see many more rate cuts, but we’re probably going to…
A new study by a crowdsourced security platform finds that hackers are now leveraging AI to identify potential security gaps. Bugcrowd says it surveyed and interviewed more than 2,000 respondents across the world to gain insights from the hacker community and reveal how AI adoption and collaboration are changing the discovery of system vulnerabilities and disclosure. The study finds that more hackers are now integrating AI into their workflows while they move toward working with teams to outperform working in isolation. “82% of hackers now use AI in their workflows, up from 64% in 2023, with AI primarily used for…