A leading digital intelligence platform says Japan is second to none in AI adoption, as monthly visits to generative artificial intelligence tools more than doubled last year. In a new post on X, Similarweb says gen AI tools’ average monthly website visits from users in Japan exploded by 126.8% from 2024 to 2025. France comes in at number two, with the average monthly website visits surging 106.5% over the same time frame. South Korea ranks third with 85.6% growth, and Brazil lands at number four, having witnessed a 78.7% increase in average monthly website visits. Germany and the US are…
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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.
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the United States should deploy a massive tax-advantaged energy program to eliminate electricity costs for tens of millions of households while freeing up power capacity for AI and data centers. In a new episode of the All-In Podcast, Palihapitiya says a large-scale solar and storage push could simultaneously lower consumer costs, reduce grid strain and accelerate America’s competition with China. He frames the idea around a federal tax equity fund sized in the hundreds of billions, aimed at rapidly expanding residential energy independence. “I think the president should try to create a $300, $400, $500…
I/O Fund lead tech analyst Beth Kindig says investors taking profits now on their Big Tech positions might be jumping the gun, as she believes the AI trade is about to enter the monetization phase. In a new Fox Business interview, the tech market guru pushes back on concerns that AI spending has run too far, too fast. Instead, she believes that the current period is a necessary research and development cycle before large-scale deployment and recurring revenue take hold. “I don’t see an AI bubble. What I see is a stage of R&D development. That means these big tech companies…
A new Brookings Institution study warns that the widespread use of AI in education is actively weakening how students think, learn and engage cognitively, raising the risk of long-term intellectual decline. The findings come from a global premortem conducted by Brookings researchers, who examined how AI tools are reshaping learning behavior across classrooms, homes and education systems. The study draws on interviews, focus groups, and consultations with 505 students, teachers, parents, education leaders and technologists spanning 50 countries. Researchers describe the trend as a “great unwiring” of students’ cognitive capacities, driven not only by overuse of AI tools but by…
Sam Altman says OpenAI is preparing to introduce advertising into ChatGPT as it looks to support growing demand from users who want access to AI tools without a subscription fee. In a new post on X, Altman says OpenAI is beginning to test ads in ChatGPT’s Free tier and its new Go tier, priced at $8 per month. Altman says the move is a response to scale rather than a shift in product philosophy, emphasizing that OpenAI sees sustained demand from users unwilling or unable to pay for AI access. “Here are our principles. Most importantly, we will not accept…
Goldman Sachs sees the potential for more investor gains as a set of powerful macro tailwinds lines up behind US financial markets. In an interview with Chris Hussey, Kunal Shah, co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International and global co-head of the firm’s Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities business, says the macro backdrop looks bullish for US equities. Shah says multiple forces are converging at once, reinforcing investor optimism and extending the market’s run rather than capping it. “And I think there are quite a lot of tailwinds there at play. On one hand, you just got easy financial conditions. You’ve got…
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang says the accelerating speed of AI-powered computing is fundamentally shrinking the scale of human problems, a shift he believes will drive higher productivity and ultimately create more work rather than eliminate it. Speaking in an interview with podcaster Jodi Shelton, Huang says AI and advanced computing are tools that compress complexity, making challenges that once felt overwhelming appear increasingly manageable. “When the tool is way, way faster, then the problem looks way smaller. And so let me give you an example. If an airplane were to travel Mach 10, then obviously, the world becomes a…
Tesla’s push into humanoid robotics faces a vastly steeper technical climb than its self-driving ambitions, according to Ark Invest chief executive Cathie Wood. Speaking in a new CNBC interview, Wood says Ark’s internal analysis suggests that building Tesla’s Optimus robot to function reliably in the real world is orders of magnitude more complex than deploying autonomous vehicles. Wood says Ark’s conclusion is based on work by the firm’s research team, including chief futurist Brett Winton, who has been analyzing the technical requirements behind humanoid robotics alongside other senior researchers. “An Optimus robot is going to be 200,000 times more difficult…
Actor and director Ben Affleck says today’s leading AI models fall short when it comes to writing meaningful stories, even as he sees the technology reshaping how movies are made behind the scenes. Speaking in a new interview with Joe Rogan, Affleck says AI tools tend to produce average, uninspired writing that lacks reliability and creative depth. “If you try to get ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini to write you something, it’s really shitty, and it’s shitty because by its nature, it goes to the mean, to the average. And it’s not reliable. I actually don’t think it’s very likely…
A surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse videos pushed 2025 to the worst year on record for online child sexual abuse material, according to new data from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The IWF says its analysts identified a dramatic escalation in photo-realistic AI videos depicting child sexual abuse, warning that rapidly improving tools are enabling criminals to create extreme material at scale with minimal technical skill. Analysts at the watchdog say that offenders are exploiting realism and accessibility to produce content that would previously have required organized networks or direct access to victims. According to data released on January…