Stablecoins just got rulebooks in the US, EU and UK at once
For years, digital dollars and euros lived in a regulatory grey zone. In one autumn, three of the world's biggest financial centres started drawing hard lines, and banks are moving in.
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Early signals: the research papers, funding rounds, patents and policy moves that come before a trend goes mainstream.
The AI boom's next bottleneck is the power grid's plumbing
Gas turbines were the famous shortage. The newest signals point somewhere less glamorous: transformers, the parts inside them, and the rules that decide who gets plugged in.
AI agents can now pay for things. Researchers keep finding ways to trick them
Tech and payment giants are building rails for software that spends money on your behalf. Real use is still tiny, but the security holes and legal grey zones are arriving first.