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Today’s Menu

• AI Dominates Davos as Leaders Warn of Rapid Disruption

• Bitcoin Drops Below Ninety Thousand Dollars as Macro Fears Hit Markets

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TODAY IN AI

AI Dominates Davos as Leaders Warn of Rapid Disruption

The World Economic Forum kicked off this week in Davos, featuring an intense focus on AI that included discussions with the industry's top minds, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google's Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.

Amodei took a shot at U.S. President Donald Trump's recent policy allowing AI chip sales to China, likening it to "selling nuclear weapons to North Korea." Hassabis believes this year could see AI-driven slowdowns in junior hiring, but that AI tools could ultimately enable more skill creation than traditional paths.

Nadella said no company can "just coast" in the AI era, stating that big companies that don't keep up will "get schooled by someone small." Amodei also said we may be just six to twelve months away from models that do "most, maybe all" of what software engineers do end-to-end.

Davos talks often stay abstract, but Amodei's timeline for full AI-powered coding puts a tight deadline on the disruption we're already seeing with tools like Claude Code. Between geopolitical warnings, labor shifts, and software upheaval, the message from AI's leaders is clear: the window to adapt is shrinking rapidly.

When Anthropic's CEO says we're six to twelve months from AI doing most software engineering work, that's not a prediction. That's a countdown.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

Bitcoin Drops Below Ninety Thousand Dollars as Macro Fears Hit Markets

Bitcoin slipped below eighty-nine thousand dollars on Tuesday as markets got hit from multiple directions. The trigger this time wasn't crypto-specific. It was macro.

Japan's bond market is cracking. Trump just threatened one hundred percent tariffs on European nations over Greenland. And a Danish pension fund announced it's dumping U.S. Treasuries, calling America "basically not a good credit." Risk assets across the board sold off hard.

The S and P five hundred and Nasdaq both dropped more than two percent, their worst day since October tenth. Crypto stocks got hit even harder. Strategy dropped seven percent. BitMine fell nine percent. Coinbase slid five point five percent.

Over four hundred eighty-six million dollars in longs were liquidated on Tuesday alone. That follows six hundred thirty-seven million dollars on Monday, the worst two-day streak for longs this year.

While markets bled, Strategy made its largest Bitcoin purchase in nine months. The company bought twenty-two thousand three hundred BTC for two point one billion dollars last week, funded mainly through stock sales and its new STRC preferred shares.

BitMine kept stacking Ethereum. The firm added thirty-five thousand two hundred sixty-eight ETH worth one hundred eight million dollars. That brings its total to four point two million ETH, nearly three point five percent of the entire circulating supply, worth roughly twelve point eight billion dollars. BitMine now has one point eight three million ETH staked, up from one point two five million last week. At full scale, the company expects to earn over one million dollars per day in staking rewards.

Prices are ugly. Fear is spreading. But the largest corporate holders aren't selling, they're buying. Wintermute put it simply: "The setup feels like we're coiling rather than breaking down."

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