📢 Speaking at SALT London, Nov. 3-4: Maxine Seiler (@maxime_sts_), CEO & Co-Founder, @stsdigital_io He is coming to discuss new financial products included tokenization, compute, and derivatives. Learn more or register interest here:

The perfect storm is frontier models finding obscure security vulnerabilities at breakneck pace while voice models become indecipherable from human speech. When a model hits a roadblock, it will just spoof Caller ID as your bank and call you, pretending to be your banker.

I’m always impressed when people discover new heights in a career path that everyone assumes has a “cap”. Nathan Fielder was already the new hit “Silly Camera Guy.” Every few years a new one emerges after people get sick of the humor of the last guy—like Sasha Baron Cohen, Eric Andre, Tim & Eric, and Tom Green. But what’s remarkable is that he used his 15 minutes of fame to break out of “Silly Camera Guy” and prove that he is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

One of the things that hasn’t been talked about with Elizabeth Holmes: She was created in the era of the Ted Talk Entrepreneur. Between 2011-2015 (after the release of the Social Network), there was an entire apparatus built around “Child Prodigies”: college accelerators, young entrepreneur organizations, etc. I watched countless founders of hard tech companies present fraudulent products at conferences. They had fake studies with fudged numbers. Most of the adults in the room excused it as “faking it ‘til you make it.” But Holmes was the one who rode the wave better than anyone else. When the Ted Talk Era came to an end and people finally came to their senses, she was still running the same playbook—and in the most scrutinized field there is: medical technology. When people ask how she got so far, it’s largely explained by the period she did it in. And she got caught when the world suddenly woke up.

📢 Speaking at SALT London, Nov. 3-4: Bob Diamond (@rediamondjr), Chairman of @HypeStrat and CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital The former CEO of Barclays, Diamond is helping lead the future of blockchain-powered decentralized exchanges at Hyperliquid Strategies. Learn more or register interest here: