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Weekly Roundup 09/04/26 (HuggingFace hack breaks containment, Hyperliquid onshoring, RSA260 factored, is the stablecoin sandwich cheaper?) (EP.738)

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: We determine the winner of the bad boys theme song competition Dwarkesh ignites controversy with his OpenAI hack recap What actually happened wit...

2026-09-04
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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

  • We determine the winner of the bad boys theme song competition
  • Dwarkesh ignites controversy with his OpenAI hack recap
  • What actually happened with OpenAI and Huggingface?
  • Gwern's and Matt Huang's short story competition
  • Will AI make us dumb?
  • 200m Americans KYC data has been hacked
  • Prediction markets lawsuit heading to SCOTUS?
  • Robinhood Chain is taking off
  • Strategy is buying Bitcoin again
  • Should Members of Congress be paid more?
  • Cronos suffers a defi hack
  • Revolut gets a bank charter
  • Is the stablecoin sandwich cheaper for cross border?
  • RSA260 factored - panic?

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