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⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 💰🏈 Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
- 💸🧠 Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras
- 🤖💵 Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools
- ⚠️💔 The backlash over OpenAI's decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
- 🩺🤖 How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases
- 📚🎨 The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features
- 🚀🤔 How far will Elon Musk take the 'everything' business as SpaceX and xAI merge?
- 🏢⏸️ New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers
- ⚖️🤖 Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
Crypto.com founder shatters domain records with $70M AI.com purchase
Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
In a move that redefines premium domain investing, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has purchased AI.com for a record-breaking $70 million, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller. The transaction, facilitated by broker Larry Fischer, represents the most expensive domain sale in internet history.
Marszalek's timing appears strategic, with plans to unveil the new AI platform during Sunday's Super Bowl, capitalizing on the massive viewership to launch what he envisions as a comprehensive personal AI agent. The service will reportedly offer messaging capabilities, app integration, and stock trading functionality, positioning itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer finance.
"If you take a long-term view — 10 to 20 years – AI is going to be one of the greatest technological waves of our lifetime," Marszalek explained to the Financial Times, justifying the massive investment as a bet on the future of technology.
The purchase obliterates previous domain sale records by a significant margin. CarInsurance.com previously held the crown at $49.7 million in 2010, followed by VacationRentals.com at $35 million in 2007. More recent high-profile sales include Voice.com and PrivateJet.com, both commanding $30 million, while 360.com sold for $17 million.
Perhaps most notably, Sex.com has changed hands twice for over $13 million each time, though its second owner's bankruptcy while attempting to monetize the domain serves as a cautionary tale about the challenges of converting premium domain investments into profitable ventures.
Fischer, who brokered the AI.com deal, emphasized the unique nature of such premium domains. "With assets like AI.com, there are no substitutes. When one becomes available, the opportunity may never present itself again," he told the Financial Times, likely celebrating what represents a career-defining commission.
The crypto industry's reputation for extravagant spending precedes this purchase, but Marszalek's domain strategy extends beyond typical industry excess. His previous acquisition of Crypto.com, combined with a $700 million investment in stadium naming rights, demonstrates a pattern of securing premium brand real estate across multiple channels.
For Marszalek, owning two category-defining domains – Crypto.com and now AI.com – represents more than digital real estate speculation. It's positioning for what he believes will be the convergence of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, two of the most transformative technologies of the modern era.
The effectiveness of mega-dollar domain investments remains debatable, with success often depending on execution rather than the premium nature of the web address itself. However, in an era where brand recognition and instant recall drive consumer behavior, owning the most intuitive domain for artificial intelligence services could prove prescient.
Whether AI.com generates returns proportional to its historic price tag will depend largely on Marszalek's ability to build and market AI services that justify the premium positioning the domain suggests, making Sunday's Super Bowl debut a critical first step in what may become the internet's most expensive digital transformation.
🔍 Which AI Dilemma Should We Tackle First?
- ⚠️ 1. Speed vs. Understanding The rapid pace of AI development is outpacing our ability to comprehend or regulate it.
- 🧠 2. Lack of Alignment AI systems don’t necessarily optimize for what’s good for humans—even when they seem to.
- 🏢 3. Power Concentration AI is consolidating power into the hands of a few tech giants and governments.
- 🤖 4. Automation Without Purpose AI is replacing jobs faster than society is creating meaningful alternatives.
- 🛑 5. Loss of Human Agency We risk becoming passive consumers of AI decisions, losing creativity and independent thinking.
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Benchmark invests $225M in AI chipmaker Cerebras' $1B funding round
Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised $1 billion at a $23 billion valuation, nearly tripling from $8.1 billion six months prior. Benchmark Capital, an early backer since 2016, contributed $225 million through two specially created "Benchmark Infrastructure" vehicles.
Cerebras' flagship Wafer Scale Engine chip features 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores, delivering 20x faster AI processing than competitors. The company recently secured a $10 billion deal with OpenAI and plans to go public in Q2 2026 after resolving national security concerns related to former investor G42.
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⚡ Trends for the Future
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
Anthropic's new AI model shows dramatic improvement in legal tasks.
Just last month, the outlook for AI replacing lawyers seemed distant. Mercor's benchmark testing AI agents on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis showed disappointing results, with every major lab scoring under 25%. The consensus was clear: lawyers could sleep easy, at least for the foreseeable future.
However, the rapid pace of AI development has once again proven that assumptions in this field can quickly become obsolete. The release of Anthropic's Opus 4.6 this week has dramatically shifted the landscape, delivering performance that has caught industry observers off guard.
The new model achieved nearly 30% accuracy in one-shot trials on legal tasks, representing a substantial leap from previous capabilities. Even more impressive, when given multiple attempts at problems, Opus 4.6 averaged 45% accuracy. This improvement appears linked to the model's enhanced agentic features, including "agent swarms" that seem particularly effective at handling complex, multistep problem-solving scenarios.
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody expressed his amazement at the rapid progress, describing the jump from 18.4% to 29.8% accuracy in just a few months as "insane." This dramatic improvement underscores that progress in foundation models continues at an unrelenting pace, defying predictions about potential slowdowns.
While 30% accuracy remains far from the reliability needed for full automation of legal work, the trajectory is unmistakable. Lawyers aren't facing immediate displacement, but the comfort level they enjoyed just weeks ago has been significantly eroded.
This development serves as a reminder that AI capabilities can evolve rapidly and unpredictably. What seems safely beyond machine capability today may become achievable tomorrow, making it crucial for professionals to stay informed about AI advances in their fields.
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Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Covariant AI, where he pioneered breakthrough work in robot learning and reinforcement learning that enables robots to learn complex manipulation tasks. His research in getting robots to learn from demonstrations and through trial-and-error has transformed robotics and AI, and he continues to advocate for developing intelligent systems that can work alongside humans to automate difficult tasks while creating new opportunities in manufacturing, logistics, and beyond.
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