The Production of Security

Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI To Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases Robinhood Markets is launching a new feature whereby customers can hand their money to an AI agent for automated trading and credit-card purchase decisions.  The brokerage is enabling users to link external AI agents-such as Anthropic’s Claude or coding agent Cursor-to a dedicated investment account. Within that account, the AI can access allocated funds and execute stock trades based on user instructions. Users can provide detailed prompts - directing the agent to identify investment opportunities by analyzing startup funding, deal activity,...

Google's New Quantum Research Reignites Push To Harden Bitcoin Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, A new research paper from Google has intensified debate over whether Bitcoin can adapt in time to withstand advances in quantum computing, pushing developers and investors to confront a risk long treated as theoretical. Google’s quantum division said this week in a new whitepaper that future machines could break widely used encryption far more efficiently than previously estimated, including the elliptic curve cryptography that underpins Bitcoin wallets.  The research suggests attacks that once appeared decades away may arrive sooner, with some...