Trump has made Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton his AI czar, replacing the role David Sacks held, while still opposing the federal guardrails Amodei and Altman have asked for. The Wall Street Journal frames the bill for current AI capex at 9% of US GDP, roughly what Americans spend on food. In crypto, Robinhood is launching 10x perpetuals on bitcoin and ether days after $478 million in liquidations, and crypto job postings tripled in September even as applications fell.
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- StrengthenedCybersecurity Awareness Month launches with warnings on AI-driven phishing3 outlets on 3 Oct, 4 now
Because the system involves student accounts and payment information, cybersecurity became a concern after City College was alerted to a potential network risk.
James Hall, a City College academic computing manager, said he regularly receives alerts about cybersecurity risks through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
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AI
- Trump appoints intelligence chief Jay Clayton as AI czar
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing an interview with Clayton, that the Director of National Intelligence will lead the administration's AI task force, a role previously held by David Sacks. Putting the DNI in charge frames AI as a national-security file while the White House continues to reject the regulation its own industry leaders are requesting.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton has been chosen as the Trump administration’s new AI czar, leading its response to artificial intelligence
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US President Donald Trump has appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the administration's AI czar, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing an interview with Clayton.
calls from AI leaders Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for federal guardrails on frontier AI models, Trump has so far opposed regulation
Venture capitalist David Sacks held the AI czar role at the beginning of Trump's second term.
- WSJ: AI capex only pays off if spending hits 9% of US GDP
A Wall Street Journal analysis using Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's estimates says American businesses and consumers would eventually need to spend 9% of GDP per year on AI services to justify current investment commitments. That is a food-budget share of national income for a single technology category, which sets a concrete bar the revenue of OpenAI, Anthropic and peers must clear before the capital cycle turns.
Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food.
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Believers in the artificial-intelligence boom need to take a very close look at this number: 9% of GDP.
AI's race to transform the world before the money runs out
tech startups
- Dendritic Health AI's Neural Consult reaches nearly 100,000 medical students
The UCLA-alumni-founded study app, which generates board questions and simulates clinical encounters, has nearly 100,000 users and school-specific versions for medical, PA, pharmacy and dental programs. It is a working example of vertical AI winning distribution through institutional partnerships and citation-backed output rather than a general chatbot.
Neural Consult currently has nearly 100,000 users and has partnered with medical, physician assistant, pharmacy and dental programs to create custom versions of the program
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The tool provides citations for all information it generates to minimize risks of fabricated information
- OpenPayd targets year-end Nasdaq listing; BNY talks with Kraken parent
CoinDesk reports payments firm OpenPayd is aiming for a Nasdaq listing by year-end to fund US expansion and acquisitions, alongside BNY talks with Payward on an infrastructure partnership. Crypto-adjacent fintechs are using public markets and bank tie-ups to scale, a sign the exit window for payments infrastructure startups is open despite volatile token prices.
Payments firm OpenPayd targets year-end Nasdaq listing to fund U.S. expansion and acquisitions
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BNY in talks with Kraken parent Payward over infrastructure partnership
crypto markets
- Robinhood brings 10x bitcoin and ether leverage after $478M liquidations
Robinhood is preparing US perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage on BTC and ETH and 3x on six altcoins, days after a selloff that liquidated $478 million and shed roughly $200 billion in market value. Retail leverage arriving at the moment bitcoin sits around $84,600, up a third in 90 days but down 30% on the year, raises the odds of larger forced-liquidation cascades.
Robinhood Introduces 10x Leverage on Bitcoin and Ether – What Does It Mean for a Market That Just Suffered $478 Million in Liquidations?
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although Robinhood limits the leverage on these six coins to 3x
On Friday, the crypto market shed approximately $200 billion in value
Bitcoin $84,621 +33.3% -29.8% Ether $2,683 +51.8% -38.7% Solana $119 +44.6% -46.4%
- Crypto job postings triple to 1,200 in September as applications fall
CoinDesk data show crypto job listings tripled to over 1,200 in September, led by finance, engineering and trading roles, while applicant volume declined. Hiring demand outrunning supply, against a US economy that added only 29,000 jobs, signals firms are building for institutional flows even as retail interest cools.
Crypto job postings triple to over 1,200 in September, but applications fall
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Finance, engineering and trading led hiring demand, while Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana were the most frequently requested blockchain skills.
U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rate rising to 4.2%
cybersecurity
- City College restricts printing after CISA-flagged network risk as awareness month runs
San Francisco's City College is keeping off-campus printing disabled because the system touches student accounts and payment data, after a CISA alert about a potential network risk. It shows the awareness-month warnings translating into live service restrictions at under-resourced campuses, exactly the institutions higher-ed security guidance says face the biggest device and traffic surge this term.
First reported 3 Oct · 4 outlets so farBecause the system involves student accounts and payment information, cybersecurity became a concern after City College was alerted to a potential network risk.
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James Hall, a City College academic computing manager, said he regularly receives alerts about cybersecurity risks through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
October serves as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and with the expanded ways that technology impacts our lives, it's more important than ever to
How Higher-Ed IT Teams Can Prepare for More Devices, Traffic and Risk
- M&S and Jaguar Land Rover attacks prompt debate on defence costs
A UK communications-industry piece uses the M&S and Jaguar Land Rover breaches to ask whether the cost of cyber defence is beginning to exceed the risk it mitigates. When boards start weighing defence spend against breach losses after headline incidents, budgets for security vendors become a cost-benefit argument rather than a given.
The high-profile attacks on M&S and Jaguar Land Rover vividly demonstrate the dangers
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Are the costs of defending cybersecurity starting to outweigh the risks?
Why it matters
Washington is now treating AI as an intelligence problem rather than a regulatory one: a sitting DNI running the task force, voluntary standards the president calls morally binding, and no appetite for the statutory guardrails Anthropic and OpenAI have asked for. That stance lands the same weekend the Journal quantifies what the boom requires to pay off, 9% of GDP, a number that makes today's capex look like a bet on a consumer and enterprise spending shift of historic size. Liability questions in the NYT and growing bipartisan alarm suggest the political cover for that bet is thinning even as the money keeps flowing.
Crypto is showing the same leverage-into-weakness pattern: Robinhood adds 10x perps right after a $478 million liquidation day, while employers triple hiring against a soft US labour market. In security, the stories are smaller but telling, a community college pulling a service on a CISA alert and UK commentary asking whether defence is worth the cost after M&S and JLR, both signs that breach fatigue is now shaping budgets.
What to watch
- Whether Clayton's task force produces anything beyond the voluntary standards, and whether Congress moves on the frontier-model liability questions legal scholars are flagging.
- Liquidation volumes once Robinhood's 10x BTC and ETH perpetuals go live, with bitcoin near $84,600 and still 30% below its one-year level.
- Whether OpenPayd's Nasdaq filing and the BNY-Payward talks close before year-end, which would confirm an open exit window for crypto payments infrastructure.
