Judith Murphy

Judith Murphy is a financial journalist and market analyst covering AI, technology stocks, and emerging market trends. She has contributed to multiple financial publications and brings a data-driven approach to her coverage of the technology sector and its impact on global markets.

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Judith Murphy · Apr 17, 2026 · 5:57 PM

Wells Fargo sees gold hitting $8,000 by 2027 as the metal shifts from hedge to portfolio anchor

Wells Fargo has revised its long-term gold outlook, projecting the commodity could reach $8,000 per ounce by 2027 in an upside scenario. The bank's investment strategy team argues gold is transitioning from a crisis hedge to a structural portfolio anchor, driven by sticky inflation, de-dollarization, and surging central bank accumulation. The report triggered immediate volume spikes in gold ETFs and mining stocks and reignited debate over how far the current bull market has left to run.

Judith Murphy · Apr 17, 2026 · 9:37 AM

Retail traders are asking if gold can hit 4100 again and the answer is more complicated than the charts suggest

Gold futures are challenging $3,000 per ounce in April 2026, and retail traders are openly asking whether the metal can revisit the $4,100 level that has become a reference point in commodity trading circles. The structural drivers , central bank diversification, sticky inflation, and a breakdown in gold's traditional inverse relationship with real yields , suggest the rally has fundamental legs. But the moment retail sentiment starts treating a prior high as a foregone destination is precisely

Judith Murphy · Apr 17, 2026 · 7:01 AM

OpenAI's Codex is now something anyone with a ChatGPT account can actually use without touching a terminal

A ten-step plain-language Codex guide has gone viral on Reddit and X, clearing 50,000 upvotes in twelve hours and showing non-technical professionals how to build software and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. The guide requires no terminal, no coding knowledge, and no separate tools. It signals a meaningful shift in who gets to use advanced AI capabilities and how quickly they can start.

Judith Murphy · Apr 17, 2026 · 4:00 AM

Developers are begging Google to open source its legacy AI models and honestly they have a point

Developers and researchers are publicly pressuring Google to open source Imagen (2022) and the Gemini 1.0 series, arguing the models have no remaining commercial value worth protecting. With Meta's open-source releases commoditizing the LLM market and Gemini 2.0 now the active product line, the case for keeping legacy weights locked is eroding fast. The debate reflects a widening strategic gap between Google's closed-model posture and the open-source ecosystem it is losing influence over.

Judith Murphy · Apr 17, 2026 · 2:00 AM

GPT-Rosalind launches as the first large language model built from the ground up for life sciences research

HelixGen AI has launched GPT-Rosalind, a large language model built specifically for life sciences research, trained on 200 billion tokens from scientific literature, genomic databases, and patent libraries. The model achieved 92.4% accuracy on the MedQA benchmark and cut hallucination rates in drug interaction summaries by 40%. Early beta partners reported reducing literature review timelines from three weeks to under three days.

Judith Murphy · Apr 17, 2026 · 1:00 AM

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 benchmarks confirm the company's most capable model yet and pile pressure on OpenAI and Google

Anthropic released the technical report and benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, posting a 92.4% MMLU score that surpasses OpenAI's GPT-4.5 and a 96.8% HumanEval pass rate. The model extends its context window to one million tokens and cuts latency by 40%, while Anthropic frames the release firmly around agentic and computer-use capabilities. Secondary markets pushed the company's valuation past $45 billion within hours of publication.

Judith Murphy · Apr 16, 2026 · 11:21 PM

Anthropic's new ID and facial scan requirement for Claude is pushing privacy-conscious users toward local AI models

Anthropic has rolled out biometric identity verification requirements for access to its most powerful Claude models, demanding government-issued ID and a facial recognition scan. The move has sparked significant backlash and is accelerating developer interest in locally-run open-source AI models as a privacy alternative. It places Anthropic alone among major AI providers in mandating this level of user identification.

Judith Murphy · Apr 16, 2026 · 9:31 PM

Subtle signals in Anthropic's API suggest a Claude Opus 4.7 may have arrived without fanfare

Developers and API watchers are reporting measurable behavioral shifts in Anthropic's Opus 4 model endpoint that weren't present last week, with improved reasoning and instruction-following pointing to a possible unannounced Claude Opus 4.7 rollout. Anthropic has not confirmed any update, but the pattern mirrors how the company has handled quieter model deployments before. The absence of any regression reports and the consistency of positive signals across independent testers makes the theory di

Judith Murphy · Apr 16, 2026 · 6:31 PM

Solana memecoin traders are betting on a fresh supercycle as on-chain signals flash green

Judith Murphy · Apr 16, 2026 · 10:37 AM

Mark Zuckerberg has moved his desk into Meta's AI lab and is reportedly building an AI version of himself to handle the meetings he no longer attends

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has moved his desk into the company's AI lab, coding daily alongside Superintelligence Labs co-leads Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman. The move follows a sweeping restructuring that cost $15 billion and produced Muse Spark, Meta's first major model release in the new era, which lifted the company's stock 8% last week. Meta is also reportedly building an AI version of Zuckerberg to handle meetings he no longer has time for.

Judith Murphy · Apr 16, 2026 · 5:45 AM

77-Bit promised a Web3 gaming future and delivered an indefinite pause after burning through five years of development and community trust

77-Bit, a Web3 game five years in development with a million players, has suspended operations indefinitely after running out of money despite generating NFT revenue. The founder laid off most of the team and is now seeking $500K to $1M from investors while a skeleton crew maintains the project's on-chain infrastructure. The collapse raises hard questions about technical execution, community trust, and what comes next for a project that sold a future it could not yet build.

Judith Murphy · Apr 16, 2026 · 2:21 AM

US lawyers are warning clients that confiding in AI chatbots could become their biggest legal liability

US attorneys are warning clients that sharing sensitive information with consumer AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini carries real legal risk, because those conversations are not protected by attorney-client privilege and could be subpoenaed. Unlike communications with a licensed lawyer, AI chat logs fall under provider terms of service and may be retained for model training by default. The advisory is accelerating demand for enterprise AI tools that contractually guarantee data isolation and ze

Judith Murphy · Apr 15, 2026 · 9:51 PM

New study reveals AI chatbots misdiagnose early stage medical cases in 82% of tests

A new study by the Digital Health Safety Council reveals that leading AI chatbots misdiagnose early-stage medical cases in 82% of tests, with 22% of cases resulting in a confident but directly opposite diagnosis. Following the report, telehealth stocks dropped 9% as regulators prepare to enforce stricter medical device oversight.

Judith Murphy · Apr 15, 2026 · 5:21 PM

Changpeng Zhao publishes his memoir and dares the crypto world to see him whole again

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has released a memoir detailing the exchange's rise to dominance, his 2023 guilty plea, and his time inside a federal prison. The book frames his acceptance of a $50 million personal fine and a $4.3 billion Binance settlement as an act of user protection, and signals his intent to remain a vocal presence in the crypto ecosystem.

Judith Murphy · Apr 15, 2026 · 3:11 PM

Tether launches People's Wallet to bring USDT into everyday hands as it eyes the retail payments market

Tether has launched People's Wallet, a non-custodial iOS and Android app integrating its Hadron AI assistant for natural language transaction management. The app supports USDT, EUR₮, and Tether Gold with zero-fee peer-to-peer transfers via an off-chain settlement layer. The move places Tether in direct competition with MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet while signaling broader ambitions to position USDT as a retail spending currency.

Judith Murphy · Apr 15, 2026 · 2:26 PM

OpenAI's $852 billion valuation is drawing quiet skepticism from investors as the company races to prove its enterprise bet can outrun Anthropic

OpenAI's $852 billion valuation is drawing skepticism from a segment of its own investors as the company pivots aggressively toward enterprise customers and faces mounting competition from Anthropic, whose Claude models are making serious inroads in regulated industries. With high burn rates and a business model in transition, the question is whether OpenAI can convert its brand dominance into sticky enterprise revenue before the valuation narrative unravels.