Walter Schulze

Walter Schulze · May 25, 2026 · 9:35 AM

Pope Leo brings Silicon Valley into the AI ethics fight

Pope Leo XIV is preparing to release his first encyclical on artificial intelligence with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah among the speakers. The move puts the Vatican more directly into the global AI governance debate and gives founders a new soft-power signal to watch.

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Walter Schulze · May 25, 2026 · 6:54 AM

Meta’s AI reset now has Zuckerberg admitting the risk is real.

Meta is cutting about 8,000 jobs while moving thousands of employees into AI-focused roles. Zuckerberg’s warning that success is not guaranteed shows how much execution risk sits behind even the best-funded AI strategies.

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Walter Schulze · May 25, 2026 · 2:17 AM

Palantir's USDA contract puts federal worker monitoring on the AI map

Palantir's initial USDA contract is worth $3.9 million, with a potential value of $13.3 million, but its significance is larger than the award size. The deal shows how AI-enabled workforce analytics could become a standard tool for federal return-to-office enforcement.

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 11:14 PM

The ECB wants banks to treat AI cyber risk as urgent.

The ECB is pushing euro area banks to prepare for AI-assisted cyberattacks after warnings around Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. The message is clear: AI adoption now brings a sharper compliance and operational resilience test for lenders.

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 7:23 PM

Hidden audio commands expose a new weak point in voice AI

Researchers have shown that hidden audio signals can manipulate voice AI systems into taking unauthorized actions. The finding raises a practical security issue for startups building voice agents, meeting assistants and autonomous AI tools that process audio.

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 2:48 PM

AI has reached its COVID shutdown moment for office work

AI is moving from productivity promise to workforce restructuring. The clearest signal is not just layoffs, but the pressure on junior roles and the shift of capital from payroll into AI infrastructure.

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 12:06 PM

Solana builders are moving faster than the SOL price suggests

Solana’s Frontier Hackathon closed with 2,857 submissions, giving the ecosystem a record developer signal while SOL trades in a weaker range. The key question now is which projects can move from hackathon prototypes into real products.

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 6:31 AM

Putting The Senses In AI

Putting The Senses In AI

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 4:50 AM

Strategy may sell Bitcoin before 2026 ends.

Michael Saylor has said it is not unlikely that Strategy sells some Bitcoin before the end of 2026. The shift does not end the company's Bitcoin thesis, but it forces investors to judge the model by balance sheet discipline, not just accumulation.

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Walter Schulze · May 24, 2026 · 2:09 AM

Anthropic says Mythos has found more than 10,000 software flaws

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has helped Project Glasswing partners find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities. The result points to a new market reality where AI can find bugs faster than companies and open-source maintainers can validate and patch them.

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Walter Schulze · May 23, 2026 · 11:41 PM

Grab and RSM join Singapore drive to lift 12,000 SMEs into AI and cyber readiness

Grab and RSM Stone Forest IT will support 12,000 Singapore SMEs with AI training and cyber resilience under IMDA's Digital Enterprise Blueprint, expanding the programme's partner roster to 15 and pushing DEB toward its 50,000 SME target by 2029.

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Walter Schulze · May 23, 2026 · 7:15 PM

Megalodon shows startups must treat CI pipelines as production assets

Megalodon compromised 5,561 GitHub repositories by targeting CI/CD workflows rather than finished software. For startups, the attack shows why build pipelines, secrets and workflow permissions now need the same discipline as production systems.

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Walter Schulze · May 23, 2026 · 2:39 PM

Data center opposition is becoming a founder risk

National polling shows broad opposition to AI data centers, with women expressing especially strong concern. For founders and investors, local consent is becoming a real constraint on site selection, permitting and infrastructure timelines.

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Walter Schulze · May 23, 2026 · 10:25 AM

Google's search appeal keeps AI challengers waiting.

Google has appealed the landmark U.S. ruling that found it illegally maintained monopolies in search and search advertising. The case could decide whether AI search rivals get meaningful access to distribution and data, or whether they must compete with Google largely on their own.

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Walter Schulze · May 23, 2026 · 8:08 AM

MoonPay brings crypto buying inside ChatGPT.

MoonPay is now live inside ChatGPT Apps, giving users a way to begin crypto purchases from inside the conversation. The move shows how AI app directories could become a new distribution channel for crypto on-ramps and embedded finance.

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Walter Schulze · May 23, 2026 · 5:50 AM

Micron brings advanced U.S. memory production into the AI supply race

Micron has started 1-alpha DRAM manufacturing at its Manassas, Virginia fab as part of a larger U.S. expansion plan. The move strengthens domestic memory supply, but AI demand is still moving faster than new semiconductor capacity can realistically arrive.

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