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Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.
Reach him at jose@decrypt.co

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

  • Anthropic's Claude AI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.0 Are Impressive, But Be Prepared to Sell a Kidney to Afford Them

    Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on Monday, promising AI models that can turn a handful of instructions into working software, design physical objects, and tackle research problems that previously required teams of specialists. You can now ask a chatbot to build the app you've always wanted. You may also need to sell a kidney to pay for it. That's not because every prompt costs thousands of dollars. It's because Fable can keep working for days, writing code, testing it, and fix...

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    AI Data Centers Are Buying Used Jet Engines as New Power Turbines Take Six Years

    AI data-center developers are hunting for used gas turbines and retired jet engines because ordering brand-new power equipment could leave their servers waiting for electricity until the next decade. Some companies are buying refurbished machines, while others are converting aircraft-engine technology into generators that can run alongside their computing facilities. New gas turbines now take an average of six years to deliver in the United States, according to energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie....

  • Google. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Google Takes Aim at Nvidia With New AI Chips Built for Privacy and Massive Memory

    Google unveiled two artificial intelligence computing systems Monday, challenging Nvidia with chips built for privacy and memory-intensive AI. The TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max join Google’s eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit lineup, giving businesses four configurations for training and running AI models. Google says it serves nearly 100 TPU customers, from AI labs to universities. Unlike Nvidia’s widely used graphics processing units, TPUs are purpose-built AI accelerators. Google developed the...

  • Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin in Limbo as Stocks Rebound Ahead of US Inflation Report

    After a tumultuous week across traditional and digital asset markets, Bitcoin has returned to prices last seen in early August, when the cryptocurrency mounted an impressive 25% gain in a single month. This time, though, $75,000 looks a bit different for crypto investors, now that BTC is on the way back down. So where does Bitcoin go next? Here’s what the charts look like. U.S. stocks rebounded Monday as oil prices fell, with the S&P 500 up 1.9% and the Nasdaq Composite up 2.2% by 11:30 a.m. Eas...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Nvidia's $350 Billion Scare: What Happens If Jensen Huang Leaves?

    Nvidia shares plunged as much as 8% Monday, briefly threatening to erase roughly $350 billion in market value as investors weighed the possibility that CEO Jensen Huang could lose his job over an alleged Chinese intelligence operation. For a company that has become the face of the artificial intelligence boom, that's a rather expensive scandal. And the investigation is just getting started. Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation following reports that Huang had a romantic relationshi...

    NewsBusiness
    6 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Quantum computing. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    This Bitcoin Developer’s Idea Would Make Quantum Attacks a Losing Bet

    Bitcoin developer Cory Fields has an unusual idea for dealing with future quantum thieves: Make them risk their own Bitcoin every time they try to steal someone else’s. In a November 4 post to the Bitcoin development mailing list, Fields outlined “quantum landmines” and two types of auctions designed to turn attacks on vulnerable wallets into expensive gambles. He called the ideas “thought experiments,” not a completed Bitcoin upgrade. Bitcoin owners use a secret private key to authorize transa...

    NewsTechnology
    5 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Another bursting bubble? Image: Shutterstock

    AI Chip Stocks Bounce After Global Rout—But Is the Bubble Starting to Burst?

    AI stocks staged a comeback Friday after a rout that swept from Wall Street to Asia. But a single green session hardly settles the bigger question for investors heading into the weekend: Is this an overdue correction, or the beginning of an AI bubble bursting? Nvidia rose 2.78% to $186.64, after plunging 9.3% this Thursday. AMD also bounced to $449.04 following a 17.3% collapse a day earlier. Both stocks remain well below their October peaks, showing how little a sharp relief rally can repair. N...

    NewsBusiness
    5 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin is the leading crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Greece Passes Crypto Tax Law With 10% Gains Levy, 15% on Staking and DeFi

    Greece's parliament passed a bill Thursday imposing a 10% capital-gains tax on cryptocurrency profits, marking a shift from a proposal discussed in October to legislation approved by lawmakers. The measure also puts a 15% tax on income from staking, crypto lending and decentralized finance, or DeFi. The legislation’s crypto provisions sit inside a wider Finance Ministry package dealing with debt servicing, financial oversight, and government accounting, with the new crypto income-tax rules sched...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • The flag of Paraguay. Image: Unsplash

    Paraguay Protests Over Bank Lockout Intensify as Impeachment Vote Nears

    Thousands of Paraguayans marched through Asunción this week demanding their money back after Ueno Bank, a digital lender, locked about 3 million customers out of their accounts, according. That is about 60% of Paraguay’s adults. The bank also held $800 million to $850 million in public money, including state pension and health funds, according to the AP, so the fallout reaches the pension system. Anger boiled over Thursday night outside Ueno’s headquarters in Asunción, where savers burned debit...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin ETF. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $430 Million as Tech Rout Tests Wall Street Buyers

    U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds lost $430.2 million to net withdrawals Thursday as a technology-stock selloff spread to crypto, with Fidelity and BlackRock leading the exits. Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) posted $199.9 million in net outflows and BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) shed $105 million, according to Farside Investors. Together they accounted for about 71% of the day's withdrawals. Grayscale's GBTC lost another $49.9 million, while Franklin Templeton's EZBC...

    NewsMarkets
    2 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Trading. Image: Decrypt

    Crypto Liquidations Top $1 Billion as Bitcoin Tests 11-Week Low

    Bitcoin is trading near $75,570 on Friday after touching $74,780.91 today; its lowest intraday reading since August 21, 77 days earlier. The crypto market retreat followed a brutal selloff in AI stocks and another round of forced closures in derivatives markets. According to CoinGlass data, $1.05 billion in crypto have been liquidated over the preceding 24 hours. Long positions, which profit when prices rise, accounted for $930.04 million, or 88.2%, compared with $124.69 million in shorts.  Tha...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Anthropic. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Claude Gets Personal Finance—Anthony Pompliano Accuses Anthropic of Copying His Startup

    Anthropic launched a personal finance feature for Claude on Thursday, letting users connect bank accounts and ask the chatbot what they have spent, what bills are due, and how much money they have left. The announcement came with an accusation from crypto investor Anthony Pompliano, who says Anthropic tried to get inside information from his competing startup, Silvia, months before the rollout. The new feature, called Personal Finance, is rolling out in beta to U.S. subscribers on Claude's Pro,...

  • Paraguayan President Santiago Peña. Photo: Santiago Peña

    Bitcoin Fixes This? Paraguay President Resigns After Bank Lockout Hits 60% of Country

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña announced his resignation Thursday after the collapse of digital lender Ueno Bank left roughly three million customers unable to access their accounts, turning a banking failure into a political emergency. The announcement did not end the confrontation. Paraguay’s lower house voted 78-0 to impeach Peña minutes later, sending the charges to the Senate as Vice President Pedro Alliana prepared to take over, per AP. The bank’s shutdown has also revived an argument...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Decypt/Shutterstock

    OpenAI Promises to Foot AI’s Power Bill After Voter Revolt. Who Enforces It?

    OpenAI promised Thursday that neighbors of its future AI campuses won't foot the bill for their electricity needs, two days after voters dealt data center expansion a blow at the polls. It also pledged public energy and water figures and limits on secrecy agreements with officials. Its National Community Compact covers future campuses (a fancy rebranding for the term AI data centers) OpenAI both owns and operates, according to the company’s announcement. A separate policy blueprint asks legislat...

  • Bitcoin and Brazil. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Mercado Bitcoin Said Its Hack Was Contained, But Blockchain Data Tells a Different Story

    An attacker drained Mercado Bitcoin-linked deposit addresses nearly four hours after the Brazilian exchange said it had contained a security breach, new blockchain research shows. Bitquery's analysis, updated Thursday, traces more than $48 million in stolen assets across 11 blockchains. Its findings challenge the exchange's claim that it stopped the attack quickly. The Bitcoin exchange announced at 9:56 a.m. Brazil time on November 2 that it had quickly contained the incident. Bitquery says 36,0...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Zcash. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Zcash Upgrade Could Lock $16 Million in Crypto Forever

    Zcash is preparing to shut down its oldest privacy technology, potentially leaving millions of dollars in cryptocurrency inaccessible to their owners—even if they still have the passwords and private keys needed to access their wallets. Approximately 12,224 ZEC remain in Sprout, the cryptocurrency's original privacy pool, according to ZecStats data updated Thursday. At recent market prices, those holdings represent roughly $15 million to $16 million that could become effectively frozen when the...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    OpenAI Found 948 Linux Security Flaws—And Figured Out How to Exploit Them

    OpenAI says its autonomous security agents discovered 948 distinct vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, developed working exploits and drafted fixes for review—all for roughly $1.2 million in API credits. “We chose Linux to study how effectively frontier models could find vulnerabilities and demonstrate their security impact in a codebase of this scale and importance,” OpenAI said in results published Wednesday.  The Linux kernel powers cloud servers, Android devices and much of the world's cri...

  • Financial stock exchange market display screen board on the street. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    S&P 500 Plunges, Wall Street Fears Circuit Breaker, Just One Day After Trump Celebrated Record Highs

    President Donald Trump's celebration of Wall Street's highs aged rather poorly. Less than 24 hours after boasting about Americans' retirement accounts going "through the roof," the S&P 500 plunged as much as 3.8% Thursday, bringing emergency trading halts into the conversation. The selloff prompted traders to monitor the market's circuit-breaker thresholds, which can temporarily shut down trading across U.S. stock exchanges when losses become too severe. The S&P 500 would need to fall another 3....

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Erases Election Rally as AI Stocks Plunge, $428 Million in Crypto Longs Get Wiped Out

    Bitcoin erased Wednesday's post-election rebound Thursday as a technology stock selloff spread to cryptocurrencies, triggering hundreds of millions in forced liquidations. Bitcoin fell to about $76,500, down nearly 5% and back near levels seen before Wednesday's jump above $80,000. Ethereum shed more than 5%, while other major tokens suffered comparable losses. Roughly 90% of the top 100 cryptocurrencies were in the red during the selloff, while roughly $428 million in crypto longs were liquidat...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • ChatGPT logo on a smartphone. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    ChatGPT Is Getting a GIF Maker Powered by OpenAI's Unannounced Images 2.6 Model

    The internet may soon have an unlimited supply of AI-generated dancing cats, courtesy of ChatGPT. OpenAI is rolling out a feature that lets users generate animated GIFs directly inside ChatGPT, according to The Verge. The feature reportedly comes powered by its new image-generation model called Images 2.6, which OpenAI has yet to formally introduce through its usual product announcements.  Users can describe an animation in plain English or upload an existing photo and ask ChatGPT to bring it t...

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