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The Futurist

Saturday, May 09, 2026
AI & Technology Markets & Crypto Ideas Worth Keeping
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AI & Technology

404 Media

'HELLO BOSS': Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

404 Media obtained a copy of 'Haotian AI', a realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers that can turn fraudsters into anyone else on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams. This represents a dangerous escalation in AI-powered fraud capabilities now accessible to criminal networks worldwide.

404 Media

ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is developing smart glasses integrated with facial recognition technology. The move signals an expansion of AI surveillance tools into wearable formats for law enforcement operations.

404 Media

'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech

A Canvas hack exposed sensitive student communications including medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, and sexual assault allegations. The breach highlights the vulnerability of centralized education technology platforms handling sensitive personal data.

Simon Willison

Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

Mozilla used early access to Claude Mythos to identify and fix hundreds of security vulnerabilities in Firefox. This represents a significant case study in AI-assisted security auditing at scale.

Simon Willison

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Anthropic's Claude Code team argues for HTML over Markdown as an AI output format. The piece demonstrates how structured HTML enables more sophisticated AI-generated interfaces and interactions.

CoinDesk

SEC Chair Atkins Signals New Rules for Onchain Markets, AI-Driven Finance

The new SEC leadership is preparing regulatory frameworks for blockchain-based markets and AI-powered financial systems. This signals a shift toward more comprehensive digital asset and AI finance oversight.

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X / Twitter Signal

TradingView integrated with Claude Code is revolutionizing custom trading indicator development. What previously required hours of specialized coding knowledge can now be accomplished through natural language prompts, democratizing quantitative trading tools for retail investors.

Markdown files are emerging as a "cheat code" for AI productivity workflows. The structured format allows AI systems to better understand context and maintain consistency across complex projects, leading to significantly improved outputs.

Andrew Ng announced a new course on building AI agents that generate custom user interfaces on demand—charts, forms, and interactive elements. This represents the evolution from text-based AI interactions toward dynamic, contextual interface generation.

The "Files over apps" philosophy is gaining traction in AI workflows, with teams using Agents + MCP + Markdown + HTML as their preferred stack. This approach prioritizes data portability and interoperability over closed platform dependencies.

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The Thread

We're witnessing a fundamental shift in how AI systems interface with the world. The convergence of real-time deepfakes, smart glasses with facial recognition, and AI-generated custom interfaces signals we're entering a new phase where AI doesn't just process information—it actively shapes reality. The most concerning development isn't the technology itself, but its democratization among bad actors. While Mozilla uses Claude Mythos to secure Firefox and developers use AI to build better trading indicators, criminal networks are deploying the same underlying technology for sophisticated fraud operations.
"Files over apps" is a vibe!
The emergence of HTML as the preferred AI output format over Markdown represents more than a technical preference—it's a philosophical shift toward AI systems that generate interactive, dynamic interfaces rather than static content. When combined with the "files over apps" movement, we're seeing the early formation of a more modular, interoperable AI ecosystem. This modularity extends into financial markets, where the SEC is preparing new frameworks for AI-driven finance and onchain markets. The regulatory apparatus is finally catching up to technological reality, but the question remains whether traditional oversight mechanisms can effectively govern systems that operate at AI speed and scale.