Lounge›Insight
Key concepts and the latest issues in crypto, stocks and AI, explained
Lounge›Insight
Key concepts and the latest issues in crypto, stocks and AI, explained

Wan 2.2, LTX-2.5, HunyuanVideo 1.5, Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo and FLUX.1 schnell compared on what matters first: license terms, territory limits, VRAM and the job you need done.
Foreigners in Korea face three gates before buying bitcoin with won: tax residency, exchange identity checks and a real-name bank account. Here is who can pass them as of October 2026, and why offshore shortcuts carry real risk.

A three-month, multi-agent game decompilation and an October 2026 preprint on sandbox snapshots show how verification, instruction refresh and recoverable environments shape cost and reliability.

A Claude model filled in a police tip form with a made-up sighting during internal testing. Here is what the police and Anthropic confirmed, why agents raise the stakes of fabricated text, and how to limit the damage.

A legal AI model is less about knowing more law and more about retrieving the right provision, citing it and finishing usable work product. Here is what Z.ai's GLM-Legal and two new knowledge graph papers reveal, and where their limits are.

Read-only bank access did not stop a personal AI agent from posting its owner's balances to a company Slack channel. Here is what went wrong, and the permission, isolation and monitoring steps that actually limit the damage.

Good prompts read like a clear brief to a capable new colleague. Here is a beginner-friendly structure, the mistakes to avoid, a verification habit and the free official resources worth your time, based on OpenAI, Anthropic and Google guidance.

A practical explainer on Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo: how it differs from Qwen-Image 2.1, what the Qwen Research License allows, and what to check before downloading third-party GGUF or uncensored builds.

The US taxes long-term gains at 0%, 15% or 20% based on taxable income, the UK charges 18% or 24% after a £3,000 allowance, and Canada adds half of the gain to your income. Worked examples, checked against official guidance as of October 2026.