Safe is charging users to delete their own crypto wallets while CoreWeave faces a 60% default risk on its AI infrastructure bet. Meanwhile Google expands its Shopping Graph tracking system across the web, turning basic privacy into a premium feature.
The cost of solar panels crashed, but solar farms are still expensive and slow to build—turns out, we've been optimizing for the wrong century.
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Two colliding policy events are about to tell us whether crypto is a real asset class or just another risk-off trade. Bitcoin dropped toward $77,800 as the Senate prepares to vote on the CLARITY Act, while traders price in a near-certain Fed rate hike with odds hitting 60% after strong jobs data
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The world's leading AI labs are meeting in secret to write safety rules, while the US president tells them to ignore safety and beat China instead.
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While CEOs debate slowing down AI and markets panic, the guy selling the shovels says the gold rush isn't stopping. Digital Realty's CEO maintains data center demand will stay strong even as AI development faces pressure to slow, revealing a disconnect between narrative and infrastructure reality
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The robot knows when you're coming and it's programmed to play dead—which tells you everything about where humanoid deployment actually is. Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid designed to detect nearby humans, slow down, and power down completely if approached too closely
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The leaders who built the arms are now asking to lock them up together, but they forgot to invite the guy with the biggest factory. Three major AI labs reportedly agreed to slow development, but a simulated AI-created WeChat bug demonstrates why this won't work without China at the table
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Tech companies keep building AI despite years of warnings from skeptics while Grab drops nearly 1.5 billion to dominate lending across Southeast Asia. Meanwhile the DOJ just exposed how Iranian oil money moved through Binance, proving crypto remains a playground for enf
The people who helped build AI safety infrastructure are now selling it like insurance policies — and VCs just wrote a $40M check to bet they're right.
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Super apps don't acquire fintech companies to offer better checkout. They do it to own the money itself. Grab is acquiring a majority stake in Atome Financial, a Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform, for $1.49 billion
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The loudest alarm bells in tech history have barely caused a speed bump, and now even the people building the machines are walking out the door.
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The DOJ just traced $61 million through Binance to prove crypto can launder Iranian oil money, and the real target isn't the money at all.
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The AI infrastructure war just got a new front: stranded energy meets search. Crusoe Energy, the data center operator that turns flared natural gas into compute, signed a multiyear cloud deal with Perplexity AI to provide GPU capacity for the AI search company's models
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A Wall Street bank just called a layer-2 token "the blockchain for TradFi" and bet it goes up 7,000%, which tells you more about where institutions think this is heading than any conference keynote ever will.
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Prediction markets just called the Senate's bluff before the vote even happened. Bitcoin dropped 3% from $79,530 to around $76,862 ahead of a Senate procedural vote on the Clarity Act, a crypto market structure bill
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The billable hour just hired its own undertaker. OpenAI made Telon, a six-month-old London startup, a "select partner" to embed "legal engineers" inside law firms — mostly ex-lawyers who configure models, write prompts, and train attorneys to use AI
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The SEO playbook just expired — and Profound raised nearly $200 million to write the new one. Profound closed $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation, led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, to help brands optimize for AI search engines instead of Google
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The AI safety debate just got louder, but it's still asking the wrong questions about who's building what and who pays when it breaks.
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A Bitcoin treasury company wants to buy a gold dealer to fund more Bitcoin purchases, which is either brilliant arbitrage or the world's most on-the-nose metaphor for the store-of-value transition.
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The pipes matter more than the water flowing through them—and someone just raised $20 million to prove it. Fin.com exits stealth with $20M seed funding from Expa and Coinbase Ventures to build global stablecoin settlement infrastructure
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