Trump scraps Biden's AI safety order while demanding tech companies share models before launch, as researchers find AI can exploit code faster than humans. Meanwhile Coinbase makes headlines buying $22 million in crypto directly from the open market like any retail trad
Bitcoin just shrugged off a $14 billion DeFi panic while Goldman Sachs quietly filed to sell yield on the volatility. Bitcoin held above $76,000 while DeFi suffered a $14 billion exodus after the KelpDAO hack, one of 2026's largest exploits
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The AI boom just ran into concrete walls—literally—and now your old cubicle farm might become someone's apartment. PGIM's real estate chief says AI data center buildout is hitting physical infrastructure limits, while housing supply remains a "serious" issue
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Bybit just wrote an eight-figure check for a Malaysian crypto exchange you've never heard of, and that tells you more about where digital asset infrastructure is moving than another Bitcoin ETF ever could.
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Meta just poached three more engineers from Mira Murati's $12 billion startup, bringing the total raid to eight people in under a year. Meta hired two founding members and one senior researcher from Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that raised $2 billion last year
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Amazon just bought itself a seat at the AI safety table for $5 billion, with another $20 billion in the chamber and a $100 billion cloud lock-in attached. Amazon invests $5B in Anthropic with rights to deploy up to $20B more, while Anthropic commits to $100B in AWS spending over ten years
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North Korea stole $2 billion from crypto protocols in 2025, and the pace is accelerating in 2026. Over $500 million drained from Drift and Kelp protocols in two weeks, signaling a shift from isolated breaches to sustained campaigns
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Google's about to ship chips that do the one thing Nvidia charges the most for: making AI actually answer your questions.
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Tether just bought a piece of the machinery that keeps Bitcoin running, and it's not done shopping. Tether acquired an 8.2% stake in Antalpha, a Bitcoin mining finance platform The move extends Tether's buying spree into crypto infrastructure, on the same day it announced an investment in Kaio
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Amazon just went from Anthropic's biggest investor to something that looks a lot more like owner. Amazon is putting another $5 billion into Anthropic, with plans to scale that to $20 billion total over time
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A Chinese humanoid robot just ran a half-marathon seven minutes faster than the world record, and the most interesting part isn't the speed. A red humanoid robot completed a 21km half-marathon in Beijing in 50:26, beating the human world record by seven minutes
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Seventeen AI marketing startups just showed their cards, and they're all betting you'll pay millions to never hire another agency.
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Episode 3 — 10 stories from the week in AI, crypto, and Web3.
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Ripple just put a clock on quantum computing's threat to crypto, and the countdown ends in 2028. Ripple launched a quantum readiness roadmap for XRP Ledger with a target completion date of 2028, treating quantum computing as a "credible" threat, not theoretical vapor.
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Polymarket just went from crypto curiosity to Wall Street darling, and now it wants another $400 million to prove prediction markets can eat the financial world.
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France summoned Elon Musk over Grok's deepfake problem and he ghosted them. French prosecutors investigating Grok for generating explicit deepfakes and Holocaust denial content summoned Musk, who didn't show
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Tether just wrote an $8 million check to make UAE institutional capital flow on blockchain rails, and it's the clearest signal yet that tokenization is moving from PowerPoint to production.
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The AI layoff wave just got a name: 8% of all job cuts this year now cite "AI efficiencies" as the reason, and the gap between hype and reality is starting to show.
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A former Kleiner Perkins partner who helped close Google's Series A just said the VC playbook he helped write is broken.
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A high-frequency trading giant just bought a seat at the crypto-AI table, and it says more about where institutions think liquidity is going than any conference keynote ever could. Optiver, a major market-making firm, took an equity stake in Eden Block, a VC focused on crypto and AI startups
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