Binance rolls out institutional custody that keeps massive trades off exchange wallets. Apple hits OpenAI with a lawsuit as Musk and Altman's feud goes nuclear. Plus Lorde roasts Ray-Ban's Meta glasses at their own festival.
While the S&P hits new peaks, bitcoin sits 15% off its highs, and the reason isn't what the permabulls want to hear. Bitcoin has decoupled from equities as AI hype pulls capital away from crypto, according to research from Schwab and Hashdex
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Europe's AI darling just crossed $6 billion in valuation, and unlike OpenAI, you can actually download their models and run them yourself. Mistral AI, founded in 2023 by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, has emerged as Europe's leading AI company with a hybrid open/closed model strategy
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When the face of American populism launches a token, you get the purest case study yet on whether celebrity can substitute for utility in crypto markets. Trump's TRUMP token has fallen 96% from its peak, with buyers collectively down $3.8 billion according to blockchain analytics
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The same infrastructure that made it easy for institutions to buy Bitcoin just made it equally easy for them to leave. Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $2 billion in two weeks, with BlackRock alone seeing $446M exit in a single day and $219M the following week.
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When a $26 billion AI bet gets paused because nobody bothered to check if the lights could stay on, you're watching policy theatre, not infrastructure planning.
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Britain's betting it can write the rulebook everyone else copies, but only if firms can survive the gauntlet first. The UK FCA rolled out comprehensive crypto regulations designed to position the country as a global crypto hub by prioritizing institutional adoption and cross-border liquidity
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The same community that invented transformative works is now tearing itself apart trying to define what counts as "real" writing.
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The world's biggest sporting event just became crypto's largest real-world stress test, and nobody's watching the scoreboard.
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The company that tokenizes everyone else's assets just became the first to tokenize its own on the way to a public listing. Securitize launched on the NYSE with a $266-300 million tokenized stock offering, simultaneously issuing shares on Solana and Avalanche blockchains
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The AI infrastructure gold rush just found its limiting reagent, and it's the thing covering 71% of Earth's surface.
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The retail brokerage that democratized stock trading just turned equities into ERC-20 tokens tradeable 24/7, and it pulled $50M in capital in less than a week.
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Tech giants are abandoning massive AI models after finding smaller versions deliver better results at lower costs. Bitcoin requires another trillion dollars to reach previous peak levels. UK authorities warn Instagram posts fuel child exploitation AI systems. China converts empty theaters into AI ka
When a multi-chain future loses to actually shipping, sometimes the smartest move is admitting you bet on the wrong horse. Moonbeam is fully migrating its GLMR token from Polkadot to Base, abandoning its parachain position to relaunch as an AI agent-focused network
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While everyone watched memecoins, institutions quietly moved $3.6 billion in real-world assets onto Solana — and most of it happened in the last six months.
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When blockchain sleuths think they've caught a whale moving, sometimes the whale bites back. Tim Draper denied moving 1,000 BTC to Coinbase Prime after blockchain analysts linked him to the wallet transfer
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The pendulum just swung from "use AI for everything" to "use the right AI for the right thing" — and your budget is forcing the conversation. Companies are shifting from "tokenmaxxing" (max AI usage) to "modelmaxxing" (strategic model routing) after seeing their AI bills spike in early 2026
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The real redistribution of wealth isn't happening through policy debates or Twitter rants—it's happening through wills. Americans gave a record $617 billion in 2025, with individual donations hitting $394 billion despite widespread cost-of-living anxiety
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The diminishing returns are here, and they're spectacular — in the least spectacular way possible. Bitcoin's current cycle required ~$697 billion in fresh capital to generate a 689% return, a stark contrast to earlier cycles where far less money drove gains of 2,000% to 50,000%+
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China's movie theaters are becoming AI-powered entertainment hubs because empty seats don't pay rent. China's government issued new guidelines pushing cinemas to integrate AI agents, karaoke, and coffee shops to diversify beyond traditional film screenings
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Germany just solved crypto's biggest UX problem: the part where you have to leave your bank. German banks are preparing to offer direct crypto trading to customers, eliminating the need for third-party exchanges like Coinbase or Kraken
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