Trump scraps Biden's AI safety order just as new research shows models can find system exploits faster than human hackers. Meanwhile Coinbase makes waves buying crypto on the open market and the administration pushes companies to give government early access to AI model
Tether just cut a $127.5 million check to bail out a hacked Solana DEX, and all it cost was Circle losing its biggest on-chain derivatives platform. Drift Protocol secured up to $127.5 million from Tether to recover user funds after a ~$270-280 million exploit on April 1
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Canva just turned 135 million users into agent orchestrators, and most of them don't even know what that means yet. Canva AI 2.0 launches with a unified conversational interface that routes natural language requests across the platform's entire tool suite
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Demis Hassabis built an AI to beat his five-year-old brother at Othello in 1988, then spent 35 years turning that childhood trick into the infrastructure running Google's bet on the agent economy.
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The training wheels for physical AI just got $8.5 million in funding, and it's not about better robots—it's about making robot builders less rare.
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AI hype meets fiscal reality as schools discover their tech budgets can't keep pace with promises. Meanwhile Bitcoin traders short the rally just as seasonal patterns historically turn bullish, and the battle for multilingual AI heats up as thousands of languages fight
The UK just opened the rulebook for crypto's next chapter, and they're asking the industry to write it with them. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority launched a consultation seeking feedback on how it will interpret and enforce crypto regulations set to take effect in October 2027.
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Bitcoin traders are betting against the rally, and history says that's exactly when the rally begins. Bitcoin's 30-day average funding rate has been negative for 46 consecutive days, matching the duration seen at the 2022 bear market bottom
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Public schools are so broke they're buying AI to tell them how broke they are. Broward County Public Schools in Florida faces a $100 million budget shortfall driven by declining enrollment, and they're turning to AI systems to identify cost savings and optimize spending.
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Retail traders just turned TSMC into a referendum on whether the AI boom is real or another hype cycle that dies when the Fed stops printing. TSMC shares hit record highs driven by retail investor buying frenzy, not just institutional money
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English captured AI's first wave by accident—web scraping favored the dominant internet language—but the economics are finally cracking open to let everyone else in.
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The AI layoff announcement has become so formulaic that someone literally made a Mad Libs template for it. Snap just cut 16% of its workforce, citing "rapid advancements" in AI. Block cut nearly half its staff. Atlassian cut 10%. The announcements sound identical.
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Morgan Stanley just launched the cheapest Bitcoin ETF in history and pulled $100 million in six trading days, proving Wall Street still has moves left in the crypto race.
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South Korea is replacing government credit cards with programmable money, and they're testing it this year. South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy is launching a pilot to replace government expense credit cards with blockchain-based deposit tokens in Q4 2026.
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Circle's CEO just called China's shot on a yuan stablecoin, and the timeline is shorter than you think. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire sees China launching a yuan-pegged stablecoin within 3 to 5 years, calling it a "tremendous opportunity" for global yuan distribution
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Alibaba is jumping into the robot hardware game with a four-legged machine, because apparently selling everything online wasn't enough. Alibaba is launching its first robot, a four-legged device entering China's packed robotics market
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Bitcoin whales just made their biggest buy in over a decade while short-term holders panic-sold to exchanges. Whales accumulated 270,000 BTC in the largest buying spree since 2013, tightening supply Meanwhile, short-term holders moved 60,000 BTC to exchanges, the highest outflow since February
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Anthropic is weaponizing AI model scarcity, and UK banks are about to find out if the cybersecurity story was real or just clever gatekeeping.
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TSMC confirms the AI chip boom will run hot through 2026 while Nvidia's CEO admits export controls didn't work and China already has what it needs for frontier AI. Plus a crypto political action committee just spent 8 million dollars trying to end a senator's career.
The S&P 500 just hit a record high, but crypto's options traders are still paying up for crash insurance. Bitcoin held steady while the S&P 500 reached all-time highs, but derivatives markets tell a different story than the headline index
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The companies that make the machines that make AI chips just told us the boom isn't slowing down, it's accelerating through 2026. TSMC raised its 2026 revenue outlook and beat profit estimates, signaling AI chip demand survived Middle East conflict concerns
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