AI's intellectual property crisis hits hard as China's DeepSeek faces theft allegations, OpenAI drops $30 billion on Georgia data centers, and Anthropic's massive settlement establishes the first real price tag for training data. The industry's legal and ethical foundat
A public university just turned $20 million into what could become the greatest endowment ROI in higher ed history, and the playbook was simpler than anyone wants to admit.
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Crypto exchanges are quietly becoming banks, and the federal government is letting them. Kraken's parent company Payward has applied for a national trust charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, seeking to establish Payward National Trust Company (PNTC).
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The ghost of Libra just walked back into the room, and this time it's wearing a third-party issuer costume. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg questioning Meta's stablecoin plans after the company began a small rollout to creators in Colombia and the Philippines last week.
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The AlphaFold company is about to become one of the most valuable drug discovery startups in history without a single drug on the market. Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind's AI drug discovery spinout, is raising over $2 billion in what would be one of the largest biotech AI rounds ever
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The first stablecoin built specifically for AI agents just went live, which means we're about to find out if machines care about transaction fees. Exodus launched XO Cash, a stablecoin on Solana designed for AI agent transactions with built-in spending controls
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While everyone watches Nvidia's lead, Arm just proved you can win the AI infrastructure war without selling GPUs. Arm's AI chip sales jumped 40% as data centers adopt its architecture, offsetting a smartphone market slump
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The trade-off is already here: companies get AI superpowers, junior workers get underemployment. Uber is slowing hiring to fund AI investment, with autonomous agents now producing 10% of the company's code changes
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Wall Street's tokenization infrastructure is finally moving from PowerPoints to production settlements, and the market is pricing in what happens when the rails go live.
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The institutions that tamed Bitcoin with ETFs are now shopping for the rest of the crypto stack. Institutional capital is flooding back into crypto, but Bitcoin ETFs are just the entry point, not the destination.
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The nuclear plant that defined America's energy fear is being reborn to feed our AI addiction. Three Mile Island is restarting mid-2027 to power Microsoft's AI workloads, marking the first time the infamous reactor site returns to service since the 1979 partial meltdown.
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The best engineers are starting to worry they can't tell the difference between code that works and code that just looks like it works.
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The gap between quote request and closed deal is measured in weeks, and every day of it bleeds money and credibility. Emanate is building AI agents specifically for industrial materials sales — steel, aluminum, pipes, wire — where quote generation alone takes 3-4 weeks
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Mozilla just shipped more security fixes in one month than it did in the previous three combined, and the company credits an AI model most developers can't even touch yet.
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While the crypto world debates which chain is fastest, Zcash just drew a line in the sand: quantum resistance isn't a someday problem, it's a next-month deliverable.
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Bitcoin miners are becoming data centers faster than data centers became cloud providers. TeraWulf reported $21 million in HPC revenue in Q1, the first time high-performance computing income exceeded bitcoin mining for the company
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The hyperscalers just lost their first billion-dollar customer to the edge. Akamai landed a $1.8 billion AI cloud contract, client undisclosed, signaling enterprise appetite for alternatives to AWS/Azure/GCP
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The billionaire running for California governor just promised government jobs to everyone AI replaces, which is either the boldest labor policy in a generation or proof that panic makes for terrible economics.
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The people who wanted to replace God with GPUs are now asking rabbis and imams for product feedback. OpenAI and Anthropic joined religious leaders at the first "Faith-AI Covenant" roundtable in New York, organized by the Geneva-based Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities
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The first wave of AI layoffs isn't about robots stealing jobs — it's about executives using "efficiency" as cover for cuts they were already planning.
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NVIDIA dropped $3.4 billion to transform a Bitcoin miner into an AI data center while Google handed its ad legends AI tools and pushed their work straight to production. Meanwhile Silicon Valley's luxury food experiments reveal something bigger than fancy taste tests.