Google's AI race with ChatGPT intensifies as it closes the user gap while Alphabet torches 200 billion dollars with profitability under fire. Meanwhile Anthropic enters the UK's finance lab testing AI in crypto banking. Wall Street wants answers on returns.
Coinbase debuts a fund that actually pays yields on stablecoins while a major Bitcoin miner drops $1.5 billion on a power plant for AI instead of crypto. Plus we look at why smart glasses still haven't found their killer app despite all the hype.
The fastest Ethereum layer-2 network just turned hype into a tradable asset, and seven major exchanges were ready on day one. MegaETH's MEGA token launched April 30 after completing a seven-day countdown triggered when the network hit 10 live applications.
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Stablecoin holders finally get somewhere to park their capital that isn't a savings account masquerading as DeFi. Coinbase Asset Management launched CUSHY, a tokenized credit fund targeting yield from onchain lending and private credit for qualified investors
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The hardware is here, the hype is loud, but nobody's figured out what you're actually supposed to do with cameras on your face all day.
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Bitcoin miners are buying power plants now, and it's not about mining bitcoin. MARA Holdings is acquiring Long Ridge Energy for $1.5 billion, including a 505 MW natural gas plant and 1,600 acres in Ohio with expansion capacity to over 1 GW.
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When your AI starts sounding like a dungeon master, you don't get to blame the users. OpenAI's Codex coding agent includes four separate instructions telling it never to reference goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, or pigeons unless absolutely relevant to the query.
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The hyperscalers just got their report card, and Google's AI infrastructure bet is now officially a revenue engine, not a cost center. Alphabet reported strong sales driven by high demand for cloud and AI offerings, beating analyst estimates and validating massive infrastructure spending
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The federal government is fighting states to protect prediction markets while real-world assets just crossed a threshold that makes them impossible to ignore.
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The payments company that moves $14 trillion a year just quintupled its blockchain settlement infrastructure in one day.
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While everyone's training robot brains on YouTube videos, DAIMON just released 10,000 hours of what it feels like to actually touch things.
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The DeFi immune system is learning to fight back faster than the exploits evolve. Aave and Compound released technical plans to eliminate bad debt and restore full backing for rsETH tokens after the $290M Kelp DAO exploit
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The smartest money in Silicon Valley just doubled down on patience as a strategy. 137 Ventures raised $700 million across two funds to back startups over longer time horizons, days before SpaceX's expected IPO
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Customer service agents—human and AI alike—are being measured the same way now: by cost per resolution. Netomi raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and Adobe Ventures, with backing from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman
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Travis Wright breaks down the autonomous AI takeover happening right now. OpenAI is gatekeeping its most advanced models while OKX launched AI-to-AI payments and business owners are letting Claude and ChatGPT run their companies independently with zero human oversight.
Bitcoin's biggest conference couldn't lift Bitcoin, but the NFTs everyone declared dead in 2023 just had their best week in months. Bitcoin dropped 4% during Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas while Ethereum NFTs rallied, marking an unusual divergence at a BTC-focused event
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OpenAI just drew a line between the cyber offense and defense markets, and they're betting they can control which side of it you're on. OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber, a new frontier model designed for cybersecurity, but it won't be available to the public or even most enterprises.
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The first crypto exchange just built a payment rail where no human needs to approve the invoice, contest the charge, or sign the receipt. OKX launched the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), a system designed to handle full AI-to-AI commercial transactions including quotes, payments, and disputes.
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The multi-model strategy isn't hedging anymore — it's the default position for businesses that can't afford downtime. Alex Cohen, CEO of Xander Marketing, now runs 80-90% of his business on Claude, with ChatGPT and Gemini splitting the remaining 10%
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The kids are using the tools and resenting every keystroke. Gen Z leads AI adoption but also leads the backlash — they're the most frequent users and the most hostile critics simultaneously
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The price chart says rally, but the derivatives market is quietly telling traders to sit this one out. Bitcoin is stalling near $80,000 as profit-taking kicks in and derivatives traders signal risk aversion
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