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The people teaching AI how to think are about to be replaced by the AI they trained. More than 700 workers at Meta contractor Covalen in Ireland face layoffs as AI data annotation becomes automated.
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The rescue of DeFi just proved that decentralization has an off switch—and Wall Street's watching who gets to flip it. A hack at KelpDAO triggered a $10 billion bank run on Aave, forcing DeFi's largest coordinated rescue operation in history
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Michael Saylor launches an $8.5 billion Bitcoin credit product as institutions dominate crypto markets with relentless buying while retail traders face $600 million in liquidations. AI coding tools face reality checks as Poolside releases a free local model and Warp open sources its terminal. Meanwh
The company that once walked away from military contracts is now walking back in—and the people building the models aren't happy about it. Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon for military work, sparking internal employee resistance
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Saylor isn't just buying Bitcoin anymore, he's packaging it into credit products and watching retail pile in with $8.5 billion. Strategy bought 3,273 BTC for $255 million, bringing total holdings to 818,334 BTC worth roughly $63.7 billion, with BTC Yield hitting 9.6%
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While everyone's watching the price war between frontier labs, a San Francisco startup just handed developers the keys to run serious coding agents on a laptop.
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While retail traders got liquidated for $600M betting on volatility, institutions quietly bought Bitcoin every single day. Crypto ETPs pulled in $1.2B last week, with Bitcoin capturing $932.5M and breaking a four-month outflow streak
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The AI buildout isn't just eating electricity anymore—it's becoming the primary customer for the entire US power generation industry.
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A single company now controls more than 4% of all Ethereum in existence, and they're buying more while sitting on $6.5 billion in paper losses. Bitmine has accumulated 5.08 million ETH worth $13.3 billion, representing over 4% of Ethereum's total supply, with a stated goal of reaching 5% control
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The AI goldmine just got its first quarterly reality check, and the market is pricing in something worse than a miss—it's pricing in doubt.
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When your prediction market gets big enough to catch Wall Street money, you inherit Wall Street problems. Kalshi's head of enforcement says insider trading on prediction markets isn't just a regulator problem as the sector hits multibillion-dollar scale
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The biggest AI funding round of 2026 just bet against the entire premise of ChatGPT. Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1 billion to build AI systems using reinforcement learning instead of human-labeled training data
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The fastest rise to market dominance in corporate history just hit a speed bump, and the AI infrastructure bet is suddenly looking less like destiny and more like a high-stakes wager.
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The whole point was that code would replace bailouts—until the code needed a bailout. DeFi is executing its largest coordinated rescue ever after a KelpDAO security breach triggered a $10 billion run on Aave, the biggest DeFi lending protocol
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The tokenized treasury market hit $30 billion, but you still can't use most of it as collateral because DeFi moves in seconds and redemptions take days. RedStone launched a settlement layer designed to bridge the timing gap between instant DeFi liquidations and slow real-world asset redemptions
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The trademark office just became the new frontline in the AI identity wars, and Swift's team knows the legal system isn't built for this fight.
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Your AI assistant can now spend your crypto without asking permission first. The Open Platform launched Agentic Wallets, an open-source standard that lets AI agents manage dedicated on-chain wallets on TON
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The company that convinced the world AI was unstoppable is now trying to convince the world it still is.
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One company now controls nearly 4% of all bitcoin that will ever exist, and the machine it built to get there is still accelerating. Strategy has accumulated over $7 billion worth of BTC in recent weeks through its STRC convertible note issuance, pushing its total holdings to 818,334 BTC
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The regulator who spent years torching the industry just told it exactly what he wants to build instead. SEC Chair Paul Atkins outlined crypto regulatory plans at Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas, marking a sharp policy pivot from the enforcement-first Gensler era
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