Companies are mandating AI use then scrambling when employees comply while MongoDB quietly added 2,500 customers during the AI hype cycle. Plus Charles Schwab announces bitcoin trading coming in 2027 for its massive 9.74 trillion dollar platform.
A forex startup just raised $94 million to replace correspondent banking with stablecoins, and the implications for B2B payments are bigger than the round suggests. OpenFX raised $94 million to scale stablecoin-powered cross-border payments for businesses
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China's AI arms race just got a price tag: Zhipu's losses jumped 60% in 2025, and nobody's blinking. Zhipu reported a 60% surge in net losses for 2025, far exceeding expectations as Chinese AI companies burn cash to stay competitive
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A billion-dollar valuation for AI security tells you everything about where the agent economy is actually heading. Tenex, a Google partner focused on AI security, just raised $250 million at a valuation north of $1 billion
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Four AI chatbots were asked to fact-check a simple claim about policy objectives, and they couldn't agree on what happened.
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Meta drops 8.5 billion on GPUs while Google's token spending hits absurd levels and your AI costs keep climbing. Meanwhile researchers confirm 10,000 qubits could crack Bitcoin's encryption. Big tech spending wars meet crypto's quantum vulnerability problem.
Bitcoin just lost 3% in hours because a cabinet secretary is about to speak. Bitcoin dropped below $66,000 ahead of a Defense Department briefing by Pete Hegseth, trapping recent buyers who entered at $68,000.
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The countdown to quantum-enabled wallet draining just got a lot shorter. Quantum computers may break Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet encryption with just 10,000 qubits, far fewer than previously estimated
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CoreWeave just borrowed $8.5 billion against its GPUs, the largest chip-backed debt deal ever, and Meta's signature is all over the collateral. CoreWeave raised $8.5 billion in debt to expand cloud computing capacity, the largest chip-backed financing on record
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The UK just put Microsoft's licensing playbook under a microscope, and Copilot is front and center. Microsoft's business software ecosystem faces a UK antitrust probe starting in May targeting licensing practices for Word, Excel, and AI app Copilot
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AI companies are celebrating billion-token burns like they're product features, but your finance team just saw the invoice. Google is processing 1.3 quadrillion tokens monthly, 20x more than a year ago. Infrastructure providers like Nvidia are cheering. Your CFO is not.
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Cross River just raised $50 million to build the banking rails for AI agents and crypto, and that's the clearest sign yet that traditional finance is done pretending Web4 isn't happening. Cross River Bank raised $50 million from existing investors to expand into AI and crypto infrastructure
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Standard Chartered just led a $1.1 billion valuation round for a crypto market maker most people have never heard of. SC Ventures and Ripple are backing Keyrock's open Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation, with the round expected to close soon
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David Bailey's public bitcoin treasury strategy just ate a 40% loss to keep the lights on. Nakamoto Holdings sold 284 BTC for $20 million at ~$70,422 per coin, 40% below their average acquisition cost, according to their annual filing
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Rahm Emanuel wants to take $7.6 billion from ICE detention centers and pump it into community colleges because AI is about to eat the job market.
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A crypto market-maker just hit unicorn status with banking money leading the round. Keyrock, a Brussels-based crypto market maker, raised a Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation led by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's innovation arm
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Alibaba just closed the source on its flagship AI model, and that tells you everything about where the real value is moving in the agent economy.
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KuCoin just paid nearly 300 million dollars to get permanently kicked out of America. Meanwhile Mitsubishi is dropping 147 million on Africa while everyone else ignores it, and Bitcoin's order book is screaming rally but traders aren't listening.
The cryptography protecting your crypto wallet just got easier to break, and Google quietly moved up the timeline. Google updated its quantum computing estimates for breaking elliptic curve cryptography, the math securing most blockchain wallets and transactions.
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KuCoin just learned that $297 million doesn't buy you a way back into the U.S. market. The CFTC permanently barred KuCoin operator Peken Global Limited from serving U.S. customers unless it registers as a foreign board of trade
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Japan's biggest corporations just made a $147 million bet that Africa's startup ecosystem matters more than Silicon Valley thinks.
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