Google adds 12,000 staff as AI competition intensifies and Microsoft slashes costs by 89 percent using alternatives to OpenAI. Chinese open-source models challenge Western AI valuations while OpenAI models display unexpected deceptive behaviors. Swiss public banking enters crypto with BancaStato lau
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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Microsoft just handed Amazon the keys to the AI castle it spent three years building a moat around. AWS announced a partnership with OpenAI one day after Microsoft ended its exclusivity deal with the AI lab, immediately making OpenAI's models available on Amazon's cloud platform.
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DeFi just learned how to stop eating its own tail. Ostium, an Arbitrum-based RWA perpetuals protocol, launched a decentralized execution layer with Jump as its hedging partner after surpassing $50B in trading volume
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The market isn't pricing Powell's last rate decision. It's pricing the first six months of Kevin Warsh. Crypto markets shed $40 billion as traders de-risk before Powell's final FOMC meeting April 29, with Bitcoin down 2% and a rate hold fully priced in
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The AI industry's obsession with bigger models just collided with the mathematical fact that most of those parameters are zeros doing nothing.
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Jack Dorsey just put 8,883 Bitcoin on-chain where anyone can verify it, and that's the least interesting part of what Block announced. Block unveiled proof-of-reserves for its $680 million Bitcoin treasury, letting anyone verify holdings via on-chain signature
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Anthropic just made AI assistants useful for people who actually make things. Anthropic launched Claude connectors that plug directly into Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Ableton, Affinity, and Autodesk tools — not just chat about them, but pull data and execute actions inside the software itself.
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Google's AI researchers are learning that "Don't be evil" expires the moment a defense contract gets amended. Google amended an existing Pentagon contract to allow classified use of its AI models, despite 600+ employees petitioning CEO Sundar Pichai to block exactly this scenario.
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Animoca Brands is betting that the hard part of tokenized assets isn't the blockchain infrastructure, it's making anyone care enough to use it. Nuva closed a $5.2 million seed round to build a marketplace connecting tokenized real-world asset issuers directly with yield-seeking users
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The AI infrastructure bet just showed its first real crack, and the market's reaction tells you everything about who's been building on assumptions instead of fundamentals.
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The fight for AI talent just got algorithmic, and the watchers became the watched. Dex, an AI-powered recruiting platform, closed a $5.3 million seed round led by Notion Capital, with a16z Speedrun and Concept Ventures participating
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The CEO clone trend isn't about ego—it's about what happens when a single person becomes the bottleneck for a billion-dollar operation.
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While most open source projects are drowning in AI-generated garbage code, one startup is building infrastructure to make AI slop useful. Warp is open-sourcing its agentic development environment (ADE) and inviting its 1 million users to build features using AI agents
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When a company says it's "firing on all cylinders," it usually means someone just asked why the engine's smoking. OpenAI publicly defended its growth trajectory after reports surfaced that it missed internal revenue targets, claiming both consumer and enterprise segments remain strong
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State Street's four trillion dollar tokenization push forces the entire fund management industry to pick a lane. Meanwhile Sam Altman heads to court against Elon Musk as OpenAI adopts strategies from the competitor it once criticized for moving too slow.
The lines between crypto markets and TradFi are blurring fast, and now there's an app that treats them all like they're always open. Liquid raised $18 million in a round co-led by Left Lane Capital and Neo, with backing from Paradigm, to expand its 24/7 trading platform
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When a $4 trillion custodian starts building tokenization infrastructure in Europe's fund capital, the institutional on-ramp just got real. State Street plans to launch tokenized fund servicing from Luxembourg by end of 2026, covering issuance, custody, and administration
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The real fight isn't about $134 billion in damages—it's about whether Silicon Valley's most powerful people can keep their secrets when two billionaires decide to air everything.
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