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.
Bitcoin's order book is showing a rare setup that could push price from $66,000 to $71,000, but only if you know what a bid-ask imbalance actually means. A notable bid-ask imbalance near $66,000 suggests more buy orders than sell orders stacking up at current levels
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Equinix is dropping $438 million on South African data centers because Africa's AI boom isn't theoretical anymore. Equinix is investing 7.5 billion rand ($438 million) in new South African data center facilities to meet surging AI compute demand across the continent
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When a Bitcoin treasury company dumps $20 million in BTC at a 40% loss, that's not just bad timing—it's a stress test for the whole "Bitcoin as corporate treasury" thesis.
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Five years after a DeFi exploit, the feds finally got their man, and they clawed back $31 million in the process.
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Australia just fired the first real shot in the global war on Big Tech's child user problem. Australia's online safety regulator is investigating Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube for potentially violating the country's under-16 social media ban
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A British chip startup you've never heard of is raising $200 million to take on Nvidia, and the odds say they'll fail, but the attempt tells you everything about where AI infrastructure is headed.
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While everyone tokenizes art and treasury bonds, [Metals.io just put uranium on the blockchain](https://thedefiant.io/news/blockchains/metals-io-brings-tokenized-gold-uranium-and-rare-earth-metals-to-tezos).
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Oil just hit $105 a barrel, and if history is any guide, Bitcoin holders should be watching their exits. WTI crude crossed $105 on Monday, a three-year high that historically correlates with Bitcoin bear market acceleration
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China's largest private insurer just automated 60% of its claims processing, and the $174 billion they're unlocking isn't staying in insurance. Ping An Insurance went from nearly zero AI-automated claims five years ago to 60% today, with some claims settling in 51 seconds
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The U.S. just cracked open the door to let $7 trillion in 401(k) money touch crypto. The Labor Department proposed a rule following Trump's executive order directing regulators to expand digital asset access in retirement accounts
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When Nvidia trades cheaper than it did in 2018 and Amazon looks like a worse bet than Walmart, the market is telling you something about AI's economics.
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A $100 million war chest just dropped to make AI deregulation a midterm wedge issue. A former Trump aide is launching a $100 million campaign to push the administration's AI agenda into the 2026 midterms
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Tech faces a credibility crisis as Americans increasingly use AI while trusting it less. Starcloud secures $170 million for orbital data centers, GOP senators propose treating Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, and David Sacks exits the White House to invest in AI he previously regulated. Meanwhile, on
The U.S. government just drew a line around Bitcoin mining and said "this side is ours." Sens. Lummis and Cassidy introduced the Mined in America Act, creating federal certification for U.S. Bitcoin miners and codifying Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order into law.
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A startup just raised $170 million to put data centers in orbit, and the math might actually work. Starcloud closed a $170 million Series A at $1.1 billion valuation to build solar-powered data centers in space, led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures
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Eighty-five percent of Americans would rather keep their human boss, AI revolution be damned. Just 15% of Americans say they'd accept a job where an AI program directly supervises them, assigns their tasks, and sets their schedules, per new Quinnipiac University polling
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Two GOP senators just dropped a bill that treats bitcoin mining like steel mills and strategic oil reserves. Republican Senators Cynthia Lummis and Bill Cassidy introduced the "Mined in America Act" to expand domestic crypto mining infrastructure and formalize bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
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Americans are using AI more and trusting it less, a paradox that tells you everything about where we are in 2026. A new Quinnipiac poll shows AI adoption climbing in the U.S. while trust in the technology simultaneously drops, with most Americans voicing concerns about transparency and regulation
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Apple accidentally shipped its AI to China, then yanked it back within hours. Apple Intelligence briefly appeared for Chinese iPhone users in an iOS update this week, then vanished when Apple pulled the update
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Microsoft just showed its hand: the future of enterprise AI isn't picking sides, it's orchestrating multiple models like instruments in a band. Microsoft launched new Copilot 365 features that combine OpenAI and Anthropic models in a single workflow, not as alternatives but as sequential tools
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