Trump scraps Biden's AI safety rules just as new research shows models finding security flaws faster than humans. Coinbase makes waves buying crypto on the open market like a retail trader. Plus the administration pushes for mandatory AI model sharing before public laun
The price of access just got a blockchain receipt. Trump's crypto gala has tiered access starting at $70,000, with top lunch slots costing up to $6 million, determined by timing and strategy, not just holdings
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OpenAI is doubling its headcount to 8,000 by year-end while pulling back from new initiatives to focus on ChatGPT and coding tools. OpenAI plans to grow from 4,500 to roughly 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, an 78% increase in nine months.
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OpenAI is selling ads it can't measure, and advertisers are paying for vibes. OpenAI's first ChatGPT advertisers say they can't prove the ads work, with agency execs reporting zero measurable business outcomes from early campaigns.
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Corporate AI spending hits $54 billion as Strategy gobbles up Bitcoin and OpenAI's tools spark controversy with eugenic content slipping past safeguards. Plus Wall Street drowns in AI hype so absurd it involves martinis and Nazi analogies. The guardrails aren't just fai
Strategy bought 89,618 bitcoin in Q1 2026 while the price was falling, making it their second-biggest buying quarter ever. Strategy's Q1 2026 bitcoin purchases hit 89,618 BTC, their largest accumulation since Q4 2024, despite bitcoin's price decline during the period
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A filmmaker went looking for creative tools and found a eugenics fan club instead. Director Valerie Veatch dove into OpenAI's Sora community in 2024 expecting to find artists, found casual racism and sexism baked into the outputs and normalized by the users
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The gap between AI's believers and everyone else just became measurable in martinis and Nazi analogies.
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While AI companies cry poverty over compute costs, they're dropping five figures on backwards menus and caviar. Vercel threw a private dinner at an unopened SF restaurant featuring caviar, lobster, and mirrors required to read the menu, right after tripling valuation to $9 billion
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Michael Saylor's Strategy just crossed $54 billion in Bitcoin holdings, and the story isn't the number—it's how a software company turned itself into the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury on Earth.
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OpenAI is building a distribution network for AI agents through private equity, turning buyout firms into sales channels. OpenAI is negotiating with TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital, and Brookfield to form a joint venture that would deploy OpenAI tech across their portfolio companies
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Apple tried to buy a beloved camera app, failed, then hired away the designer—and the messy breakup tells you everything about how big tech acquires talent in the age of impossible M&A.
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Trump's new memecoin loyalty program rockets 50% as politics meets crypto speculation. DuckDuckGo debuts privacy-first AI that forgets your conversations instantly. Plus why AI agents are choosing stablecoins as their preferred payment rails in the emerging autonomous e
The President of the United States is now running a loyalty program for his memecoin holders, and the token pumped 50% on the news. $Trump memecoin surged over 50% after promoters announced a Mar-a-Lago VIP event for top 300 holders with promised presidential attendance
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DuckDuckGo just made privacy-first AI chatbot access real, and it changes the calculus for anyone who's been queasy about feeding their prompts to Big Tech's data vacuum.
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AI developers are ignoring crypto, but their agents will run on stablecoins whether they like it or not. Stablecoin experts argue programmable crypto is the only viable rail for autonomous AI agents making micro-transactions, even as AI developers remain skeptical of crypto broadly
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An OG Ethereum whale just dropped $19.5 million back into ETH, and the timing tells you everything about where smart money thinks we are in the cycle. Early Ethereum participant thomasg.eth bought $19.5 million in ETH this week, rebuilding a position after previous exits
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Bill Miller IV manages a fund where conviction means putting real money where your thesis is, and right now that thesis includes bitcoin mirroring the adoption curve of technology itself.
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Travis Wright breaks down how prediction market Kalshi just hit a massive $22 billion valuation by betting on Trump, the Pentagon's concerns about Anthropic's alleged AI kill switch, and ByteDance scrambling to cancel its video AI launch right before facing Hollywood's
The Pentagon thinks Anthropic could flip a kill switch on military AI mid-war. Anthropic says that's technically impossible. Both can't be right. The Department of Defense claims Anthropic could sabotage AI models during wartime, allegedly through model manipulation or remote access
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ByteDance just learned that making AI-generated Brad Pitt punch AI-generated Tom Cruise is a lawyer problem, not a tech problem. ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0, its hyperrealistic video generation model, after copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streaming platforms
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