DeepSeek just froze its fundraising after raising a staggering 7.4 billion dollars in record time, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley. We break down what triggered the pause and why OpenAI's biggest competitor thinks AI won't actually kill your job after all.
OpenAI just blamed Britain's energy costs and red tape for killing a major infrastructure project, and the UK's AI minister isn't having it. Britain's AI minister publicly criticized OpenAI for halting a major data center project in the UK, citing energy costs and regulation as the reason
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Travis Wright breaks down Bitcoin's quantum vulnerability dilemma where fixing the threat could permanently lock Satoshi's coins, Microsoft's ongoing Copilot security nightmare with researchers bypassing patches in minutes, and a crypto scammer getting 23 years for a fa
Bitcoin's quantum security plan would freeze Satoshi's 1.1 million coins forever, and the developers wrote it that way on purpose.
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The patch worked, but the vulnerability class is permanent. Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 prompt injection flaw in Copilot Studio, marking the first CVE for an agent-building platform versus a productivity tool
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A Houston man just got 23 years for selling $20 million worth of crypto supposedly backed by Picasso paintings that didn't exist. Robert Dunlap, 55, sold Meta-1 Coin from 2018 to 2023, claiming it was backed by gold and fine art including works by Picasso and Van Gogh
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The UK just put £500 million ($675M) on the table for homegrown AI, and it's not about innovation—it's about not being a digital colony. The UK launched a £500 million sovereign AI fund aimed at reducing reliance on foreign AI tech and boosting domestic startups.
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When the President says oil is dropping and Iran is talking, crypto traders pay attention, because geopolitical de-escalation doesn't just move crude, it moves capital.
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OpenAI just turned Codex from a coding assistant into an agent that can browse, remember, generate images, and control your computer.
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A fintech you've never heard of just raised $100M at $300M ARR by replacing bank employees with AI agents that actually work. Slash Financial raised $100M at $300M annual recurring revenue to expand AI-automated banking services globally
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Congress just pushed the productive part of stablecoin regulation into the next session while keeping the punitive part alive. The Clarity Act's language allowing stablecoin issuers to pay yield on holdings has been delayed, but the ban on idle balance rewards remains in the current text
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OpenAI just built an AI that doesn't just read biology papers—it designs the experiments. OpenAI released GPT-Rosalind, a specialized reasoning model for life sciences research, targeting drug discovery, genomics, and protein analysis
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CoreWeave just sold junk bonds twice in one week, and investors can't get enough of debt backed by GPUs. CoreWeave tapped the US junk-bond market twice in a single week, riding unprecedented investor appetite for AI infrastructure debt
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The private credit guys just figured out they can skip the prime broker and plug directly into $200 billion in stablecoin liquidity. Flow Capital Partners is tokenizing its $150 million private credit fund on a Singapore blockchain platform, launching by end of April 2026
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Elon Musk just turned X into a financial terminal, and Wall Street analysts are already drawing red lines around the crypto parts. X rolled out a feature this week letting users view stock and crypto price data natively in the app, the first visible step toward X Money
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A $10 billion startup run by people who've never had real jobs is training AI to do yours. Mercor, valued at $10 billion, is building AI agents to replicate white-collar work, founded by twentysomethings with no traditional work experience
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Bitcoin just crossed $75K after [liquidating $283M in short positions](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-liquidations-top-dollar283m-after-short-squeeze-sends-btc-price-above-dollar75k?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound), but futures traders are still betting ag
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OpenAI just gave Codex the ability to control your desktop apps while you work, and the timing tells you everything about who's winning the agent war.
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Travis Wright dissects the collision of markets and machine intelligence as Trump's Iran announcement triggers a crypto flash crash, open-source AI upends enterprise assumptions, and OpenAI pivots fully to corporate revenue. Plus Sequoia deploys seven billion in fresh capital while a Fed Chair nomin
Geopolitical threats just reminded crypto markets they're still tethered to the analog world. Trump warned of resumed military action against Iran if no diplomatic deal is reached, triggering immediate volatility in Bitcoin and Ethereum markets
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A 35-billion-parameter model running on consumer hardware just outperformed Anthropic's flagship API in a creative task, and it's completely open-source.
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