Binance rolls out institutional custody that keeps massive trades off exchange wallets. Apple hits OpenAI with a lawsuit as Musk and Altman's feud goes nuclear. Plus Lorde roasts Ray-Ban's Meta glasses at their own festival.
Apple spent a decade building spatial computing, and OpenAI just hired the person who knows what didn't work. Paul Meade, Apple's VP overseeing Vision Pro and smart glasses development, is leaving for OpenAI's hardware team, continuing a pattern of talent migration to AI companies
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The Foundation that built Ethereum is pulling back, and nobody's filled the funding vacuum yet. A former Ethereum Foundation leader warns the network faces a funding gap as the Foundation deliberately steps back from its central role
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OpenAI just made model selection easier and accidentally revealed how good their models are getting at hacking. OpenAI rolled out a new naming system with capability tiers to simplify how developers choose models, moving away from version-number soup
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OpenAI just made India an executive-level priority, not a backwater expansion play. OpenAI hired Uber India's chief to lead what it now calls its biggest market outside the U.S.
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The AI industry just learned that "launch when ready" is over—Uncle Sam now decides who gets to build with the next generation of models.
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The best way to test your AI agent's security isn't a lab audit—it's posting its inbox to Hacker News and letting the internet try to break it.
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The company that tokenized BlackRock's money market fund is about to become a public company itself, and Wall Street just wrote a $400 million check to make it happen. Securitize goes public on NYSE July 2 under ticker SECZ via SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, raising over $400M total
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Travis Wright breaks down DeepSeek's massive AI market shakeup that separated true believers from speculators. Ondo Finance launches tokenized stocks that trade around the clock, ending Wall Street's traditional hours. Plus OpenAI hits the brakes on its latest GPT relea
The price of running AI in the cloud just got 35% more expensive in six months, and AWS is telling you to deal with it. AWS raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by 20% starting July, on top of a 15% increase in January — a 35% jump in half a year
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OpenAI just made the capability ceiling meaningless by adding a permission layer at the door. OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model that will require U.S. government vetting for access
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The most powerful AI model OpenAI has ever built just launched with a government-mandated guest list of 20.
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The teams building with AI agents just got their first real infrastructure layer — and it's learning which models to use faster than you can decide yourself.
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Wall Street's 9:30-to-4 tyranny just got its first real challenge from a blockchain that never sleeps. Ondo Finance launched 24/7 minting and redemption for tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Ethereum and BNB Chain, eliminating the weekday-only constraint tied to US market hours.
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A housing bill with veto-proof support is being held hostage over voting rules, and the crypto industry just learned that legislative layering cuts both ways.
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The machines were supposed to work so we didn't have to, but now we're working harder just to keep them running.
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The Valley's frontier narrative just hit a European wall—and it's lined with €1.7 billion in fresh capital. Mistral AI went from zero to €400M ARR in under three years, building frontier models from Paris with a fraction of Silicon Valley's compute budget
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The training runs don't stop at night, but solar panels do — which is why the real AI infrastructure race is happening miles underground. I-Pulse landed $250 million in US funding to build semiconductors that drill into Earth's heat, targeting 24/7 power for AI data centers
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The bill for building AI just landed on consumers' desks, and Asia's chipmakers are watching to see if anyone actually pays it. Apple and Microsoft both raised product prices, triggering a selloff in Asian tech stocks on concerns that component costs are finally hitting end-user pricing
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While venture capital pours billions into replacing human jobs with AI, BlackBerry just explained why their software can't be replaced—and what that tells us about where the automation economy hits a wall.
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The tokenization wave just got its first real ticker symbol, and BlackRock's already in the cap table. Securitize is raising $400 million and expects to close its SPAC merger next week, pending shareholder approval, with NYSE trading to follow.
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