Tech giants are riding a wild AI wave with HPE's stock hitting record highs on infrastructure demand while Sam Altman quietly retreats from his biggest predictions. Plus Ripple targets Turkey's struggling economy for its latest stablecoin play as the lira continues its
The safe-haven trade just went 24/7, and it's not slowing down. Tokenized gold spot trading hit $90.7 billion in Q1 2026, already surpassing 2025's full-year total of $84.6 billion
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The fastest blockchain in the game just launched a token without paying a dime in listing fees, and thirteen exchanges said yes anyway.
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The Musk empire isn't a portfolio of separate companies anymore — it's a closed-loop economy with Tesla as the hardware vendor. Tesla generated $573 million in 2025 selling Megapacks to xAI ($430M) and vehicles to SpaceX ($143M), disclosed in a late regulatory filing
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The company that made everyone panic about AGI timelines is now defending its sales forecast like a SaaS startup. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company is hitting internal targets and facing what she calls "a vertical wall of demand" for products
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The courtroom receipts are piling up, and they all seem to route through one person who kept the Musk-Altman relationship alive years longer than it should have survived.
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Bitcoin blasts past $77,000 as traditional markets tank from trade war jitters. Meanwhile Sam Altman drops $14 million testing a theory and AI agents start making real purchases with Visa cards backed by stablecoins. The future is getting weird fast.
The world's most critical oil chokepoint is caught in a diplomatic limbo that's stranger than either war or peace. Iran continues to restrict traffic through the Strait of Hormuz despite shifting signals about reopening, with daily ship crossings plummeting from 36 to just 5-8 vessels
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While markets usually flee to bonds during geopolitical chaos, Bitcoin just broke a four-year losing streak in May by climbing into it. Bitcoin hit $77,000 in early May, breaking a four-year pattern of May declines, even as US-Israel-Iran tensions escalated and oil prices surged
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The man who spent $14 million studying UBI just admitted the whole premise might be wrong for the AI age. Sam Altman no longer believes in universal basic income after funding the largest UBI study in history with $60 million, including $14 million of his own money.
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AI agents just got their first credit cards, and they're spending stablecoins on the legacy payment rails that crypto was supposed to replace. Tether-backed Oobit launched Agent Cards, virtual Visa corporate cards that let AI agents spend USDT without human approval for each transaction
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The humanoid race just shifted from "when" to "where do I plug it in." 1X Technologies opened a 58,000-square-foot California factory targeting 10,000 consumer humanoid units in year one — the first credible attempt at mass production for homes, not warehouses.
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The boring stuff—Treasuries and gold—just proved that crypto's killer app wasn't NFTs or meme coins, it was making Wall Street infrastructure actually work.
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When nearly 2,800 people can't access their crypto, prosecutors don't call it a market correction. South Korean prosecutors are seeking a 20-year prison sentence for Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho over allegations he embezzled between $169-181 million from crypto deposit users.
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The chip maker that powered your last phone just landed a hyperscaler data center deal, and Wall Street thinks this is the pivot that saves Qualcomm from mobile's shrinking margins.
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A nation-state with nuclear ambitions just stole more crypto in one month than most venture funds deploy in a year, and the protocols they hit were supposedly audited. North Korean hackers stole $577 million across two April attacks, representing 76% of all 2026 crypto losses according to TRM Labs
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The price of AI tokens has cratered 90% in two years, yet enterprise AI bills are exploding — and most CIOs still think they have a compute problem when they actually have an architecture problem.
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A top early-stage VC who backed a $6.6 billion AI coding unicorn is now telling founders to stay away from the category entirely.
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Stripe just handed AI agents a credit card, and the checkout button will never be the same. Stripe launched Link, a digital wallet that lets users connect payment methods and authorize AI agents to make purchases on their behalf through approval workflows.
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The AI boom's biggest winners aren't selling AI products—they're marking up their bets on the company that does. Google and Amazon both reported half their recent AI-related profits from unrealized gains on Anthropic stakes, not actual revenue from AI services.
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Ethereum just lost the RWA race to a faster horse, and Wall Street noticed. Solana's RWA market share hit 42%, eclipsing Ethereum's 40% for the first time in the tokenization wars Total RWA market cap on Solana reached $2.5 billion with nearly 200,000 holders, an all-time high
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