Visa just declared the bridge between TradFi and Web3 is now a toll road — and they're selling the construction equipment. Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and financial institutions issue, move, and manage their own stablecoins — not just use someone else's.
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Cold storage was supposed to be the one place crypto couldn't be stolen from you — turns out it just changed who was holding the keys.
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When a defense contractor's CEO starts using words like "otherworldly," either the hype has fully consumed them or something fundamental just shifted in how enterprises buy software.
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The continent leapfrogging straight to mobile money just handed AI-powered criminals the world's fastest-growing attack surface. AI now powers more than half of all cybercrime in Africa, according to new Interpol research tracking the acceleration of scams and financial fraud across the continent
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OpenAI just chose social media over the courtroom, and that tells you everything about how worried they are. OpenAI published a blog post calling Apple's trade secret lawsuit "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal" — before filing an actual legal response
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The picks-and-shovels play just got a $2.4 billion validation that access to compute, not ownership of models, is the real moat in AI infrastructure. Volta Infra raised $300M in venture funding at a $2.4B valuation, with Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter leading, plus Nvidia and Michael Dell joining
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The bill for AI's electricity addiction might land on your kitchen table, not the balance sheet of the company training the model. Data center developers are seeking billions in bank credit pledges as power utilities strain under AI infrastructure demands
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The world's largest asset manager just put $300 billion worth of validation behind on-chain settlement for boring, boomer money. BlackRock is launching tokenized money market funds in Europe, bringing blockchain rails to its flagship cash products
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The AI model market just became a volume game, and American companies spent two years optimizing for margin.
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The Valley's favorite excuse for shipping half-baked software doesn't work when your AI controls two tons of steel at 45 mph. Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov rejected "move fast and break things" for physical AI, saying "when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay"
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The firms that wrote checks to OpenAI are raising billions while everyone else is explaining why Peloton seemed like a good idea. Felix Capital is stuck $150 million short of its $600 million fundraising target, with LPs demanding returns from older funds before committing new capital
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The VC world is fracturing into haves and have-nots, and the dividing line is whether you can write nine-figure checks for AI infrastructure. Felix Capital aimed for $600M, still $150M short — LPs want returns from old funds before committing new capital
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Australia's second-largest bank just announced it's testing AI agents that could handle real banking tasks — not chatbots that answer questions, but systems that move money and make decisions.
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The AI companies spent years worrying about deepfakes and misinformation. Turns out the real money was in old-fashioned romance scams, just scaled with chatbots. OpenAI shut down a Cambodia-based criminal network using ChatGPT to run investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation scams at scale
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Alibaba just claimed that its new open-weight model beats OpenAI's and Anthropic's best on the one benchmark that actually matters: whether an AI can use your computer without human handholding.
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The open-source revenge fork of your corporate project is not usually how you quit your job, but here we are. Michael Pfaffenberger, creator of Walmart's internal AI coding tool Code Puppy, is leaving for Pydantic after scaling the tool from 1,000 to 75,000 users in a year.
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While Stripe and Wise move dollars around the world, Yellow Card is building the plumbing for a world where dollars are optional.
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The CEO of the web's most popular AI model repository just said the real threat isn't rogue agents—it's rogue monopolies wearing regulation as camouflage. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told Bloomberg that "concentration of power" is AI's biggest risk, not technical failures
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Big Tech just paid $1 billion for someone else to solve their power problem. Valar Atomics closed a $1B Series B led by Sequoia, plus a $200M credit facility, to build what they call America's first nuclear "gigasites"
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The compute wars just got a new arms dealer, and he's not hiring software engineers. SpaceX is recruiting skilled trades workers and engineers to build "the most powerful AI supercomputer clusters on & off Earth", reviving Musk's signature three-bullet-point hiring requirement
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