Snowflake Raises Revenue Forecast 10% as AI Workloads Triple Data Usage
The cloud data warehouse that everyone forgot about just became an AI landlord, and Amazon just paid $6 billion to be its tenant.
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Crypto PACs Bought Texas for $9 Million and Won Both Parties
Crypto just proved it can play kingmaker in both red and blue districts, and it only cost $9 million. Crypto-backed PACs spent $9 million supporting candidates across party lines in Texas primaries, with their picks winning in both Democratic and Republican races.
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DuckDuckGo surges 30% as Google's forced AI search triggers user exodus
Google built the AI search nobody asked for, and users voted with their feet in less than a week. DuckDuckGo app installs jumped 30% and site visits rose 28% in the week after Google replaced blue links with AI agents at I/O 2026
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SK Hynix and Micron Each Worth $1 Trillion Now
The memory chip makers just became more valuable than almost every company on Earth, and it's not because we're buying more phones. Micron hit $1 trillion market cap after its stock tripled in 2026, joining SK Hynix in the club alongside Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft
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Meta Abandons Free Model After $100B AI Spending Spree
The world's biggest free-lunch platform just started charging for the meal. Meta is launching paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, bundling them under a "Meta One" brand alongside new AI chatbot subscriptions.
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Fold Raises $150M While Crypto VCs Still Fund Vaporware
While VCs chase AI agents that might work someday, Fold just locked $150 million in debt to scale a Bitcoin product people are using today.
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PolarDC Raises $930M in Europe's Largest Junk Bond for AI Data Centers
The coldest place in Europe just became the hottest bet in AI infrastructure financing. PolarDC sold €800 million ($930 million) in junk bonds, the largest high-yield bond sale ever in the Nordic market for data center infrastructure
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Cognition Hits $26B Valuation Before Most Devs Use AI Agents
A coding agent startup just hit a $26 billion valuation before most developers have even tried coding with AI agents daily. Cognition AI raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, marking one of the largest AI startup rounds focused specifically on software development automation
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Robinhood Lets AI Bots Trade Your Money Starting Today
The company that brought zero-commission trading to the masses is now handing the buy button to machines. Robinhood launched a beta for AI agent-driven stock trading, with crypto trading features coming later
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Robinhood's AI Agent Can Now Buy Stocks With Your Credit Card
The brokerage that democratized stock trading just handed your AI the keys to your portfolio and your Visa. Robinhood launched agent-driven stock trading, letting customers delegate equity trades to AI systems
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Roku Held Out for 13 Years While Rivals Chased Engagement
Roku waited 13 years to follow everyone else into content-first home screens, and that patience might be the whole point. Roku is replacing its 13-year-old grid of app tiles with a content-recommendation-first home screen, rolling out to 100 million U.S. households now, international later
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$200M Dwelly Bet: AI Could Run More Apartments Than Any Human Landlord
While everyone's watching AI agents write code, they're missing the quiet land grab happening in one of the world's least-digitized industries. Dwelly, a UK startup acquiring property management firms and layering in AI, is raising ~$200 million in combined equity and debt
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120 Million Jobs Now in AI's Direct Path
The conversation just shifted from "if AI takes jobs" to "which 120 million jobs first." Bloomberg Intelligence projects AI will impact 27% of workers in advanced economies — that's 120 million people across 31 countries, with banking executives already gaming out scenarios.
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Eric Ries Says Shareholder Supremacy Is Dead and Startups Ignoring This Will Fail
The guy who taught startups to pivot is now telling them the entire foundation of corporate capitalism needs one.
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IREN Ditches Bitcoin Mining for $1.6B AI Cloud Bet
A crypto miner just bet $1.6 billion that the real money isn't in Bitcoin anymore—it's in renting compute to AI companies that can't build data centers fast enough. IREN Limited signed a $1.6 billion deal with Dell to expand its AI cloud infrastructure business
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Powerlaw Goes Public While Its SpaceX Shares Stay Private
Retail investors will soon pay a premium to own shares of a fund that owns shares of companies they can't buy — and Wall Street is betting they'll line up anyway.
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China Quietly Building $1.1B AI Factory Inside Europe
While Silicon Valley debates regulation, China's building its AI manufacturing base in Europe's back door. Chinese companies are investing €940 million ($1.1 billion) in Serbia, focused on AI, robotics, and automotive manufacturing
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ByteDance Plans $70B AI Spend to Challenge American Dominance
The company that trained your attention span is now training the largest AI models outside of American hands. ByteDance is planning $60-70 billion in capex over 2026-2027, primarily for AI infrastructure and chips—rivaling Meta's entire 2026 budget
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Bitcoin Crashes Out of Top 10 Assets as $400B Flees to Nvidia and Gold
The same capital rotation that made you rich in 2021 is now making someone else rich in semiconductors. Bitcoin has fallen to the 13th largest asset globally as 2026 delivers weak performance, while AI semiconductor stocks and precious metals surge
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Musk's $150B OpenAI Lawsuit Just Collapsed While Google Ate Their Lunch
OpenAI just beat the world's richest man in court while Google proved it's no longer playing catch-up in the agent race. Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman was dismissed, ending his attempt to force the company back to its nonprofit roots
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