The DeFi immune system is learning to fight back faster than the exploits evolve. Aave and Compound released technical plans to eliminate bad debt and restore full backing for rsETH tokens after the $290M Kelp DAO exploit
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Customer service agents—human and AI alike—are being measured the same way now: by cost per resolution. Netomi raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and Adobe Ventures, with backing from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman
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OpenAI just drew a line between the cyber offense and defense markets, and they're betting they can control which side of it you're on. OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber, a new frontier model designed for cybersecurity, but it won't be available to the public or even most enterprises.
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The first crypto exchange just built a payment rail where no human needs to approve the invoice, contest the charge, or sign the receipt. OKX launched the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), a system designed to handle full AI-to-AI commercial transactions including quotes, payments, and disputes.
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Microsoft just outbid everyone at the AI capex table with a $190 billion bet, and Amazon's free cash flow collapsed 95% to make theirs. The competition isn't about who's winning. It's about who can afford to keep playing.
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AI agents can now pay each other without asking permission from the humans who made them. Kite launched its mainnet and Kite Agent Passport, an identity and payment infrastructure built for autonomous AI agents to transact independently
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The AI boom just turned a Japanese capacitor maker into a bellwether for infrastructure spending. Murata Manufacturing beat Q4 profit estimates driven by AI data center demand, with shares jumping on the news
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Cathie Wood is betting on the platform while dumping the asset — a telling signal about where she thinks the infrastructure value lives.
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A utility just made 1.2 million Michigan households unwitting creditors in OpenAI's ability to hit its growth targets. DTE Energy promised to freeze power rates for two years if a $16B Oracle-OpenAI data center generates $300M in revenue, tying residential bills to AI infrastructure performance.
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Seven hundred billion dollars is more than the GDP of Sweden—and it's all going into a bet that agents will eat the world before someone else's agents do. US Big Tech's combined 2026 capex is projected to hit $725 billion, overwhelmingly targeted at AI data center infrastructure
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The company that lost $2.7 billion last year is now worth more than Walmart, Home Depot, and Boeing combined. Anthropic has received pre-emptive funding offers at $850B-$900B valuations, potentially raising $50B in new capital
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The company that powers 90% of online checkout flows just decided AI agents need their own payment rails. Stripe announced new AI tools and a Google partnership targeting payments and commerce infrastructure for the agent economy
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OpenAI just published a postmortem on how their flagship model developed an unsanctioned personality, and the answer reveals more about the fragility of AI alignment than any research paper could.
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A harmless markdown file name just cost developers real money, and the company building the future of AI coding agents is playing dumb about the refund.
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The man building an AI company to compete with OpenAI just spent three hours on a witness stand explaining why he's entitled to $150 billion from OpenAI.
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The man who named the future of coding just admitted it writes ugly code.
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While US chipmakers fight export controls, China's domestic AI chip industry just printed a Q1 that looks less like substitution and more like ignition. Cambricon Technologies' Q1 2025 revenue more than doubled year-over-year, driven by surging domestic AI chip demand in China
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The company that built its brand on AI safety just got told "no" by the government when it tried to open the gates wider. The White House is blocking Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos, an AI model the company itself describes as powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks.
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The smart money isn't betting on OpenAI — it's betting on the willingness of other banks to bet on SoftBank betting on OpenAI. SoftBank secured a $40 billion bridge loan to fund its OpenAI investment, now syndicating to additional lenders
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The oil and gas industry just got benchmarked by silicon and servers. Big Tech's combined AI infrastructure spending has crossed $650 billion, now exceeding global oil and gas production investment for the first time
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