Markets are treating the Trump-Xi meeting like a Middle East peace summit with a crypto kicker. Bitcoin held above $81,000 and Asian stocks rose while oil fell to its lowest in over a week, as investors price in the Trump-Xi Washington summit this week.
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The AI boom just got its first stress test from the Federal Reserve, and $320 billion in sector debt is now counting the cost of borrowing.
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Two superpowers who can't agree on anything just found something scarier than each other: what happens when neither of them controls the AI.
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Google just open-sourced the plumbing that turns your scattered AI agents into a coordinated workforce. Google released AX (Agent Executor), an open-source orchestration framework for managing multiple AI agents in production environments
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When a telecom giant borrows like a startup to bet on someone else's AI lab, you're watching desperation or genius — probably both. SoftBank is raising over $11 billion through junk bonds to fund its OpenAI investment, one of the largest high-yield debt offerings in recent history
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While the world's tech superpowers wage AI wars, Australia just announced it's betting the next four decades on technology it doesn't yet control. Australia plans to anchor economic growth on AI development and deployment over the next 40 years, acknowledging rising global fragmentation
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The US and China are building a hotline for AI failures while refusing to agree on anything that might actually prevent them. The US Treasury is proposing an AI incident notification mechanism following bilateral talks with China, a transparency gesture that stops well short of binding regulation
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The agent economy just got its own payment rail, and it settles in stablecoins while you're still waiting for your bank wire to clear. Aptos built infrastructure that lets AI agents rent GPU compute and settle payments in stablecoins, no humans required for the transaction
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The world's two superpowers just agreed that AI is scarier than their trade war. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called talks with Chinese counterparts on AI, trade, and investment "very successful" ahead of a presidential summit this week
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The payments layer of the internet just processed a trillion dollars, and most people still think stablecoins are for traders.
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A blockchain designed to connect all chains just voted to abandon its own infrastructure and become a token on someone else's network.
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The companies building AI that can simulate reality won't tell you how they're doing it, what data they're using, or when you'll see it work.
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The arms race between surveillance and counter-surveillance just went retail—and the fact that it's crowdfunded tells you more about trust erosion than any privacy survey ever could.
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The guy selling the shovels just told the miners to stop worrying about cave-ins. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News that AI leaders warning about existential risk are "disingenuous" and have "ulterior reasons" for calling for regulation
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Meta just turned its hottest consumer AI into a platform play, and the real story isn't the API—it's the desperation math underneath. Meta opened Muse to third-party developers via a new connector API, positioning the app (which hit #1 in the App Store) as a platform, not just a product
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The market just paid CrowdStrike $8 billion to be scared of AI — turns out fear is the best sales pitch in cybersecurity. CrowdStrike's CEO warned about AI safety risks, and the stock surged 14% as investors bet that AI threats mean bigger cybersecurity budgets.
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The AI doom scenario everyone's panicking about is a distraction from the human-created mess we're already sitting in. Energy infrastructure remains dangerously vulnerable to cyberattacks, but the threat still comes from human actors, not rogue AI
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The guy running AI at a trillion-dollar company just said the quiet part out loud: we might build something we can't control, and some people are fine with that.
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The CEO of a $1.8 trillion bank just admitted her security team is playing whack-a-mole with AI vulnerabilities—and losing. Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says companies are scrambling to patch AI defenses, calling it a "tsunami" of security work after the Mythos release
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The smartest distressed debt investor alive just said he can't value AI — and neither can you. Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital co-founder, told Bloomberg that AI enthusiasm is real but three variables make it unvaluable: profitability timelines, defensible valuations, and job displacement scale
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