DeFi printed $8 billion in onchain yield last year, but half the money sitting in Ethereum stablecoins is earning less than a risk-free T-bill. DeFi protocols generated $8 billion in onchain yield in 2025, driven primarily by borrowing demand, trading fees, and perpetual funding rates
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Google just claimed it can shrink AI memory by 6x without losing anything, and if that sounds familiar, you watched too much HBO. Google announced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that promises to reduce AI working memory footprint by up to 6x with no loss
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The Democratic Party just split wide open on AI infrastructure, and the fracture line runs straight through 2028. Sen. Mark Warner called a proposed AI data center moratorium "idiocy" at Axios' AI+DC Summit, directly rebutting Sanders-AOC legislation introduced the same day
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The AI datacenter wars just went from NIMBY to national policy fight. Bernie Sanders and AOC are introducing legislation to halt new AI datacenter construction, citing energy price impacts on consumers
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Sky's stablecoin incubator just put a billion dollars of USDS to work in the real world, and it's not going where you think. Obex, a Sky-backed stablecoin incubator, is deploying $1B in USDS into eight real-world asset projects spanning mortgages, AI infrastructure, and renewable energy.
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OpenAI just put a bounty on the vulnerabilities that could break the agent economy before it scales. OpenAI launched a Safety Bug Bounty program targeting AI abuse and safety risks, specifically calling out agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration
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Sky's stablecoin arm just put a billion dollars into real assets, and it's the clearest sign yet that DeFi is done pretending Treasury bills are the endgame.
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Bernie Sanders just proposed a full stop on data center construction until Congress figures out what "safe AI" means.
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Apple isn't just renting Google's AI—it's got the keys to the server room and a license to remix. Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini model in its own data centers, can fine-tune it, and distill smaller versions for on-device use
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Vultr wants a billion dollars to prove that being early doesn't mean you win. Vultr, a 2014-vintage cloud provider backed by AMD, is raising at least $1 billion to compete in the AI compute arms race
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Cipher Digital just locked a 15-year hyperscale data center lease and $200 million in financing, and the stock jumped 9% because the market finally gets it: AI infrastructure is the new gold rush.
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The AI safety narrative just collided with the Pentagon's procurement office, and the wreckage tells us more about power than principles. Anthropic and OpenAI are both negotiating Pentagon deals, sparking user exodus from ChatGPT and London's largest AI protest to date
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Baltimore just made local consumer protection law the new frontier in AI liability, and it might actually work. Baltimore filed a consumer protection lawsuit against X and xAI over Grok-generated deepfakes, bypassing the stalled federal AI regulatory conversation entirely.
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AI infrastructure spending is now strong enough to absorb geopolitical shocks that would have cratered trade volumes a decade ago. China's trade volumes are on track to exceed last year's record levels despite war in Iran driving oil prices higher
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Arm just stopped being the plumber and started building the house. Arm launched its first AI chip, with Meta and OpenAI signed as initial customers, marking a shift from licensing designs to selling silicon.
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The AI land grab just hit a wall in Kentucky, and the price tag was $26 million. A major AI company offered a Kentucky family $26 million to convert their farm into a data center. They said no. This isn't about money anymore. It's about what we're willing to sacrifice to feed the compute monster.
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OpenAI is killing Sora after barely a year, and the mouse is walking away with a billion reasons. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app and API, months after launch, torpedoing a reported $1 billion partnership with Disney
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OpenAI is killing Sora after eight months, and the corpse tells you everything about where AI money is flowing in 2026. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app, including the iOS app, API, and web experience, citing resource constraints and strategic focus.
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Arm just stopped being a blueprints company and became a chipmaker, and Meta is the reason why. Arm unveiled its first in-house CPU, the AGI CPU, designed for AI inference workloads, with Meta as both lead partner and co-developer
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Ten grand gets you a box that runs 70B models at 500 tokens per second on a standard wall outlet. Tenstorrent's QuietBox 2 packs four custom AI accelerators and 384GB total memory into a $9,999 desktop that draws 1,400 watts at full load
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