DeepSeek's New Coding Tool Costs 97% Less Than GitHub Copilot
The coding tool price war just went global, and American developers are about to become the beneficiaries of a geopolitical subsidy race.
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OpenAI Offers America 5% Equity in Exchange for National Backing
The company that convinced the world it would build AGI for humanity now wants to prove it by giving taxpayers a slice of the upside. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed giving 5% of the company's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, a move that would let the public share in AI boom profits.
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Samsung Could Build Anthropic's AI Chips as Cloud Costs Spiral
The AI lab that raised billions on the promise of "constitutional AI" is now shopping for chip fabs—because renting compute from cloud providers is the new vendor lock-in. Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip, according to sources cited by the Information
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Riot Platforms Abandons Bitcoin Strategy After $1.3B Loss
The Bitcoin treasury playbook that made MicroStrategy a Wall Street darling just claimed its first high-profile casualty. Riot Platforms, a Nasdaq-listed company that once secured $1 billion in financing to buy 10,000 Bitcoin, now holds zero BTC as it pivots entirely to AI infrastructure
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SoftBank Bets $100B That AI Agents Need Their Own Cloud
While hyperscalers built clouds for the internet, SoftBank is building one for the agent economy, and it's betting 10 gigawatts that compute will be the new oil.
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Abu Dhabi's Two-Year-Old Fund Just Raised More Than Every US VC Combined
The petrostates aren't waiting for permission to own the future — they're buying it wholesale while Western VCs argue over Series A terms. MGX, a two-year-old Abu Dhabi firm, raised $49 billion for AI deals, creating one of the largest sector-specific funds ever assembled
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Congo Bets Dual-Currency Exchange Will Finally Unlock Its $24 Trillion Mineral Wealth
The global race for AI compute is colliding with one of Africa's most resource-rich, governance-poor economies, and the result is a capital markets experiment that could either unlock billions or become a masterclass in how not to tokenize real assets.
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Nvidia Becomes Bank and Landlord for Every AI Startup
The chip monopolist just became a venture capitalist with the world's best collateral. Nvidia is offering token credits for its AI hardware to developers and cloud providers in exchange for future revenue share, essentially financing the AI stack with compute instead of cash
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Base44 Built Its Own AI Model Because Everyone Else's Produces Garbage
The AI design tools that were supposed to democratize creativity are instead mass-producing digital sameness — now one startup is trying to train its way out of the aesthetic dead zone.
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Wedbush's $20B AI Bull Just Quit to Start His Own Bank
The most visible face of the AI boom just left the building to build his own bank. Dan Ives is leaving Wedbush Securities after eight years to launch a merchant bank focused on tech, energy, infrastructure, and financials serving corporations and high-net-worth clients.
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Switch Bets $2B That AI Needs More Power, Not Smarter Code
The picks-and-shovels play just became a $2 billion bet that AI workloads will need more power, not better algorithms. Switch Inc., the data center operator, is raising ~$2 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz
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SpaceX Board Member Just Cashed Out $100B—Now He's Betting It All on AI
When your SpaceX bet returns $100 billion, your next move defines whether you got lucky or you see something the rest of us don't. Antonio Gracias, early SpaceX board member, turned his venture bets into nearly $100 billion and is now hunting for the next frontier in AI, energy, and space
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Meta Just Became AWS's Biggest Threat After Burning $65 Billion on AI
The company that spent $65 billion building AI infrastructure for itself just decided to rent it to everyone else. Meta is launching a cloud computing business to sell excess AI compute capacity and model access, pivoting from pure consumer AI to infrastructure provider
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Nvidia Cuts AI Water Use 70%. Now the Grid Can't Keep Up.
Nvidia just made AI infrastructure 70% less thirsty, but the real bottleneck isn't water anymore. Nvidia's new Vera Rubin platform uses liquid cooling that runs at 113°F, eliminating the need for evaporative cooling that can consume 5 million gallons per day per facility
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Meta Accidentally Built a Billion-Dollar Cloud Giant While Chasing AI
When you spend billions building AI infrastructure for yourself and realize you accidentally built a product for everyone else. Meta is launching a cloud business to sell AI compute and models, entering direct competition with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
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Taiwan Arrests Supermicro Employees for Smuggling AI Chips to China
The AI compute arms race just claimed its first prisoners—and they work for the company building the plumbing of the agent economy.
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Musk's Orbital Data Center Promise Faces One Problem: Physics
Musk's orbital data center promises have the same energy as his Full Self-Driving timeline — except this time the physics is even less forgiving.
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Singapore Raids $42M Mansion in First Major AI Chip Smuggling Bust
The hardware beneath the AI boom just became contraband, and governments are willing to raid offices and seize mansions to control who gets to build the future.
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Trump Backs Down: Anthropic Wins First AI Export Showdown
The US government just blinked in its first real showdown with a frontier AI lab, and the precedent matters more than the model.
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E-commerce brands built empires on Google SEO—AI search just torched the playbook
The e-commerce SEO playbook just became legacy code, and the founders who built their brands on Google rankings are scrambling to decode what "findability" even means when ChatGPT is the new storefront.
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