Anthropic's $35B Funding Round Just Made a Bitcoin Miner Rich
A Bitcoin miner just became the landlord for Claude's brain, and the numbers say more about AI's infrastructure bottleneck than any funding round ever will.
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Strategy and Metaplanet Just Became Tradeable Securities on Blockchain
The same regulatory arbitrage that built offshore finance just went on-chain, and it's starting with the most Bitcoin-obsessed public companies on Earth.
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London Stock Exchange Picks Kraken Over Banks to Tokenize Stocks
The London Stock Exchange just chose a crypto exchange's parent company to tokenize its blue chips, not a bank or fintech incumbent. Payward, Kraken's parent company, will tokenize 100 London-listed stocks using its xStocks framework, with trading planned on LSE's new blockchain platform
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Nvidia Drops $1.5B to Keep AI Data Centers From Going Dark
Nvidia just wrote a $1.5 billion check to make sure the AI boom doesn't get choked by the electric grid. Nvidia is investing $1.5B in SB Energy as part of a massive Ohio AI campus buildout, directly tying chip manufacturing to power infrastructure
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Flow Lender Loses $9.3 Million to Collateral Rules Exploit
When your collateral is more valuable than the rules that govern it, someone will notice.
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Wall Street Grabs 36% More XRP While Crypto Exchanges Hemorrhage Tokens
While crypto's cowboy exchanges bleed half a billion tokens in two weeks, Wall Street's playground just grew by a third. XRP futures open interest on CME jumped 36% while non-CME exchanges shed over 500 million tokens in the same period
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MSCI Moves to Eject Bitcoin Treasuries From Indexes They Dominate
MSCI wants to kick Bitcoin treasury companies out of its indexes for holding too much Bitcoin — the exact strategy that made them worth indexing in the first place.
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Trump Attacks Fed as Bitcoin's 26% Rally Faces New Chair's Hawkish Doctrine
Bitcoin's 26% August rally just ran headfirst into the new Fed chair's doctrine, and the bond market is calling his bluff. Bitcoin surged 26% in August on speculation that cheap money would continue, but new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh says that era is over
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Crypto Spent $638M Buying Back Tokens and 90% Went to Two Protocols
When 90% of the buyback capital flows to just two protocols, you're not watching a trend, you're watching natural selection in real time. Crypto projects spent $638M on token buybacks in 2026, with Hyperliquid and Pump.fun accounting for nearly 90% of that spend
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Claude Users Hacked Through Browser Malware, Not AI Vulnerabilities
When your AI assistant gets hacked, it's not the model that failed — it's your browser. Anthropic warned Claude users that infostealer malware on their devices hijacked active sessions, allowing attackers to use Claude without credentials
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Robinhood Built a Billion Dollar DeFi Chain in Two Months
Robinhood just proved you can build a billion-dollar DeFi chain in two months if you already own the on-ramp. Robinhood Chain recorded between $874.8M and $989M in DEX volume on August 30, its highest single day since launching July 1
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a16z Investor Calls Grok Bot the Next ChatGPT Moment
The a16z stamp of approval just landed on X's AI bot while enterprises are still figuring out whether to let it touch their Office 365 tenant. Grok Bot can now directly access and manipulate Microsoft services, moving beyond chat into actual workplace automation
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Anthropic locks down 5 gigawatts of power with Nvidia's backing while rivals scramble
The company that built Claude just locked in enough electricity to power a small city, and its biggest investor might be the reason why.
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Andreessen Horowitz Bets $9.6B That AI's Future Isn't Software
Silicon Valley's most influential crypto firm just told you where the real money is — and it's not in another chatbot. Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1B for its new Machine Age Fund targeting AI infrastructure — chips, data centers, robotics — then quietly expanded its growth fund to $8.5B.
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Anthropic Dodges EU Regulation While OpenAI Gets Hit With Compliance Costs
The EU just drew a line at 45 million users, and the companies on either side of it now play by completely different rules.
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Tesla Beats Waymo to Market With September Cybercab Launch
The autonomous taxi finally has a product launch date, and it's not coming from the company that's been running robotaxis for years. Tesla deployed its two-seat Cybercab pod on public Austin streets and is adding the vehicles to its Texas robotaxi fleet ahead of a September commercial launch
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North Korea's Lazarus Group Just Moved $30M Through Trump's Favored Crypto Platform
Trump wants to bring crypto home while North Korea's most prolific hacking group is already making themselves comfortable on a platform he's championing. Lazarus Group wallets sold over $30 million in bitcoin on Hyperliquid in just three weeks, according to blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk
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Polymarket Hits $20B Valuation One Year After FBI Raid
A year ago, Polymarket was a crypto curiosity. Today, it's raising a billion dollars at a valuation that puts it in the same league as billion-dollar fintech giants—while lawyers sharpen their knives.
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Anthropic Files Secret IPO While Racing Into Healthcare Before OpenAI
Anthropic is sprinting toward a public listing with a playbook straight from Big Tech's golden era: expand into a regulated vertical, file confidentially, and make competitors sweat before the prospectus even drops.
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Russia's Largest Bank Now Accepts Ethereum as Loan Collateral
When Russia's largest bank projects $46 billion in crypto trading volume and starts treating ether like car titles, the global banking playbook just got a new chapter written in Cyrillic.
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