Argentina was supposed to be crypto's comeback story—until its libertarian president allegedly sold his endorsement for $5 million. Javier Milei faces bribery allegations tied to a $5m deal for endorsing a crypto project, tanking his approval ratings to record lows
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North Korea isn't just another state actor in crypto. They're the only one that never has to stop. North Korea's crypto infiltration tactics are evolving beyond simple heists, with security experts warning the regime operates under fundamentally different constraints than other state hackers
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Trump wants to flood the world with American AI chips, but the Bureau of Industry and Security can't process the paperwork fast enough to make it happen.
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Japan just threw another $4 billion at its wildest industrial bet: building an AI chip foundry from scratch to compete with TSMC.
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DeepSeek is hiring data center engineers in Inner Mongolia, the same region where reports say they're running banned Nvidia Blackwell chips. DeepSeek posted two data center engineering roles in Inner Mongolia, a region previously reported as the location of their Blackwell chip operations
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Beijing's software engineers are quitting their jobs to build businesses on top of an AI that controls their computers for them.
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Beijing's software engineers are quitting their jobs to build businesses on top of an AI that controls their computers for them.
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A Chinese AI company just told Beijing it has $92 million worth of chips the US banned from export, and its stock cratered 20% in a day.
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Alibaba just dropped a video AI model that nobody saw coming, and it's beating everything on the leaderboard. A stealth Alibaba team launched a video generation model that topped global AI benchmarks, outperforming established models from OpenAI and Google
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Alibaba just wrote a $300 million check for a Chinese AI video startup you've never heard of, and that tells you everything about where the real model wars are happening. Alibaba Cloud led a $293 million round for ShengShu Technology, a Chinese AI video generation company
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Florida just opened a state investigation into OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT helped plan a campus shooting and is leaking tech to China.
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The vibe coding gold rush has a pricing problem, and two repeat YC founders think fixed subscriptions will eat pay-per-use alive. OpenBuilder raised $2.2M seed to challenge Lovable and Replit with fixed-price vibe coding instead of credit-based billing
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CZ's prison memoir just turned into a tell-all that reignited the ugliest founder feud in crypto history. CZ's new book "Freedom of Money" includes claims about Huobi founder Li Lin that allegedly prompted Li's arrest by Chinese authorities
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China just shipped an open-source AI agent that works an eight-hour shift, and the benchmark numbers say it's beating GPT and Claude at actual engineering work. Z.ai released GLM-5.1 under MIT license, a 754-billion parameter model designed to run autonomously for up to eight hours on a single task
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The companies racing to own AI just paused to keep Chinese competitors from stealing the finish line. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are collaborating to prevent Chinese AI firms from extracting outputs from their models to reverse-engineer capabilities without building foundational research.
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Supermicro's entire business model depends on Nvidia's goodwill, and a China smuggling scandal just put that relationship on very thin ice. Bernstein analysts warn that Nvidia cutting GPU supply to Supermicro would have a "devastating impact" on the hardware maker
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China just put an $18 million price tag on humanoid robotics talent, and that number tells you everything about who's winning the race to automate physical work.
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Ant Group just built the payment rails for agents to pay each other without asking permission. Ant Group's blockchain division launched Anvita, a platform where AI agents coordinate tasks and settle payments in real time using stablecoins
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NVIDIA just posted a quarter that tells you everything about who's winning the agent economy before it even starts. NVIDIA delivered record quarterly results, signaling massive infrastructure spending on AI compute continues to accelerate
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When a government tries to wall off its digital infrastructure, the walls collapse inward. Russia's VPN crackdown, aimed at blocking Telegram, caused a nationwide banking outage this week, according to Telegram founder Pavel Durov
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