X just turned tweets into trading desks, and a billion dollars moved through them in 48 hours. X's new Cashtags feature hit an estimated $1 billion in trading volume within days of its Tuesday pilot launch for stocks and crypto
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The Chinese AI lab that said no to VC money for years just put out a $300 million open hand at a $10 billion valuation. DeepSeek is seeking $300 million in outside funding at a $10 billion valuation, marking its first external capital raise after years of parent company backing
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Hong Kong's Flow Capital is tokenizing $150 million in private credit—real money, real borrowers, real blockchain rails. Flow Capital plans to tokenize a $150 million private credit fund, marking one of the largest moves yet to bring institutional lending infrastructure onchain
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Sequoia just raised $7 billion under new leadership, and where that money goes will tell you more about the next decade of tech than any trend report. Sequoia Capital closed ~$7 billion in fresh capital, the first major fundraise under new leadership after the 2024 generational transition
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A Chinese AI infrastructure company just pivoted from collapsing real estate to robotics at a $150 million valuation, and the playbook says everything about where China's capital is flowing in 2026.
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Circle's CEO just called China's shot on a yuan stablecoin, and the timeline is shorter than you think. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire sees China launching a yuan-pegged stablecoin within 3 to 5 years, calling it a "tremendous opportunity" for global yuan distribution
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Alibaba is jumping into the robot hardware game with a four-legged machine, because apparently selling everything online wasn't enough. Alibaba is launching its first robot, a four-legged device entering China's packed robotics market
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Alibaba just took a swing at Tencent's gaming empire with an AI that builds game worlds instead of just playing in them. Alibaba launched a new AI model that generates 3D video for game development and real-world simulations
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China just figured out how to turn GPU farms into bonds, and it's about to flood AI infrastructure with capital the West didn't see coming. Chinese data center operators raised over $1 billion through asset-backed securities, creating REIT-style vehicles backed by compute infrastructure
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Short sellers just handed Bitcoin bulls $440 million in a single day, and the squeeze isn't over yet. Bitcoin rallied 5.7% toward $75,000, triggering $541 million in total crypto liquidations with shorts absorbing over $440 million in losses
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MiniMax released a Claude-killer AI agent model, made it free for research, then quietly walked back commercial rights a few hours later. Chinese AI lab MiniMax dropped M2.7, an open-weight model that matches Claude 3.5 Opus on SWE-bench coding tasks, then changed the license within hours
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The U.S. still leads in AI model releases, but China just installed nine times more industrial robots than America did last year.
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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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