Robinhood Bets $200M That AI Will Replace Day Traders By 2027
The company that made stock trading free is betting its next decade on making everything else tradable—and letting AI do the trading.
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Yandex Releases 80B AI Model Trained on Russian Internet for Free
Russia just made the next generation of AI agents Russian-first, and they're giving the blueprints away for free. Yandex released AliceAI Foundation 80B-A3B, an 80-billion parameter base model under an open-source license that permits commercial use
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Trump Creates "AI Czar" With Zero Plan to Regulate AI
The White House just answered AI's safety debate with the regulatory equivalent of thoughts and prayers. Trump announced plans for an "AI Force" and AI "Czar" while explicitly rejecting calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other frontier lab leaders to slow AI development
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Anthropic Eyes $2T Valuation While Bonds Signal AI Bubble Peak
The company that made Claude is betting it's worth more than most countries' GDP—but the bond market might have other ideas. Anthropic is targeting a $2 trillion valuation for an IPO now pushed to November from an original October timeline
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U.S. and China Build AI Hotline Before Systems Threaten Each Other
The world's two AI superpowers are building a hotline for when their algorithms start threatening each other, which tells you everything about how close we are to something breaking.
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Codie Sanchez: Investors Stay Poor, Business Owners Get Rich
The real wealth gap isn't between renters and homeowners—it's between people who own cash-generating businesses and people who just own stuff.
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UN Admits It Has No Plan to Control AI Agents Already Deployed
Two global institutions just admitted they don't know how to govern the thing that's already rewriting the economy. The UN is calling for governments to regulate AI agents before their full risks are understood, emphasizing urgent need for global cooperation on tech governance
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Local Residents Just Killed $68 Billion in AI Infrastructure
The hardware layer of the AI boom just ran headfirst into the physical world, and the physical world is winning. 45 US data center projects worth $68 billion were blocked or delayed between April and June by local opposition, while 30 statehouses introduced measures to restrict new construction
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AI Stock Valuations Risk Sharp Correction, ECB Board Member Warns
The smart money is arguing with itself over whether AI valuations are a house of cards or the foundation of the next decade.
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South Africa's Crypto Clampdown Previews Global Capital Controls 2.0
When a mid-tier economy puts exchange controls on crypto, it's not just local policy — it's a preview of how capital controls 2.0 will work everywhere.
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Google Open-Sources the Tech That Makes AI Agents Actually Work Together
Google just open-sourced the plumbing that turns your scattered AI agents into a coordinated workforce. Google released AX (Agent Executor), an open-source orchestration framework for managing multiple AI agents in production environments
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US and China Build AI Failure Hotline, Skip Prevention Rules
The US and China are building a hotline for AI failures while refusing to agree on anything that might actually prevent them. The US Treasury is proposing an AI incident notification mechanism following bilateral talks with China, a transparency gesture that stops well short of binding regulation
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xStocks Hits $173M in 30 Days While Wall Street Debates Blockchain's Legitimacy
Tokenized stocks just went from curiosity to nine-figure market in 30 days, and the incumbents still think blockchain is just for jpegs. xStocks tokenized equities hit $173M market cap after 187% monthly surge, while Circle stock alone deployed $306M in the tokenized equity market
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US and China Just Agreed AI Is Their Biggest Threat
The world's two superpowers just agreed that AI is scarier than their trade war. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called talks with Chinese counterparts on AI, trade, and investment "very successful" ahead of a presidential summit this week
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Coinbase Quietly Moved $1 Trillion While Banks Debated Crypto's Relevance
The payments layer of the internet just processed a trillion dollars, and most people still think stablecoins are for traders.
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Neovim's $800K Bitcoin Stash Has Been Sitting Untouched for Two Years
Open source's perennial funding problem just found $800K under the couch cushions, and nobody knows who has the keys. Neovim, the widely-used text editor, has 10 Bitcoin sitting in a publicly visible donation wallet since 2023, now worth roughly $800,000
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ZetaChain Votes to Kill Its Own Blockchain, Move to Solana
A blockchain designed to connect all chains just voted to abandon its own infrastructure and become a token on someone else's network.
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Anthropic's CEO Admits His Company Should Slow Down But Won't
The companies building the future say they need to slow down, but their quarterly earnings calls say the opposite.
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Jensen Huang Says AI Fears Are Overblown While Nvidia Sells the Chips
The guy selling the shovels just told the miners to stop worrying about cave-ins. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News that AI leaders warning about existential risk are "disingenuous" and have "ulterior reasons" for calling for regulation
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US Locks In $1T Short-Term Debt at Peak Interest Rates
The US government is shifting from long-term borrowing to short-term debt right as interest rates spike, a timing error that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions.
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