Sam Altman Won His Trial But Lost the Narrative on OpenAI's Profit Pivot
The jury let Altman off the hook, but the questions Musk raised about OpenAI's pivot from nonprofit to profit machine aren't going anywhere.
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Variational Raises $50M to Bring Derivatives Trading to Crypto Outsiders
While every other DeFi protocol chases yield farmers, Variational just raised $50 million to court the one user base that actually matters: people who've never touched a wallet.
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Nvidia's CEO Just Confirmed Agentic AI Is Already Billing Customers
The CEO of the company powering every AI breakthrough just said agents aren't vaporware anymore — they're billing customers. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirms agentic AI is now delivering measurable ROI across industries, marking a shift from experimentation to production deployment
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Nvidia Quietly Became a $43B Venture Fund While You Watched AI
The GPU king just revealed it's also a venture kingmaker with $43 billion staked across the agent economy—more than most VC firms manage in their entire existence. Nvidia posted another record quarter but signaled revenue growth would decelerate next quarter
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OpenAI's AI Just Solved an 80-Year Math Problem Humans Couldn't Crack
The same mathematicians who called out OpenAI's last fake breakthrough are now vouching for this one. OpenAI's reasoning model disproved the unit distance problem, a conjecture in discrete geometry unsolved since 1946
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SpaceX Holds More Bitcoin Than Most Countries Before Going Public
The company that gets us to Mars has been quietly stacking sats, and now every public market investor will own a piece of the world's seventh-largest bitcoin holder.
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Nvidia Reports Earnings as World's Most Valuable Company Faces First Real Test
Nvidia has become the world's most valuable company by selling the shovels for the AI gold rush — tonight we find out if the vein is running dry.
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Variational's $50M Bet: Order Books Are Dead Infrastructure
The RFQ model just got a $50 million bet to prove order books are the wrong infrastructure for everything beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum derivatives.
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Catena Labs Raises $30M to Build the First Bank for AI Agents
The next big battle in AI isn't compute or data — it's who gets to touch money on behalf of your agent. Catena Labs closed a $30 million Series A and filed for a national trust bank charter, building regulated financial rails specifically for AI agents.
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Google's AI Agent Fails Where a Scrappy Open-Source Project Succeeds
The open-source world just embarrassed every major AI lab, and now Google is scrambling to prove it can build what a scrappy project already shipped.
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Checker Raises $8M to Build What Banks Can't Block
While everyone debates whether stablecoins will replace banks, someone just raised $8 million to build the pipes that make that argument irrelevant. Checker raised $8 million from Galaxy Ventures, Framework, and others to build stablecoin infrastructure
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Tether Becomes Solo Owner of Public Bitcoin Treasury After SoftBank Exit
The stablecoin giant that prints dollars is now the sole owner of a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury, and SoftBank just walked away from the table. Tether bought out SoftBank's entire stake in Twenty One Capital, giving it full control of one of the largest public Bitcoin treasuries (NYSE: XXI)
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Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers to AI Projects Without Consent
When 7,000 people wake up to find their job has been redefined overnight, that's not reorganization—that's industrial restructuring at internet speed.
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Ninety Million Crypto Users Can Now Buy Apple Stock Without a Broker
Ninety million crypto holders just got stock market access without leaving their wallet or touching a brokerage account. Bitget Wallet integrated xStocks, adding over 130 tokenized stocks and ETFs backed by Kraken's infrastructure to its self-custodial platform.
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Cathie Wood Bets Tesla Robotaxis Will Define Physical AI
Cathie Wood is betting transportation becomes the physical manifestation of the AI revolution—and she's watching Tesla's robotaxi timeline like it's an earnings call.
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Cathie Wood Loads $4.4M Into Bullish While Crypto Investors Flee Exchanges
Cathie Wood is betting on the exchange, not just the tokens it lists. Ark Invest bought $4.4 million in Bullish shares across three ETFs on Monday and Tuesday, timing the purchase as the stock rebounded from a five-day slide.
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Senate Trades DeFi's Future for Two Democratic Votes
The Senate just traded DeFi's future for two Democratic votes. The Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY Act 15-9 after Chairman Tim Scott reinstated a last-minute compromise on DeFi regulations to secure bipartisan support from Senators Gallego and Alsobrooks.
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Stablecoins Hold $200B in Treasuries But Can't Access Them Fast Enough
The world's largest stablecoins sit on $200 billion in reserves, and a German asset manager just said it won't matter when everyone wants out at once.
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SoftBank's $70B WeWork Disaster Looks Small Next to His OpenAI Bet
The man who lost $70 billion on WeWork is now betting more than that on a single AI company, and this time his own team is nervous.
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Tokenized Stock Trading Just Hit $3.57 Billion in One Day
The stock market just moved onchain in volumes that would have seemed delusional two years ago. Tokenized equities trading volume hit an all-time high of $3.57 billion in a single day on Monday, May 19, 2026
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