Polymarket, the prediction market that called the 2024 election better than every pollster combined, is raising $400 million at a $15 billion valuation just six months after its last round.
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Stablecoins aren't just for payments anymore. They're becoming balance sheet weapons that turn treasury drag into yield. Paxos Labs raised $12M to help companies issue their own stablecoins and capture yield previously lost to banks and payment processors
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Solana is adding 1.5 million daily users every month while its price drops to $83, and a $352 million buyback from its biggest meme coin platform just flopped harder than a bad ICO pitch.
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The AI security arms race just got $70 million more serious. Artemis raised $70M to build AI-powered defenses against AI-powered attacks, marking a shift from theoretical threat to funded reality
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Every AI startup is betting they can build a moat before OpenAI notices their category exists. AI startups openly admit they're racing against a 12-month window before foundation model companies absorb their use case
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A three-month-old startup just convinced brands spending six figures monthly on ads to fire their agencies and trust AI instead. Uplane raised $4.5 million to replace marketing agencies with AI-powered ad testing and optimization across Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn
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Jane Street is betting $1 billion that the future of AI compute isn't owned by hyperscalers. Fluidstack is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation, with Jane Street leading the round
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Two guys called 20,000 gas stations with AI agents and spent $5,000 to build a working product in days, and their biggest lesson is to make the AI mean to you.
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The chip designer who built Apple's A-series processors just raised money from Sequoia to rethink the CPU for the agent era. Gerard Williams, former Apple chip architect and Nuvia founder (acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B), launched Nuvacore with Sequoia backing to build AI-optimized CPUs
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The stablecoin printer just spun off its R&D lab, and someone wrote a $12 million check for the parts bin. Paxos Labs, the newly spun-off entity from stablecoin issuer Paxos, raised $12 million led by Blockchain Capital, with CEO Charles Cascarilla helming both companies
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A single wallet got drained for $280M across Ethereum and Arbitrum, and it's raising harder questions than "how did this happen."
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Cursor is raising $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, and the reason has nothing to do with developers anymore. Cursor is in talks to raise $2B+ at a $50B valuation, with a16z and Thrive leading, driven by enterprise adoption surge
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Nine months ago, he got laid off by an AI company. Today, he's running a profitable business with two humans and twelve agents doing the work of a dozen employees.
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Anthropic just hit the brakes on its most capable AI model yet, and the reason should worry anyone betting on self-regulation in the agent economy.
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A defense startup that tested its drones in Ukrainian trenches just doubled its valuation to $12.7 billion while projecting over half a billion in revenue.
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The best short-seller in the game thinks AI valuations are built on sand, and he's putting money on it. Carson Block of Muddy Waters Capital says fundamentals still matter more than technicals in short selling, even as AI hype dominates markets
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The SEC just charged a crypto executive for selling "insured" tokens that had no insurance, and the case shows exactly why tokenized assets need more than marketing promises.
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Tokenization won't rescue your illiquid real estate fund, and the people building this infrastructure finally said it out loud.
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A four-month-old AI lab just raised half a billion dollars at a $4 billion valuation because it's building agents that teach themselves. Recursive, founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, raised $500M at a $4B valuation from Google Ventures and Nvidia
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Andreessen Horowitz just backed an AI accounting platform, and if you think bookkeeping is boring, you haven't watched an agent turn three weeks of reconciliation into three minutes. Andreessen Horowitz invested in Rillet, an AI platform that automates finance and accounting workflows for businesses
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