Crypto exchanges used to be the on-ramp. Now they're building the roads, the tollbooths, and the gas stations. Kraken parent Payward is acquiring Hong Kong-based Reap for up to $600 million in cash and stock, adding card issuance and stablecoin payment rails to its new B2B platform.
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The automation paradox just got personal — your performance review now includes whether you shipped the code that replaces your cube-mate. Matt Pressberg built an AI agent called Maria for his two-person PR firm, but a larger firm now wants him to deploy it explicitly to displace employees
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The man suing OpenAI for betraying its nonprofit roots once tried to poach its CEO with a Tesla board seat and a rival AI lab. Messages from Shivon Zilis reveal 2017 plans for Musk to launch a competing AI lab, with Altman or DeepMind's Demis Hassabis as potential leaders
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The woman who built GPT-4 just told a court, under oath, that the CEO lied to her about safety protocols. Mira Murati testified that Sam Altman falsely told her OpenAI's legal department had cleared a new AI model to skip the deployment safety board, a statement she confirmed under oath was untrue.
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The biggest private equity firms in the world just realized their portfolio companies are about to get left behind in the AI buildout. Blackstone and KKR are negotiating with Alphabet to deploy Google's AI models across their entire portfolio of owned companies
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The messiest divorce in AI history started with whiskey poured by Amber Heard at a haunted mansion and ended with compute costs ballooning from $30 million to $50 billion.
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The walled garden just opened its gates to competing gardeners. Apple plans to let users choose third-party AI models to power Apple Intelligence features system-wide in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, expected this fall.
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The people who mocked AI safety regulations twelve months ago are now the ones writing them.
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When you ship the hardware before the software is ready, you pay for it in court. Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over Apple Intelligence features advertised at WWDC 2024 but not delivered with iPhone 16 launch
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While OpenAI ships Claw to consumers and Anthropic fine-tunes Claude for task execution, Google is running its own agent experiment behind closed doors — and it's already living inside employee workflows.
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OpenAI just shipped receipts that its models are getting less delusional, but the real story is what those numbers reveal about how far we still have to go.
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The frontier model release schedule just got a new gatekeeper, and it's not a safety board or a nonprofit watchdog.
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The SAP migration wave isn't a tech upgrade—it's a $89 billion hostage negotiation, and AI agents just walked into the room. Nova Intelligence raised $31.5 million to deploy agentic AI for SAP migrations, led by a former DeepMind engineer targeting enterprise customers trapped in legacy systems.
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The researchers building the most powerful AI models in the world just decided their bosses can't be trusted with them.
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The people building the world's most advanced AI just decided they need collective bargaining rights to control what it does. Google DeepMind workers in the UK voted to unionize, requesting joint representation by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union
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The Big Four just placed their bet on who owns enterprise AI deployment—and it's not the consultants. OpenAI and PwC are partnering to deploy AI agents across enterprise finance functions—automating workflows, forecasting, and controls at CFO-level operations.
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The world's biggest AI arms dealer just made $46 billion while everyone was watching ChatGPT. Google owns 14% of Anthropic — worth roughly $53 billion on Anthropic's latest $380 billion valuation — after investing just over $4 billion total
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Google just made it cheaper to let AI agents work overnight without babysitting the process every thirty seconds. Google launched event-driven webhooks for the Gemini API, replacing polling loops with push notifications for long-running jobs
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Google just dropped a month's worth of AI updates in one post, and the throughline isn't better chatbots — it's infrastructure for agents that actually ship code and manage workflows without you.
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The richest man in the world threatened to make Sam Altman "the most hated man in America" two days before a trial that's revealing he can't actually prove OpenAI stole anything.
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