When your AI flies fighter jets autonomously but your HR still operates like it's 1995, you've got a cultural debt problem that no Series E can fix. A former Shield AI employee filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment by a senior official, plus fraud and safety violations at the defense AI startup
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The Bank of England just said the quiet part loud: stablecoins need guardrails, AI models need stress tests, and private credit needs sunlight. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey addressed AI risks, private credit opacity, and stablecoin regulation at a central banking conference in Iceland
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The honor code is dead, and vibes won't bring it back. Harvard professors are abandoning formal AI detection because there's no reliable way to prove students used ChatGPT, so some are threatening to fail work that "feels like AI"
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The CFTC just handed U.S. exchanges a weapon they've needed for years, right as institutional money runs for the exits. The CFTC approved the first onshore Bitcoin perpetual contract, bringing a product previously dominated by offshore exchanges to U.S. soil under federal oversight.
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The most popular crypto trading instrument just became legal in the U.S., and the firms that got there first weren't the ones you'd expect. The CFTC opened the door for perpetual futures contracts, allowing Kalshi and Coinbase to offer these products to U.S. customers.
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Wall Street's largest asset managers are no longer watching DeFi from the sidelines—they're deploying capital inside it.
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The U.S. just stopped exporting its most sophisticated crypto traders to the Caymans. The CFTC approved Kalshi's BTCPERP contract, the first bitcoin perpetual futures on a registered U.S. exchange, ending years of regulatory exile for the product that drives most global crypto trading volume.
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Institutional Bitcoin demand just hit a wall harder than at any point since the ETF launches, and it's happening while stocks are making new highs.
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The CEO who made $37 million in three years just bought $19,000 of his own company's stock for his kids—then signaled he wants to raise $80 billion for Bitcoin. Strategy CEO Phong Le hinted at raising $80 billion to buy Bitcoin, a move that would dwarf any previous corporate Bitcoin treasury play
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The robots were supposed to replace the lawyers, but first they're replacing the paralegal filter that kept bad cases out of the system.
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When a state decides it wants the keys, not just the exposure, the entire custody industrial complex pays attention. Texas is moving its $10 million Strategic Bitcoin Reserve from BlackRock's IBIT ETF to direct custody, hiring a crypto custodian to hold actual coins instead of paper exposure
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The rest of the market took the ceasefire win and ran. Crypto didn't even flinch. Global stocks hit all-time highs and oil prices dropped on news of a tentative US-Iran ceasefire extension, but Bitcoin and ether barely moved.
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When your SpaceX bet relies on a price feed from someone's spreadsheet, you're not trading the future of space exploration—you're gambling on whether the intern checked their work.
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A Bitcoin miner just leapfrogged Coinbase to become the fourth-biggest corporate Ethereum holder, and the strategic flip from mining revenue to treasury asset tells you everything about where institutional crypto is headed.
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DeFi just opened a door for the suits, and the suits are about to bring $16 trillion to the party. Orca launched permissioned liquidity pools on Solana, with Streamex's gold-backed token GLDY as the first regulated asset to trade in this new infrastructure
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The same infrastructure that just absorbed a $1.3 billion trade without moving the price is now bleeding $2 billion in nine days. US spot Bitcoin ETFs hit $228.88 million in net outflows on May 28, the ninth consecutive day of withdrawals totaling over $2 billion since May 14
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Global crypto exchanges are treating South Korea like a strategic choke point, not just another market. OKX Ventures and Korea Investment & Securities are each investing KRW 80 billion ($53 million) to acquire a combined stake in Coinone, one of South Korea's established crypto exchanges.
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Wall Street just gave the fourth-largest crypto a seat at the table, and nobody's talking about what happens when exchange tokens get regulated like blue chips.
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The same infrastructure that was supposed to bring Wall Street money into Bitcoin is now quietly showing it the door. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $229M in outflows, marking the ninth consecutive day of institutional retreat and pushing 2026 flows near breakeven territory.
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The corporate Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its first high-profile rejection letter. Sequans Communications is liquidating its Bitcoin holdings after adopting a digital asset treasury strategy one year ago, during which Bitcoin fell more than 30%
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