OpenAI just hired Meta's ad exec Dave Dugan to run global ad solutions, and the shift from AI research lab to ad platform is now official. OpenAI hired Dave Dugan, a 10+ year Meta ad sales veteran, as VP of global ad solutions
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Europe's rocket startups are learning Silicon Valley's playbook: raise fast, launch faster, and hope the trajectory holds. Isar Aerospace is raising €250 million just as they prep for a critical launch this week
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The Pentagon is 3D-printing cruise missiles for $200,000 that used to cost $2 million, and the factory doing it can switch to making McLaren parts with zero downtime.
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Elon Musk just announced he's building a chip fab in Austin, and if you think this is about chips, you're missing the point. Musk announced a "Terafab" plant in Austin, jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX, targeting chips for robotics, AI, and space-based data centers
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A German observability startup just hit unicorn status by promising to make AI agents actually debuggable. Dash0 raised $110 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Balderton Capital, to expand its monitoring platform in the US
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The NYSE just removed position limits on Bitcoin and Ether ETF options, and Wall Street's risk desks are about to get very creative. NYSE exchanges eliminated position caps on options for 11 Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, removing a key barrier to institutional volume.
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Cathie Wood just doubled down on the thesis that made her famous—and this time, she's betting the convergence itself is the trade. Ark's Cathie Wood laid out her bull case for AI, robotaxis, CRISPR, bitcoin, and SpaceX as the next wave of compounding innovation
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a16z Crypto just said the quiet part out loud: AI agents will kill the ad-supported internet. a16z Crypto's Sam Ragsdale argues the economic model of the internet is broken, calling for a shift away from advertising as AI agents become primary internet users
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Strategy's Bitcoin stack just slipped into the red for the first time ever, and Michael Saylor's already signaling another buy.
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China's Unitree just filed to raise $610 million in Shanghai, and the number that matters isn't the fundraise, it's what they're actually selling.
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Xanadu is taking quantum computing public with a 2030 data center promise, betting investors are ready to fund the long road from lab curiosity to commercial infrastructure. Xanadu Quantum Technologies is preparing for a public listing, promising to build quantum-powered data centers by 2030
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Ethereum is stuck between three existential threats and none of them care about its roadmap. Ethereum confronts simultaneous pressures from scaling fragmentation, quantum computing security risks, and AI agent demands while upgrades continue improving efficiency
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Elon Musk just announced Tesla and SpaceX will co-build a chip fab in Austin, which matters less for what he said and more for what it signals about vertical integration in the agent economy.
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A compliance startup that sells the promise of regulatory safety just got accused of selling nothing but the promise. An anonymous Substack post accuses Delve of falsely convincing hundreds of customers they were compliant with privacy and security regulations
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Elon Musk says he's building a chip fab in Austin because the AI boom needs more chips, and apparently running six companies means you should also vertically integrate into one of the hardest manufacturing problems on earth.
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Elon Musk just announced he's building his own chip fab in Austin, shared across Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, because when you need compute at planetary scale, you can't wait for TSMC's production queue.
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Musk is building a chip factory for robots, AI, and satellites—and he's doing it without asking permission from Nvidia.
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Institutions don't want your tokenized Treasury bonds—they want programmable yield curves they can code into. DeFi protocols are rebuilding fixed-income infrastructure with programmable yield as the core value proposition, not just asset tokenization
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The price of access just got a blockchain receipt. Trump's crypto gala has tiered access starting at $70,000, with top lunch slots costing up to $6 million, determined by timing and strategy, not just holdings
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A filmmaker went looking for creative tools and found a eugenics fan club instead. Director Valerie Veatch dove into OpenAI's Sora community in 2024 expecting to find artists, found casual racism and sexism baked into the outputs and normalized by the users
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