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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While AI companies cry poverty over compute costs, they're dropping five figures on backwards menus and caviar. Vercel threw a private dinner at an unopened SF restaurant featuring caviar, lobster, and mirrors required to read the menu, right after tripling valuation to $9 billion
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An OG Ethereum whale just bet $19.5 million that crypto winter is over. Early Ethereum investor thomasg.eth deployed $19.5M this week to rebuild his ETH position after liquidations Timing aligns with Fundstrat's Tom Lee declaring crypto winter finished
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DuckDuckGo just made privacy-first AI chatbot access real, and it changes the calculus for anyone who's been queasy about feeding their prompts to Big Tech's data vacuum.
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An OG Ethereum whale just dropped $19.5 million back into ETH, and the timing tells you everything about where smart money thinks we are in the cycle. Early Ethereum participant thomasg.eth bought $19.5 million in ETH this week, rebuilding a position after previous exits
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Kalshi just doubled to $22 billion in 90 days, and it's not because prediction markets suddenly got twice as useful. Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation, doubling its worth in three months
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ByteDance just learned that making AI-generated Brad Pitt punch AI-generated Tom Cruise is a lawyer problem, not a tech problem. ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0, its hyperrealistic video generation model, after copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streaming platforms
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An open-source AI coding agent just landed on Hacker News and developers are paying attention. OpenCode is a new open-source AI coding agent that gained significant traction, hitting 268 points with 118 comments initially and climbing to 448 points with 203 comments as developers dug in
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Institutions are done waiting for perfect entry points—73% are buying crypto *now*, volatility be damned. Nearly three-quarters of institutional investors plan to increase digital asset allocations in 2026, targeting Bitcoin, Ether, stablecoins, and tokenized real-world assets
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Amazon is apparently building another smartphone, because the first one went so well. Amazon is reportedly developing a new AI-powered mobile device slated for 2026, reviving a hardware category where it spectacularly failed a decade ago.
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Kalshi just doubled its valuation to $22 billion in three months, and prediction markets are officially eating Wall Street's lunch. Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation, doubling its worth from a November round just three months ago
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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is betting $2 billion that the future of farming runs through AI collars on cows. Halter, an AI-powered cow collar startup, is raising funds at a $2 billion valuation, double its previous round, with Founders Fund leading
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AI wheelchairs can now drive themselves to the coffee machine on voice command, but the researchers building them know something most roboticists miss: the humans they're replacing are often better drivers.
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Jeff Bezos just filed to put 51,600 AI compute satellites in orbit, and the real story isn't the satellites. Blue Origin filed with the U.S. government for permission to launch up to 51,600 satellites designed to handle AI computing from space, directly competing with SpaceX's similar January filing
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xAI is getting sued by three Tennessee teens for tools that turned their yearbook photos into sexual deepfakes, and the liability question just got real for every AI company racing to fewer guardrails.
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SpaceX is prepping what could be the largest IPO in history, and the real question isn't whether Elon can sell the vision—it's whether the numbers can carry the weight. SpaceX is targeting an IPO this summer that could raise tens of billions and potentially set records for offering size
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Morgan Stanley just moved from spectator to player in the Bitcoin ETF game. Morgan Stanley filed a second amended S-1 for its MSBT spot Bitcoin ETF, detailing seed capital, listing plans, and Wall Street partnerships
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Ledger hiring a CFO from Circle and opening a New York office isn't about an IPO, it's about survival in a market where hardware wallets are becoming infrastructure. Ledger hired John Andrews, former Circle CFO, as it preps for a potential IPO and opens a New York office
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HR tech is crossing the line from automation to autonomy, and the people building it know exactly how nervous that should make you.
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Gemini just got sued for pivoting to prediction markets after going public, and it's a warning shot about what happens when crypto companies try to tell two different stories at once.
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