Japan's Two Biggest Banks Just Put Government Bonds on Blockchain
Japan's two biggest banks and its central clearinghouse just put real government bonds on blockchain rails, and they chose Canton over everything else.
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Apple's New CEO Inherits a Company That Can't Build AI That Matters
Apple is getting a new CEO while Wall Street questions whether the company can build AI that matters. Walter Piecyk of Lightshed Partners has spent over a year calling for Apple's CEO replacement, and now it's happening
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Claude Mythos Finds 271 Firefox Bugs While Pentagon Sues Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude Mythos just found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox while the Pentagon is suing them and the NSA is running their models on classified networks.
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SpaceX Pays $60B for Cursor Because xAI Is Losing the Agent War
Elon Musk just bought himself a $60 billion shortcut in the agent wars, and the price tag says everything about how far behind he thinks he is. SpaceX has struck a deal to acquire AI coding assistant Cursor for $60 billion, marking one of the largest AI acquisitions in history
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SpaceX Drops $60B on Pre-IPO AI Coding Startup Nobody Saw Coming
SpaceX just bought a $60 billion option on an AI coding startup right before its IPO, and the structure of this deal tells you everything about who's winning the agent economy.
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OpenAI's Image Generator Now Searches the Web Before Drawing
OpenAI just gave its image generator a search engine and the ability to think before it draws. ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now search the web to pull real-time information when generating images, powered by the new GPT Image 2 model with "thinking capabilities"
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 Renders Text in 30 Languages Without Errors
OpenAI just made every graphic designer's workflow obsolete, and most people haven't noticed yet.
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Revolut Triples Valuation to $200B While Traditional Banks Watch From Sidelines
Revolut just tripled its valuation target in five months, and the gap between what crypto banks can do and what traditional banks are allowed to do has never been wider.
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Kalshi Takes On Binance With Perpetual Futures After Beating CFTC
Kalshi, the prediction market that beat the CFTC in court, is launching perpetual futures to compete directly with Binance and Hyperliquid. Kalshi plans to launch crypto perpetual futures on April 27, moving beyond election and event-based prediction markets into continuous crypto trading products
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BTCC Lets You Trade SpaceX Stock With 50x Leverage
Crypto exchanges just turned private equity into a tradable asset class with leverage, and SpaceX is the guinea pig. BTCC launched SPACEXUSDT perpetual futures with 50x leverage, while Bitget opened IPO Prime with Republic to offer Solana-based tokens tied to pre-IPO companies
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Google Invented the Tech Behind AI Coding and Lost the Market
Google invented the transformer architecture that powers every AI coding assistant, and now it's losing the market it created. Google is scrambling to consolidate its fragmented AI coding initiatives as Anthropic and others capture enterprise developer mindshare
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Accenture Now Sells OpenAI's Code-Writing AI to Your Employer
OpenAI just deputized the world's largest consulting firms to sell AI coding agents into every Fortune 500 company that still thinks "digital transformation" means moving spreadsheets to the cloud.
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Nvidia and Microsoft Engineers Had Their Code Exposed for 48 Days
When the bug report sits open for 48 days and employees from Nvidia, Microsoft, Uber, and Spotify have their code exposed, you're not looking at a security incident anymore—you're looking at what happens when AI coding tools move faster than the people building them.
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Korean Giant Tokenizes 20 Tons of Gold Into Text-Message Payments
A Korean software giant just turned 20 tons of physical gold into digital tokens, and it's about to make buying gold as easy as sending a text message.
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Mistral's CRO: Every Enterprise Wants Custom AI, Nobody Wants OpenAI's Defaults
Europe's AI underdog just told you exactly how the agent economy actually gets built. Mistral AI's CRO says the French startup has evolved into a full-stack company, with revenue driven by large enterprises deploying customized models across industries
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Justin Sun Pulled $274M From AAVE Hours Before DeFi Freeze
A $292 million exploit just proved that DeFi's composability is also its kill switch—and one wallet got out with $274 million before everyone else could. A KelpDAO bridge exploit drained $292M in rsETH, creating $200M in bad debt on AAVE's wETH pool when the token went to zero
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Arbitrum's Security Council Just Froze $80M in Stolen Crypto
Arbitrum just proved that decentralized finance has a centralized override button, and it works. Arbitrum's Security Council froze 30,766 ETH (worth roughly $71-100 million depending on price) tied to the KelpDAO exploit, moving it to a wallet only governance can unlock
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Jensen Huang: AI Won't Take Your Job, It'll Micromanage It
Jensen Huang just told you to stop worrying about AI taking your job and start worrying about AI turning into your worst boss. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI agents won't replace workers—they'll micromanage them instead, acting more like "overbearing managers" than job destroyers
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Apple's New CEO Is a Hardware Guy in a Software World
Apple just chose a hardware engineer to lead it into an era where the hardware might not matter anymore. Tim Cook steps down September 1, replaced by John Ternus, Apple's hardware engineering VP since 2001 who oversaw iPad, AirPods, iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch development.
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Bezos Raises $10B for Secret AI Lab at $38B Valuation
Jeff Bezos is about to raise $10 billion for an AI lab you've never heard of, and Wall Street's biggest players are writing the checks. Project Prometheus, Bezos's stealth AI venture, is closing a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation with backing from BlackRock and JPMorgan
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