Bitcoin Hits $70K as Trump Iran Deal Flips Fear to Greed
Bitcoin is now a geopolitical thermometer, and Trump's Iran deadline just sent it swinging from fear trade to relief rally in 48 hours.
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Niantic Turned Pokémon Players Into Unwitting Robot Trainers
Niantic just turned millions of Pokémon Go players into the training data for the robot economy. Niantic launches Scaniverse platform, crowdsourcing centimeter-accurate 3D maps of the world using phones, 360 cameras, and drones
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FDIC Moves First While Congress Stalls on $200B Stablecoin Market
The FDIC just drew the regulatory perimeter around stablecoins while Congress is still arguing about the blueprint. The FDIC approved a proposed rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers and opened it for public comment
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IMF Warns Tokenized Markets Could Crash Before Regulators Can React
The IMF just said the quiet part out loud: tokenizing Wall Street's plumbing might make the next financial crisis happen faster than regulators can type "emergency meeting."
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Oracle Raises $14 Billion in Debt to Build AI Data Centers
Oracle is financing AI infrastructure like a sovereign nation builds airports, and the bond market just showed up with $14 billion. Pimco is in talks with Bank of America to provide roughly $14 billion in debt financing for a single Oracle data center in Michigan
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SpaceX Offers Retail Investors 30% of $2 Trillion IPO, Skips Wall Street
SpaceX is bypassing Wall Street's gatekeepers and offering 30% of its $2 trillion IPO directly to retail investors. SpaceX plans a June retail investor event ahead of what could be history's largest IPO, targeting a $2 trillion valuation and $75 billion raise
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Intel Bets Comeback on Musk's Robot Army Chip Factory
Intel just bet its comeback on Elon Musk's plan to build a chip factory big enough to power a robot army and data centers in space. Intel is partnering with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to design and build Terafab, a massive AI chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas
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Intel Bets Survival on Musk's AI Chip Empire
Intel just bet its comeback on building chips for Musk's AI empire. Intel is joining Elon Musk's Terafab project, a chip manufacturing effort designed to supply Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI with custom semiconductors
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Silicon Valley's Favorite AI Number Is a Complete Lie
The AI boom's favorite revenue metric just got called out as Silicon Valley's most creative fiction. Cluely's co-founder admitted lying to reporters about ARR, the industry's standard measure of recurring revenue
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Eclipse Bets $1.3B That AI's Future Isn't Software
Eclipse just raised $1.3 billion to bet on companies building things you can touch, not just things you can prompt. Eclipse, the VC firm behind Cerebras, closed a $1.3 billion fund targeting AI infrastructure, manufacturing, robotics, and defense startups
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Claude Just Killed $1T in Enterprise Software and Nobody Noticed
Claude just ate a trillion dollars of SaaS market cap and most people still think it's just another chatbot. Anthropic's Claude, launched publicly in July 2023, briefly surpassed ChatGPT in App Store downloads after releasing Cowork in January 2026
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Bitcoin Whales Dump While Retail Waits for $100K
Bitcoin is whipsawing between $68,000 and $70,000, caught between whale selling pressure and a market that can't decide if it's hedging against geopolitics or betting on $100K by summer.
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Telehealth Startup Hit $401M Selling Ozempic With Fake AI Doctors
A two-person telehealth startup did $401 million in revenue last year using AI-generated fake doctors to sell weight-loss drugs on Facebook.
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OpenAI's Revenue Growth Stalls as Anthropic Closes the Gap
OpenAI is buying credibility it can't earn, and the numbers explain why. OpenAI's revenue growth is slowing, complicating its IPO story while Anthropic may overtake them in revenue The company acquired media properties to control the narrative, which only highlights they've lost control of it
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Bitmine Now Controls 4% of All Staked Ethereum and Just Hit the NYSE
A single public company now controls nearly 4% of all staked Ethereum, and Wall Street just gave it a bigger stage. Bitmine acquired over 71,000 ETH and secured an NYSE uplisting, with stock jumping 7% on the news
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Galaxy shareholders will vote on the blockchain—first for any public company
The first onchain shareholder vote for a publicly traded company happens in May, and it's not a pilot or a proof of concept. Galaxy (GLXY) shareholders holding tokenized shares will vote onchain in May via Broadridge's proxy voting infrastructure
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OpenAI's Brain Drain Is Now a $100M Betting Pool
The people who built the thing are now betting on what comes after it. Zero Shot, a new VC fund founded by OpenAI alums, is raising $100 million and has already deployed capital into early-stage companies.
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Polymarket Builds Its Own Stablecoin to Escape Crypto's Plumbing Problem
Polymarket is building the rails for a real market, not just a betting app. Polymarket is launching its own stablecoin and overhauling its order book infrastructure in a major exchange upgrade The new Polymarket USD will replace bridged USDC as the platform's collateral token
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SpaceX's $2 Trillion IPO Could Unlock Space's First Tradable Infrastructure
SpaceX at $2 trillion isn't just a big IPO. It's the moment when space infrastructure becomes a tradable asset class. SpaceX is preparing to go public at a valuation exceeding $2 trillion, positioning itself as the first in a wave of mega IPOs over the next year
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Nvidia Bets $505M That Data Centers Are the Real AI Gold Rush
The picks-and-shovels play for AI just got half a billion dollars more real. Firmus Technologies raised $505 million led by Coatue, with Nvidia already on the cap table This is infrastructure capital chasing the AI compute buildout, not another foundation model company
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