IPO Watch - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 30)

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Uber and Snap Fired Workers for AI That Never Replaced Them

The rehire rate tells you everything about who's actually using AI and who's just using it as cover.

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Goldman Sachs Breaks Ranks With Wall Street on Crypto Regulation

Wall Street's most powerful bank just chose crypto clarity over industry consensus, and the fracture lines tell you everything about who's ready for tokenized finance and who's still pretending 2015 matters.

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Harvard Dropouts Build $10.3B Chip Company to Kill Nvidia's Monopoly

The GPU monopoly just got its first real challenger, and it's not who you'd expect. Etched, a chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, just hit a $10.3B valuation building inference-specialized chips that claim to bypass GPUs entirely

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Uber Cuts 400 Jobs, Blames AI, Orders Survivors Back to Office

Uber just gave us the cleanest data point yet on how fast AI is eating white-collar work—and it comes with a return-to-office kicker that tells you everything about who's really expendable.

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Uniswap Builds Wall Street Backdoor Into World's Largest DEX

The biggest DEX just built a velvet rope for Wall Street, and the irony is it might save DeFi from itself. Uniswap v4 now supports Permissioned Pools — onchain trading for tokenized funds, securities, and equities that enforce compliance at the protocol level via issuer allowlists

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Block Just Made AI Agents Your Coworkers Using Bitcoin Tech

Jack Dorsey just made AI agents first-class citizens in the workplace, and he's using Bitcoin's underground protocol to do it. Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace built on Nostr that combines chat, Git hosting, and gives AI agents cryptographic identities alongside human team members

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

NASA Just Launched an AI That Can Think for Itself in Space

The command line just became a chat box—and it's orbiting at 17,000 mph. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory put Google's Gemma 3 LLM on a satellite, marking the first time a vision-language model has analyzed imagery from orbit using the satellite's own sensor

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Google Sits on $94B SpaceX Stake as Lockup Expires

The same lockup mechanics that turn crypto token launches into bloodbaths are about to hit the world's most hyped space company, except this time Google is holding $94 billion worth of the bag.

Human Imperative Jul 23, 2026

Google Hit With $1B Fine as Brussels Declares War on Big Tech

Brussels just levied its second billion-dollar fine on Google in a year, and Silicon Valley's bet is that Washington will retaliate before the check clears.

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Tesla's AI Spending Has No Speed Limit, Musk Declares

The man who tweeted "funding secured" now says efficiency is overrated when you're racing toward an AI-driven robotaxi future. Tesla's capital expenditure surged 142% year-over-year to $5.8 billion in Q2, burning through cash as Musk pivots the automaker into an AI company

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Tesla Burns $25B on AI Gamble Wall Street Didn't See Coming

Elon's biggest bet yet is printing red ink—and that might be exactly the point. Tesla raised 2026 capex guidance to over $25B, up from $20B in January, to fund Cybercab, Optimus robots, and AI infrastructure

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

OpenAI Arrives to the Legal AI Party It Already Started

The company that made legal AI possible by accident is now trying to own it on purpose — but the squatters have already built houses on the land.

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

BitMEX Invented the $2 Trillion Perps Market Then Got Crushed by It

The platform that taught a generation of degens how to get liquidated at 3am is finally liquidating itself. BitMEX, founded by Arthur Hayes in 2014, has halted new signups and set a withdrawal deadline before monthly fees kick in for dormant accounts

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

BitMEX Shuts Down After Inventing 100x Leverage That Defined Crypto Trading

The platform that invented 100x leverage and turned degens into a culture just admitted what the volume numbers have been screaming for years: nobody's home.

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Thailand Becomes Surprise Winner of Global AI Data Center Land Grab

The global AI compute arms race just found a new front — and it's not in Northern Virginia or Iowa. Foreign direct investment applications to Thailand surged 80% year-over-year to $40.6 billion in H1 2026, driven primarily by AI and data center projects

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Bitwise CIO Reveals Two Cryptos Already Printing Cash Before the Bull Run

The smartest money in crypto is betting on platforms that make money today, not tokens that promise returns tomorrow.

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Uber Cuts 400 Jobs After AI Handles Half of Support Tickets

The first wave of AI job cuts isn't coming from a startup testing the waters—it's from a company that already automated an entire industry's dispatch system. Uber cut 10% of its customer service workforce, explicitly citing AI as the reason for workforce reduction

AI Agent Economy Jul 23, 2026

Google Books $112B Profit as Anthropic and SpaceX Eclipse Search Revenue

Google just posted a $112 billion profit quarter where search advertising was a footnote. Alphabet reported $112 billion in profit, with $99 billion coming from paper gains on stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX, not from ads or cloud revenue

Human Imperative Jul 23, 2026

Alphabet Burns $200B This Year as Wall Street Questions the Returns

Alphabet is lighting $200 billion on fire this year and Wall Street is asking if there's a furnace or just smoke. Alphabet posted its 12th straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth, beating expectations despite delays in releasing Gemini Pro

Real World Assets Jul 23, 2026

Bitcoin Hits $67K While Stablecoins Quietly Drain $8B

The money's coming back in through the front door while it's still leaking out the back. Bitcoin briefly topped $67,000, its highest level since early June, after US spot ETFs logged $221.7 million in net inflows, snapping a brutal 10-day outflow streak that erased $2.73 billion from the market.