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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Institutional money is pouring into Bitcoin at a pace that suggests the basis trade blowout is over and the real accumulation phase has begun. Basis traders have stopped unwinding positions, removing a major source of selling pressure that depressed prices through Q1 2026
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Jeff Bezos is about to drop $10 billion on AI models that understand physical reality, not just text on a screen. Bezos is finalizing a $10 billion funding round for an AI startup building models that comprehend the physical world
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The DOJ just blinked on media M&A, and AI is the reason why. A senior DOJ official said antitrust enforcement in media needs "cautious humility" as AI and streaming reshape the industry
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The largest DeFi lending protocol just modeled up to $230M in bad debt after a bridge exploit, and ETH depositors can't withdraw. Aave disclosed $124M to $230M in potential bad debt from the Kelp DAO exploit, marking the protocol's first official damage assessment
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Bitmine just bought 101,627 ETH in a week and now controls more than 4% of all ether in existence. Bitmine acquired 101,627 ETH last week for over $230 million, its largest purchase since December 2025 and biggest weekly haul of 2026
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The pick-and-shovel play is alive and well in the AI gold rush, and it just went public in Hong Kong for $2.6 billion. Victory Giant Technology, a Chinese supplier to Nvidia, raised $2.6 billion in Hong Kong's biggest IPO in seven months, marking a major bet on the AI infrastructure buildout
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The AI boom just ran into concrete walls—literally—and now your old cubicle farm might become someone's apartment. PGIM's real estate chief says AI data center buildout is hitting physical infrastructure limits, while housing supply remains a "serious" issue
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A Chinese humanoid robot just ran a half-marathon seven minutes faster than the world record, and the most interesting part isn't the speed. A red humanoid robot completed a 21km half-marathon in Beijing in 50:26, beating the human world record by seven minutes
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Seventeen AI marketing startups just showed their cards, and they're all betting you'll pay millions to never hire another agency.
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Polymarket just went from crypto curiosity to Wall Street darling, and now it wants another $400 million to prove prediction markets can eat the financial world.
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Tether just wrote an $8 million check to make UAE institutional capital flow on blockchain rails, and it's the clearest signal yet that tokenization is moving from PowerPoint to production.
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The AI layoff wave just got a name: 8% of all job cuts this year now cite "AI efficiencies" as the reason, and the gap between hype and reality is starting to show.
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A former Kleiner Perkins partner who helped close Google's Series A just said the VC playbook he helped write is broken.
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A high-frequency trading giant just bought a seat at the crypto-AI table, and it says more about where institutions think liquidity is going than any conference keynote ever could. Optiver, a major market-making firm, took an equity stake in Eden Block, a VC focused on crypto and AI startups
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Strategy just dropped somewhere between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion on Bitcoin in a single purchase, the largest institutional buy of 2026 and a signal that corporate treasury strategies are doubling down even as crypto regulation tightens.
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Michael Saylor just raised $1.76 billion and told the world to "Think Even Bigger" about his next Bitcoin buy. Strategy raised $1.76B through convertible notes while Saylor posted cryptic "Think Even Bigger" message days after the company's latest $1B Bitcoin purchase
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Polymarket, the prediction market that called the 2024 election better than every pollster combined, is raising $400 million at a $15 billion valuation just six months after its last round.
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Stablecoins aren't just for payments anymore. They're becoming balance sheet weapons that turn treasury drag into yield. Paxos Labs raised $12M to help companies issue their own stablecoins and capture yield previously lost to banks and payment processors
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Someone just open-sourced an operating system that lets you tell robots what to do in plain English, no ROS required. Dimensional (dimOS) is a new open-source OS that lets developers control physical robots using natural language and Python, eliminating the need for ROS (Robot Operating System)
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