Open USD's "149 Partners" Include Companies That Say They Never Agreed
The stablecoin wars just got messy: Open USD launched claiming 149 partners, but some of the biggest names on that list say they never signed up.
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B Corps Discover Their Own Values Don't Apply to AI
The most mission-driven companies in America are realizing their values don't fit neatly into a checklist anymore. Beneficial State Bank, a certified B Corp, piloted Stratyfy's AI credit decisioning tool and increased loan approvals in BIPOC communities by 21% through BetterFi, a partner CDFI
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Anthropic Stops Selling AI and Starts Making Medicine
The company that made Claude good at code now wants Claude good at curing cancer — and they're not just licensing the model, they're going into the lab themselves.
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Europe's Military Drone Maker Hits $8B as Defense Spending Explodes
Europe's military shopping spree just minted another unicorn—with surveillance tech that never sleeps. Quantum Systems raised $1.2B at an $8B valuation, doubling its worth as European defense spending accelerates
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UK Parents Unknowingly Feed AI Child Abuse Image Generators With Every Instagram Post
The family photo you posted to Instagram can now be weaponized by AI tools that don't need your kid's cooperation to create child sexual abuse material.
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Bitcoin Whales Bought $16.7B While ETFs Hemorrhaged $4B in Two Weeks
While institutions ran for the exit, someone with very deep pockets decided June 2026 was a buying opportunity.
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IMF to Crypto's $600B Tokenization Boom: You Don't Know Who Owns What
The world's most powerful financial institution just told crypto's biggest grown-up use case that it needs to grow up faster. The IMF warned that tokenized assets will stay niche until markets answer two basic questions: who legally owns the token, and where does settlement become final.
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IMF Admits Tokenization Will Move Faster Than Regulators Can Handle
The world's financial referee just admitted it doesn't have a rulebook for what happens when everything moves at blockchain speed.
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AI Chip Rally Built on Fantasy Demand, Top Investor Warns
Two experts watch the same semiconductor selloff and see opposite futures—one says the AI gold rush is built on sand, the other says it's just getting started.
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Vertiv Hits $40B While Schneider Stumbles in AI Power Land Grab
The AI infrastructure buildout isn't just creating demand for GPUs anymore — it's remaking century-old industrial companies and minting billion-dollar IPOs before the tech even works.
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Securitize Goes Public, Tokenizes Its Own Stock on Solana—Not Ethereum
Traditional finance just put its money where its mouth is, tokenizing its own stock on the blockchain it chose to trust. Securitize made its NYSE debut and immediately tokenized its own stock (SECZ) on Solana, signaling institutional confidence in the network
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Ripple's Biggest Donor Invests in Senator Lummis's Son During Her Crypto Bill Push
A senator writing crypto law says she has "no involvement" in her son's crypto-adjacent startup, which just took money from an industry titan who needs her vote.
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Apple Lets AI Agents Control Safari Without App Store Approval
Apple just gave every AI coding assistant direct access to Safari's guts — no permission slips, no App Store review, just a WebKit protocol that turns debugging into a multiplayer game between humans and agents.
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Trump Wants Bitcoin Tax-Free While His Sons Run a Mining Company
The president floats a trial balloon on Bitcoin tax policy the same week his sons' mining company executes a desperation move to stay listed.
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Crusoe Energy Hits $9B Valuation Mining AI Gold From Stranded Gas
The infrastructure layer of Web4 just got a $9 billion price tag from investors who've done the math on energy arbitrage. Crusoe Energy is raising $3 billion at a valuation approaching $9 billion, tripling its worth in a market where most AI infra plays are struggling to justify their burn rate
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Securitize Lists Its Own Stock Onchain While Going Public on NYSE
The company that tokenizes other people's assets just proved the model by tokenizing its own. Securitize launched shares simultaneously on the NYSE and onchain, making it the first dual-format IPO in history
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Meta Burns $145B While Its AI Agents Fail to Launch
The company spending more than the GDP of Hungary on AI just admitted its agents aren't ready for prime time. Meta is doubling its AI capex to $145B while Zuckerberg admits agent development is moving slower than expected
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eToro Bets $12.5M That Retail Traders Are Ready for Onchain Perps
A retail trading giant just wrote a check to move its users onchain — and you probably missed the quiet redirect. eToro led a $12.5 million funding round for Extended, an onchain perpetuals exchange, signaling a retail-to-DeFi bridge is being built right now
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ElevenLabs Hits $22B Before IPO While Competitors Burn Cash Going Public
The voice cloning company is worth more than half the GDP of Iceland, and it hasn't even gone public yet. ElevenLabs is in early talks for a secondary offering that would value the AI voice startup at $22 billion, letting employees cash out without an IPO.
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Securitize Tokenizes Itself While BlackRock Watches Wall Street Adapt
The company that tokenizes assets for a living just tokenized itself—and you can trade its shares on-chain 24/7 while the NYSE sleeps.
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