Claude Pro's Payment Processor Is Billing Users for Gift Cards They Never Bought
The AI subscription you signed up for is charging you for gift cards you never bought—and the payment processor says it's your problem.
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BNB Chain Now Trades $3.8B in Real Stocks While You Sleep
BNB Chain just became a 24/5 stock market, and most people still think crypto is just for speculation. xStocksFi launched on BNB Chain with 50+ tokenized U.S. equities trading 24/5, bypassing traditional market hours and settlement delays
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China Just Killed Meta's $2B AI Acquisition Before It Started
The invisible border around AI talent just became very visible, and it's redrawing the global map of who builds the agent economy. China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI, highlighting new regulatory barriers for US tech firms expanding globally amid escalating tech rivalry
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China's AI Companies Are Already Public While OpenAI Debates Going Private
While Western AI labs debate safety theater, China's foundation model companies are already trading on public markets. Azeem Azhar spent a week meeting Chinese AI teams, including publicly listed foundation model companies Zhipu and MiniMax, plus Kimi, Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Bytedance
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Nvidia Bets $90B on Asia While Silicon Valley Waits
Nvidia just placed a $90 billion bet that the future of AI isn't built in Silicon Valley boardrooms—it's assembled in Taiwanese factories and Korean clean rooms.
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ChatGPT's Uninstall Rate Just Jumped 132% in One Month
The app that made "AI" a household word is watching users walk away faster than new ones sign up. ChatGPT's uninstall rate jumped 132% year-over-year in April, with March seeing a 413% spike following OpenAI's Pentagon deal
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Bitcoin's 20% April Rally Built on Borrowed Time, Not Real Buyers
When derivatives do the heavy lifting and spot buyers stay home, the rally borrows against tomorrow instead of building on today. Bitcoin climbed roughly 20% in April, but CryptoQuant warns the move was driven by perpetual futures speculation while spot demand stayed weak.
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Musk Calls Crypto a Scam Then Launches Crypto Trading on X
The man who called crypto scams just launched a crypto product, and nobody's talking about it because his users actively mute the topic more than politics.
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Ben McKenzie Spent Three Years Exposing Crypto's Biggest Scam
The guy who played a cop on TV spent three years following the money trail crypto boosters didn't want anyone to see.
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Open-Source Tool Strips Safety From Any AI Model in Seconds
The open-source community just automated what AI labs spend millions trying to prevent—and it runs from the command line. Heretic is a fully automated tool that removes safety alignment from language models using directional ablation, requiring zero understanding of transformer architecture
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Fun Raises $72M While Crypto Agents Hit a $4 Trillion Wall
While everyone else is building AI agents to trade memecoins, one startup just raised $72 million to solve the problem that keeps those agents from actually working. Fun raised $72 million in Series A led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire to build infrastructure converting between crypto and fiat
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Alphabet Just Became More Valuable Than Nvidia in the AI Wars
The companies building the picks and shovels for the agent economy just swapped places at the top of the mountain. Alphabet's stock hit a record high after an earnings beat, pushing its market cap close to $5 trillion and within striking distance of Nvidia's valuation
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Meta acquires robotics startup after failing to build working hands in-house
Meta just bought the one thing it can't train its way to: hands that work. Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a 20-person San Diego startup building AI models for humanoid dexterity and manipulation, founded just last May.
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Meta Buys Robotics Startup to Build Humanoid Robots at Scale
The social media giant that taught algorithms to recognize your face is now teaching robots to use their hands. Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup building AI models specifically for robots, as part of what Bloomberg calls a "major initiative" to build humanoid technology
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Datavault AI Moves $150M in Physical Gold Onchain With Zero Vault Opacity
The physical gold market just got its first serious attempt at onchain liquidity that isn't backed by a vault you'll never see. Datavault AI (NASDAQ: DVLT) and Kings Mine Capital launched a $150M+ gold tokenization program called GoldVault, targeting fractional ownership of physical mining assets
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Bitcoin Hits $78K While Powell Chairs His Last Fed Meeting
The dollar price of Bitcoin just became a referendum on whether the Fed's new boss will print or defend.
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Nebius Buys Its Way Into the AI Speed Wars
The AI infrastructure war just got serious: cloud providers aren't just renting GPUs anymore, they're buying the companies that make those GPUs actually useful. Nebius, the cloud infrastructure spinoff from Yandex, is acquiring Eigen AI, a startup focused on optimizing AI inference performance
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Planet Labs Runs AI Detection In Orbit, Cuts Satellite Data Traffic 90%
The satellite industry just figured out how to think before it talks. Planet Labs successfully ran AI object detection on a satellite in orbit, marking the first reliable onboard image processing for Earth observation—a capability the industry has chased for years.
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Crypto's Infrastructure War: Miners Ditch Bitcoin for AI Billions
The crypto capital stack is fracturing in real time, and nobody's waiting for a new narrative to catch up. Crypto miners are pivoting infrastructure to AI compute, while BitMine doubles down on Ethereum mining in a clear split on where the value is.
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Pentagon Hands Seven AI Startups Classified War Contracts Without Disclosure
The companies that spent 2023 debating AI safety guardrails just signed blank checks to the Department of Defense.
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