Musk's finance guy may have just handed OpenAI a gift on the witness stand, and the jury never heard it. Jared Birchall, Musk's fixer, appeared to accidentally reveal something damaging during testimony after the jury was excused from the courtroom in Oakland
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The AI chip king and the iPhone empire are locked in a valuation knife fight, and Apple just sharpened its blade with the one thing Nvidia can't manufacture: recurring revenue.
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A single VC firm just turned patient capital into a $10 billion SpaceX position, and now they're raising funds specifically designed for the companies that never go public.
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The fastest Ethereum layer-2 network just turned hype into a tradable asset, and seven major exchanges were ready on day one. MegaETH's MEGA token launched April 30 after completing a seven-day countdown triggered when the network hit 10 live applications.
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Bitcoin miners are buying power plants now, and it's not about mining bitcoin. MARA Holdings is acquiring Long Ridge Energy for $1.5 billion, including a 505 MW natural gas plant and 1,600 acres in Ohio with expansion capacity to over 1 GW.
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The DeFi immune system is learning to fight back faster than the exploits evolve. Aave and Compound released technical plans to eliminate bad debt and restore full backing for rsETH tokens after the $290M Kelp DAO exploit
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The smartest money in Silicon Valley just doubled down on patience as a strategy. 137 Ventures raised $700 million across two funds to back startups over longer time horizons, days before SpaceX's expected IPO
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Customer service agents—human and AI alike—are being measured the same way now: by cost per resolution. Netomi raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and Adobe Ventures, with backing from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman
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Bitcoin's biggest conference couldn't lift Bitcoin, but the NFTs everyone declared dead in 2023 just had their best week in months. Bitcoin dropped 4% during Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas while Ethereum NFTs rallied, marking an unusual divergence at a BTC-focused event
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A utility just made 1.2 million Michigan households unwitting creditors in OpenAI's ability to hit its growth targets. DTE Energy promised to freeze power rates for two years if a $16B Oracle-OpenAI data center generates $300M in revenue, tying residential bills to AI infrastructure performance.
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When the joke coin starts moving independently of the reserve asset, someone's making a calculated bet. Dogecoin surged 10% while bitcoin stayed flat, breaking the typical correlation pattern that defines memecoin behavior.
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Solana just wrote an $18 million check to the company building the plumbing for institutional stablecoin transactions, and the smartest money in crypto is betting that multisig wallets are the next infrastructure battleground.
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Tether is assembling Bitcoin's version of a financial services supergroup, and the org chart tells you exactly what they're after.
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The man who named the future of coding just admitted it writes ugly code.
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The boring bond market just became the fastest-growing use case for crypto rails, and most people still think this space is about JPEGs. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries on XRP Ledger exploded 700-800% to $418 million, with some sources reporting the figure climbing as high as $537 million in recent days
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The smart money isn't betting on OpenAI — it's betting on the willingness of other banks to bet on SoftBank betting on OpenAI. SoftBank secured a $40 billion bridge loan to fund its OpenAI investment, now syndicating to additional lenders
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The guy who built Meta's brain-computer interface just left to build AI chips that think like neurons—and investors are already pricing in a future where your agents run on milliwatts, not megawatts.
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SoftBank's betting $50 billion that the AI infrastructure stack needs a vertically integrated giant that builds the robots, runs the data centers, and cuts everyone else out of the middle.
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The company that already handles stock transfers for 75% of publicly traded U.S. firms just decided the future runs on blockchain rails.
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The man who helped birth the AI revolution is now in a San Francisco courtroom arguing he got robbed of it. Musk testified for a second day in his civil trial against OpenAI, telling the jury he texted Sam Altman "What the hell is going on?" after Microsoft invested $10 billion in early 2023
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