VALR Becomes First Regulated Exchange to Tap Onchain DeFi Liquidity
The first regulated exchange just plugged straight into onchain liquidity, and the compliance-versus-decentralization debate just got a lot more interesting.
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Base Power Hits $13B Orchestrating Batteries Big Energy Ignored
The grid doesn't need to be rebuilt from scratch — it needs to be orchestrated from 100 million basements. Base Power raised $1 billion Series D at $13 billion valuation, betting that home batteries can become virtual power plants
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Anthropic CEO Promises Disease Cures While Chasing Record Valuation
While competitors race to go public, Anthropic's CEO is making predictions about disease cures that sound less like biotech forecasting and more like a pitch deck for the biggest IPO in history.
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Wall Street Cuts Bitcoin Target 40% as Retail Money Vanishes
When Wall Street's optimism dries up, it's usually because the retail flood already did. Citi cut its 12-month Bitcoin price target to $82,000 and scrapped its ETF inflow forecasts entirely, citing collapsing demand and stalled U.S. crypto legislation.
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SoftBank Bets $125M That Your AI Agent Will Go Rogue
The money chasing AI agents just got a shadow: three Asian giants betting nine figures that the real bottleneck isn't building agents, but keeping them from breaking everything.
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AI's Founding Trio Split on Whether You Should Access the Tech They Built
The same people who built modern AI can't agree on whether the rest of us should get to touch it. At Ai4, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng debated open-source AI access and regulation as safety concerns intensify
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Musk Admits He Was Wrong About Anthropic as Amazon Bets Big
When the guy who co-founded the company says he was wrong to bet against it, the market listens — and reprices everything. Elon Musk publicly admitted he was "clearly wrong" about Anthropic, a stunning reversal from a founder who helped start the company before leaving in 2018
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$111M in Real Stocks Now Lives Entirely on DeFi Platforms
Traditional equity markets just lost another excuse for why stocks can't be programmable money. $111M in tokenized stocks now sits in 15 DeFi applications, marking real capital flowing into programmable equity infrastructure
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Wall Street Hit 1929 Levels and Bitcoin Became the Escape Hatch
When the stock market gets this expensive, the stuff people buy instead tends to get weird. The S&P 500's Shiller CAPE ratio sits between 40 and 42, matching levels seen only twice before: the 1929 crash and the 2000 dot-com peak, when the ratio hit its all-time high near 44.
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Nvidia Locks $500B in Private Deals Most Investors Can't Touch
The biggest AI build-out in history just went off-exchange, and most investors won't even get a ticket to watch. Nvidia locked down $500 billion from six Wall Street giants — Apollo, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock among them — to finance AI infrastructure
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Wall Street's Private Blockchains Are Missing the Entire Point
The banks want blockchain without the blockchain part, and they're about to learn why that doesn't work. Etherealize CEO warns that Wall Street's push toward private, permissioned blockchains is fundamentally flawed, calling it a "race to the bottom"
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Trump Admin Cuts Deal to Restore Anthropic AI Access After Sudden Blackout
One day you're restricted, the next day you're back in — and somewhere in between, the biggest AI lab you've never heard of just proved that model access is a negotiable policy lever. Trump administration restricted foreign access to Anthropic's Mythos 5, then cut a deal to restore it within hours
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SpaceX Paid $2.5B for a Coding Tool That Debugs Itself
SpaceX just paid more for a coding assistant than most countries' GDP, then immediately absorbed a team that builds agents to debug other agents. SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60B and integrated it into SpaceXAI, marking one of the largest AI acquisitions in history
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Anthropic Just Posted $11.5 Billion in One Quarter
The AI lab that raised $7.3 billion last year just posted $11.5 billion in quarterly revenue — and did it profitably. Anthropic posted preliminary Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, a 14-fold increase year-over-year, with positive adjusted operating profit for the first time
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Anthropic Wants Apple's Valuation on Revenue It Won't See Until 2028
The AI company that burned through billions to build Claude is now asking investors to price it like Apple, based on revenue that doesn't exist yet. Anthropic is preparing for an October IPO with a target valuation above $2 trillion, which would make it the largest public offering in history
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Harvard Bets $2.2 billion on SpaceX as Institutions Flood the IPO
The world's oldest university and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund just told you exactly where institutional money goes when private markets finally open up.
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Anthropic Offers $6B for Decart While Pitching Itself at $2 Trillion
Anthropic is shopping for speed at $6 billion while its backers pitch a public market valuation 333 times higher. Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for $6 billion, according to Bloomberg, targeting efficiency gains as it prepares for a potential IPO
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Nvidia Drops $21B on SpaceX as AI Wars Move to Orbit
The chipmaker betting everything on AI just put $21 billion on space infrastructure, and that's not a diversification play.
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SpaceX's New AI Tool Has a Serious Security Flaw
An AI model just flexed offensive cyber capabilities by finding a "serious vulnerability" in the tool developers use to write code with AI — which SpaceX now owns.
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Nvidia Quietly Became SpaceX's Biggest Believer With $21B Bet
The chip maker that powers AI is now betting billions on the company launching its compute into orbit and the legacy giant it's supposed to be replacing. Nvidia disclosed a $21 billion stake in SpaceX and $30 billion in Intel, marking a strategic shift from pure chipmaker to infrastructure investor
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