Amazon just bet nine figures that the future of search isn't text-based at all. Twelve Labs raised $100 million from Amazon, NEA, and Naver to build AI that searches and analyzes video at scale
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The fundraise is real, but the revenue model is borrowed from mobile games—which means Shortical isn't selling stories, it's selling user addiction at scale.
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Anthropic's CEO just walked back his most famous prediction—and that honesty might be more valuable than the hype ever was. Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research-tuned AI model, while CEO Dario Amodei recalibrated his "compressed 21st century" timeline from 5-10 years to maybe 2036
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The exchange best known for getting sued is now quietly becoming the world's largest bridge between Wall Street and Web3. Binance's tokenized stock platform crossed $1 billion in assets under management, marking a major milestone for real-world asset tokenization at scale
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The crypto industry just proved it knows how to play the legacy game better than the legacy players. Crypto corporations have deployed $189 million on the 2026 US midterm elections, representing 37% of all corporate election spending this cycle and exceeding their entire 2024 election total.
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The institutions that were supposed to bring stability to crypto just yanked $4.5 billion in a single month, and SpaceX's IPO might be the canary in the coal mine for what happens when legacy assets look more exciting than digital ones.
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Four Italian college friends just proved you can get rich buying other people's failures—if you know how to make them run lean. Bending Spoons raised $1.68 billion in its US IPO, pricing above the marketed range and minting Italy's youngest self-made billionaire cohort
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Half a million dollars buys a lot of actual human tutors, but San Diego's Altus Schools just bet it on two chatbots in robot suits—including one positioned as a "wellness coach" for struggling teens.
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The question isn't whether people lost money on leverage—it's whether someone else should pay for it. Binance and Changpeng Zhao are being sued by 1,700 UK investors for approximately $200 million (£150M) in losses from crypto derivatives trading
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The sitting president just filed paperwork showing he made more from crypto in one year than most venture funds return to LPs in a decade.
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Everyone's watching the wrong race — while Silicon Valley burns billions building bigger models, the real money is in making those models useful inside actual companies.
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The researchers who taught AI to bluff are now teaching it to beat the market, and Wall Street is writing half-billion-dollar checks. EquiLibre Technologies, founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers in Prague, hit a $500 million+ valuation building AI for quantitative hedge funds
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The ultimate Bitcoin bull just gave himself an exit door—but not the one you think. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced major changes to its Bitcoin financing model, including authority to sell up to $1.25 billion in BTC, buy back securities, and preserve liquidity
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Anthropic just made its best agent-building tech affordable right before going public, which means either they're confident enough to commoditize their moat or desperate enough to juice adoption numbers for Wall Street.
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When the biggest retail IPO allocation in Korean history evaporates on a misread email, you're watching the future of capital markets collide with the past.
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Google just made AI image generation cheap enough that your agents can afford to be wasteful. Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image, generating images in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1,000 images through Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, and GEAP.
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FIFA's "official prediction markets partner" just got elbowed aside by a competitor with better timing and deeper pockets.
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The world's richest man just spent four days rage-posting about how giving away $26 billion makes the world worse, and it tells you everything about the coming fight over who controls capital in the agent economy.
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While Binance is celebrating its first $100 million in tokenized stock assets, Bitrue just created a product traditional finance legally cannot offer.
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Nvidia's datacenter dominance just got its first real challenger with a billion-dollar purchase order already signed. Etched closed $800M in funding and hit a $5B valuation after securing $1B in sales contracts for its transformer-specific chip
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