Galaxy Digital Drops $75M on Texas Tech Stadium While Building AI Supercomputer Next Door
The real play isn't the billboard, it's the AI compute buildout right next door.
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NVIDIA Quietly Bought $196M of Europe's Hottest Fintech
The chip company building the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush just placed a quiet bet on the bank that might handle the money. NVentures, NVIDIA's VC arm, acquired a $196 million stake in Revolut, revealed through UK regulatory filings
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Menlo Ventures Bets $400M Music Copyright Law Is Already Dead
While Sony and Universal's lawyers sharpen their knives, Menlo Ventures just wrote a $400 million check betting that music copyright law is solving yesterday's problem.
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Nvidia's $430B Wipeout Triggers Bitcoin Collapse Below $63K
The AI trade just ate itself, and crypto is learning what it means to be correlated when the music stops. Bitcoin dropped below $63,000 and Ether fell 1.74% as semiconductor stocks shed over $2 trillion since June, triggering a risk-off wave across markets.
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Claude Code Creator: Track AI by Output Quality, Not Token Spend
The company spending millions on AI tokens just got a better yardstick than watching the meter run. Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, proposed measuring AI ROI in manual engineering hours saved, not tokens burned
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Bitcoin's Spam War Gets Its First Fork—DOG Mode Removes Block Size Limits
Bitcoin's culture war over what counts as "spam" just got a client fork with teeth. Runestone co-founder launches DOG Mode, an alternative Bitcoin client that removes Bitcoin Core's transaction size limits to enable Ordinals and Runes activity
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Bitcoin Developers Fork Over Dog Memes in Blockchain War
The fight over what belongs on Bitcoin's blockchain just went from committee meeting to code fork. BIP 110 proposes restricting arbitrary data on Bitcoin through a consensus change, but has almost no miner support
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Suno Scraped 10 Million YouTube Songs After Claiming Ethical AI Training
The music AI company that swore it trained on "publicly available data" just had its homework copied to the internet, and the footnotes tell a different story. Leaked source code from Suno exposes systematic scraping of Deezer, YouTube, and Pond5 for AI training data
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Treasury Freezes $131M in "Unstoppable" Stablecoin During Iran Strikes
The stablecoin that promised to be "unstoppable" just proved it has an off switch, and the US Treasury knows exactly where to find it.
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Anthropic Eyes $1.2T Valuation While Competitors Slash Prices 75%
The race to trillion-dollar AI valuations just got more complicated now that someone's giving away the product for 75% less. Anthropic is targeting a $1.2 trillion valuation by end of 2026, riding an infrastructure boom that's reshaping global capital markets and enterprise spending patterns
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StreetEasy's AI Fakes Are Flooding New York Apartments with Phantom Listings
When your AI landlord can fake marble countertops faster than you can schedule a viewing, trust becomes the scarcest commodity in real estate.
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Google Vids Lets You Clone Yourself Into Every Meeting Video
Google just turned every knowledge worker into a video producer, whether they like it or not. Google Vids now includes Gemini Omni and personal avatars, letting users create, edit, and star in videos without traditional filming or editing skills
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Google Kills NotebookLM After It Finally Went Viral
Google just killed a brand people actually remembered, and that might be the whole point. Google is rebranding NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, keeping it as a standalone app while tying it closer to Gemini and Search
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OpenAI Says Banning Teens From AI Makes Them Less Safe
OpenAI just made the case that keeping AI away from teenagers is more dangerous than teaching them to use it—and they're betting their product roadmap on being right.
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xAI Sues Its Own User Over AI-Generated Child Abuse Images
The first real test of liability in the agent economy isn't about copyright or deepfakes — it's about whether AI companies will actively police their platforms or hide behind terms of service.
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Former DeepMind Researcher Raises $300M Before Building Anything
The era of raising on PowerPoint and pedigree just jumped to absurd new heights—or exposed how broken early-stage AI funding has become. Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised a $300M pre-seed valuation before shipping a product, betting on visual AI as the next frontier
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Trump Neighbors Kill $80B AI Data Center in Their Backyard
The AI buildout just hit a wall made of wealthy homeowners, and it won't be the last one.
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Pascal Raises $9M to Build Wall Street-Grade Prediction Markets
Institutional money doesn't bet on vibes—Pascal just raised $9M to prove prediction markets can run on rails Wall Street actually trusts.
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Alpaca Raises $135M to Build Wall Street for AI Agents
The first infrastructure company built for human traders just raised $135 million to serve machines instead. Alpaca, the BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider, closed a $135M round to expand into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services
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Fora Hits $1B Valuation as AI Resurrects Travel Agents
A decade after Expedia and Kayak tried to kill the travel agent, AI is bringing them back from the dead—with a billion-dollar price tag. Fora raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation to build AI tools for independent travel agents
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