Sam Altman just proposed taxing himself to fund universal basic income and four-day workweeks, and nobody believes him. OpenAI released a policy paper Monday proposing higher capital gains taxes, public wealth funds, and shorter workweeks to manage the AI economy
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Jamie Dimon just told JPMorgan shareholders that blockchain competitors are real, and the bank needs to move faster. Dimon's 2026 shareholder letter warns that "a whole new set of competitors is emerging based on blockchain"
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The IMF just said the quiet part loud: tokenizing Wall Street might give us faster trades and cheaper settlement, but it could also give us crises that move at machine speed.
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The crypto party just hit a speed bump, and JPMorgan's flow data shows the hangover is real. Crypto investment flows dropped to $11 billion in Q1 2026, down from roughly $33 billion in Q1 2025, a two-thirds collapse year-over-year.
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Jamie Dimon just said the quiet part loud: AI agents aren't just coming for jobs, they're coming with cyberattacks the world isn't ready for. JPMorgan's Dimon says the U.S. faces more concurrent geopolitical risk than any point since WWII, with AI agent-driven cyber threats at the top of his list
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JPMorgan's Tech100 just gave us a preview of how fast AI coding agents will hollow out white-collar headcount. Jack Dorsey told JPMorgan's Tech100 conference he's using the AI coding agent Goose for "a few hours every morning" and now plans to cut nearly half his company's workforce
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SoftBank just borrowed $40B from Wall Street's biggest banks with no collateral, and the repayment timeline tells you exactly when OpenAI is going public. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs extended a 12-month unsecured loan to SoftBank for $40 billion, one of the largest such facilities ever structured
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Stablecoins are having a regulatory identity crisis while institutions quietly build the rails underneath them. Regulatory pressure is mounting on stablecoins as prediction markets face new compliance requirements, but institutional adoption continues accelerating
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Visa just did something it's never done before: its legal team said yes to running blockchain infrastructure. Visa is now a Super Validator on Canton Network, the first blockchain governance proposal approved by its legal and compliance divisions
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Bitcoin miners just got a billion-dollar vote of confidence from Wall Street, and it's not about bitcoin. JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley expanded Core Scientific's credit line to $1 billion, doubling down on the miner's pivot to AI infrastructure
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Fidelity just told the SEC it's time to stop stalling on tokenized securities trading. Fidelity submitted a letter to the SEC's crypto task force pushing for broker-dealers to trade tokenized securities on alternative trading systems (ATS)
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SpaceX is rewriting the IPO playbook by splitting banking roles like a product release, not a financial event.
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JPMorgan just pulled the plug on a $5.3 billion debt deal for Qualtrics because investors are spooked that AI is eating survey software for breakfast. JPMorgan suspended Qualtrics' $5.3 billion debt financing amid investor concerns about software valuations and AI displacement
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JPMorgan just pulled the plug on a $5.3 billion debt deal because investors are too scared of AI to bet on legacy software. The Signal Qualtrics, the experience management software company, couldn't find buyers for its debt. Not because the company is failing, but because institutional investors are now pricing in AI risk on anything that looks like it could be automated away. JPMorgan and its
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Five mid-tier U.S. banks just decided they'd rather compete with Tether than lose deposits to it. The Signal Huntington, First Horizon, M&T, KeyCorp, and Old National are building the Cari Network on ZKsync, a Layer 2 Ethereum protocol. The play is tokenized bank deposits that move like stablecoins but carry FDIC insurance and regulatory clarity that USDT and USDC can't match. They&
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Regional banks just got their first real shot at the stablecoin game, and they're taking it on a privacy-focused Layer 2. The Signal Cari Network chose ZKsync's Prividium stack to build a tokenized deposit platform for US regional banks. This isn't another stablecoin. It's banks tokenizing actual customer deposits and moving them onchain while staying inside the regulatory perimeter. The distinction
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