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The Bank for International Settlements' annual report says the five biggest hyperscalers are on track to spend over $1T on AI in 2025-2026, and a returns disappointment could ripple through credit,…
Buterin framed iO as the field's ultimate unsolved problem, then walked back the dream: even the best lattice-based constructions carry computational costs he describes as 'literally galactic.'
Samsung and SK Hynix are pulling a decade of chip-plant expansion into five years to feed Nvidia and OpenAI, and the same risk pools that funded bitcoin all cycle are now chasing HBM instead.
Two weeks of geopolitical whiplash have trained traders to fade every relief rally. With the Fed's PCE print and Qatar talks both on this week's calendar, $BTC needs a real catalyst to break its…
The 54th edition of The Funding flags a quiet rotation: crypto-native funds are stepping further into AI and other verticals as deal flow at home stays thin.
A 43% open-interest expansion on a $36M-cap post-collapse governance token is the whole story compressed: name recognition plus thin liquidity plus perps access equals a two-hour trade on nothing but…
The systemic-risk framing from the BIS cohort matters more than the bubble call itself: regulators are now publicly rehearsing the contagion map before the asset class has peaked.
John Egan frames throughput and finality, not fees, as the metric that decides whether AI-to-AI commerce runs on-chain at all.
The thesis: crypto is shifting from serving crypto users to financing GPUs, solar and uranium via tokenization, with $300B in stablecoins now a credible capital pool for real-world assets.
Beijing-side managers are pulling back from the names that led the AI trade, framing the unwind as a long-overdue re-pricing rather than a single-catalyst event.
Virtuals is repositioning itself as infrastructure for what its co-founder calls an agent society, with five pillars spanning digital and physical agents, coordination, capital, and governance.
The gated rollout positions GPT-5.6 directly against Anthropic's frontier model, the first time OpenAI has benchmarked a launch explicitly against a named rival rather than internal baselines.
Halfway through 2026, price action is ugly and AI has stolen the narrative, but the CoinShares co-founder says the institutional bid is intact and the bull case is still alive.
The firm's fourth fund doubles down on its crypto roots while formally broadening into AI and robotics, a signal that top-tier venture capital still sees crypto-native deal flow as a viable anchor…
With half the fund already deployed and $1.28B under management, Framework is positioning itself as a bridge between crypto-native conviction and the next wave of frontier technology capital.
The speed gain is real, but Stretch now trades at $80.84, below its $100 par value, raising questions about whether the product's financing mechanics can hold up long-term.
Song's exit from the ROSE ecosystem she founded is the part crypto investors will price first; her remit at MSL gives Meta a credible name in the alignment and security conversation.
The crypto custody firm is trading headcount for a sharper bet on stablecoins and AI-powered settlement, the two rails its institutional clients are actually building on.
A custody heavyweight shrinking 15% of headcount while doubling down on stablecoins and AI infrastructure is a tell about where the institutional crypto stack is heading, not just a cost cut.
The hold is not a ban. It signals the federal government is now stepping into the release cadence of frontier AI, not just the policy framework around it.
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