The great rotation: Investors desert the Magnificent 7, crypto for AI bottlenecks
Capital is flowing out of the largest tech companies and bitcoin as investors pile into semiconductors, memory stocks and space-related opportunities.
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G7 calls for joint action on North Korean crypto theft, cybercrime
G7 leaders broadened their warning over North Korean crypto theft to include wider cybercrime as researchers link DPRK-affiliated actors to billions of dollars in stolen digital assets.
CME to Sue CFTC Over Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Approval: CEO
Outgoing CME chief Terry Duffy says perpetual futures are actually swaps under Dodd-Frank, and that the exchange will file suit Thursday.
Bitcoin’s nemesis, the Dollar Index, is on the verge of a major breakout
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Aster popped over 10% on radical ‘buyback and burn’ upgrade. But gains were short-lived
ASTER sees two-way volatility as bullish protocol-specific news meets hawkish Fed.
Crypto market positioning is ‘defensive and thin’ after Fed, Marex analysts say
While the Federal Reserve held interest rates, Chair Kevin Warsh made it clear the U.S. central bank is more worried about inflation than growth.
Malta’s financial regulator explores bringing parts of DeFi under MiCA’s orbit
The MFSA is seeking feedback on whether decentralization should be assessed as a spectrum rather than a binary concept.
Bitcoin market cap rebound to take ‘5-10 years’ after dropping 10 places since mid-2025
Bitcoin could be absent from the world’s top five assets by market cap until 2036, despite an estimate seeing the BTC bear market being nearly 70% complete.
Aztec hit by second $2.1M exploit in less than a week: SlowMist
Security researchers warn that deprecated smart contracts can remain vulnerable long after projects stop maintaining them.
Bitcoin Steadies Near $64K as Analysts Eye Floor After Hawkish Fed
BTC slid to around $64,100 after Kevin Warsh’s hawkish debut, but analysts argue a $60,000 floor and catalysts could spark a rebound.
Grayscale applies traditional finance models to AAVE, sees $175 value
Grayscale and CoinShares are applying traditional valuation techniques to crypto assets as institutions explore revenue-generating DeFi protocols.
Twindo Built the World’s First Offline AI Copilot for Technicians on Mobile
Twindo Built the World’s First Offline AI Copilot for Technicians on Mobile, and the Energy Industry Will Never Be the Same Photo courtesy of Twindo Somewhere on an offshore wind platform, a technician hunches over a turbine gearbox at 5 AM. It is dark. The North Sea wind howls through open hatches and claws at … Read more
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The bond market is flashing a clear signal on interest rates. Bitcoin bulls should take note
The bond market is sending a signal that complicates prospects of a near-term bitcoin bull run.
I Patented a Four-Sided Box. It’s the Best Mental Model I Have for Building Agents.
Every time my AI agents broke in production, my instinct was to reach for a bigger model and it almost never worked. A method I patented years ago in chaotic Indian traffic (a trapezoid bounding box instead of a rectangle) taught me why: the bottleneck is almost always how you represent the problem, not the … Read more
Designing a Unified Digital Thread Across PLM, ALM, ERP, MES, and QMS
The gap between your product data and your shopfloor is not a technology problem. Here is the architecture that closes it. An engineer releases revision D in PLM, ERP runs on revision C, the shopfloor has a paper traveller from revision B, annotated by hand, quality holds an NCR against a drawing number that was … Read more
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: The Shovel Seller Starts Mining for Gold Itself
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra is more than an open-source model. It is a strategic move to make AI workloads flow back to NVIDIA hardware.
Paywalled Creativity: What Happens When New Knowledge Stops Being Free
How the economics of AI search could quietly put a price tag on every new idea, and leave the rest of us reading scams. Here’s a thought experiment. You discover something. A genuinely new thing: a research finding, a clever open-source library, an essay that reframes a problem, a creative technique nobody’s tried. In 2015, … Read more
NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
DeepSeek Introduces Vision
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Ryan Salame’s wife to face charges over FTX-funded congressional run
A federal judge has denied a bid from Michelle Bond, the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame, to have campaign finance charges against her dismissed.
Florida man pleads guilty for promoting $1.8B ‘HyperFund’ crypto fraud
Rodney “Bitcoin Rodney” Burton faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
Live markets: Bitcoin and ether ETFs lost $111 million combined as rate-cut hopes died
Total market value has held flat near $2.26 trillion since Tuesday, with the recovery losing momentum after the Fed killed rate-cut hopes and spot ETFs swung back to outflows.
Strategy’s STRC preferred stock hits a record low below par
The slide has paused the above-par share sales Strategy uses to fund bitcoin purchases, and it is the same stock whose dividends forced the company’s first BTC sale this month.
Dorsey’s Block says new AI tool handles 15% of code work
Builderbot is the “missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” said Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block.
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XRP slips 4% below $1.20 after breakout rally stalls near key resistance
Heavy selling pushed XRP back through a closely watched support level, though buyers stepped in above $1.17 to prevent a deeper pullback.