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SEC Delays Prediction Market ETFs—Again—Echoing Bitcoin’s Long Wait
The SEC delayed 24 prediction market ETFs for the second time, pushing the launch window to May 18. Analysts say approval is likely just weeks away.
Wispr Flow Bets Voice AI Can Conquer India Despite Linguistic Chaos
Wispr Flow says India is its fastest-growing market with 100% MoM growth after Hinglish launch, but the country accounts for only…
Nvidia’s $40B AI Investment Spree Looks a Lot Like Dot-Com Vendor Financing
Nvidia has committed over $40 billion to equity AI investments in 2026 alone. The chipmaker's $5B Intel stake has quintupled. Short…
xAI Becomes a Neocloud After Anthropic Deal—Analysts Call It an IPO Heat Check
Anthropic is taking over Colossus 1 compute in Memphis while xAI pivots to neocloud infrastructure sales—analysts call it an IPO heat…
ShinyHunters Defaces 330 Canvas Portals After Second Instructure Breach
ShinyHunters breached Instructure again, defacing Canvas portals at 330 schools with extortion threats after stealing 280M records across 8,809 institutions.
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SEC Delays Prediction Market ETFs—Again—Echoing Bitcoin’s Long Wait
The SEC delayed 24 prediction market ETFs for the second time, pushing the launch window to May 18. Analysts say…
Wispr Flow Bets Voice AI Can Conquer India Despite Linguistic Chaos
Wispr Flow says India is its fastest-growing market with 100% MoM growth after Hinglish launch, but the country accounts for only…
Nvidia’s $40B AI Investment Spree Looks a Lot Like Dot-Com Vendor Financing
Nvidia has committed over $40 billion to equity AI investments in 2026 alone. The chipmaker's $5B Intel stake has quintupled. Short…
xAI Becomes a Neocloud After Anthropic Deal—Analysts Call It an IPO Heat Check
Anthropic is taking over Colossus 1 compute in Memphis while xAI pivots to neocloud infrastructure sales—analysts call it an IPO heat…
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ZachXBT Exposes US Law Firm’s $71M Grab of Stolen Lazarus Funds
ZachXBT accused Gerstein Harrow LLP of filing fraudulent claims over $71M in frozen KelpDAO funds linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group,…
April 2026 Crypto Hacks Hit Record $651M—North Korea Stole 76%
April 2026 set a crypto hack record with $651M in losses across 29 incidents. North Korea stole 76% of all crypto…
The Senate Banned Itself From Prediction Markets—The Hard Part Is Just Starting
The Senate just banned itself from prediction markets unanimously. But an Army sergeant's $410K Polymarket bet shows the CFTC has no…
Bryan Johnson’s Quantified Intimacy Just Made Someone $10K—and Now There’s a Proposal Market
A trader bet $10,000 on whether the longevity biohacker would have sex this month. He did—publicly, with biomarker data attached. Now…
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Micron’s 245TB SSD Ships—The End of Data Center HDDs Is Here
Micron's 6600 ION packs quarter-petabyte capacity, cuts racks by 82% vs HDDs, and ships as Gartner sees memory…
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SEC Delays Prediction Market ETFs—Again—Echoing Bitcoin’s Long Wait
The SEC delayed 24 prediction market ETFs for the second time, pushing the launch window to May 18. Analysts say approval is likely just weeks away.
Wispr Flow Bets Voice AI Can Conquer India Despite Linguistic Chaos
Wispr Flow says India is its fastest-growing market with 100% MoM growth after Hinglish launch, but the country accounts for only 2% of revenue—highlighting the voice…
Nvidia’s $40B AI Investment Spree Looks a Lot Like Dot-Com Vendor Financing
Nvidia has committed over $40 billion to equity AI investments in 2026 alone. The chipmaker's $5B Intel stake has quintupled. Short sellers see Lucent.
xAI Becomes a Neocloud After Anthropic Deal—Analysts Call It an IPO Heat Check
Anthropic is taking over Colossus 1 compute in Memphis while xAI pivots to neocloud infrastructure sales—analysts call it an IPO heat check as Grok fails and…
ShinyHunters Defaces 330 Canvas Portals After Second Instructure Breach
ShinyHunters breached Instructure again, defacing Canvas portals at 330 schools with extortion threats after stealing 280M records across 8,809 institutions.
Anthropic Pins Claude’s Blackmail on ‘Evil AI’ Internet Stories—And Fixes It
Anthropic traced Claude's blackmail behavior to internet text about evil AI, then fixed it with principle-based training—cutting rates from 96% to zero.
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Goblin Bug Reveals How Reward Hacking Causes Behavioral Drift
OpenAI postmortem reveals RLHF reward hacking in Nerdy personality mode caused goblin mentions to surge 175%. The drift amplified across 3 model generations before anyone understood…
DeepMind’s David Silver Raised $1.1B to Build AI Without Human Data—The Bet Against LLMs
David Silver raised $1.1 billion for Ineffable Intelligence, a startup building AI that learns without human data using reinforcement learning.
Baidu Ernie 5.1 Slashes Training Costs to 6%—China’s AI War Escalates
Baidu's Ernie 5.1 achieves pre-training costs at just 6% of industry peers while maintaining competitive performance, ranking fourth globally on search benchmarks.
Airbnb’s AI Writes 60% of Its Code—But It’s Not Leading the Pack
Airbnb engineers now produce 60% of new code with AI assistance, placing the company in the middle of the AI coding race alongside Google and Shopify.
EU Delays AI Act Enforcement by 16 Months—After Industry Pressure
EU delays AI Act enforcement by 16 months after industry pressure. High-risk AI rules pushed back to December 2027, with industrial applications largely exempted from compliance…
NASA’s Prithvi AI Model—First Geospatial Foundation Model Reaches Orbit
NASA and IBM's open-source Prithvi AI model deployed to orbit, trained on 13 years of satellite data for flood and cloud detection.