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What the $344M crypto political spending spree wants from Congress next

Corporate political donations hit a record $646 million over the 18 months through June, according to Public Citizen’s analysis of…
Sep 2, 2026
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AI Billionaires Fund Ad Blitz as Data Center Opposition Hits 61%

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman have backed the super PAC behind the campaign, which faces surging opposition.…
Sep 2, 2026
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TRON H1 2026 Strategy Report: Dual-Engine Growth via DeFi and AI Delivers Record Traction

Abstract: In H1 2026, TRON bucked broader market headwinds through a twin-track strategy: solidifying its core DeFi engine while aggressively…
Sep 2, 2026
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OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up Against Hermes

The open-source agent framework that started the “autonomous AI” hype cycle just shipped its biggest update ever, almost by accident,…
Sep 1, 2026
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Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek to Expand Beyond GPUs

The deal, part of MediaTek’s record $3.9 billion bond offering, ties Nvidia’s chip ecosystem to a Taiwanese rival building its…
Sep 1, 2026
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OpenAI update shows new safeguards would have cut off 700 rogue AI agent swam 24 hours faster

New postmortems estimate about 700 agents joined the intrusion, while OpenAI’s largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold. The…
Sep 1, 2026
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OpenAI’s ‘Trust Us’ TIME cover raises an old warning for AI bulls

The magazine-cover indicator has a messy record, but TIME’s OpenAI cover checks the classic boxes: a mainstream publication, a widely…
Sep 1, 2026
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As Public Fury Mounts, Texas Pulls the Plug on Flock Surveillance Funding

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop paying for the AI-powered license-plate readers as privacy concerns and officer-misuse scandals…
Aug 31, 2026
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AI data centers are learning the power trick Bitcoin miners mastered first

Every answer you get from an AI chatbot begins with electricity. The words appear on your screen, but the actual…
Aug 31, 2026
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Wall Street’s favorite Bitcoin broker just walked away from institutional trading to chase gigawatts of power

BitGo is paying roughly $42.5 million upfront for institutional trading capabilities as NYDIG prioritizes a claimed 3+ GW power-and-compute footprint,…
Aug 30, 2026