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Mirendil raises $200M in one of AI’s biggest seed rounds
A new AI lab staffed by veterans of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI has raised one of the largest seed rounds in artificial intelligence history, highlighting continued investor demand for startups pursuing frontier AI research. Mirendil, co-founded by former Anthropic researcher Behnam Neyshabur, raised $200 million in seed funding at a valuation of roughly...
Thu, Jun 25
Russia’s central bank will pay banks to process salaries in digital rubles, accelerating the CBDC race
By offering commercial banks’ financial incentives for processing payroll transactions via the Bank of Russia’s digital ruble platform, Russia seeks to convince other nation-states that utilizing digital currencies will become popular among consumers. If successful, this plan may encourage countries around the world to utilize digital currencies, as well as challenge the broader narrative that...
Thu, Jun 25
Anthropic says Alibaba launched largest-ever attack to copy Claude AI
The tech company Anthropic claimed that Alibaba was creating fake accounts to circumvent restrictions and get access to their Claude AI system. US-listed Alibaba stock fell about 2.7% to a 52-week low following reports of the allegations, extending the company’s broader 2026 decline. This attack was described by the company as “the largest campaign ever to...
Thu, Jun 25
Kalshi targets $40 billion valuation in new funding round as prediction markets reshape derivatives trading
Kalshi, a prediction market platform, is in talks for a new capital raise that could bring its valuation to about $40 billion, according to the Financial Times. The new round could be completed as soon as Q3 2026 and would nearly double the valuation of the platform from its $1 billion Series F in just...
Thu, Jun 25
Ground raises $3.6 million to pipe on-chain yield into fintech apps
San Francisco-based Ground emerged from stealth on June 24 with $3.6 million in a pre-seed round co-led by Bain Capital Crypto and ParaFi. The financing closes a fundraise that began in September 2025 and wrapped the following month under a SAFE structure with token warrants. No investors received board seats or advisor positions. The startup...
Thu, Jun 25
Micron crushes earnings as AI memory demand turns into a $22 billion backlog
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) turned AI memory demand into a monster fiscal third quarter, with revenue of $41.46 billion and adjusted earnings of $25.11 per share. That was far above the $35.84 billion in revenue and $20.78 in adjusted EPS expected by analysts tracked by London Stock Exchange Group (LSE: LSEG). The stock jumped 15%...
Thu, Jun 25
Trump cancels housing bill signing, stalling four-year CBDC ban and threatening Clarity Act timeline
President Donald Trump has refused to sign Congress’s bipartisan housing affordability bill, freezing a four-year prohibition on a Federal Reserve digital dollar. The President’s refusal also puts the much-anticipated CBDC ban and CLARITY Act on hold, raising questions about whether the bills will pass before the Senate breaks for summer. Trump cancels housing bill signing ...
Wed, Jun 24
Morgan Stanley raises its target for China’s humanlike robot shipments to 50,000
Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley has yet again raised its forecast for the humanoid robot shipments from China in 2026. The bank started 2026 predicting 14,000 Chinese humanoid robot shipments. By early spring, it doubled that to 28,000. Now, Morgan Stanley expects 50,000 humanoid robots to ship from China this year, citing the quick pace...
Wed, Jun 24
Pump.fun offers up to $5 million salary for legal chief as class action grinds on
Baton Corporation, the UK-registered company behind Solana memecoin launchpad Pump.fun, posted a job listing on June 24 for a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) with a salary range of $1 million to $5 million per year. Co-founder Alon Cohen promoted the opening, stating that they are searching for someone who can own the company’s regulatory and...
Wed, Jun 24
China 360 Security claims it has developed an AI tool to rival Anthropic's Mythos
360 Security Technology, one of China’s largest cybersecurity firms, has announced two AI-powered security tools with claims that they can rival Anthropic’s Mythos vulnerability-detection system, stating that the American model is a strategic threat Beijing must answer to. Founder Zhou Hongyi introduced the tools at the ISC.AI 2026 cybersecurity conference in Beijing under the collective...
Wed, Jun 24
Humanoid robot begs for money in the street of China
A humanoid robot was filmed kneeling on a sidewalk, bowing to strangers, and asking them to cover its electricity costs.
Wed, Jun 24
Agility Robotics plans to go public with Churchill Capital in a SPAC merger
U.S. humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics is preparing to go public on Wall Street through a SPAC merger deal with Churchill Capital. Agility announced Wednesday it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Churchill Capital, a blank check company backed by Wall Street dealmaker Michael Klein. The SPAC deal with Churchill Capital values the company...
Wed, Jun 24
RBI proposes AI governance structure for banks to manage risks
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released draft guidelines that would force banks and other regulated financial entities to adopt structures set in place to manage risks tied to artificial intelligence and machine-learning models. These proposed risk management systems will include mandatory kill switches that instantly shut down any AI system producing harmful outputs....
Wed, Jun 24
Chinese supercomputer called LineShine has topped the TOP500 ranking
A Chinese supercomputer has become the most powerful in the world, the first time since 2017 that a machine from China has topped a closely watched ranking often seen as a measure of a country’s technological strength. The computer, called LineShine and based in Shenzhen, knocked the American machine El Capitan off the top spot...
Wed, Jun 24
Kalshi CEO rules out 2026 IPO despite $2 billion revenue run rate
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour has reportedly confirmed that the prediction market operator will not go public this year, even as the company’s annualized revenue has crossed $2 billion and its private valuation sits at $22 billion. The company has reportedly held informal conversations with investment banks about a future listing. But people close to Kalshi’s...
Wed, Jun 24
Hong Kong court convicts ex-Wuhan official's son over HK$64 million laundering scheme
A Hong Kong district court has rejected Xiao Rui’s claim that part of his money came from selling Bitcoin and found him guilty of laundering more than HK$64 million through underground banking channels. The 37-year-old son of a former anti-corruption official from Wuhan faces sentencing on July 23 after being found guilty on four counts...
Wed, Jun 24
Short interest in SpaceX jumps to 13% from 8% in one session
Ortex Technologies, an analytics business, reports that short sellers are increasing their bets that Elon Musk’s SpaceX would continue to decrease after the company’s share price dropped from the highs it attained soon after going public on June 12. The sale took place during a challenging period for the market as a whole. The Nasdaq...
Wed, Jun 24
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, turning Slack into an AI-staffed workspace
Anthropic released a new Slack integration called "Claude Tag." The new integration lets users tag @Claude in Slack channels and delegate tasks.
Wed, Jun 24
LIVE: Bitcoin crashes to $59,000 as crypto wipes out $2.4 trillion in total market cap
Bitcoin has dropped below $60,000 and is now down nearly 20% this month. The total crypto market cap has fallen from $4.3 trillion in October to $2.0 trillion today. Strategy shares hit their lowest level in more than two years as worries grow around its huge Bitcoin holdings. Stocks are mixed as oil prices slide,...
Wed, Jun 24
Kalshi sues Illinois over law regulating prediction markets
Leading prediction market platform, Kalshi, has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Illinois, challenging the recently created law that would force prediction market platforms to obtain a state license. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, has named Governor JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and...
Wed, Jun 24
