The US IPO market posted its biggest quarter ever in Q2 2026, raising $104.8 billion across 48 offerings, led by SpaceX's $75 billion IPO. The quarter saw no crypto or blockchain listings, with AI and…
A $10,000 investment in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index on Jan. 2, 2026, would have grown to $19,546.72 by the end of Q2, driven by AI demand, while the S&P 500 returned 9% and bitcoin lost over …
Soapbox launches a suite of open-source tools for decentralized social media, AI development, and activism, emphasizing user control and censorship resistance. The platform offers a Nostr-based social…
Riot Platforms transferred 500 Bitcoin, worth approximately $29.48 million, to NYDIG Custody on June 30, marking the third consecutive month of identical deposits. The miner sold more than 2.5 times i…
Hyperscale Data, an AI-focused data center operator, has grown its Bitcoin treasury to 780.48 BTC, valued at approximately $46.9 million, after adding 53.54 BTC in about a week. The company aims to re…
Micron Technology reported a 15-fold surge in GAAP net income to $28.24 billion in fiscal Q3 2026, driven by soaring demand for AI memory chips. Revenue jumped 346% year-over-year to $41.46 billion, a…
HSBC identified six major 'pain trades' for the second half of the year, warning that crowded consensus on the dollar, AI, and yield curves could unravel rapidly. The scenarios include an explosive US…
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build conference on June 2, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability, while President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22 to ac…
BlackRock's iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) increased its holdings in Strive Inc. by 79,805 shares, bringing total holdings to 213,713 shares valued at approximately $3 million. Strive, a Bitcoin treasury…
Ionic Digital, the Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure company, filed for a direct listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker IOND. The company, which acquired Celsius Mining's assets …
Max and Claude, co-founders of Board, built an AI trading bot that failed due to five specific technical issues: an overeager momentum strategy, a phantom price spike from a testnet feed, accounting d…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that a $1 trillion AI capital expenditure boom by hyperscalers could trigger a financial bust if returns disappoint, with Bitcoin acting as a fast-reactin…
Strategy's perpetual preferred stock (STRC) has fallen to $74 from its $100 issue price, raising doubts about its stability. The stock, designed with AI and paying 11.5% dividends, funds Bitcoin purch…
Veteran investor Jeremy Grantham warned retail savers to avoid US stocks, saying the artificial intelligence boom has created the largest stock market bubble in American history that could end in a 70…
An amateur researcher using AI agents improved a published quantum circuit for breaking ECDSA by approximately 2x, launching an open competition at ecdsa.fail to challenge researchers and AI agents to…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which would freeze new AI data center construction and expansion u…
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump struck down IEEPA tariffs as unconstitutional, shifting tariff authority to Congress and elevating the Office of the US Trade Repres…
Major cryptocurrencies fell 7-10% over the week as investor capital rotated from crypto into AI-related equities, with Dogecoin and Hyperliquid's HYPE token leading losses. The selloff was exacerbated…
A rapid sell-off in AI chip stocks this week exposed a roughly $270 billion speculation machine made up of leveraged positions, newly launched funds, and concentrated retail exposure, according to Blo…
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari now projects one interest-rate hike before the end of 2026, reversing his earlier expectation of a cut, citing persistent inflation and AI-driven spending. The …