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The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Asset

Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI

Sources: US officials discussed the government taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI

Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago AI

Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure “that they are paying their fair share” (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed plans to release the Muse Spark API due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta says it plans to release it this month (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Startup

Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Google Equity

Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

Baidu CFO Henry He says the company expects to spin off and list its chip unit Kunlunxin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2026, making it a “neutral player” (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Hong Kong Shanghai

AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago IPO AI

The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago

GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago AI

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Germany Startup AI

Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Startup

Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago

Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Microsoft Bill Gates

As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago

PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago AI Robot

Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Trump AI

After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI Budget

The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago CFTC

IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago IBM AI

As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago India Google AI

Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Europe Airbus

Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a new entrant, Amazon (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Google Amazon

Sources: the Pentagon is pursuing funding deals with US drone companies, potentially with equity stakes, to increase domestic production and lower unit costs (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Drone Equity Pentagon

Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts to trade stocks autonomously (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago AI

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