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Markets

IREN Shares Jump 11% in Pre-Market Trading as Bitcoin Miner Doubles AI Cloud Fleet

Company lifts AI Cloud ARR target to more than $500 million by Q1 2026 after $674 million GPU expansion.

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Tech

Internet Computer Bets Big on AI as Crypto Markets Play Catch-Up

This could be the beginning of a new tech stack — one in which AI, not humans, becomes the primary developer of applications, says Dfinity founder Dominic Williams.

Dfinity Founder and Chief Scientist Dominic Williams speaks at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Nvidia to Invest $5B in Intel and Develop Data Centers, PCs; AI Tokens Climb

Nvidia will invest $5 billion through purchases of Intel stock for $23.28 per share.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

Markets

21Shares Hits 50 Crypto ETPs in Europe With Launch of AI and Raydium-Focused Products

AFET tracks a group of decentralized AI protocols, while ARAY offers exposure to Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium's token.

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Finance

Google Teams Up With Coinbase to Bring Stablecoin Payments to AI Apps

The tech giant expands its open-source AI protocol into financial transactions, partnering with Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation to integrate stablecoin rails.

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Tech

Ethereum Foundation Starts New AI Team to Support Agentic Payments

Research scientist Davide Crapis announced a new EF unit focused on AI payments, coordination and standards like ERC-8004 to ensure decentralized, verifiable infrastructure.

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Markets

NAKA Plunges 55% as PIPE Investors Ready Sales

AI-related bitcoin mining stocks extended gains as Tesla jumps on Elon Musk’s share purchase.

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Markets

GPU Gold Rush: Why Bitcoin Miners Are Powering AI’s Expansion

Bitcoin mining firms are transforming their energy-hungry facilities into AI data centers, chasing stable contracts and higher returns as crypto profitability wanes.

Mining machines (GreenBelka/Shutterstock)

Finance

Bittensor Ecosystem Surges With Subnet Expansion, Institutional Access

Yuma’s "State of Bittensor" report highlights accelerating growth, institutional entry and academic engagement as decentralized AI gains traction.

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Opinion

In the AI Economy, Universal Basic Income Can’t Wait

Though other ideas for supplementing income amid the AI revolution have legs, UBI is the simplest and fastest way to ensure AI’s benefits trickle down to everyone.

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