Traditional Finance Isn’t Building Crypto Infrastructure Anymore. It’s Just Buying It.
Crypto industry M&A hit $93.7 billion in the first half of 2026, twenty-six times the prior year's pace, as traditional…
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Europe’s Single Crypto Rulebook Went Live July 1. Most of the Industry Wasn’t Ready.
The EU's single crypto rulebook became fully enforceable on July 1, but only 213 of the more than 3,000 firms…
The Pentagon Just Created a Single Boss for Every Drone Program It Runs
The US Department of War established a new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems on June 29, consolidating acquisition…
Every Big Tech Hyperscaler Now Has a Nuclear Deal. A Utah Startup Just Showed Why.
Valar Atomics powered an Nvidia Blackwell chip live with a helium-cooled microreactor in Utah on July 1, the clearest demonstration…
The Philippines’ $42-Billion BPO Industry Is Betting AI Creates Jobs, Not Just Cuts Them
More than half of Philippine BPO companies are now integrating AI, and the industry's workforce grew rather than shrank through…
Chamath Palihapitiya Just Became a Full-Time CEO Again. His New Startup Wants to Replace the Traditional Software Team.
8090 raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its Software Factory platform, where human teams and…
A Free Chinese Model Just Took a Third of US Developers’ AI Traffic
Zhipu's GLM-5.2 model has grown its usage 27-fold in a single week on developer platforms and now anchors a Chinese…
Embedded Finance Is Now Almost Universal. Regulators Are Finally Catching Up.
99.8% of firms now offer some embedded financial feature, but a $265-million-plus BaaS middleware collapse in 2024 and a wave…
The Philippine SEC Says It’s Ready to Let OFWs Buy Tokenized Real Estate and US Stocks
The Philippine SEC says it now has the legal and regulatory footing to oversee tokenized real estate and US equity…
A Filipino AI Company Skipped the Funding Round Entirely and Opened Its Own Innovation Hub
NMBLR.ai, profitable since 2024, opened a Makati AI training and development hub without a venture round behind it, a rare…
Klarna and Affirm Both Turned a Profit. Wall Street Rewarded Only One of Them.
Klarna and Affirm posted genuinely profitable quarters in early 2026, but Affirm's stock climbed on heavier loss provisioning while Klarna's…
Thailand Just Launched Its First Virtual Bank. Two More Are Racing to Catch Up.
CLICX went live as Thailand's first licensed virtual bank on June 19, 2026, with CP Group's Ascend Bank chasing a…