SoftBank's OpenAI bet is drawing fresh internal scrutiny
Masayoshi Son's expanding OpenAI wager is becoming a source of internal concern at SoftBank as investors rethink concentration risk in the AI boom.
Judith Murphy
Judith Murphy is a financial journalist and market analyst covering AI, technology stocks, and emerging market trends. She has contributed to multiple financial publications and brings a data-driven approach to her coverage of the technology sector and its impact on global markets.
SpaceX's push into developer tools with Cursor shows hardware-first firms want the software that builds their products
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Google's Antigravity 2.0 shows it wants the agentic coding stack
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NVIDIA pushes past autoregressive text generation with Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion
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Google's Gemini Omni Flash pushes harder into agentic AI
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Demis Hassabis's Anthropic stake complicates the AI power map
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Echo Protocol hack shows admin key risk for DeFi startups
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seBTCmarketintoamoneyprinter.Theactuallosswasunder900,000, but the near miss exposes a deeper problem in how DeFi teams ship products.
Citi warns Bitcoin is more exposed than Ethereum to quantum risk
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llama.cpp adds Multi-Token Prediction and doubles Qwen3.6 27B throughput for local inference
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Boston Dynamics turns Atlas into a stronger industrial contender
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Solana's RWA business is quietly becoming one of crypto's strongest cases
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NextEra's Dominion deal shows how AI is redrawing the utility business
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Pizza Hut Franchisee Sues, Saying Yum's AI Broke Its Business and Cost $100 Million
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Eric Schmidt's boos expose the AI message students are no longer buying
Eric Schmidt was booed at a University of Arizona commencement after urging graduates to embrace AI, a reaction that highlights growing student anxiety about jobs and the future of work.
Bitcoin Slides Under $77,000 as Macro Storm Hits Crypto
Bitcoinjustbrokebelowakeysupportlevel,fallingto76,901 in a brutal one-hour wipeout. About 600millioninleveragedpositionsgotliquidatedfast.Butbeneaththepanic,long−termholdersaredoingsomethinginteresting.
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