The partnership could enhance technological innovation, strengthen economic ties, and shift geopolitical dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Cloudflare's acquisition fosters a fair AI economy, enhancing data access and monetization for creators, promoting sustainable internet practices.
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Morningstar launches GenAI 20 Index to track top private and public generative AI firms, led by Databricks, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
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Google launches Personal Intelligence for Gemini, enabling AI to reason across Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search for better answers.
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The investment in Skild AI could accelerate advancements in robotics, potentially transforming industries by enabling versatile, adaptive automation.
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Bitcoin miner targets large scale AI and high performance computing infrastructure in the Houston region.
Former Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), recently stated that the UAE generates surplus power in order to cover “three days” of high demand each year, making Bitcoin a buyer of last resort for energy that would otherwise go unused. Stripping away the specifics, the logic holds: mining turns curtailed or stranded electricity into revenue when […]
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NVIDIA and Lilly to invest $1B in AI lab to accelerate drug discovery with BioNeMo, robotics, and large-scale biomedical models.
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The privacy-preserving, Telegram-based Cocoon AI pays users in Toncoin for renting out their GPUs to process queries.
Apple selects Googles Gemini AI to power upgraded Siri, as the tech giants expand partnership and Alphabet tops Apple in market value.
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The retail giant said a new Gemini integration reflects a broader shift from search-based shopping to AI systems that can act on a customer’s behalf.
BlackRock is telling clients to stop looking at artificial intelligence as software and start treating it as energy. In its 2026 Global Outlook, the BlackRock Investment Institute argued that the AI buildout is pushing against physical limits and highlighted electricity as the constraint investors are underpricing. The report’s headline-grabber is its warning that AI-driven data […]
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AI integration in healthcare could revolutionize patient care efficiency and data management, while ensuring compliance with privacy standards.
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Beijing's reported request for Chinese tech firms to halt orders of Nvidia's H200 chips arrives at a moment when Bitcoin has become uncomfortably tethered to AI equity sentiment. As The Information and Reuters reported on Jan. 7, the move affects “some” Chinese companies and may presage a mandate requiring domestic purchases of AI chips. For […]
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xAI closed a $20B Series E to expand Colossus compute and scale Grok products across , Tesla, and enterprise apps.
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Crypto VCs told The Block they expect disciplined activity to persist in 2026, with a higher bar for new investments.
2025 delivered at least four distinct “crypto is dead” episodes: a January AI-induced flash crash, the October tariff liquidation that erased $19 billion in leveraged positions, months of altcoin carnage, and a fourth quarter slump that wiped out the year's price gains. Mainstream outlets dusted off “crypto winter” language each time. Bitcoin logged more obituaries […]
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KuCoin's AI assistant KIA could democratize crypto trading by enhancing user decision-making and market accessibility through tailored insights.
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The bank raised its its price target on the shares to $24 from $9.50.
In a recent report, the data aggregator CoinGecko has unveiled the leading crypto narratives of the year, with the Real-World Asset (RWA) sector emerging as a major contender with notable returns RWAs Lead Crypto Market Growth The report highlights that RWA has become the standout narrative in 2025, boasting an impressive average price return of 185.8% year-to-date (YTD) across key tokens, such as Figure Heloc, Chainlink (LINK), Stellar (XLM), Tether Gold (XAUT), and BlackRock’s BUIDL. This surge in the RWA sector can largely be attributed to the performance of specific platforms. Notably, Keeta Network has skyrocketed by 1,794.9% YTD, while Zebec Network and Maple Finance have recorded gains of 217.3% and 123.0% respectively. Related Reading: Bitcoin Correction Timeline: Analyst Predicts Potential Bottom In October 2026 Current statistics show that the crypto RWA sector boasts a Distributed Asset Value of $18.88 billion, reflecting a 2.56% increase over the past month. However, the Represented Asset Value has seen a slight decline, standing at $407.93 billion, down 2.36%. For context, RWA’s approach facilitates asset managers and projects the digital transformation of tangible assets, such as real estate and commodities, creating a solid foundation for trading, managing, and securing these assets. Layer-1 (L1) solutions have emerged as the second most profitable narrative this year, achieving an average price gain of 80.3% YTD. The success of this narrative can be attributed to the performance of privacy-focused blockchains such as Zcash and Monero, which have seen rallies of 691.3% and 143.6%, respectively. Another noteworthy crypto narrative, “Made in USA,” is also on track to end the year positively, with average gains of 30.6% YTD, primarily driven by Zcash’s performance that mitigated the moderate losses of other tokens in that category. Top Meme Tokens Suffer Heavy Losses Despite their popularity, narratives such as memecoins and artificial intelligence (AI) have struggled this year, with average returns of -31.6% and -50.2% year-to-date, respectively. Leading memecoins in the crypto space, such as Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), have demonstrated the volatility of this sector by suffering significant losses of over 60% year-to-date. Similarly, the report notes that many artificial intelligence-focused crypto assets have recorded declines between 49.8% and 84.3%, with only Alchemist AI and Kite performing relatively better. Related Reading: Ethereum Fails To Surpass $3,000: Predictions For The Final Days Of The Year Lastly, the decentralized finance narrative faced a challenging year, experiencing average returns of -34.8%, which is consistent with the returns seen in the memecoins segment. The decentralized exchange (DEX) narrative has mirrored this decline with average losses of -55.5%, while layer-2 (L2) solutions have also struggled, recording average returns of -40.6% for the second year in a row. At the time of writing, the market’s leading crypto, Bitcoin (BTC), was trading at $88,960, having recorded losses of 10% year-to-date. Featured image from DALL-E, chart from TradingView.com
Diversification into AI and HPC infrastructure drove sharp outperformance for miners, while pure-play bitcoin miners lagged.
The analyst team said the first long-term co-location agreement at NC-1 validates WhiteFiber’s retrofit model.
Megawatts are still trading hands, and the AI trade is very much alive, according to investment banker Joe Nardini, as miners pivot to HPC and buyers chase scarce power.
The collaboration may accelerate AI-driven military advancements, raising ethical concerns and reshaping global defense strategies.
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QVAC launches Genesis II, expanding the worlds largest synthetic AI dataset to 148B tokens and 19 domains for better reasoning in AI.
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Shares of the bitcoin miner jumped higher last week on its $7 billion pact with Google-backed Fluidstack.
Oracle shares jumped 6% in pre-market on Friday as TikTok's U.S. agreement helped calm AI bubble fears after a volatile macro week.
Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners' rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners' AI projects. While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the […]
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The firm's Enovum unit will deliver 40 megawatts of critical IT load in two phases at a campus in Madison, North Carolina, under a 10-year agreement.
The move links PayPal’s dollar-pegged token to onchain funding for GPUs and data centers, supported by a $1 billion customer incentive program.