Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board seats with rival AI companies, VCs told TechCrunch that they were baffled. On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I were similarly puzzled by the news. Yes, VC conflicts-of-interest are worth…
Key Takeaways Kiyosaki characterized expanded Treasury buybacks as money printing. Treasury doubled certain long-term buybacks to at least $4 billion. Kiyosaki again favored bitcoin, gold, silver, and some real estate. Kiyosaki Calls Treasury Buybacks Money Printing Renewed concern about the dollar prompted Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki to endorse scarce assets after characterizing…
Coinkite has released new Coldcard firmware that forces users to provide their own randomness when generating new wallet seeds. Coinkite, the company behind Coldcard, has shipped a firmware update that will not generate a new wallet seed until the owner supplies randomness by hand. That means at least 50 dice rolls, 128 coin flips,…
Reddit has gone from one of ChatGPT’s most visible sources to barely registering in its citations, with its share plunging in just days. A recent report from Promptwatch, an AI search and citation-tracking platform, shows that Reddit accounted for an average of 3.83% of all ChatGPT citations between July 18 and Aug. 7. That share…
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has deployed a real-time AI system that scans trading data, news and online content to flag suspected crypto price manipulation. Summary Generative AI and machine learning will screen trades, news, exchange notices, and online discussions. The platform targets rapid price manipulation, wash trading, collusive activity, and false promotional claims. Human…
Earlier this month, we reported on the disturbing trend of AI companies using and then destroying physical copies of books to train their agentic AI, in a practice so eerily reminiscent of book burning that it’s spooking even devotees of artificial intelligence. Well, according to Axios, the FTC is now being urged to investigate the…
Key Takeaways Standard Chartered says its $100,000 bitcoin forecast may be too low. Bitcoin climbed to $79,500 on Aug. 21, its highest level since May. Bitcoin ETF inflows reached approximately $1.92 billion over five sessions. Record Short Liquidations Reshape Bitcoin Outlook Bitcoin’s sharp recovery has raised the possibility that Geoffrey Kendrick’s $100,000 year-end forecast may…
“It is not a rule, regulation, or statement of the Commission, and the Commission has neither approved nor disapproved its content,” the DIM said. Franklin Templeton is preparing to put tokenized assets inside its conventional mutual funds and ETFs, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, eight days after SEC staff cleared the firm to hold its…
Our phones have become do-it-all gadgets. They enable us to keep in touch with one another, track how many steps we’re taking each day, snap photos of everything, and access the collective knowledge of humanity. All that universal functionality extends across both our work and personal lives. The gadget that pings you on Slack when…
Crypto and blockchain companies announced approximately $1.298 billion across six disclosed transactions between Aug. 16 and Aug. 22, 2026. ZeroStack accounted for most of the total through a $1 billion noncash token contribution, while Ripple Prime completed a $275 million debt offering. Summary Six disclosed transactions produced approximately $1.298 billion in financing during the reporting…
