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Technology Meta's Third Act: How Stablecoins on WhatsApp and Instagram Could Bring Crypto to 3 Billion Users — And Why This Time Is Different When Meta unveiled Libra in 2019, it tried to mint its own global currency — and every central bank on
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Finance & Markets ICE and OKX: The NYSE's $25 Billion Crypto Play When the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange — the institution that has defined global capital markets for over two centuries — makes a multi-billion-dollar bet on a crypto-native exchange,
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Energy & Clean Technology China's Policy Pivot: Boosting Energy Storage & Lithium Lithium carbonate prices have crashed more than 80% from their November 2022 peak of ~$80,000 per tonne to roughly $10,000–$15,000 per tonne — devastating producers worldwide and threatening the supply chain that
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When 95% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist has already been mined, what does the math of extreme, provable scarcity mean for the next century of monetary history? Around mid-March 2026, the Bitcoin network will mine its 20 millionth coin — a once-in-history
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"Absorptive Capacity" — a company or individual's ability to recognize, assimilate, and apply new AI workflows — has become the top buzzword in HR and tech leadership circles in 2026. The concept, born in a 1990 academic paper by Cohen & Levinthal with over
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 drew over 10,000 attendees to San Francisco for a conference that decisively reflected the industry’s new gravity. The flagship Startup Battlefield 200 competition awarded $100,000 while panelists across stages laid bare a sobering recalibration: the era of funding “wrapper” startups building
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Mark Zuckerberg faced a jury in Los Angeles Superior Court in the first bellwether trial of 1,600 consolidated lawsuits alleging social media platforms engineered addiction in children. Plaintiffs executed a novel strategy: bypassing Section 230 entirely by attacking Instagram’s product design—infinite scroll, algorithmic amplification,
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New Delhi hosted the first Global South AI governance summit, drawing 118 countries and over 500,000 visitors. The result: $250 billion+ in infrastructure investment pledges led by Reliance ($110B), Adani ($100B), and Microsoft ($50B), plus the New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments—a voluntary framework signed
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Backed by $50M+ from Peak XV, Khosla Ventures, and Lightspeed, Sarvam AI launched Indus—a 22-language agentic chat app powered by a 105-billion-parameter model optimized for India’s voice-first, linguistically diverse market. Rather than building a trillion-parameter behemoth to compete with GPT-5, Sarvam optimized for cultural
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While the Magnificent 7 dropped 3.2% and the Nasdaq fell 2.1%, the Utilities sector surged 7.1% in a single week. $1.42 billion fled U.S. tech funds as $8.52 billion poured into emerging markets. The market is demanding proof that AI software can monetize—and betting
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OpenAI cut its 2030 compute target by 57%—from $1.4 trillion to $600 billion—in one of the largest infrastructure forecast corrections in modern technological history. Despite tripling revenue to $13.1 billion, inference costs quadrupled and margins compressed from 40% to 33%. The AI industry has
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A federal grand jury unsealed a 14-count felony indictment against three Silicon Valley engineers for stealing over 300 confidential files containing Google TPU and Qualcomm Snapdragon architectural secrets. The stolen data was accessed from Iran. The case exposes how consumer apps like Apple Notes
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