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AI
OpenAI's Stargate Project — a $500B compute build-out with SoftBank, Oracle and MGX — now has visible construction at all seven US sites and a pathway to over 9 GW of capacity by 2029. The same week, OpenAI released an Intelligence Age policy paper introducing the "Right to AI".
Funding
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia Capital at a $2B valuation — more than double its Series A mark from five months ago. Customers include Harvey, Attio, Modal and Rogo, and Sequoia's Andrew Reed joins the board.
AI
OKX rolled out the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard letting AI agents run full commercial cycles on-chain — from quotes and escrow to disputes — with backing from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Base, Solana, Sui, Aptos, the Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Paxos and Nansen.
AI
Galaxy Digital delivered the first phase of its data center capacity to CoreWeave on Monday, expanding the Helios facility to 1.6 GW — among the largest single-site AI training capacities in North America.
Tokenization & RWA
State Street will roll out tokenized fund servicing infrastructure from its Luxembourg operations by December 2026, joining BNY Mellon and BlackRock in the institutional tokenization arms race.
Funding
Liquid, the always-on trading platform backed by Paradigm, closed an $18M round led by Left Lane Capital and Neo to expand cross-asset coverage and U.S. distribution.
Web3 Payments
Visa is partnering with WeFi, the crypto payments startup founded by JL van der Velde after he left Tether, to bridge stablecoin and on-chain settlement into Visa's global merchant rails.
Prediction Markets
Polymarket is in active discussions with the CFTC about bringing its primary prediction-market exchange back to the United States, setting up a direct competitive face-off with Kalshi.
AI
The CFTC chair told CoinDesk that the agency is now using AI to review crypto registration filings and monitor trading data — a workforce-multiplier deployment driven by federal hiring cuts, not strategic choice.
AI
Microsoft warned that legacy banks are approaching a breaking point as AI agents start executing transactions at machine speed — requiring an overhaul of identity, authorization, and audit systems built for human users.
AI Agents
A Red Hat veteran released Tank OS, an open-source isolation layer that runs AI agents in hardened containers with scoped credentials and zero file-system bleed — exactly what would have prevented this week's PocketOS database wipe.
AI
Meta signed a contract for up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power to feed its AI data centers, the largest commercial commitment yet to a technology that has spent 50 years on the runway.