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AngelList's new USVC fund is open to all U.S. investors regardless of accreditation, charges a flat 1% fee with no carry, and already holds stakes in xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and four other private companies.
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OpenAI has hired six senior marketing executives from Coinbase over the past 18 months, including former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch, who became OpenAI's first CMO in 2024.
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OpenAI released Privacy Filter, a 1.5B-parameter Apache 2.0 model that masks 8 categories of sensitive data locally before content leaves the device — 96% accurate on PII-Masking-300k.
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OpenAI introduced Workspace Agents — persistent cloud-based assistants in ChatGPT that run on schedules or triggers, connect to external apps, and retain context across projects.
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Google's new TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference promise 3× faster training and 80% better price-performance vs. prior generation, supplementing — not replacing — Nvidia GPUs.
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced capex of $175–$185 billion for 2026 to power autonomous AI agents, nearly 6× the company's 2022 spend.
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Under the partnership, SpaceX can buy the AI coding startup later in 2026 for $60B. If it walks, Cursor collects $10B for the joint work. Context: Colossus (1M H100-equivalent) meets Cursor's dev distribution.
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$5B wires now; $20B tied to milestones. Anthropic commits $100B+ to AWS over 10 years and locks in 5 GW of Trainium compute through Trainium4.
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No blog post, no Altman tweet. API telemetry flagged a new model running at production scale — and crypto prediction markets are already betting on the release date.
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OpenGradient raises $9.5M led by a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures to build a decentralized compute layer for verifiable AI — where every inference comes with cryptographic proof, auditable on-chain.
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Nava raised $8.3M in seed funding led by Polychain and Archetype to build a blockchain verification layer for AI-powered financial agents — addressing $2.1B in unauthorized AI transactions in 2025.
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Hermes Agent by Nous Research has hit 97,000 GitHub stars in 8 weeks. Behind the numbers is a Web3-native AI lab backed by Paradigm and a16z — and an unresolved token question the crypto community can't stop talking about.