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Polymarket, VeChain, Stake, Exodus and Crypto.com will have branding inside the Octagon at a White House UFC event. The exposure marks a shift from regulatory battles to mainstream recognition.
Zero-click Google queries hit 58.5-69% of US searches. A16z says AI summaries cut organic click-through rates by 20-64% on affected queries.
Blockworks buys crypto data rival Messari in a deal that merges two intelligence platforms, citing AI demand and a Bloomberg-style consolidation play.
Bitmine's Series A Preferred Stock begins trading on NYSE June 16 under ticker BMNP. Second weekly dividend of $0.105556 per share to be paid June 26.
Two directors exit Brunswick Exploration's board after the AGM, as the lithium explorer grants deferred share units to non-executive directors in place of cash fees.
The Fed website now lists Kevin Warsh as chairman, reversing a 12-year trend of his predecessors using chair. No law governs the title, making it a personal call.
Bluerock Homes Trust declared a $0.125 quarterly dividend, yielding 5.34%. The payout matches the prior quarter's rate and is covered by funds from operations.
The Trade Desk and Publicis settled a fee dispute that had blocked Publicis from recommending the ad platform. Shares rose. The next catalyst is Q1 earnings in May.
The Second Circuit denied Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal, upholding his 25-year fraud sentence. The panel described the evidence as 'conservately stated, robust.' A pardon petition remains outstanding.
Mistral AI seeks €3B at €20B valuation, doubling since September. ASML leads strategic investment as European governments push for sovereign AI infrastructure.
Staples and materials led the S&P 500's second straight weekly gain. Energy lagged as crude slipped. One trader put it simply: "The market is positioning for the Fed meeting."
Kevin Warsh chairs his first FOMC meeting as the 10-year yield edges toward 4.50%. Growth stocks sell off. AlphaScala scores: SPY 39, MRVL 70, DELL 64. Wednesday's decision will set the market's direction.
JPMorgan hosted a lavish party with a SpaceX-branded steak carving station to win over employees who became millionaires after the company’s liquidity event. The move heats up competition among banks for newly minted tech wealth.
SpaceX's blockbuster IPO gives retail investors their first chance to own shares in Elon Musk's rocket company. The CEO's net worth crosses $1 trillion.
I spent Friday morning at the Nasdaq building during SpaceX's IPO. Astronaut costumes and retail investors crowded Times Square. The scene shows the narrative-driven market and what it means for the first trade.
Meta is setting AI token budgets for staff to cap data costs, per The Information. META shares slipped 0.23%. Alpha Score 54/100 Mixed. Impact on AI development unclear.
SpaceX's $75B IPO drained crypto liquidity as traders sold Bitcoin and altcoins for allocation cash. Tokenized SpaceX shares were scrapped when SPCX started trading.
Blockworks acquires Messari for over $10M, merging crypto's two largest data platforms to create a unified system of record for onchain markets, funds, and AI agents.
Air Canada ratified a four-year deal with Unifor covering 6,000 customer service employees, the third labor agreement this year. Cost terms were not disclosed, but labor stability reduces execution risk for investors.
A Seeking Alpha contributor sees the tech rally lasting to November, with sentiment still supportive. Alpha Score 44 on QQQ flags weak fundamental backing despite momentum.
Zimbabwe requires crypto businesses to register with the FIU and pay $500 a year or face criminal charges. The move ends a de facto ban on the sector.
Colombia hosts 2.8M Venezuelans; Haiti's IDP count jumps 38% to 1.4M. The displacement wave alters labor supply across five economies. Watch regularization renewal rates.
Dapple closes $30M seed round from Raptor Group and Ion Pacific for its single-tenant AI infrastructure OS, with enterprise customers already live.
QVC sells the Sharper Image Portable Cold Plunge Ice Bath for $49.98. New customers save $20 with code WELCOME20, making it $37.48 shipped today only.
Meta's $10B Louisiana data center drives a sales-tax surge that funds teacher bonuses of up to $50,935 in Richland Parish. The payouts can exceed some teachers' annual salaries and have become a flashpoint in the national debate over AI infrastructure.
Flux, a code-first engineering intelligence platform, raised $5M led by Calibrate Ventures. The funding will accelerate product development and go-to-market as AI reshapes software.
Tim Ferriss's five bestsellers sold 57% fewer print copies in Q1 2026. He blames LLMs. The same pressure is hitting the NYT and every prescriptive nonfiction publisher.
BTIG initiated ONE Gas as a Buy, betting on large load demand from data centers and industrial plants for baseload and backup natural gas power. The regulated utility’s pipeline of projects may drive a re-rating.
Former CFTC chair Gary Gensler says sports-betting contracts on prediction markets are not swaps. He filed an amicus brief in the Kalshi case, arguing the agency overstepped. The appeals court will decide who regulates these contracts.
Lennar cut its fiscal 2026 delivery forecast to 82K-83K homes while Q2 gross margins widened and incentives eased. Q3 EPS guidance of $1.20-$1.40 trails year-ago $1.92.