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Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: Runway’s Cris Valenzuela: Creating Hollywood-Friendly Video AI That OpenAI Couldn’t Veteran technology journalist Alex Konrad…

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US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: What happens when AI runs a store A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry,…

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Crypto payments company MoonPay is acquiring Israeli crypto security startup Sodot, sources say, in a $100 million all-stock deal, to launch an institutions-focused unit (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 29, 2026

Émilie Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Israeli crypto security startup Sodot, sources say, in $100 million all-stock…

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A profile of Maria Davidson, who leads California Renewal, a pro-business policy group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100 million in 2026 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Why half of product managers are struggling | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) Interviews with world-class product…

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An interview with Caltech brain implant study BCI recipient Galen Buckwalter about his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical sounds (Emily Mullin/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Compliance at Scale and Why TAM is a Distraction with Vanta’s Christina Cacioppo Stripe co-founder John…

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How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase and others are building a stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Most Successful AI Company You’ve Never Heard Of | Qasar Younes Interviews with world-class product…

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Polymarket’s trading in contracts related to strikes against Iran reached $529 million, and six new accounts profited a total of $1 million betting on the United States to strike Iran by February 28 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Émilie Nicolle / Bloomberg: Polymarket’s trading in contracts related to strikes against Iran reached $529 million, and six new accounts…

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Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than Solana, the first full U.S. deployment of stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Émilie Mason / Bloomberg: Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than…

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S&P lowers Tether’s USDT ability to maintain its US dollar peg to "weak"lowest rating, citing exposure to high-risk assets such as BTC (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 26, 2025

Émilie Nicolle / Bloomberg: S&P downgrades Tether’s USDT ability to maintain its US dollar peg to “low”, the lowest rating,…

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Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a U.S.-licensed futures exchange, from IG Group for $32.5 million in cash and $67.5 million in Payward shares from parent company Kraken (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Dan Wang – The United States versus China in the 21st century The leading…

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From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

5 years later – The diplomat

Transnational repression against Hong Kongers in the UK is worrying – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Detroit automakers cut more than 20,000 U.S. payroll jobs as AI looms

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools for creating clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg raised about $4 million (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Kraken cut about 150 employees after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO could be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to falling digital asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Ofcom says X committed to implementing tougher protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, following an investigation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Browsing: Emily

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

Crypto payments company MoonPay is acquiring Israeli crypto security startup Sodot, sources say, in a $100 million all-stock deal, to launch an institutions-focused unit (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

A profile of Maria Davidson, who leads California Renewal, a pro-business policy group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100 million in 2026 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

An interview with Caltech brain implant study BCI recipient Galen Buckwalter about his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical sounds (Emily Mullin/Wired)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase and others are building a stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Polymarket’s trading in contracts related to strikes against Iran reached $529 million, and six new accounts profited a total of $1 million betting on the United States to strike Iran by February 28 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than Solana, the first full U.S. deployment of stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

S&P lowers Tether’s USDT ability to maintain its US dollar peg to "weak"lowest rating, citing exposure to high-risk assets such as BTC (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a U.S.-licensed futures exchange, from IG Group for $32.5 million in cash and $67.5 million in Payward shares from parent company Kraken (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)