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Anthropic has just secured one of the largest compute deals the AI industry has ever seen. The company locked in 3.5 gigawatts of next generation Google TPU compute through Broadcom. In the same week, Anthropic highlighted its tremendous growth with its annualized revenue now crossing the $30 billion mark, which is more than triple the $9 billion reported at the end of 2025 and the number of customers spending $1M+ on Claude doubling from 500 to 1,000 in under two months. Coindesk framed it as bitcoin miners gaining a powerful new rival in the fight for cheap power. This framing…

The future of digital finance increasingly hinges on the ability to integrate technological innovation with institutional solidity. The future of digital finance increasingly hinges on the ability to integrate technological innovation with institutional solidity.A recent report by RWA.io, created with contributions from 15 of the world’s leading financial and technological institutions, including Standard Chartered, Citi, BNY, Ondo Finance, and Alchemy, highlights how tokenized bank deposits are set to become a fundamental pillar of the next-generation digital financial system. According to the research, tokenized deposits could ensure unprecedented resilience, enabling high-level institutional settlements directly on blockchain infrastructures.This evolution not only promises…

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman refuses to settle what he calls a fabricated gender discrimination claim from a terminated family office employee, weeks before his $10 billion IPO. The post, which quickly went viral, drew immediate public support from Elon Musk and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, both of whom framed such lawsuits as a hidden tax on business. The Family Office Blowup Behind the Post Ackman revealed that he founded a family office called TABLE roughly 15 years ago and hired a trusted friend to run it. Over the past decade, operational costs and headcount ballooned while his investment portfolio…

In late 2025, the banking giant JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) was responsible for the street-high S&P 500 forecast for 2026 of 8,000 points, but it has, in more recent months, engaged in multiple target downgrades. Specifically, after first dropping the estimate to 7,500, the company again lowered the prediction to 7,200 in late March. Thus, instead of the originally anticipated 16.65% rise in 2026 from 6,858 to 8,000, a 5% rise is expected. Simultaneously, while JPMorgan apparently still estimates that the benchmark stock market index will end the year in the green, it also warned that the ongoing war in the…

The Russian government is preparing to exempt cryptocurrency trading and custodial services from value-added tax (VAT) as part of a major push to regulate coin operations in the country. The necessary legislation has been drafted already. It also determines the taxation of profits generated by entities engaged in these activities and of the personal income of digital currency traders. Russia won’t collect VAT on crypto trading and storage services The Ministry of Finance in Moscow has put forward amendments to Russia’s Tax Code to address the taxation of various crypto transactions of both businesses and individuals. A key proposal is…

At the beginning of March, 2026, Gold appeared like a perfect investment due to both the positive momentum the commodity has been enjoying for months and its status as a ‘safe haven’ asset amidst the latest geopolitical escalation. Despite the apparently positive outlook, purchasing $1,000 worth of the yellow metal at the start of the month would have been a losing bet. Specifically, on Monday, March 2, gold climbed as high as $5,390 as the war started with a joint bombing of Iran by the U.S. and Israel and was projected to last approximately four weeks. At press time on…

Polymarket has removed a betting market tied to the rescue of U.S. service members in Iran, after intense backlash and criticism from lawmakers this weekend. The market allowed users to wager on when the U.S. would confirm the rescue of two airmen after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran. The crew members have since been rescued. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, criticized the listing in a post on X, calling it “disgusting” and arguing it reduced a military rescue effort to a financial trade. Moulton has taken a hard line on prediction markets, recently banning…

PlutonAI, a Web3-native, decentralized artificial intelligence (DeFAI) platform that allows users to create, deploy, and monetize autonomous AI agents, has announced its strategic partnership with Ispoverse, a comprehensive Web3 metaverse and gaming ecosystem that merges Artificial Intelligence (AI-driven) virtual experience, Play-to-Earn (P2E) gaming, and decentralized collaboration. 🪐 AI agents are entering the game.We’re excited to partner with @IspoverseGame 🕹At PlutonAI, we turn conversations into on-chain actions: trading, analyzing, executing… all through AI agents.Now imagine that inside a game universe 👇🎮 Learn DeFi through quests🤖… pic.twitter.com/mivjHsCaG5 — PlutonAI (@PlutonAIHQ) April 6, 2026 The hidden purpose of this landmark collaboration is to…

Last year, Japan moved to widen the reach of its crypto travel rule regime, signaling that the country’s regulatory focus is shifting further toward compliance, transaction traceability, and cross-border surveillance. Key Takeaways: On April 25, 2025, Japan FSA added 30 jurisdictions to its crypto travel rule network. Japan’s 58-market scope raises compliance demands for exchanges and stablecoin issuers. Next, FATF-style alignment could push Japanese VASPs toward stricter cross-border checks in 2025. Regulatory Clarity Developing In Japan Digital Assets Market Amid FSA Travel Rule Amendment In an April 25, 2025 announcement, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) said it would partially amend…

Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain division of Chinese conglomerate Ant Group, has unveiled a new platform aimed at enabling AI agents, not humans, to become the main participants in crypto transactions called Anvita. Unveiled at the company’s Real Up summit in Cannes, Anvita is Ant’s bet on what it calls an “agent-to-agent economy,” where autonomous software programs can hold assets, trade, and make payments with little to no human involvement. Anvita consists of two main products at its inception. The first, Anvita TaaS (Tokenization-as-a-Service), is focused on tokenizing real-world assets for institutions, including custody and treasury tools. The second, Anvita…