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Natural raises $30M to build payment rails for AI agents and challenge Stripe's dominance

Natural secured $30 million in Series A funding to build payment infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents. The startup launched six products including FDIC-insured wallets and plans to roll out 10 more within months, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Stripe in the emerging agentic payments market.

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Natural raises $30M to build payment rails for AI agents and challenge Stripe's dominance

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Alibaba Stock Surges 5.2% After Unveiling Qwen3.8 Max, Its Most Advanced AI Model

Alibaba stock jumped over 5% on Monday after the company released Qwen3.8 Max-Preview, its most powerful AI model to date. With 2.4 trillion parameters, the large language model ranks second globally behind only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The company plans to open-source the model, which could accelerate developer adoption across the AI ecosystem.

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Alibaba Stock Surges 5.2% After Unveiling Qwen3.8 Max, Its Most Advanced AI Model

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IREN raises AI cloud revenue target above $4 billion after securing $2.8 billion in new contracts

Former Bitcoin miner IREN jumped 16% after announcing $2.8 billion in new multi-year cloud services contracts with Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Perplexity. The company raised its year-end AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to over $4 billion, with 85% now under contract. The deals include customer prepayments covering 45% of GPU capital expenditures, reducing funding requirements.

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IREN raises AI cloud revenue target above $4 billion after securing $2.8 billion in new contracts

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Tempus AI acquires Personalis for $1.5 billion to expand cancer screening and MRD capabilities

Tempus AI announced a $1.5 billion acquisition of Personalis to strengthen its position in cancer screening and minimal residual disease detection. The stock-funded deal adds the NeXT Personal cancer test to Tempus' AI-enabled precision medicine platform, but investors reacted cautiously with both stocks declining on the news.

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Tempus AI acquires Personalis for $1.5 billion to expand cancer screening and MRD capabilities

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Hut 8 signs $9.8 billion AI data center lease, fully commercializes Texas campus

Former cryptocurrency miner Hut 8 has secured a second 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion for its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Texas, doubling an investment-grade tenant's footprint to 704 MW. The deal fully commercializes the 1-gigawatt facility and brings Hut 8's total AI data center portfolio to 949 MW with $26.6 billion in aggregate contract value.

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Hut 8 signs $9.8 billion AI data center lease, fully commercializes Texas campus

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Blackstone invests in Futronic, betting on actuators as the hidden engine of humanoid robotics

Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of high-precision actuators that enable precise machine movement. The world's largest alternative asset manager sees motion control as the critical bridge between AI models and physical robots, backing a component supplier rather than finished robot makers as humanoid robotics and automation markets expand.

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Blackstone invests in Futronic, betting on actuators as the hidden engine of humanoid robotics

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UK CFOs show rising AI optimism but keep wallets closed amid economic uncertainty

Nearly three-quarters of finance chiefs at Britain's largest companies now believe AI will improve business performance, according to Deloitte's latest survey. The figure has nearly doubled in two years, rising from 39% to 73%. Yet this AI optimism hasn't translated into aggressive spending, as CFOs maintain their focus on cost reduction and cash control amid lingering geopolitical concerns and doubts about UK competitiveness.

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UK CFOs show rising AI optimism but keep wallets closed amid economic uncertainty

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AI Bubble Threatens Economy as Tech Giants Pour $700B Into Infrastructure With No Clear Returns

The AI-driven economic boom has pushed U.S. stock market value past $75 trillion, but concerns mount over unsustainable AI spending. OpenAI alone plans to spend over $50 billion on compute this year while posting massive losses. Critics warn that if investor confidence falters, the resulting stock market decline could trigger a recession comparable to the dot-com crash.

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AI Bubble Threatens Economy as Tech Giants Pour $700B Into Infrastructure With No Clear Returns

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General Compute secures $400M to challenge Nvidia with faster, cheaper AI inference chips

General Compute landed $400 million in debt financing from Upper90 to build an AI inference cloud using SambaNova and AMD chips instead of Nvidia GPUs. The deal marks the first time inference-specific chips have been used as loan collateral, signaling a shift toward cost-efficient alternatives as AI infrastructure costs come under scrutiny.

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General Compute secures $400M to challenge Nvidia with faster, cheaper AI inference chips

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OpenAI introduces new AI ROI framework as enterprise cost concerns mount

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar unveiled a four-question framework to measure AI ROI, introducing the concept of useful intelligence per dollar. The move responds to growing enterprise concerns about AI costs, with one executive accidentally racking up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month. OpenAI argues companies should focus on value delivered rather than token prices alone.

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OpenAI introduces new AI ROI framework as enterprise cost concerns mount

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FIS deploys Anthropic's Mythos 5 to scan global financial infrastructure for vulnerabilities

FIS has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing initiative to deploy the Mythos 5 AI model as an additional security layer across its global payment and banking systems. The FinTech giant is using the advanced AI to scan and evaluate vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that serves thousands of financial institutions worldwide, separate from its commercial AI partnership with Anthropic.

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FIS deploys Anthropic's Mythos 5 to scan global financial infrastructure for vulnerabilities

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns AI could make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimates AI could boost his fortune from $15 billion to $300 billion while middle-class salaries merely double. He calls this wealth gap a 'complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth' and warns it's a problem for society. Other leaders including Larry Fink and Geoffrey Hinton echo similar concerns about AI-driven wealth concentration.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns AI could make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises

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Z.ai approaches $1bn annual sales milestone while giving away its best AI models for free

Chinese AI startup Z.ai is closing in on $1 billion in annual sales by 2026, making it the first independent Chinese AI firm to reach this scale. The company's strategy of open-sourcing its most capable models like GLM-5.2 while monetizing through enterprise deployments and cloud services is proving that giving away frontier AI doesn't destroy commercial viability—it drives it.

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Z.ai approaches $1bn annual sales milestone while giving away its best AI models for free

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South Korea's AI stocks now set the tone for global markets as chipmaker swings ripple worldwide

South Korea's $4 trillion equity market has transformed from a peripheral investment destination into a critical bellwether for global AI sentiment. Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo now start their day by checking Korean stocks, as swings in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix ripple through chip markets worldwide. But the influence comes with extreme volatility driven by leveraged trading.

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South Korea's AI stocks now set the tone for global markets as chipmaker swings ripple worldwide

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Montage Technology reports surging AI chip sales as South Korean prosecutors raid office

China-based Montage Technology forecasts first-half net profit growth of up to 81% driven by strong AI demand for memory interface chips and interconnect chips. But the semiconductor company faces regulatory scrutiny after Korean prosecutors raided its Seoul office over suspected price-fixing, sending shares plummeting over 20% and prompting a share buyback plan to restore investor confidence.

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Montage Technology reports surging AI chip sales as South Korean prosecutors raid office

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