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Flapping Airplanes has raised $1 billion nine months after a $180 million seed, and its main claim is its own
The year-old lab says its approach needs far less data and compute, and TechCrunch could not verify it.
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SoFi is paying 4.4 percent on a tokenised deposit, and the FDIC cover stops at the deposit
SOFIE is insured at SoFi Bank, but once it is converted to the SoFiUSD stablecoin the insurance no longer applies.
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Aerodrome and Velodrome are merging into one exchange on seven networks, and have not published the token terms
Each leads its home chain, but the conversion ratios and migration deadlines are missing from the announcement.
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Solana has switched on Alpenglow, and 150-millisecond finality has yet to be measured
The handover took about 900 milliseconds, and the faster settlement is a target under normal conditions, not a result.
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Fireblocks has denied Axios’s report that Visa is close to buying it for $2.5 billion
The reported price is less than a third of the $8 billion the custody firm was valued at in 2022, and the denial is…
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Coinbase Ireland has been fined €3.25 million for mixing customer money, and says nobody lost any
The Central Bank of Ireland found daily shortfalls in the funds Coinbase had to protect, and the sanction still needs High Court confirmation.
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Tesla has started building Optimus in Fremont, and Musk calls the ramp slow and bumpy
Tesla’s shareholder letter calls them its first production-quality bots, while Musk says the hardware and the software both need substantial work.
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Federal civilian agencies have been ordered to remove DeepSeek, and the order sets no deadline
DHS’s concern is that Chinese authorities could reach government data, a risk it describes as potential, not demonstrated.
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Anthropic has drafted a bill that would let a judge halt an AI model if more than 50 people could die
The draft uses paid evaluators and a 72-hour notice, and Anthropic is the only named backer.
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Eka is valued at $1.45 billion for a robot that picks 1,500 objects an hour, and the figure is the company’s own
The Series A rests on simulation-trained force sensing that has not yet run for a year on a real line.