BitcoinWorld How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund Last year, Justin Ernest identified a critical disconnect in the venture capital market: family offices and smaller institutional investors were eager to back the fastest-growing AI …
BitcoinWorld Apple’s Siri AI Promises a Personal Assistant That Actually Knows You — But at What Cost? At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled the long-awaited overhaul of Siri, powered by what it calls ‘Apple Intelligence.’ The new Siri promises to act as a truly personal assistant — one that knows your texts, your calendar, your photos, …
BitcoinWorld Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 generates playable video games from a single prompt, researcher finds Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its closely watched Mythos model, and early testing suggests the AI can generate playable video games and complex software tools from a single text prompt. Ethan Mollick, a …
BitcoinWorld From scooters to satellites: How a former mobility founder raised $5M to build data centers in space Euwyn Poon, the founder who built and sold e-scooter company Spin to Ford in 2018, has raised $5 million in seed funding for a far more ambitious venture: putting AI data centers in orbit. The startup, called …
BitcoinWorld The great AI downsizing: Why cheaper models are suddenly the smartest bet The artificial intelligence industry has long operated on a simple, powerful premise: bigger models are better, and the best model wins. This assumption has fueled a race for scale, with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic pouring billions into training ever-larger frontier models. …
BitcoinWorld Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart For years, Apple has been labeled one of the biggest stragglers in the AI arms race. Critics argued that the company lacked a clear AI strategy, and Wall Street analysts worried the gap would eventually hurt iPhone sales. But with the unveiling of Siri …
BitcoinWorld Mercor Co-Founder Brendan Foody Calls Out Sequoia Over ‘Dual-Pricing’ Valuation Tactics In a rare public confrontation, Brendan Foody, co-founder of the $10 billion AI talent platform Mercor, has accused Sequoia Capital of employing a controversial “dual-pricing” strategy in venture rounds that he argues misleads employees and angel investors. The criticism, posted on X, has …
BitcoinWorld After $250M settlement, Apple’s WWDC 2026 shifts from vaporware to real-time AI demos Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote carried an unusual undertone: accountability. Two years after promising a smarter Siri that never materialized, and one month after agreeing to a $250 million settlement over false advertising claims, the company took a notably different …
BitcoinWorld As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company Tools for Humanity conducts layoffs, report says OpenAI announced on Monday that it confidentially filed for an IPO, a move that could become one of the defining public offerings of the decade. But the same week brought a different kind of news for OpenAI CEO …
BitcoinWorld OpenAI Files Confidentially for IPO, Intensifying Race Against Anthropic ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company confirmed Monday in a blog post. The move comes just over a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also submitted a confidential IPO filing, escalating the competition between the two leading artificial intelligence …
