Artificial Intelligence

October 10, 2026 @ 6:53 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Catalyst, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup developing automated trading tools for retail investors, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The round also drew participation from SF1, Selini Capital, Jump Trading, Peak XV Partners, Lux Capital, AntiFund,… Read More

October 10, 2026 @ 11:25 am By Michael Wong  |  

Stord, a commerce fulfilment and technology company, has secured a $400 million credit facility led by Citi, with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, First Citizens, Citizens, and KeyBank also participating, to expand its logistics operations and accelerate investments in artificial intelligence and robotics. The facility was oversubscribed… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) slid with the rest of the digital asset market this week as risk appetite cooled across major tokens. The decline was not confined to ether. Solana (SOL), Binance Coin (BNB), and Cardano (ADA) all gave back ground in a broad… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe is weaving operational logistics data, digital dollar payments, and rules for software agents into a broader push to simplify how smaller firms buy, sell, and borrow. FedEx Dataworks and Stripe disclosed a multiyear collaboration on October 6, 2026, aimed at lowering barriers in cross-border… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Artificial intelligence portfolio manager Pave Finance says it has extended its Series A round, raising an additional $5 million. The firm shares that the funding round now totals $20 million Pave says it will put the funding to work immediately as it begins hiring more… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardano’s (ADA) recent stretch has mixed technical progress with public friction. Founder Charles Hoskinson has argued that the privacy-focused Midnight network could eventually surpass Zcash, pressed Gemini (NASDAQ: GEMI) to list ADA again, and pushed back against critics who say years of building haven’t translated into stronger token performance. At… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) shares have come under renewed pressure in early October 2026, sliding roughly 8 percent between the September 30 and October 7 closes and finishing the latter session at $18.54. The stock remains about 46 percent above its year-end 2025 level of… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, the founder and former chief executive of BitMEX and now chief investment officer at the crypto fund Maelstrom, argues that the current rush to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is repeating a familiar pattern from earlier technology waves. Speaking at the Gamma Prime Investing… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise’s chief investment officer argues that NEAR Protocol’s investment case no longer depends solely on its longer-term ambition to serve autonomous AI agents. In an October 7, 2026 memo and related comments, Matt Hougan described the network as an operating blockchain business whose present activity… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI’s recent release of hundreds of machine-generated mathematical results has prompted a senior blockchain researcher to urge the industry toward a cautious defensive posture. On October 7, 2026, Justin Drake, a researcher associated with the Ethereum Foundation whose work also addresses Bitcoin security assumptions, publicly… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s long-running decentralized exchange Orca and the credit platform Loopscale have combined into a single company called Formation, headquartered in New York. The October 7, 2026 announcement places Loopscale co-founder Luke Truitt in the chief executive role, with fellow Loopscale co-founder Mary Gooneratne as chief… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) is preparing substantial staff reductions inside its British wealth management operations, according to reports that first appeared in the FT on 7 October 2026. The changes form part of a wider effort to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into how the bank… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) moved within striking distance of a valuation no public company has ever recorded, as its shares returned to record territory in early October 2026 and the chip designer’s market value climbed to roughly $5.8 trillion.  On October 5 the stock closed at… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 1:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has argued that society should tolerate certain harms from artificial intelligence in exchange for much larger gains. In a recent interview with Politico’s Decoded, he said the world ought to accept some adverse outcomes because people will generate orders of… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 12:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 1, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and the Open Anonymity Project placed zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet, a payment layer that lets people buy metered API access—especially AI inference—without tying the payer’s identity to the requests themselves. Today’s typical AI key points back… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Greek authorities have reportedly taken down a suspected cryptocurrency pyramid that investigators say pulled in roughly eight to nine million dollars by telling participants their deposits would double in about fifty days. Officers from the Katerini Crime Prosecution and Investigation Sub-Directorate led a months-long inquiry… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is positioning its financial technology arm as a central engine of longer-term expansion, as banks, brokers, and other institutions step up spending on cloud-based market infrastructure, compliance tools, and systems that detect financial crime. The unit mixes recurring and subscription-style income, which… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI busts budgets, creates opportunities: US Bank The new report, U.S. Bank CFO Insights Report: Fall 2026, has nine key findings, including that 51% of companies exceeded their AI budgets. The good news is that 69% said that the rapid growth of AI investment has… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets tied to artificial intelligence posted the strongest relative returns of any major crypto category last month, according to research published by Grayscale. In a note dated October 2, 2026, the firm’s head of research, Zach Pandl, reported that Grayscale’s Artificial Intelligence Crypto Sector… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 6:23 am By Michael Wong  |  

Kenanga Research said the artificial intelligence investment cycle is entering a second phase in 2026, with demand broadening beyond graphics processing units (GPUs) to inference, AI agents, and commercial applications. The demand, it added, creates opportunities across optical connectivity, power, advanced packaging and semiconductor equipment, the… Read More