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Polygon Labs, developer of the blockchain that underpins prediction market Polymarket and other crypto platforms, is in early talks with investors to raise as much as $100 million to build a new stablecoin payments business, according to people familiar with the talks.
The funding discussions come amid a nasty downturn in crypto. The new venture would be a way for Polygon to diversify out of a market that has stalled.
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Elon Musk’s marketing pitch for the SpaceX IPO just got a bit more complicated. SpaceX’s revelation Tuesday afternoon that it was working closely with Cursor, the once-dominant coding firm, and might buy it for $60 billion, raises new questions about the health of xAI, Musk’s AI startup that SpaceX acquired for $250 billion in stock in early February. What did SpaceX—and indirectly its shareholders—pay for?The main reason Musk would consider... Read more ›
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Anthropic is investigating a report that a group of unauthorized users gained access to several unreleased AI models including Mythos, the model that Anthropic has withheld because of its capacity for cyberattacks, according to a spokesperson for the company. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the ... Read more ›
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Tencent, which has launched many products built on OpenClaw in China in the past few months, is now taking one of those products to the global market. The Chinese tech giant on Tuesday launched an international version of QClaw, an OpenClaw-based AI agent that attracted a lot of interest from ... Read more ›
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Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, according to four people with knowledge of the conversations. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management, is now seeking to raise funding at a valuation of more than $20 billion, after its initial discussions with prospective investors generated immense interests, one of... Read more ›
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