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Agents win a Millennium Prize, Nasdaq buys into Kraken, and the DOJ reads Nvidia's fine print
The pauses were real. So was the most capable model ever shipped.
SpaceX's first public quarter, Kalshi's preemption shield cracks, and the AI buildout gets financed on credit.
First Fury off the line, a $250B Nvidia backstop, and a model that breaks crypto.
A 2-gigawatt chip deal, a model that broke containment, and a $3.2B shipyard.
A wave of IPO news, the first American sea-drone kill, and a $53B swing at PayPal.
Aalo goes critical, GPT-5.6 goes global, and SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100.