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Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) shut off every Bitcoin miner at its Dowagiac, Michigan campus on September 1, 2026, pivoting the 617,000 sq ft site to a $1.2 billion AI colocation agr…
Geyser rejected Cuba Bitcoin's fundraising initiative over U.S. sanctions compliance, exposing a critical gap between 'non-custodial' and genuinely permissionless infrastructure fo…
PwC's Global Data Centre Outlook, modeled by Oxford Economics across 46 countries, projects $31.6 trillion in cumulative global data center capex through 2050. Power availability i…
DeepSeek is ordering at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a gigawatt-scale data center in Inner Mongolia, per Bloomberg. NVIDIA's China AI share is forecast to crater fro…
The IMF confirmed on September 3 that all Bitcoin added to El Salvador's reserve since June 2025 came from private donations, with zero public funds used, and explicitly stated it…
Rabobank's Michael Every is citing a Dutch government advisory council's declaration that the post-WWII order 'no longer exists' and arguing central banks are secondary to the geop…
The National Sheriffs' Association dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act on September 3, citing the bill's complexity. A Senate cloture vote requiring 60 votes is set for Septe…
Chicago rice futures have surged more than 50% in 2026, on pace for the largest annual gain since 2003, as Strait of Hormuz disruptions collapse fertilizer supply chains and monsoo…
De Nederlandsche Bank transferred 86 metric tonnes of gold from New York and Ottawa to London between March and August 2026, citing geopolitical unrest and crisis preparedness, a q…
Nvidia signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang promises the platform stays open. There is currently no binding governance mechanism t…
Galaxy Research's Alex Thorn confirmed the first on-chain movement from the original Coldcard attacker addresses: ~10% of Wave 3 funds routed through THORChain and landed on a new…
VentureBeat's July 2026 VB Pulse survey of 170 enterprise AI infrastructure buyers finds non-Nvidia accelerators outpacing Blackwell on evaluation intent by 14 percentage points. I…
MISO filed interconnection reliability requirements with FERC on Aug. 28, 2026, covering ramp rates, ride-through performance, and real-time monitoring for any load above 50 MW, a…
A complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on August 31, 2026 alleges Tether froze $42.4 million in USDT across 10 Ethereum addresses after an informal Homeland Securit…
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a 59-page ruling on August 27 voiding the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic, finding it violated the First and Fifth Amendme…
Treasury Secretary Bessent used the Asheville G20 meeting to demand coordinated trade pressure on China's $1.2 trillion surplus, while simultaneously conceding the world's only deb…
The BLS July JOLTS report missed the 7.313M consensus for the second consecutive month, while June was revised down 177K. Hires and quits both dropped sharply, pointing toward a po…
Bitcoin's 90-day Pearson correlation with gold hit an all-time high as of September 1, with the 30-day metric reaching 0.8, a quantitative signal that institutional capital is acti…
Strategy filed a formal opposition letter to MSCI on August 31, calling its revised non-operating company exclusion screen discriminatory and calling for its withdrawal before the…
China deployed a record 244 government vessels around Taiwan in July 2026, a fourfold increase over July 2025, per Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration. The activity looks less like…
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