Category: Crypto Insights

Gemini scales back crypto exchange, pivots to prediction markets and betting Gemini, the digital asset exchange created by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is executing some of the deepest cuts in its history and reshaping its core business model. The company is trimming up to a quarter of its staff, exiting several major international markets, and…

Anthropic Trolls OpenAI’s ChatGPT With Bold Super Bowl Ad Gambit The AI rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI is moving from research labs to the biggest advertising stage in the world: the Super Bowl. Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, has purchased its first-ever Super Bowl ad slot—and is using it not to promote…

Brock Pierce’s entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein appears to have stretched far beyond casual acquaintance or occasional fundraising. Newly surfaced correspondence from late 2017 shows Epstein not only tracking Pierce’s movements but weighing in on his romantic relationships and the personal decisions of a woman closely connected to the crypto entrepreneur. In November 2017, Epstein emailed…

Anthropic’s New AI Agents Shake Software Sector and Force a Valuation Reality Check Shares of major information and professional-services firms were hit hard this week after Anthropic unveiled a suite of AI tools that investors fear could undercut traditional software pricing models and reshape the economics of knowledge work. Thomson Reuters plunged about 18%, Pearson…

From passive holding to active earning: how a 2026 affiliate model turns XRP and BTC portfolios into long-term income As crypto volatility intensifies in 2026, many XRP and BTC holders are realizing that simply waiting for price appreciation is no longer a reliable strategy. Sharp intraday swings, unpredictable macro news, and regulatory developments mean that…

Peter Schiff is taking his victory lap — at least for now, and he’s doing it at Michael Saylor’s expense. The outspoken gold proponent and perennial Bitcoin bear has seized on the latest drawdown to argue that Strategy’s hyper-aggressive accumulation strategy is finally backfiring. After years of buying every dip and turning the company into…

IREN doubles down on AI cloud in a decisive break from its Bitcoin heritage IREN Ltd., the company that built its name as a large-scale Bitcoin miner, is in the middle of one of the most radical overhauls in the digital infrastructure sector. Rebranded from Iris Energy and repositioned as an AI infrastructure specialist, the…

AI Left Sam Altman ‘Useless and Sad’—and X Turned It Into a Pile-On OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to share a rare moment of vulnerability about his own technology—and the internet did what it usually does: it pounced. Altman revealed that while experimenting with Codex, OpenAI’s AI coding assistant, he suddenly felt “a little useless”…

French law enforcement officers on Tuesday searched the Paris headquarters of X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, as part of an expanding criminal investigation into the service’s AI chatbot Grok and the alleged circulation of child sexual abuse material on the platform. The operation was conducted by France’s specialized cybercrime unit in…

“We need a new path.” With that blunt assessment, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has signaled a sharp turn in how he believes the network should scale—away from heavy reliance on layer-2 (L2) solutions and toward a more balanced, protocol-centered approach. In a recent post on X, Buterin argued that the “original vision” for L2 networks…