Ben Weiss
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Memecoin traders flock to Robinhood blockchain as demand rockets for a $150 million cat-themed token | Fortune (opens the original)
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When crypto last boomed in 2024 and 2025, memecoins were all the rage. Traders flocked to blockchains like Solana or the app Pump.fun to launch their own dog-themed, cat-themed, or frog-themed tokens. Even two presidents got involved. (While President Donald Trump’s memecoin made a killing, Javier Milei’s landed the Argentine president in hot water.) Then, the “memecoin trenches,” as traders jokingly called them, started dozing off. Some investors caught on that the game was often rigged, and ot
Meta releases latest update of AI model Muse Spark as tech giant accelerates AI push under Alexandr Wang (opens the original)
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Meta released a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, claiming that the AI model surpasses the capabilities of prior products from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Dubbed Muse Spark 1.1, the new model is proficient across a range of tasks, including coding, video captioning, and reasoning, Meta said in a blog post. The update to Muse Spark beats out Google's latest release of Gemini in benchmarks measuring coding and reasoning capabilities, according to the tech giant. And Meta's new AI entry sur
DeFi veteran Gauntlet raises $125 million from Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings | Fortune (opens the original)
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A startup founded during the early days of DeFi is now backed by a financial giant. Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto firms allocate their digital assets, raised $125 million from the Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings, the startup’s founder and CEO Tarun Chitra told Fortune. The round closed in June and had no other participants, he said, declining to specify at what valuation he raised the money. The fundraise is the biggest infusion of capital into Gauntlet since its fou
Democrats are railing against Trump’s $1.4 billion in crypto income. Will his financial disclosure derail a key crypto bill in Congress? | Fortune (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump’s financial disclosure came at a bad time for the crypto industry—depending on who you ask. Last week, documents revealed that crypto business entities associated with Trump and his family raked in $1.4 billion in income in 2025, pushing Democrats in Congress to respond with alarm. In a post on social media, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) alleged that the commander-in-chief was “blatantly profiteering off the presidency.” (“Neither the president nor his family has ever engage
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