finance
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onsemi has revised its Synaptics acquisition into an all-cash deal while preserving the strategic push into connected compute, sensing, human-machine interfaces, and edge AI.
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Wandercraft acquired Ekso Bionics, combining self-balancing physical AI with one of the largest clinical exoskeleton footprints in the United States.
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CScale exits stealth with ₿1,675 ($145 million) to build an optical scale-up interconnect designed to contain link failures without interrupting AI compute.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing something crypto institutions have wanted for years: custody rules written specifically for digital assets instead of forcing Bitcoin and other tokens into a framework designed around paper certificates and conventional securities. The proposal, announced October 1, would create a tailored custody framework for registered investment advisers, registered…
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NEAR Intents says it knows who drained roughly ₿43.8 ($3.8 million) from its cross-chain infrastructure—and it just put the alleged attacker on a 48-hour clock. The figure is approximately ₿43.8 using a Bitcoin price near $86,700 and will move with BTC. The underlying exploit hit NEAR Intents’ Omni deposit-and-withdrawal infrastructure on October 1, forcing the…
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Volantis raised approximately ₿1,053 ($88 million) to develop A-1, a photonic-memory inference architecture using integrated micro-VCSEL links to attack AI’s memory wall.
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Space Network signs a binding Philippine Freeport satellite-connectivity pre-order worth about ₿599 ($50M), taking disclosed pre-orders to roughly ₿1,798 ($150M).
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Grayscale has turned a Bitcoin-miner equity fund into an AI-infrastructure fund, formally renaming the Grayscale Bitcoin Miners ETF (MNRS) as the Grayscale AI Compute ETF (GCPU). The September 22 announcement says GCPU now tracks the Indxx High Performance Computing Index and targets companies operating the physical infrastructure behind AI, including data centers, GPU cloud capacity…
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NVIDIA is exploring insurance structures that could reduce lender risk on GPU-backed loans to smaller AI cloud operators as compute becomes a financeable infrastructure asset.
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The Federal Reserve has proposed reserve, capital, custody and bank-application rules for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.
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AI-generated conceptual artwork of a shared electricity grid serving homes and an AI data center; not a photograph of an AES facility. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject the proposed $33.4 billion acquisition of AES by a consortium led by BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT.…
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The European Investment Bank and BNP Paribas announced a €700 million guarantee portfolio on September 29 to support European electricity-grid component manufacturers. The agreement targets the industrial supply chain behind grid expansion, putting financing capacity alongside the physical equipment needed to connect new generation and electricity demand. According to the announcement, the EIB will provide…
