Europe's digital euro is one step closer, designed to cut out Visa and Mastercard
The digital euro would enable private offline payments and launch in 2029
SpaceX goes public in the largest IPO ever, and Musk crosses the trillion-dollar line
What $135 (or more) a share buys: a rocket business, Starlink, and a very, very large bet on AI
Why it matters: The largest IPO in history did two things at once: it made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, and it quietly converted a privately held rocket company into a stock that millions of investors may soon own whether they chose to or not. SpaceX isn't asking Wall Street to price its launches or its satellites. It's asking the market to bet that a rocket company is on its way to becoming one of the most valuable AI companies on Earth, and to start paying for that future today.
SpaceX IPO could be the largest in history at a $1.76 trillion valuation
With shares fixed at $135, Wall Street thinks that's roughly twice what the company is worth
Anthropic files for IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in the race to go public
The AI bubble is heading to Wall Street, starting with Anthropic
Why it matters: Anthropic's filing turns the AI race into something Wall Street can finally measure. For the last few years, frontier AI companies have been valued by private investors on growth, ambition, and the fear of missing the next platform shift. A public filing will eventually force Anthropic to disclose the numbers that matter most: revenue, losses, infrastructure costs, margins, and how much money it takes to keep Claude competitive.
SpaceX files for record-breaking IPO with rockets, AI, and Mars ambitions at the center
Starlink growth is funding massive AI and Starship spending, for now
Bottom line: SpaceX has filed for an IPO that could become the largest in history, giving investors a detailed look at a business that spans rockets, satellite networks, and AI infrastructure. The filing portrays a company growing quickly but spending heavily.
OpenAI lands record $110 billion investment backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and SoftBank
Sovereign funds and tech giants anchor historic AI capital raise
Goldman Sachs says AI's impact on the US economy was "basically zero" last year
Rumblings of an AI bubble continue to fester
Crypto laundering surged to $82 billion last year and the numbers keep rising
Chinese-language networks are laundering $44 million a day through on-chain ecosystems
NYSE is testing a new blockchain platform for 24/7 trading
Wall Street is inching toward a tokenized, always-on stock market
Nvidia's $4 trillion rise raises questions about financing its own customers
Inside the financial web behind Nvidia's AI dominance
Bottom line: Nvidia's explosive rise to become the world's most valuable company has come with an uneasy question from investors: how much of its record-breaking growth depends on financing its own customers? Now worth more than $4 trillion, Nvidia designs the specialized silicon and software that power AI systems, from data centers hosting ChatGPT to national AI computing hubs. But behind that scale lies a complicated web of investments that critics say resembles vendor financing – a practice in which a company lends money to customers who use those funds to buy its products.
AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jensen Huang are among the biggest beneficieries
Hollywood director received $11 million to finish a Netflix show - he spent it on crypto, a Ferrari, and five Rolls-Royces
Filmmaker Carl Rinsch found guilty of defrauding Netflix
Intel's CEO is also a major startup investor, and it's starting to get messy
How Meta, Intel, and a venture capitalist-CEO collided over a $4 billion AI chip startup
Oracle's credit risk is spiking as Wall Street asks how it's going to pay for all that AI
Oracle debt becomes a pressure point in AI spending race
Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion public company in history
Nvidia's journey to the top has been swift and dramatic
Steve Jobs to appear on new commemorative $1 coin next year
Recap: The United States has been commemorating technological innovations from throughout the nation's history with special $1 coins since 2018, representing all states, territories, and the District of Columbia. Next year's batch of coins includes one representing California, which will depict the famous Apple co-founder.
Samsung ties employee payouts to stock price in first company-wide incentive program
The three-year plan lets staff choose cash or shares for bonuses
Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan becomes youngest self-made billionaire after latest investment round
Prediction market platform Polymarket secures $2 billion investment from NYSE parent
OpenAI and Nvidia's mega-deals fuel an AI arms race – and fears of a circular bubble
Analysts see echoes of the late '90s, when startups inflated growth through circular deals
PayPal and Venmo users will soon be able to send money directly
Full interoperability ends a decade of frustration for users
Video game sales shift to older, high-income consumers as young adults cut back
Older gamers represent a larger portion of spending, while young adults focus on groceries
PayPal to let US merchants accept over 100 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum
"Pay with Crypto" feature could cost foreign users up to 10% in fees, however
Silicon Valley's AI boom turns into a battle for brains – and billions
Nine-figure offers become routine as Big Tech bids for AI brains
Which two tech IPOs warned investors they might "never achieve profitability," but became wildly successful?
They warned investors they might fail – then crushed the market.
Bitcoin hits all-time high of $123,000 as Washington declares "crypto week"
A golden age for crypto - or just another wave of hype and fraud?