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Ad Tech Briefing: Amazon launches MCP server for agent-driven advertising
Amazon is laying the plumbing for agentic advertising with the launch of its MCP server in open beta, opening up its ad stack to AI agents. The development was the subject of its flagship announcem...

While US Debates Stablecoin Yield, Europe and Asia Set Clearer Rules
Are stablecoins digital cash, a narrow bank, a money market fund, or some new hybrid altogether? That is the question that has ballooned into a regulatory fault line for domestic crypto mar...

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Enable Solar-Powered, Space-Based AI
SpaceX has acquired xAI, a move that Elon Musk, the owner of the two companies, said will enable solar-powered, space-based artificial intelligence, in part by using designs and strategies develo...

Waymo raises $16 billion to take its robotaxi business ‘global’
Waymo announced a $16 billion investment round aimed at bringing its robotaxi business to more US cities, as well as some overseas markets. The funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Gro...

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)
Elon Musk is merging two of the companies that he leads, SpaceX and xAI (which also owns X), into one. According to an announcement from Musk: SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitiou...

Will Elon Musk’s emails with Jeffrey Epstein derail his very important year?
Last week, the Department of Justice released a trove of documents related to its case against Jeffrey Epstein, i...

ICE, CBP Brag About Stealing A Legally-Impossible $14,000 From US Citizens At The Minneapolis Airport
Let’s just clear the air right up front: this is just the government mugging Somalis because they’re currently at the top of Trump’s shitlist. Prior to last month’s escalation (and subsequent ...

Epstein Files Reveal Deep Relationship With Venture Capitalist Masha Bucher
There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had wi...

Bed Bath & Beyond Reveals Plan To Tokenize Real Estate and Additional Real World Assets
The home goods chain Bed Bath & Beyond says it’s working to create a future where assets like real estate can be bough...

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China
Users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update for the app after its shared hosting servers were hijacked last year. On Monday, the app's develop...

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