28 May 2026
With subscription plans, Meta finally moves to diversify its revenue
Good morning. Britain’s spy chief says the U.K. and its allies face a “narrowing window” to stay ahead in the global war for digital intelligence and cyber supremacy. “Warfare is being reconfigured; increasingly data-driven, AI-enabled, and automated in conflicts from Ukraine to Iran,” GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler warned Wednesday. The Brits’ principal adversaries come as no surprise : China…
26 May 2026
Coinbase pushes further into AI payments with new MCP for Base network
Coinbase announced on Tuesday that has built a tool that allows users of its Base blockchain network to plug into services like Claude and Cursor. The new tool, called Base MCP, makes it easier to use AI for conducting crypto transactions such as trading and lending, and comes as part of a broader push by Coinbase and payments giant Stripe to redefine the technical underpinning of online commerce.
22 May 2026
AI in financial services moves beyond pilots to profits
18 ways AI is rewriting the future of financial services: Key insights from the AWS Financial Services Symposium AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their top budget priority. By 2026, nearly 100% of financial services respondents said their…
14 May 2026
CREW Raises $25M of Funding to Scale Wastewater Treatment Optimization Technology as Climate Solution
Water-tech company closes round across equity and non-dilutive capital sources to deploy patented technology at more wastewater utilities, reducing costs and delivering verified carbon dioxide removal.
12 May 2026
Sam Altman's court appearance sheds light on his investments in startup like Helion, Cerebras
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images 2026-05-12T22:45:30.510Z Sam Altman said he owns about a third of Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion power startup. An exhibit in his trial against Elon Musk gave unusual clarity to his finances. Altman is a billionaire, but not from shares in OpenAI.
11 May 2026
BTC Clears First Supply as Agentic Payments Move Into Production
Blueprint - Regime, Flows & Macro Context, Continued... ETF demand improved versus the prior week, but the recovery was still uneven. BTC spot ETFs posted +$631.6M of weekly net inflows, materially above the prior week’s +$162.8M, but the structure was front-loaded: Monday and Tuesday contributed +$999.6M, Wednesday slowed to +$46.2M, and Thursday/Friday gave back -$414.2M. ETH ETFs flipped back…
08 May 2026
AWS Confirms Data Center Outage Caused By ‘Thermal Event,’ Some Services Still Impacted
AWS confirmed a data center outage caused by a "thermal event" in its US-EAST-1 region, impacting key services like EC2 and EBS volumes. AWS restored power but some services remained impaired as of Friday morning.
07 May 2026
Milken crowd warns of populism’s poison
Good Thursday morning. In today’s Daily Kickoff, we cover the White House’s new counterterrorism strategy targeting the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and Islamic State elements in Africa, and report on Rep. Nancy...
