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DeFi Platform Drift Suspends All Operations After Massive Crypto Heist

BTC Price — Hack Impact-3.9%
  • Drift halted deposits and withdrawals after blockchain trackers estimated hundreds of millions in losses
  • The incident is tracking to become the largest crypto theft of 2026, surpassing the Wormhole bridge exploit
  • On-chain analysis shows funds being laundered through Tornado Cash and cross-chain bridges
  • Drift's native token DRIFT dropped 47% in the hour following the disclosure
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AI
3 minjust now

Anthropic's Mass GitHub Takedown Hits Thousands of Repos — Company Calls It Accidental

Takedown Cascade83% restored
  • Anthropic issued DMCA takedowns affecting thousands of GitHub repositories in an attempt to remove leaked source code
  • The company's executives acknowledged the mass takedown as unintended and retracted most notices
  • Open-source community leaders criticized the broad scope as a chilling effect on AI research
  • Microsoft-owned GitHub restored affected repositories within 48 hours of the retraction
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Transportation
5 min2h ago

System Failure Paralyzes Baidu's Robotaxi Fleet Across China, Stranding Passengers

BIDU — Intraday-4.6%
  • A technical malfunction disrupted Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle fleet in multiple Chinese cities
  • Passengers were stranded inside vehicles for up to two hours before manual override was activated
  • The incident raises questions about safety protocols and regulatory oversight for autonomous vehicles
  • Baidu's stock dropped 4.6% in Hong Kong trading before partially recovering
BIDU 4.6%TSLA 1.2%GOOGL 0.4%
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Venture Capital
4 min20h ago

Q1 2026 Startup Funding Shatters All Records, Driven by AI Mega-Rounds

Quarterly VC Funding ($B)+34% QoQ
  • Global venture funding in Q1 hit $142B, surpassing the previous record by 34%
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo accounted for over 40% of total capital raised
  • AI infrastructure and foundation model companies dominated the top 10 rounds
  • Early-stage funding also rose 18%, signaling broad ecosystem health beyond mega-deals
GOOGL 1.5%NVDA 2.3%MSFT 0.9%
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Startups
3 min1h ago

YC-Backed Delve Faces Fresh Allegations of Open-Source License Violations

  • Delve allegedly appropriated a customer's tool from Sim.ai and presented it as proprietary technology
  • Multiple developers have come forward with claims of unattributed code usage
  • Y Combinator has not publicly commented on the allegations but reportedly initiated an internal review
  • The controversy highlights ongoing tensions between proprietary AI tools and open-source communities
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AI & Earnings
5 min4h ago

NVIDIA Crushes Earnings Estimates as AI Infrastructure Spending Accelerates

NVDA Revenue ($B)+70% YoY
  • Revenue hit $44.2B for Q1, beating analyst consensus of $40.5B by 9%
  • Data center segment grew 78% YoY, driven by Blackwell GPU demand from hyperscalers
  • CEO Jensen Huang announced a new $25B share buyback program
  • Guidance for Q2 came in well above expectations, signaling sustained AI capex cycle
  • AMD and Intel saw modest gains on broader AI hardware sentiment
NVDA 6.7%AMD 2.1%INTC 0.8%TSM 3.2%
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