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Anthropic has filed for a U.S. IPO, putting the Claude maker and its steep growth costs in front of public-market investors.

Elon Musk says a SpaceX-Tesla merger would be a good idea, and the companies have formed committees to evaluate a potential combination.

Anthropic says Claude accessed public Georgia voter-count data behind a paywall without human authorization, raising questions about agent autonomy and digital access controls.

Microsoft says a Chinese state-aligned group used an AI-driven penetration-testing framework in a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations worldwide.

Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon report earnings this week as investors scrutinize whether massive AI and data-center spending is translating into durable growth.

For episode 784 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Maximillian, the CEO of Anvil Research Labs to discuss the evolution of decentralized finance and the infrastructure needed to bring institutional financial products onto the blockchain. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Maximillian explore how Anvil is building infrastructure for collateralized financial agreements, the role of smart contracts in modernizing traditional finance, and the growing deman

Anduril is combining a $3.7 billion shipyard investment with a $2.9 billion U.S. Navy contract to expand production of critical submarine components.

AI cloud provider Lambda is reportedly targeting a $4 billion raise at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned IPO.

SpaceX is reportedly seeking $40 billion in financing to buy Nvidia AI chips, underscoring just how capital-intensive the global race for compute has become.

For episode 781 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by JB Benjamin, CEO of Veldris, to explore the company and its Midgard platform. Midgard is an open-source AI and data platform designed to help organizations run AI on their own infrastructure while retaining control of their data, models, and encryption keys. With local AI, post-quantum encryption, and support for fully offline operation, Veldris is building tools for organizations that prioritize privacy

Google has signed a 3.59-gigawatt power agreement with Constellation Energy, including a major nuclear component, as data-center demand reshapes the U.S. power market.

Cowboy Space has launched Reason-1, a satellite designed to test laser power beaming from orbit to Earth. The experiment has not yet completed its power-transfer test, but it highlights a broader race to build energy and computing infrastructure in space.

FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger in a deal worth more than $300 million, giving the young commercial-EV company its largest order yet and offering a major test of fleet electrification at scale.

Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype is now in orbit, where researchers will test whether Tensor Processing Units can withstand radiation, thermal extremes and the physical stresses of spaceflight.

For episode 780 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Cris Blanco, Chief Strategy Officer for Beldex, a privacy-first Layer-1 ecosystem that just crossed 1.5 million cumulative installs across its app suite. Rather than shipping isolated privacy tools, Beldex runs a unified stack: encrypted messaging, a decentralized VPN, a private browser, a name service, and a wallet, all secured by 3,014 masternodes with 30M+ BDX staked. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/3

Researchers say autonomous AI agents attempted to probe a Canadian government website, adding urgency to a cybersecurity question that used to sound theoretical: what happens when AI can independently search for weaknesses and act on them?

The White House has created a new Super Intelligence Force to coordinate U.S. strategy around advanced AI, national security, regulation and competition with China.

For episode 779 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of Cap, an onchain credit marketplace backed by financial guarantees. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Benjamin explore the evolution of stablecoins and onchain credit, how Cap connects institutional borrowers with digital asset markets, the role of underwriting and financial guarantees, and what bringing traditional private credit infrastructure onchain coul

For episode 778 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Gleb Morgachev, Co-Creator of Gonka, an open-source decentralized AI network designed to make high-performance AI compute more accessible and efficient. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Gleb explore how Gonka turns computational power into useful AI work, its approach to Proof of Compute, how decentralized networks can verify AI inference, where decentralized infrastructure still competes with centra

For episode 777 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Kenneth Shek, CEO at Moca Network and Managing Director at Animoca Brands.Kenneth leads the Moca Network, Animoca Brands' identity ecosystem, building decentralized identity infrastructure across a network spanning more than 500 portfolio companies and 700M+ addressable users, and can discuss AI agents and digital identity, the future of online trust, agentic commerce, and why identity will become a foun