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Gagan Biyani, co-founder of Udemy, publicly criticized the company's acquisition by Coursera in a lengthy post on X in December 2025, describing the $2.5 billion all-stock merger as the consequence of years of weak product innovation, poor leadership decisions, and a board culture that

Polymarket, a leading prediction market platform, has updated its market integrity rules to eliminate insider trading and market manipulation across both its decentralized finance and exchange operations, signaling an industry-wide shift toward aggressive enforcement as prediction markets face

In brief SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony each took 10%+ in a new AI development company, joined by major banks and steelmakers. The company's trillion-parameter model targets Physical AI—robots, autonomous vehicles, and industrial machines—not conversational chatbots. Japan's government NE

The U.S. House of Representatives' PARITY Act, revised in its March 2026 version, proposes exempting regulated payment stablecoin transactions from federal income tax recognition if a taxpayer's cost basis in the stablecoin remains at or above 99% of its redemption value. This legislative

Bank of America Corp.'s latest survey of fund managers reveals that overall sentiment among global investors has reached its most bearish level in 11 months as of April 14, 2026, according to Bloomberg reporting on the findings. Conducted between April 2–9, 2026, the survey of 170 fund managers over

In brief The new MiniMax M2.7 matches top closed models in benchmarks. The model underwent a quite license shift to restrict commercial use post-release. The move was justified as a way to prevent service providers from "nerfing" the model when offering it to developers. MiniMax M2.7

Russia is benefiting from a significant surge in oil prices driven by the Middle East conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, positioning the country for a major tax revenue increase in April 2024. In the first 13 days of April, crude prices averaged $106.30 a barrel—a 42% increase from

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, initiated settlement negotiations with the Nigerian Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Friday following a $32.8 million fine issued in February 2025 for violations of Nigeria's Data Protection Act. The case, which was expected to see a

The rapid growth of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent economy (AE4E) has reached a critical point in its development. The demand for high performance computing is growing exponentially; however, there is no centralized infrastructure in place to manage these entities in an organized fashion.

LinkLayerAI, a renowned AI-led Web3 platform, has collaborated with Quantra RWA, a popular Web3 infrastructure firm for real-world assets (RWAs). The collaboration aims to combine RWAs with cutting-edge on-chain intelligence. As LinkLayerAI mentioned in its official social media announcement, the

Dolapo Adedeji filed a complaint with Nigeria's Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal alleging that food delivery platform Chowdeck embeds platform commission fees into menu prices without disclosing the hidden markups to customers. Adedeji discovered that orders placed through Chowdeck