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SiliconSnark robot reviews an AI wealth plan beside a human adviser in a Brazilian fintech control room.

Funding

Decade Raised $85 Million to Let AI Manage Your Money. Adorable.

Decade raised $85 million to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. The product is smart, the stakes are high, and human judgment still matters.

SiliconSnark robot oversees USDC reserves, a bank charter, and AI-agent payments.

Fintech

Circle Turned $73 Billion in USDC Into a Bank Charter. The Bots Get Paid Next.

Circle’s Q2 results show USDC growing to $73.3 billion as the company adds a federal trust bank, Arc, and payments for AI agents.

SiliconSnark robot tests CMF Clip Pro open-ear earbuds beside a charging case with a Smart Dial.

Consumer Tech

CMF Turns Open-Ear Audio Into a Tiny Clip-On Argument

CMF’s $99 Clip Pro open-ear earbuds promise comfort, awareness, and serious audio. They’re a clever niche hit, with one very audible catch.

SiliconSnark robot studies an enormous AMD AI data center invoice beside glowing server racks.

AMD’s AI Boom Just Became an $11.5 Billion Margin Problem

AMD’s AI business is exploding, with $6.7B in data-center revenue. The catch is that infrastructure ambition comes with a very large bill.

SiliconSnark robot watches AI hackers and defenders battle across an enterprise security console.

Startups

Horizon3 Raised $250 Million to Let AI Hackers Fight AI Hackers

Horizon3 raised $250M at a $2B+ valuation to make AI hackers fight AI hackers. The market is real; the capital furnace is also.

SiliconSnark robot checks eUSD reserves in a Nebraska blockchain bank.

Fintech

Telcoin Took Stablecoins to Nebraska. The Bank Charter Is the Product.

Telcoin’s Nebraska digital-asset bank puts eUSD on-chain with a charter, reserves, and risk disclosures. The bank part is the fintech story.

SiliconSnark robot maps tangled enterprise systems while a tiny AI agent waits behind a permission gate.

June Raised $20 Million to Make Enterprise AI Read the Database Graveyard

June raised $20M to automate enterprise AI deployment by untangling legacy systems. Useful plumbing, expensive optimism, and no magic button.

SiliconSnark robot feeds bitcoin into a machine that dispenses stock, dividends, and cash reserves.

Fintech

Strategy Sold $105 Million of Bitcoin to Keep Its Dividend Machine Alive

Strategy sold $105 million of bitcoin while raising $290.6 million in stock and buying back preferred shares, exposing the machinery behind its crypto treasury.

SiliconSnark robot guards a passkey nightclub while passwords and phishing hooks wait outside.

Deep Dive

Deep Dive: Passkeys Are Replacing Passwords. Your Phone Is Now the Bouncer.

Passkeys are replacing passwords across Microsoft, Apple, Google, and the web. Here is how they work, why they resist phishing, and where they fail.

The SiliconSnark robot gets a full-back tattoo reading "the demo is never the hard part" surrounded by icons of the week's tech stories.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Back Tattoos, Base Reactors, and a $249 Necklace That Would Like to Be Your God

Seven people got tattoos for a job interview that was already free. That was only the fourth-strangest thing tech did this week.

SiliconSnark robot directs a $900 million FTX creditor payout through crypto bankruptcy paperwork and payment lanes.

Fintech

FTX Starts a $900 Million Creditor Payout. The Crypto Is Gone, Naturally.

FTX starts a $900 million creditor payout today, exposing how crypto bankruptcy turns vanished tokens into dollar claims and compliance paperwork.

SiliconSnark robot supervises a fast AI voice agent in a customer-support call center.

Smallest.ai Raised $13 Million to Make Customer-Service Bots Sound Less Like Hold Music

Smallest.ai raised $13M for low-latency voice agents. The specialized-model bet is smart, useful, and still one awkward pause from sounding like a robot.

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