Checkers, chess… China’s newly launched, wind-powered Shanghai Lingang underwater data center leverages surrounding seawater for passive cooling, cutting energy use by nearly 23% and eliminating freshwater consumption to create highly sustainable infrastructure for the AI boom.
Your keys, but still not your coins… US authorities seized roughly $1 billion in cryptocurrency linked to Iranian entities, including assets held in digital wallets, highlighting a significant challenge to crypto’s decentralization narrative – governments can seize digital assets by gaining control of keys, custodians, or exchanges.
“Since we’re together, we might as well say, would you be mine, could you be mine, won’t you be my neighbor”??? NEURA Robotics is using its historic $1.4 billion funding round to aggressively scale its Neuraverse, a global shared intelligence platform connecting cognitive, high-payload robots that safely perceive, adapt, and learn alongside humans.
“The revolution will be no re-run, brothers”… Citigroup launched a market-first blockchain platform utilizing tokenized Digital Depositary Receipts to allow institutional and wealth clients to trade shares of late-stage, private corporate stock directly on regulated digital central securities depositary infrastructure. [20 bonus points if you recognize the lyric]
“You lose, you learn; you bleed, you learn”… Apollo’s June 2026 fund prospectus quietly shifts its $3.3 billion interval real estate fund (originally sold as a diversified vehicle investing in third-party managers) into a captive, Apollo-originated vehicle, but since the policy is non-fundamental, trapped investors face heavy redemption gates without ever getting a vote.
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp”… Two brothers that own a portfolio of 30 sleepaway camps transferred $34 million to affiliated entities before their company defaulted on $195 million of Israeli bonds and filed for bankruptcy, amid allegations of theft, fraud, or wrongdoing.
Plus the Bears are moving out??? Chicago office building values have collapsed in a series of distress sales, with buildings such as 401 South State Street selling for $4 million versus $68 million in 2016 (−94%), 300 W. Adams for $4 million versus $51 million in 2012 (−92%), and 311 S. Wacker for $45 million versus $302 million in 2014 (−85%).
He’s back… Gary Gensler, the controversial former head of both the SEC and CFTC, is using his stature to tell a federal court that the current CFTC is overreaching and that sports-betting regulation over prediction markets should stay with the states and not be overseen by the CFTC.
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