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Crypto Nouveau Riche Seek Physical Assets: Coinbase Co-founder's Venezuelan Oil Field Adventure
As the first generation of crypto wealth begins to seek allocation outlets beyond Crypto, the most traditional assets such as oil fields, gold, land, and energy have re-entered their field of vision.
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Agility's Survival Ledger: $300 Million Orders and $1.78 Million Revenue, Where Is the Commercialization of Humanoid Robots Stuck?
The $2.5 billion valuation is not pricing Agility's current revenue, but the ability of Digit v5 to move from pilot to batch deployment in the future. What the capital market will have to bear is to accompany Agility across this unfinished risk.
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The Most Investment-Savvy Team in NBA History? Eight Years Ago, the Warriors Had Half a Locker Room of 'Investors'
The 2017-18 Warriors were a 'superteam' that pushed basketball resources to the extreme, with team basketball being their most defining trait. Off the court, they seemed to bring the same logic into the investment world. The 'superteam' shared not only basketball but, to some extent, a ticket into Silicon Valley.
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Behind the sell-out of a $399 robot duck: How Shenzhen became the 'hardware foundation' for Physical AI?
The future value of China's robotics industry may not only be reflected in more prominent local brands like Unitree and Zhiyuan. Beyond these whole-machine manufacturers, China may also play another more hidden but equally important role: becoming the production and engineering infrastructure for global Physical AI to move from code to physical entities.
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Annual revenue of $700 million, yet betting over $10 billion: IREN's high-stakes gamble to secure a ticket to AI computing power
The table of AI infrastructure is filling up fast. If you don't spend now, you may not even have the qualification or opportunity to burn cash in the future.
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After Embodied AI Enters the Second Half, It's Increasingly Hard to Avoid Automakers
As the robotics race continues to advance to the next stage, the automotive industry has quietly brought the competition to its home turf.
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When Real Estate Ownership Goes Digital: What Happens to Your Rights, Risks, and Liquidity?
Real estate tokenization is still in a relatively early stage. How legal rights are implemented, how off-chain assets are continuously managed, and how secondary market liquidity is formed remain core issues facing the industry.
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After four years, new licenses are finally issued; Japan's crypto market is re-dividing labor
Laser Digital Japan, as a subsidiary of traditional financial giant Nomura, obtained a license after Japan had not added any similar institutions for four years, which itself is already eye-catching enough. What is more interesting is that Japan's crypto market is undergoing changes deeper than "re-issuing licenses".
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Global robot IPO race heats up: After Unitree, who's next?
Who can turn robots from a technical demo into a real business is perhaps the question that the next round of robot IPO competition truly needs to answer.
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Unitree Chief Throws Cold Water? How Long Until Embodied Intelligence's 'ChatGPT Moment'?
An increasingly obvious phenomenon is that the embodied intelligence industry is compressing the previously distant 'general-purpose robot' timeline into the next technology cycle.
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Full speech by Wang Xingxing at the 2026 World Robot Conference: The ChatGPT moment for embodied intelligence will arrive in as little as two to three years
On the second day after Unitree Technology's IPO, its founder Wang Xingxing delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference. Regarding the timing for embodied intelligence to reach a ChatGPT-like industry inflection point, Wang Xingxing also gave a relatively optimistic assessment: the fastest may take two to three years, and the slowest may take five or even ten years.
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When AI Begins to Reshape Traditional Enterprises: AI Roll-up Is Becoming a New Paradigm for M&A
In the logic of AI Roll-up, capital buys not just the enterprise's current revenue, and the customer relationships, industry data, and workflows behind it; more importantly, these assets after AI transformation may produce efficiency gains and value revaluation.
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AI That Cuts Costs and Boosts Efficiency Is Making VCs Burn More and More Money
In contrast to the "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" technological narrative, the AI primary market is becoming increasingly expensive. Seed financing sizes continue to rise, early-stage valuations keep increasing, and some AI companies that have not yet formed mature products and revenue models are already able to obtain capital that only growth-stage companies could get in the past.
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Interview with Axis Robotics Founder: How Robot Data Becomes New Favorite of Capital, How 'Shovel Sellers' Dig for Gold?
In the first half of 2026, 25 Chinese embodied intelligence data startups collectively raised over 17 billion yuan in financing. Physical AI data is rapidly transforming from a relatively obscure infrastructure link into a fiercely contested new track.
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After Trading Volume Halved, South Korea's Two Major Crypto Exchanges Start a Listing War
As the South Korean stock market cools down, the listing competition between the two major crypto exchanges Upbit and Bithumb is heating up. Against the backdrop of still sluggish overall trading volume, a listing war surrounding existing funds and retail investors' attention has reignited.
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