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The Winklevoss Twins: Rowers, Zuckerberg's Rivals, Bitcoin Billionaires
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss ended up at the center of two of the last twenty years' biggest tech stories — the birth of Facebook and the birth of the bitcoin industry. We trace their path from suing Mark Zuckerberg to taking their own exchange, Gemini, public on Nasdaq.
Why 11 Crypto Card issuers vanished and the math that decides who's next
At least 11 crypto card issuers have effectively exited the market over the past year. Generis research maps three systemic failure modes — and explains why a card-only model doesn't add up without a wider ecosystem around it.
Mark Zuckerberg: the Harvard student who now spends $140 billion a year on AI
How a Harvard student built the largest social network in history, survived the Winklevoss lawsuit and a failed crypto project called Libra, and turned Meta into one of Silicon Valley's biggest AI bets — with a $140 billion-a-year AI budget.
Jensen Huang: How a Kid From a Denny's Diner Built a Giant
For thirty years, Jensen Huang told employees Nvidia was "thirty days from going out of business" — now he runs a $4.7 trillion company. The founder's story, from a Denny's diner to his first-ever X post and $1 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin chip orders.
Sam Altman: The Billionaire who doesn't own a single share of OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't own a single share of OpenAI, yet became a billionaire in its orbit. The story of a man who went from a teenager in St. Louis to a figure promising the world superintelligence — with five days of being fired in 2023, Worldcoin, and a very public personal life.
The AI you don't see is already running the world
While everyone argues about chatbots, a much bigger share of AI works quietly in the background: balancing power grids, speeding up drug discovery, watching crops from orbit, and moderating billions of posts a day.
Chips as Targets: How the Iran-US War Is Hitting the Crypto Market and the AI Cloud at Once
The Iran-US war is now playing out on three fronts at once: the crypto market is reacting to it differently than before, AWS and Oracle data centers have taken real hits, and the Gulf's bet on AI infrastructure is measured in trillions of dollars.
Perplexity: the ad-free search engine that's making money anyway
Perplexity AI walked away from advertising in February 2026 — and revenue still jumped 50% the next month. Here's how the upstart search engine got to a $23B valuation, and what isn't going smoothly.
Anthropic now outspends OpenAI on Washington lobbying
Anthropic spent $3.53 million on federal lobbying in the first half of 2026 — nearly triple last year's pace, and $1.3 million more than OpenAI. Here's where the money went and why now.
$661B and a 62x upside: what's behind crypto's rough June
In June, crypto's market cap fell 16.9% and bitcoin dropped 20.5%. But real-world asset (RWA) tokenization kept growing through the correction — and according to Binance Research, could expand 62x. Here's what the monthly report actually shows.
Wispr Flow and AI Voice Typing Services: 2026 Comparison
AI voice typing services — Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, Willow Voice, Aqua Voice and more: how they work, what they cost, how they differ, and which one actually fits your workflow.
Real-world asset tokenization grew 5x in a year — and is aiming for $19 trillion by 2033
The market for tokenized real-world assets — bonds, real estate, private credit — has hit $31 billion on-chain, growing nearly 5x in a year. Here's who's already making money on it, and why analysts are talking trillions down the road.
The CLARITY Act, explained simply: how the US is carving up crypto into three regulatory buckets
The main US crypto market structure bill has passed the House and cleared a Senate committee, but it's still stuck before a final vote. Here's what the CLARITY Act actually changes, explained simply — and why it still hasn't passed.
DWF Labs and the Rise of RWA Tokenization
DWF Labs tokenized a real gold bar — and then flagged the sector's biggest weak spot: of the $31 billion in real-world assets now onchain, less than 10% is actually active in DeFi. Here are the three structural bottlenecks holding RWA back.
The stablecoin war has a new front — and Circle's own partners are the attackers
The $320B+ stablecoin market is split between Tether and Circle — but both are now under pressure at once. Tether is fighting US regulators, while Circle is fighting its own partners, who just launched a rival called Open USD.