Q4 2025: Fewest VC deals since 2020, but biggest checks ever.
@yrechtman on why this doesn't work: "It's putting a crown on a baby out of the womb and believing the crown itself confers legitimacy instead of legitimacy conferring the crown."
Mega rounds aren't picking winners. They're betting the crown creates the king.

Funding for startup AI companies dominates VC investment arena — While the total number of venture capital transactions continues to fall, the prevalence of megadeals surges.
https://cfo.com/news/funding-for-startup-ai-companies-dominates-vc-investment-arena/811830/…

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Boris Cherny, head of the Anthropic Claude Code, announced that starting in April 2026 [...]
The article, "Anthropic Subscribes to Claude Code and Bans OpenClaw Lobster! From Now On, Third-Party Tools Will Only Be Available with Paid Quotas," was originally published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain ABMedia media.

Anthropic's subscription to Claude Code has banned OpenClaw! From now on, third-party tools will only be available with a paid subscription.

The most visible bitcoin buyers in the world are buying at near-record pace. It is not enough.
A CryptoQuant weekly report showed overall 30-day apparent demand at negative 63,000 $BTC as of late Marc...

Five data sources say the same thing about bitcoin market. It's thinning from the inside

I. It suddenly started charging money, but you probably didn't even notice.

You might have seen pages like these:

- "Probability of Trump winning the 2024 election: 51.3%"

- "Probability of the Fed cutting interest rates in March: 68.7%"

- "LPL Spring Split Finals, BLG's odds of winning: 1.39"

This isn't a betting website, nor is it media commentary; it's a special entity in the Web3 world—a prediction market.

Simply put, it's a mechanism where you "vote" with real money: you believe something will...

Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market, has started charging fees! Behind this lies a sobering struggle over regulation, survival, and timing.