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TLDR: Larry Fink identified power, compute, and chips as critical U.S. shortfalls, putting 15 altcoins in focus. Five compute tokens including $TAO and $RENDER offer decentralized GPU access below traditional cloud pricing. Power tokens like $EWT and $POWR enable peer-to-peer renewable energy trading without central intermediaries. Chip-focused tokens such as $HNT, $IOTX, and $CHIP build hardware and lending layers for AI infrastructure. Altcoins tied to U.S. shortages in power, compute, and chips are gaining fresh attention across digital asset markets. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink recently named these three sectors as critical bottlenecks for the American economy. The crypto community has identified 15 blockchain projects that directly target each of these gaps. With BlackRock managing more than $11 trillion in assets, Fink’s remarks carry weight among
Fazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Seattle-based CopilotKit has closed a $27 million Series A led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, backing its mission to move AI beyond chatbots and into the fabric of applications themselves. Co-founders Atai Barkai and Uli Barkai argue that text-based AI interfaces fall short, and that agents should instead generate dynamic, interactive UIs tailored to […]
Let’s be honest about what’s happening in the market: Public cloud has become the easy button for AI. It offers immediate access to compute, storage, managed services, foundation model ecosystems, automation tools, and global reach. For enterprises that want to launch quickly, it is hard to argue against it. You do not need to spend years standing up infrastructure, hiring specialized operations teams, or engineering your own scalable environment before you can test your first use case.
This is exactly why adoption continues even as confidence in cloud resilience becomes more complicated. This article about the expanding cloud market makes the point clearly. Enterprises are not pulling back from hyperscale clouds despite numerous outages. They continue to move forward because the benefits of agility, scalability, and rapid deployment are too valuable to ignore. The cloud remains deeply embedded in business operations, and for many organizations, stepping away would undo years, often de
Insider Brief Defense AI startup Scout AI has raised $100 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to develop a foundation model for autonomous military operations. The round was co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, with participation from Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, […]
