CZ visits alem.ai in Kazakhstan where Binance and Alatau City Bank demo crypto payments and sign MOU to advance blockchain AI digital finance strategy.

Elfa AI launches Iris, the first real-time intelligence stack for AI agents in agentic finance, backed by Amber Group on August 3, 2026.

Gensyn teams with OptiverGlobal at ICML 2026 Seoul for AI finance talks and four research papers July 8-11.

OpenAI posted $13.07B revenue against $34B costs in 2025, with SoftBank and Microsoft contributing just $1.17B combined.

Perplexity launches 8-week contest with $1M prizes for AI-built companies amid macro turmoil, spotlighting high-probability winners like AI Macro Intelligence Platforms.