Cleanspark Lands $6.6B AI Lease as 20-Year Deal Reshapes Bitcoin Mining Strategy

Cleanspark has signed a 20-year triple-net lease at its Sandersville, Georgia, campus, expected to generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue. The tenant has also secured exclusivity over Cleanspark’s 885 MW Texas portfolio, signaling a broader artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure partnership. Cleanspark Turns Georgia Mining Site Into 175 MW AI Campus With $6.6B Lease Cleanspark is … Read more

XRP Enters AI Agent Payments Push as Ripple Joins x402 Foundation

Ripple has joined the x402 Foundation as a Premier Member, placing XRP and RLUSD within an industry effort to develop internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications. The Linux Foundation-backed initiative launched with 40 members focused on creating an open payment standard for automated commerce. Why Ripple Joined the x402 Foundation Ripple announced on … Read more

Was Satoshi a Lone Genius or a Secret Team? ChatGPT, Grok and Claude Decide

More than seventeen years after Bitcoin’s launch, the question of whether Satoshi Nakamoto was a single individual or part of a coordinated group remains one of the protocol’s most consequential unsolved mysteries. So we asked five of today’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) models to settle the debate. 5 AI Models Asked if Satoshi Worked Alone … Read more

ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Fable Join 7 AI Models to Predict Bitcoin’s Aug. 1 Price

Bitcoin is hovering below $64,000, but where it lands next is anyone’s wager. We asked a roster of artificial intelligence (AI) models to cut through the market noise and name their BTC price for Aug. 1. July has treated BTC somewhat more kindly than June. Yet bitcoin remains down more than 40% over the past … Read more

MARA Shares Jump 13% After 2 GW Texas Power Deal for AI and Bitcoin Growth

MARA Holdings has agreed to acquire a large powered land site in Texas, giving it access to up to 2 GW of power capacity by 2028. The company plans to develop the site into a digital infrastructure campus for high-performance computing and flexible workloads, including bitcoin mining. MARA to Acquire 1,200-Acre Texas Campus With 2 … Read more

Report: Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion as AI Funding Outpaces Crypto Deals in 2026

Paradigm has closed a $1.2 billion fund built to chase artificial intelligence and robotics deals outside its crypto roots. Bloomberg’s Rebecca Torrence reported the news on July 8, 2026, describing the vehicle as the venture firm’s third fund. Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam founded Paradigm in 2018. Huang previously worked as a partner at Sequoia … Read more

Novogratz Pushes Galaxy Past Bitcoin Mining Into $1B AI Power Business

Galaxy Digital finished the first phase of its Helios data center campus in West Texas on July 6, 2026, delivering 133 megawatts of critical IT load to Coreweave. The site sits in Dickens County, about 60 miles from Lubbock. It started as a bitcoin mining facility built by Argo Blockchain in 2021. Galaxy bought it … Read more

Siada Brings Nvidia B200 GPUs Online as UAE Keeps Sensitive AI Data Inside Its Borders

United Arab Emirates tech enterprise Siada and Innovation City have launched the region’s first operational sovereign AI data center in Ras Al Khaimah. Bypassing Global Chip Shortages In a bid to bypass global tech supply bottlenecks and tighten data security, United Arab Emirates (UAE) tech enterprise Siada and Innovation City announced July 6 the launch … Read more

An AI Deepfake of Bruno Fernandes Posed as a Brand Ambassador for an Unlicensed Casino

Two unlicensed offshore casinos have hijacked the identities of football stars Bruno Fernandes and Jude Bellingham, using an AI-generated deepfake video and fabricated BBC news articles to invent official endorsements the players never gave. The operators (Vietnam-facing QH88 and Curaçao-licensed Nightwin) are betting on the near-impossibility of enforcement against anonymous offshore brands. Illegal Operators Cross … Read more

Elon Musk Says Space Is ‘the Only Way to Scale’ AI as SpaceX Chases 1 Gigawatt in Orbit by 2027

Musk reiterated today that orbital data centers are the endgame for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, as SpaceX races to build satellites that would deliver 1 gigawatt (GW) of space-based compute per year by late 2027. “Space is the Only Way to Scale at Scale” He first declared the same earlier in February, when his AI … Read more

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