Instinct Raising $1B at $10B & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.36B After a $17.5B Valuation
Instinct’s $1 billion round at a $10 billion valuation raises the bar for defensible economics before compute costs overwhelm the company.Miro’s sale to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.35 billion after a $17.5 billion valuation shows positive cash flow cannot prevent late-stage SaaS repricing, while Mistral’s €3 billion round underscores AI’s European sovereignty agenda.
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Avi’s GP dispute alleges holders publicly promised to hold while selling concealed inventory, making on-chain wallet behavior the key test of verifiable trust.Both hosts contrast meme-coin speculation with positive-sum crypto built on “good product, good revenues, good team,” citing Avi’s ZRO-versus-ETH trade and Robinhood’s perpetuals rollout through Bitstamp.They frame five-year mega trends, retail investors’ tolerance for volatility and AI-driven concentration as the durable signals, while leaving the best expression—broad exposure or concentrated winners—unresolved.
AI, Infrastructure, and the Next Investment Cycle
David GeorgeSarah WangAlex ImmermanSantiago Rodriguez
AI’s rally is being driven by earnings rather than multiple expansion, with the S&P 500 below 20 times earnings while growing about 15%.Capex is projected to rise from $416 billion in 2025 to about $780 billion in 2026 and exceed $1 trillion annually from 2027; enterprise adoption remains concentrated in pilots, with inference-cost declines and workflow deployment as catalysts.
Bill Ackman: People are Going to Lose a Lot of Money
AI is transformational but bubble-like, with one startup’s valuation jumping from $400 million to $1 billion in two weeks and another reaching $5 billion in Series A.Cognition’s claimed COBOL modernization in days could lower bank costs, but pricing power determines whether shareholders retain the savings.Ackman therefore emphasizes disciplined capital use, continual moat reassessment, and exiting when confidence—not merely price—breaks.
Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live
Peter DiamandisEmad MostaqueCathie WoodNikhil Chandhok
Peter said a Tesla-SpaceX merger could be announced this year, and Cathie said ARK believes it will happen, combining rockets, broadband, AI, electric vehicles and energy around Musk’s Mars-directed compute strategy, though China remains a major obstacle.Nikhil Chandhok expects AI agents to outnumber humans next year, while Arc tests agent credit and stablecoin rails whose capacity must grow from tens of thousands to potentially millions of transactions per second.
AI token demand
Shanghao JintmomohKevin SunKKKLousrexsongDZ书米亚光环RouletteJLZyellowcraneEl jefe
金尚浩认为，企业上线AI前必须持续标注私有数据、评估并post-train，市场以coding场景封顶token需求，系统性低估了算力消耗。其重构45万—50万行交易级代码时日耗约2000—3000美元token，并行调用70—100个agent，意味着GPU、CPU、带宽与连接需求都可能随企业数据闭环加速释放。
Crypto Isn't The Frontier Anymore
Crypto returns concentrated in stores of value and revenue-producing protocols including Zcash, Ethena, LIT and HYPE, while ETH and SOL lagged.Zcash’s constrained mining supply and Bitcoin-relative reflexivity supported upside, but its store-of-value trade remains vulnerable to an 80% drawdown.HYPE’s buybacks, RWAs, HyperEVM and new products offer catalysts, alongside onchain options and tokenized equities, amid liquidity, protocol and macro risks.
AI Trading —— 决策便宜，行动很贵｜对谈超 3w Star Vibe-Trading 作者浩哲
吴浩哲认为金融里决策几乎免费、行动昂贵，harness与人要把判断变成可审计交易。Web Trading转向普通人交易台，不到半年破3万GitHub star，靠解释现金流、催化剂与风险出圈。AI将把信息消化压到几秒，单因子alpha或消失，数据对齐、PIT与责任边界成为关键风险。
A Bear Market Inside a Bull Market
Jordi Visser sees a “bear market happening inside a bull market”: Magnificent 7 stocks make highs while IWM/QQQ and rate-sensitive sectors trade at bear-market levels.Quiet credit spreads, jobless claims and earnings up 17% challenge the rate-doom trade, while Meta’s Muse makes consumer agents a 12-month catalyst whose hype could fuel multiple compression over the next 3 months.
Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment Fails
Chamath PalihapitiyaJason CalacanisDavid SacksDavid Friedberg
Open-source token usage flipped from 20% to 80% in 12 weeks; if more than 60–70% of frontier tokens are replaceable, Anthropic’s S-1 revenue must be discounted.Meta’s free Muse hit #1 in the App Store with 3M downloads in roughly 10 days, challenging the App Store’s 30% rev-share as agents make services headless.Converging models push OpenAI and Anthropic toward higher-value applications, while their six-to-12-month frontier lead remains the central risk.