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Michael Saylor's Strategy is moving to clean up its balance sheet, announcing plans to repurchase one point five billion dollars worth of its twenty twenty nine convertible bonds. The company says it will use either cash or proceeds from bitcoin sales to retire roughly half of its outstanding zero percent converts, a significant restructuring of the liabilities underpinning its aggressive bitcoin treasury strategy.
On the AI model front, a new round of benchmarking pits DeepSeek's V four Pro and Flash models against Anthropic's Claude Opus four point seven and Moonshot's Kimi K two point six. These head-to-head comparisons matter because they help developers make real decisions about cost, capability, and latency — and the competitive pressure between Eastern and Western AI labs continues to tighten with every release cycle.
Meanwhile, blockchain analytics firm Dune is cutting a quarter of its workforce as it pivots toward artificial intelligence tooling and institutional clients. It is a familiar story in the crypto-adjacent space — companies that grew during the retail boom are now reshaping themselves around enterprise revenue and automation, and for many employees, that transition comes at a steep personal cost.
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