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SpaceX's informal pre-IPO market on the crypto exchange Hyperliquid has taken a notable hit, dropping twenty-seven percent over the past three weeks. The perpetual contract still trades above SpaceX's official offer price of one hundred thirty-five dollars, but traders are clearly cooling on the first-day premium they'd been pricing in. It's a reminder that speculative markets built around private companies can move fast in both directions.
Shifting to a quieter but meaningful platform fight, Firefox for Android is now running Google's Play Integrity checks, and users on custom ROM devices are finding themselves locked out. It puts Mozilla in an uncomfortable position — a browser long associated with openness is now leaning on a verification system that effectively penalizes people who've modified their own hardware. The trade-off between security and user freedom is real, but the cost lands unevenly.
And in a significant infrastructure move, Meta has signed its first AI data center deal in India, partnering with Reliance on a one hundred sixty-eight megawatt facility. The site is designed to scale and will feed Meta's global AI computing pipeline. It signals that the race to build AI infrastructure is firmly a global one now, not just a Silicon Valley story.
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