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Graduation season usually brings inspiration, but Eric Schmidt got a different reception at the University of Arizona this weekend. When the former Google CEO told the class of two thousand twenty six that the question is whether they will shape artificial intelligence, the crowd answered with boos. It's a signal that AI fatigue is real, and the next generation of workers isn't necessarily buying the pitch.
On the financial side, crypto markets are showing a notable shift in appetite. New data from CoinShares reveals that bitcoin and ethereum products shed nearly one billion dollars in outflows last week, while XRP and Solana funds attracted fresh investment. Whether that's smart diversification or speculative rotation is the question investors are sitting with.
And in a move that blurs the line between traditional finance and decentralized markets, a DeFi exchange has become the first to offer equity perpetuals powered by live Nasdaq data. It's a partnership that signals Nasdaq is no longer watching tokenized trading from the sidelines β it's actively helping build the infrastructure.
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