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Allbirds, the struggling footwear company that has seen its stock price slide by about 50% over the past year, announced a dramatic shift in its business today centered around AI and GPUs. The company’s share value jumped by more than 100% after Allbirds made the announcement today.As part of the plan, Allbirds has sold its Allbirds brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group, while the previous iteration of Allbirds–going forward to be known as NewBird AI–will “pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure.” The company said its long-term vision is to become a “fully integrated GPU-as-a-service and AI-native cloud…

PHILADELPHIA – Investigators are searching for two men accused of threatening a Dollar General employee to load $1,000 onto two gift cards.  Police say the men claimed to have guns and one of them told the cashier “don’t play with me” during the encounter. What we know: Investigators shared video footage from the incident that unfolded last Saturday afternoon at the Dollar General on Oxford Avenue. Police say the store cashier was working alone when two men forced him to make a reload transaction of $500 on two gift cards. One of the suspects initially attempted to use a barcode…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2058.34, up 0.4% (+9.17) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.Eighteen of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: AAVE (+4.3%) and APT (+3.8%).Laggards: CRO (-0.6%) and SOL (-0.5%).The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

Ethereum is trading around $2.3k, posting its most constructive price action in months. For the first time since the correction began, ETH is showing genuine signs of a structural shift. Though the history of failed breakout attempts throughout this cycle demands that the current move be treated with measured optimism rather than outright conviction. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart In a notable development on the daily chart, ETH is breaking above both the long-term descending channel’s upper boundary and the 100-day MA. These two levels have capped the price action for the past six months. Therefore, the breakout, if…

In brief Senator Elizabeth Warren raised concerns about X Money’s planned April launch, citing consumer protection, national security, and financial stability risks. Warren highlighted X Money’s acquisition of 40 state money transmitter licenses and preview materials suggesting it will offer deposit accounts with up to 6% APY. The Senator also flagged a “suspicious carveout” in the GENIUS Act’s that she argues advantages private companies like X in issuing stablecoins. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) raised fresh concerns Tuesday about the planned April launch of X Money in a letter to its owner Elon Musk.In the letter to the billionaire entrepreneur, Warren…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on White House study sharpens CLARITY’s core fight as Senate execution remains the real testA recent White House economic study has changed the focus of Washington’s debate over the CLARITY Act. The report addresses the main issue slowing the bill in the Senate: whether limiting stablecoin yields actually protects the banking system.The study’s findings are central to ongoing talks. After reviewing recent data on stablecoin activity, consumer habits, and bank liquidity, it found little proof that stablecoin yield products currently threaten bank lending or deposits.Instead, the report said that banning yields would mostly limit consumers’ ability to earn…

Mass Effect is beloved for so many reasons, especially for its memorable and moving writing. There are so many great lines in the series, from the meme-worthy (“Can it wait for a bit? I’m in the middle of some calibrations.”) to the sincere (“There’s no Shepard without Vakarian.”). Jennifer Hale knows a thing or two about Mass Effect’s most enduring dialogue. She voiced Shepard in the original trilogy, giving the Commander both sincerity and abrasiveness, depending on what the moment (and the player) called for. “Such a phenomenal thing to be part of this universe. Grateful every day,” she tells…

Heavy ETF outflows are being interpreted as a reflection of retail panic rather than institutional conviction. Analytics platform Santiment is contending that the combined net outflow of almost $300 million that hit US spot Bitcoin ETFs on Monday points to a potential dip-buying opportunity. According to them, outflows of such sizes are often a sign of retail fear and have acted as reliable contrarian indicators for price bottoms in the past. Large Outflow Mirrors Previous Buying Windows Santiment reported that on April 13, $297.3 million left the BTC ETFs. However, data from other trackers, like Coinglass, SoSoValue, and Farside…

Enterprise digital asset infrastructure platform Fireblocks said Wednesday it launched Earn, a feature that lets institutional clients route stablecoin balances into onchain lending strategies through Aave and Morpho-powered products.The product launches with a Sentora-curated vault on Morpho and direct access to Aave’s stablecoin lending markets, according to Fireblocks. The company said Earn is available now in Early Access for Fireblocks customers.Fireblocks said the feature is aimed at clients sitting on large idle stablecoin balances between settlement windows and deployment cycles. The company said it processed $6 trillion in stablecoin transfer volume in 2025 across more than 2,400 institutional clients, up…

The Metro game series has never shied away from dark, disturbing subject matter, with warring factions fighting for control over what’s left of a devastated post-nuclear-apocalypse Moscow. Despite this, series author Dmitry Glukhovsky says Metro 2039 is shaping up to be even darker.Writing on Twitter (via PC Gamer), Glukhovsky made a very bold statement: “This Metro game will be darker than anything you’ve seen before.”This Metro game will be darker than anything you’ve seen before — Дмитрий Глуховский (@glukhovsky) April 14, 2026 This is a series that has seen the absolute plight of humanity, as well as the mysterious Dark…