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In December 1999, Nissan Motor Co. sued a North Carolina computer repairman for $10,000,000 to seize Nissan.com. His legal birth name was Uzi Nissan. He spent over $3,000,000 across eight years of federal court battles, defeated the dilution claim at the Ninth Circuit, and kept his family name.
Strategy routed 66.3% of last week's common stock sales to retire preferred shares. MARA liquidated $3.02B in Bitcoin this year to wipe out $750M in BTC-backed loans. Bitdeer kept just 47 BTC of the 3,855 it mined in Q3 to build a $2.9B AI cloud backlog.
Pudgy Penguins sells toys across 3,100 Walmart and 1,800 Target stores. Chimpers signed a six-year global licensing deal. Claynosaurz streams to 90 million TV homes. Why real-world consumer wins do not lift secondary NFT prices.
Agility Robotics listed on Nasdaq at a $2.5B equity value with $175,000 in six-month revenue and $54,000 from outside customers. Six days earlier, Symbotic signed a $6B expansion to run wheeled robots across 25 Walmart hubs.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows customer inference took just $4,812M of its $33,242M nine-month revenue, while R&D burned $19,240M. Inside Revolut, 2,000 engineers show why the lab cannot stop spending.
On the fomo app, weekly spot token trading has fallen from nearly $2.4 billion in August to $295.7 million. Over the same last week of October, its perpetual futures notional volume hit a record $1.03 billion.
DoorDash handled 993 million orders last quarter. Outside AI agents have placed several hundred since they were switched on. A 50-agent colony in Minecraft sent 5,900 messages and never took off. Where agents get measured, the numbers are small.
Binance lost about $6.3 billion on October 29. Roughly $3 billion was frozen within hours. What could be frozen, and what could not, is the real story of this hack season.
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