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In brief TikTok parent company ByteDance secured a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 Chinese and international banks, according to Reuters. Strong lender demand prompted the company to raise the facility from an initial target of $20 billion. Sources said the money will mainly support AI projects outside China. TikTok parent ByteDance has secured a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 banks as it increases spending on artificial intelligence.According to a report by Reuters, citing people with direct knowledge of the transaction, lender demand allowed ByteDance to raise the dollar-denominated facility from an initial $20 billion target.Myriad: Who will top…

Pineapple Financial has moved more than $1 billion in residential mortgage records onto Injective, a layer-1 blockchain focused on financial applications, as part of a broader effort to migrate its historical loan portfolio onchain.Pineapple plans to eventually migrate more than 29,000 funded mortgages worth over $10 billion onto the network, Injective said Friday. Each mortgage is represented by an onchain record tied to the underlying loan file, rather than being repackaged as a new mortgage security.The records contain more than 500 data points, including loan-level information designed to support verification, audit trails and risk analysis. Pineapple’s dashboard shows that the migration…

As the industry matures and borrows more pages out of TradiFi’s playbook, crypto projects are starting to adopt some of the behaviors of public companies.The latest craze rocking cryptoville is token buybacks: using revenue to buy back your own token.So far in 2026, crypto projects have spent about $640 million on the practice, up around 17% from the same period the year prior, and an order of magnitude more than the $366,000 spent in 2024. Hyperliquid and Pump.fun accounting for almost 90% of the current spend.So what’s the sudden appeal? Buybacks can create demand for a token, while burns can…

Key points:The US economy added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in August, nearly triple economists’ consensus estimate of 56,000.Bitcoin sold off from $81,300 to local lows of $78,600 following the data, before recovering to $79,500.A rival Bitcoin fork using the Blake2b algorithm saw its first trading activity, with coins changing hands at $350 on exchange Neoxa.Labor market beats expectations threefoldAccording to data released on Friday, the US economy added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in August, significantly outperforming economists’ consensus expectations of roughly 56,000 jobs. In response to the announcement, Bitcoin (BTC) sold off from $81,300 to local lows of $78,600. At…

Gold has overtaken US Treasuries as the world’s top reserve asset because it offers a solution to the challenges of a rogue America. But its renewed relevance also reflects how rapid technological diffusion and increasing dispersion of economic power are creating a more diversified international monetary system. MONTREAL—One clear sign of de-dollarization and the shift toward a multipolar monetary order is gold’s renewed prominence in global financial markets. Investors increasingly view the metal as a strategic asset; central banks are buying record amounts of it to bolster resilience against financial and geopolitical risks, with last year marking the fourth-largest expansion…

The United States can prevail in the AI race against China by leaning into the strengths of an open society: democratic oversight, the rule of law, robust competition, and open public debate. But that won’t happen as long as American AI companies aggressively lobby against accountability and cozy up to the state. PHILADELPHIA—In Washington, nearly every serious proposal that could constrain American AI companies runs into the same objection: restrictions would endanger national security and future prosperity by giving China the advantage. As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman put it at a 2025 Senate hearing, the United States needs “sensible regulation”…

Economics Sep 4, 2026 Anne O. Krueger Plagued by exorbitant costs and chronic delays, American shipbuilders cannot produce enough vessels to keep pace with China. US President Donald Trump’s push to rebuild the industry does little to address its underlying problems and threatens to squander hundreds of billions of dollars. WASHINGTON, DC—At the end of World War II, the US Navy was by far the world’s largest. As late as 1975, the United States remained a major shipbuilding power, although its preeminence had already begun to diminish. By…

​​Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal roundup here. AI infrastructure dominated the largest venture rounds this week, with two multibillion-dollar deals in the sector taking the top spots. Data center and cloud provider Crusoe led with a massive $3 billion financing, followed by Fluidstack’s $1.5 billion raise. Further down the list,…

Evaluation frameworks for development projects have long been influenced by donor priorities. But foreign-aid cuts have created an opportunity for African countries to implement equitable evaluation practices, both to channel limited resources more effectively and to shape the future of global development governance. JOHANNESBURG—As donor governments slash aid budgets, and multilateral institutions come under increasing financial strain, development organizations must confront the combination of growing need and declining resources. How to address persistent challenges such as poverty and inequality, climate change, and humanitarian crises with fewer resources is an especially urgent question in Africa, where many countries have long relied…

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