The Book of Zedz

The Book of Zedz

Insights from the frontier of industry, AI, crypto and more.


A humanoid robot company is about to trade on your brokerage app for the first time ever

21 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.04

Ok so here it is, the thing thats been coming for a year and a half now, a robot company you can actually BUY shares in, like its a bag of chips at the corner shop, except its not chips its a five foot nine metal thing with bird knees that moves boxe...

Robinhood just let AI agents trade crypto with your money

20 Jul 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Zedz $0.03

Ok so here's the thing nobody warned you about, Robinhood is handing the wheel of your crypto wallet to a robot and calling it a feature. The company confirmed it's expanding it's Agentic Trading tool into crypto, meaning eligible US customers can ho...

If you're not building a foundation model or based in America, good luck getting funded right now

19 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.05

The numbers are the kind that make a founder in Berlin or Bangalore close the laptop and stare at a wall for a while. Crunchbase put fresh data out on July 1st, the H1 funding report says global venture investment hit 510 billion dollars in the first...

Washington put a price tag on the day quantum computers break your encryption

18 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.04

I was reading about qubits again this morning, coffee gone cold in a mug I dont remember buying, and I thought, here we go again, another headline about a machine that might one day crack the internet's locks wide open, except this time the headline...

Nobody wants to talk about AI's plumbing but that's where the money's actually going

16 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.04

I keep opening the laptop expecting the headline to be some fresh foundation model, another lab clocking in at a number with too many zeros, and instead theres this funding roundup from july first just sitting there looking dull as drywall, except it...

Europe just remembered it can write big checks too, and it's spending them on drones

15 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.05

Quantum Systems, a drone maker out of a suburb of Munich barely anybody outside the industry could point to on a map, closed a Series D on July 2nd for $1.2 billion. Blackstone co-led it, alongside Noteus and Advent. So did Airbus, which is the part...

The CLARITY act missed its birthday deadline and nobody in DC seems to mind

14 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.07

The Senate is back in the building now, walking in like the last month never happened, and the Clarity Act is STILL sitting there, Calendar No. 423, like a birthday cake nobody cut, candles melted right down into the frosting. Patrick Witt promised t...

A stablecoin company just bankrolled a german robot factory

13 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.02

I dont know where to start with this one, honest to nobody, because Tether, the company that basically just exists to keep a token stuck at one dollar, forever, like a fly stuck in amber, went and led a $1.4 billion round into a German humanoid robot...

Amazon just bought a satellite company for the price of a small country's gdp

12 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.02

Everbody and there mother is watchin the SpaceX IPO like its the only ball in play, and meanwhile Amazon went and did the whole thing without hardly a peep of fanfare, snuck it right past the crowd. Eleven point six billion dollars. For Globalstar. A...

Big banks get their stablecoin key on july 18 (ready or not)

11 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Zedz $0.02

In a few days the vault door swings open and JPMorgan, Bank of America, all them titans with there marble lobbies and mahogany boardrooms, get handed a set of keys marked STABLECOIN, no strings attached except the ones that matter, which, if your kee...