Billionaire-backed DN Invest will spend 2.1 billion rand ($130 million) acquiring stakes in technology companies to double the size of the group in the next three years, CEO Ryan Noach said

BREAKING: The US goods trade deficit widened by -$2.8 billion in September, or -2.1%, to -$134.9 billion, its widest gap since March 2025. Imports rose +$8.1 billion, or +2.4%, to a record $344.2 billion. This jump was led by a +7.5% MoM increase in capital goods, which include computers and accessories, semiconductors, and telecommunications equipment fueling the AI buildout. Now, the capital goods deficit has widened by -$54.3 billion YoY, accounting for more than the entire increase in the overall trade deficit. Meanwhile, US goods exports jumped +$5.3 billion in September, or +2.6%, to $209.2 billion, driven by a +12.8% increase in food shipments. The US trade deficit is rapidly widening again.

During China’s week-long National Day holidays, over 2.1 billion domestic trips were made, averaging 306 million trips per day. That is roughly equivalent to 90% of the U.S. population being on the move every day for a whole week. Holiday journeys were safe and smooth thanks to dense high-speed rail (50,000+ km) and expressway (199,000 km) networks, and rapid response.

Core steps its block reward down every year instead of halving it @Coredao_Org caps coredaoorg:native at 2.1 billion tokens, a figure its documentation describes as exactly 100 times Bitcoin's 21 million. New supply enters through block rewards, the tokens paid to the validators producing each block, spread across an 81-year schedule per Core's whitepaper. Rather than cutting the reward in half every four years the way Bitcoin does, Core steps its emission rate down at every 10,512,000th block. At the network's roughly three-second block time, that lands about once a year. Each step is far smaller than a Bitcoin halving but is more frequent, with the schedule running until the full 2.1 billion cap is distributed.

Core DAO (@Coredao_Org) burns a share of block rewards and fees every round, at a rate set by the DAO, not fixed in code. Its whitepaper v1.0.7 says Core is moving away from burning. The 2.1 billion $CORE hard cap stays. The burn and the planned shift:

Aptos Unveils Tokenomics Overhaul: 210M APT to Be Permanently Locked, Staking Rewards to Be Halved Aptos Foundation unveiled plans to revise APT tokenomics, proposing to cut annual staking rewards from 5.19% to 2.6%, increase gas fees tenfold, and cap total supply at 2.1 billion APT. The Foundation also committed to permanently locking and staking 210 million APT, nearly 18% of current supply, with operations funded by staking rewards rather than token sales. Future ecosystem grants will be tied to performance milestones, while a buyback program funded by cash reserves and future revenue is under consideration. Annualized token unlocks are expected to fall 60% as the initial four-year unlock cycle ends in October 2026. The changes aim to reduce emissions and increase token burns, potentially making APT deflationary.

NEAR Protocol opens its doors to Pearl, a coin mined with AI math @NEARProtocol has added $PEARL to @near_intents and the near.​com app. Users can swap into PEARL from any supported chain and pay others with it; swaps are confidential by default, and wallets and apps on the NEAR Intents 1Click API can now offer PEARL swaps too. Pearl is a separate Layer-1 blockchain from @prlnet, live since late April 2026. Its miners run the matrix math behind AI models on GPUs, and that same work secures the chain and issues new coins, capped at 2.1 billion.

The most important data point in AI just dropped and it changes the entire conversation about where we are in this cycle (Save this). Jensen Huang took the stage at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 and highlighted how GitHub commits, a universal measure of global software output, climbed from 300 million in 2023 to 400 million in 2024 and 500 million in 2025. In the first few months of 2026 alone, that number has nearly tripled and Jensen's conclusion was that "Agentic AI has arrived, useful AI has arrived." Then he did the math and the numbers are staggering. 30 to 40 million professional software developers represent approximately $3 trillion worth of GDP that is their combined annual salary, generating economic output across $100 trillion worth of global industry. That same $3 trillion in developer salaries is now producing nearly three times as much output. "It's effectively $9 trillion of productivity from $3 trillion of salaries. The difference is absolutely extraordinary. This is the potential. This is the promise of AI." People talk about AI killing jobs but Jensen called it complete nonsense. His logic is that if you can hire a software engineer and generate $9 trillion worth of productive work, why would you hire fewer engineers? The answer is you hire more and the data confirms it, with a new developer joining GitHub every single second as of early 2026. GitHub COO separately disclosed that 2026 commits are on pace for 13–14 billion, a 1,300% increase from 2025 with GitHub Actions compute minutes already at 2.1 billion per week, more than double the 2025 baseline. But Jensen did not stop at the productivity argument. He connected it directly to token economics, the investment thesis that matters most for everyone in this room. "Tokens are now profitable units of revenue. Because it is now profitable, AI companies want to build more tokens, generate more tokens, build more AI factories which is the reason why compute demand here in Taiwan has skyrocketed." Every agent, every automated code commit, every workflow that runs without a human prompt consumes tokens. Taiwan's own government just upgraded its GDP growth forecast to 9.64% for 2026, a 16-year high driven entirely by AI infrastructure exports. This is exactly why Milk Road has been so convicted on the AI infrastructure buildout because the productivity data is now arriving in real time at a scale that nobody modeled.

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