<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>HOOD on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/hood/</link><description>Recent content in HOOD on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/hood/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Microsoft picks a fight with Anthropic while Robinhood's compliance problem gets criminal</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-17-markets/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-17-markets/</guid><description>Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s AI chief said he wants to stop paying Anthropic for models - the clearest signal yet that the Copilot stack is going fully in-house, and a fresh headache for a company already shipping broken Excel patches. Robinhood&amp;rsquo;s tokenized-equity push collided with an insider-trading charge against two of its own engineers, and Salesforce answered its AI critics with a proprietary reasoning model.</description></item><item><title>Stablecoins go mainstream through the banks while the frontier labs deliberately downshift</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-markets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-markets/</guid><description>The real news is distribution, not product: stablecoin rails now reach 1,000+ community banks via Coinbase, MoneyGram&amp;rsquo;s 60M cardholders, and Block is applying for an OCC trust charter. Meanwhile Amodei&amp;rsquo;s call to deliberately slow capability releases and OpenAI&amp;rsquo;s IPO delay mark a frontier-lab downshift that reshuffles who captures enterprise AI value.</description></item><item><title>Apple's foldable is the headline, but the trades are in AI M&amp;A froth and fee flows</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-markets/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-markets/</guid><description>Apple&amp;rsquo;s event delivered the $1,999 foldable and a rate-limited Siri beta, which together cap rather than extend the AI monetization story. The more tradable news sits elsewhere: Salesforce chasing a $2B+ price on ~$30M of revenue, Robinhood Chain producing real fee flow, and Coinbase adding a prediction-market clearing line. One reversal today: Robinhood moves off the short.</description></item><item><title>Agent rails consolidate: x402, agent identity, and the week the incumbents stopped apologizing</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-markets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-markets/</guid><description>Coinbase is quietly becoming the payments plumbing for machine commerce just as it files for single-stock perps, while Robinhood leans further into token-launch territory. Uber now faces two live robotaxi threats in Austin, and Apple&amp;rsquo;s foldable yield problem is a real supply story, not a headline. Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s IPO machinery is firming up with a $15B credit facility.</description></item><item><title>The price war arrives just as the power bill does</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-markets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-markets/</guid><description>Anthropic cut prices 25% hours after reporting a $65B raise, and Google bought 400 MW of geothermal to feed its own models - the commodity economics and the physical constraints are now arriving together. Meanwhile Robinhood&amp;rsquo;s tokenized HIMS broke to 4.5x the real equity, and Waymo went on offense ahead of Tesla&amp;rsquo;s Cybercab. We reverse our Amazon call on Graviton5 economics.</description></item></channel></rss>