⚙️ Amazon swaps Fire OS for Android tablets | 🐋 Whales dump 470M XRP as profit-taking spikes | 🇨🇳 DeepSeek open-sources V3.1 for enterprise AI

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When the founder who sold his last company to Zillow for $120M starts a new venture, people notice. That’s why the same VCs who backed Uber, Venmo, and eBay also invested in Pacaso.

Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso’s streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties, revamping the $1.3T vacation home market.

And it works. By handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, Pacaso has already made $110M+ in gross profits in their operating history.

Now, after 41% YoY gross profit growth last year alone, they recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

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Amazon’s Fire burns brighter with Android

What Happened: Internal sources say Amazon is developing a high‑end Fire tablet that will run standard Android instead of its own Fire OS. The project, code‑named Kittyhawk, would retail around $400 – roughly double its current flagship price – and aims to address years of complaints from consumers and developers about Amazon’s forked OS. The shift isn’t locked in, and the device could still be delayed or cancelled

Uncle Sam wants a piece of your chipmaker

What Happened: U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is exploring giving the government non‑voting equity stakes in chip companies like Intel in exchange for grants under the $52 billion CHIPS Act. Recent deals already show the government taking 15 % of revenue from Nvidia’s H20 sales to China and working on similar arrangements with AMD. Critics warn that mixing politics with shareholdings introduces new risks and could deter private investment.

China open‑sources a behemoth

What Happened: DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup backed by venture funds, released DeepSeek V3.1, an open‑source language model boasting 685 billion parameters. The model, available on Hugging Face under a permissive license, dwarfs many Western offerings and can be fine‑tuned for commercial use. Analysts note that such releases could erode the moat enjoyed by closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

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XRP whales empty their buckets

What Happened: Over ten days, large holders dumped roughly 470 million XRP, pushing the token down to $2.89. The sell‑off, paired with profit‑taking across the market, dragged XRP below its 20‑ and 50‑day moving averages. Yet whales also scooped up about $360 million XRP during dips, showing accumulation alongside distribution. Analysts warn that if selling persists, support at $2.70‑$2.50 could be tested, but stronger accumulation might stabilise prices.

Crypto feels the macro chill

What Happened: After Bitcoin touched an all‑time high near $125,000 last week, roughly $120 billion was wiped off the crypto market within 24 hours as traders locked in profits and braced for the Fed’s Jackson Hole comments. Bitcoin now trades around $113 k, Ethereum around $4.2 k and the fear‑and‑greed index has slipped into the mid‑40s. Cardano and Dogecoin are leading the losers, while Solana and Tron eke out gains. ETF outflows are accelerating: U.S. Bitcoin ETFs lost $523 million in a single day and ETH funds bled $422 million. Meanwhile, major trade associations are lobbying regulators to ease proposed 1,250 % capital requirements for bank crypto exposures.

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