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DOGE ‘blowback’ not only challenge for refocused Musk with sliding Tesla sales

April 27, 2025

Elon Musk is looking to reinvigorate Tesla sales, admitting in an earnings call that the electric car company has suffered "blowback" from his work with President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting task force. Musk, Tesla’s CEO, told investors that he’s going to scale back his DOGE activities to spend more time with Tesla, […]

Regulators Lighten up on Crypto, But Will That Really Matter? – Digital Transactions

April 27, 2025

In keeping with Washington’s friendlier attitude toward cryptocurrencies, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Thursday pulled statements they had issued early in 2023 that had indicated a tougher stance on crypto regulation for banks. The regulators’ new approach, as indicated in a statement issued late Thursday by the FDIC, says “banking […]

Why Enterprises Must Embrace AI Agents

April 27, 2025

Daniel Fallmann is founder and CEO of Mindbreeze, a leader in enterprise search, applied artificial intelligence and knowledge management. getty The AI agent era has officially arrived. Every few years, an innovation comes along that reshapes the way businesses operate. We’ve seen this through numerous technological revolutions: cloud computing, mobile transformation and automation. Now, we’re […]

Most of BlackRock’s $2.5bn tokenised fund is held by four wallets. Here’s why, says Michael Sonnenshein

April 27, 2025

Exclusive Interview BlackRock's BUIDL fund is highly concentrated. Private equity giants are moving into the space. It's early days, says Securitize exec Michael Sonnenshein. There’s no doubt BlackRock’s debut tokenised fund is off to a fast start. The BUIDL fund, comprising crypto versions of cash and US Treasury bonds, has ballooned to more than $2.5 […]

Vitalik Buterin: Quantum-Resistant Ethereum, Here’s What’s Needed

April 26, 2025

In 2022, Vitalik Buterin, cofounder of Ethereum, had to answer an important question. Can we swap out a complicated component of Ethereum for something safer and easier? At the time the answer was no. Three years later, however, the answer may have changed, which is exciting. What's the issue? To accommodate more users and data, […]

CME Group to Finally Launch XRP Futures Trading: ETF Approval Next?

April 26, 2025

Derivatives marketplace CME Group confirms plans to launch XRP futures trading next month, bolstering the chances of an XRP ETF approval. The world’s largest derivatives marketplace, CME Group, officially announced today in a press release that it will launch XRP futures on May 19, 2025, pending regulatory approval. Details of the CME Group XRP Futures […]

Tesla: Trump and Musk’s Achilles heel?

April 25, 2025

Tesla is becoming the Achilles heel of the alliance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. So far in 2025, the company has suffered a 71% drop in profits, faced acts of vandalism in the United States, organized boycotts in Europe and an increasingly negative public perception. Beyond the slowdown in the electric car market, what […]

Nvidia Continues to Keep Crypto at Arm’s Length

April 25, 2025

Arbitrum (ARB) was set to make a splash. The Layer 2 network, home to a growing number of decentralized AI platforms, was preparing to announce a milestone: it had been named Nvidia’s exclusive Ethereum partner for the chipmaker’s new Ignition AI Accelerator, an offshoot of its Inception program that supports promising AI startups with infrastructure […]

The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube’s algorithm

April 25, 2025

The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm 2 days ago Share Save Thomas Germain @thomasgermain Share Save Estudio Santa Rita (Credit: Estudio Santa Rita) There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know. The vast majority of YouTube's estimated 14.8 […]

Black Mirror is back to unsettle

April 25, 2025

Charlie Brooker is back with a new season of the dystopian sci-fi, cautionary-tale dark comedy series Black Mirror. Like previous seasons, this one delivers six episodes — including a much-anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular USS Callister, which is titled USS Callister: Into Infinity. This latest batch of episodes range from deeply disturbing to thought-provoking […]