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December 18, 2025
Bitcoin Accumulators Are Singing a New Song as Strategy Sours — bloomberg.com
David Pan writes on how the changing fortunes of companies that have been accumulating cryptocurrencies have altered perceptions, including among industry executives.
CEO of nuclear fusion firm Trump Media is merging with: High-velocity capital is critical to build quickly and efficiently. The concerns are secondary — fortune.com
The financially struggling Trump Media & Technology Group’s shocking, $6 billion merger with a nuclear fusion developer represents either a bet on more taxpayer dollars being invested in the first fusion player to go public—soon owned in part by the Trump
BTC price update: Bitcoin, crypto market could plummet again on ‘Witching Friday.’ Here’s why — fastcompany.com
Investors are bracing for December 18, when billions of options are due to expire—making for what could be a volatile roller-coaster ride for digital assets. Bitcoin investors are bracing for “Witching Friday” tomorrow, December 18, when billions of
Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins — theregister.com
'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS
Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 — theregister.com
ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting North Korea's yearly cryptocurrency thefts have accelerated, with Kim's state-backed cybercriminals plundering just over $2 billion worth of tokens in 2025.…
Bitcoin Volatility Rises Ahead of $23 Billion Options Expiration — bloomberg.com
Options are showing that Bitcoin is heading into the final weeks of 2025 under intense pressure, with around $23 billion in contracts set to expire next Friday that threaten to amplify already-elevated volatility.
OpenAI is a house still under construction — but no one agrees what it’s made of — fortune.com
Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition, I compare OpenAI to a house made of…well, no one really knows. Also: OpenAI launches a ChatGPT app store (we’ll see if it fares better than their previous custom GPT store)…Anthropic
PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says stablecoins will be key as his company navigates the ‘classic innovator’s dilemma’ — fortune.com
When PayPal launched almost three decades ago, the company made its name as one of the world’s first fintechs. Now, PayPal faces a slew of competitors, from the payments colossus Stripe to Big Tech giants like Apple. “One of the challenges when you are at
Trump Media Announces Alarming Merger With Nuclear Fusion Firm — newrepublic.com
Donald Trump’s social media company is now going to get into fusion power. Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, announced Thursday that it’s pursuing a $6 billion merger with TAE Technologies, which says it is building “the world’s
Trump goes nuclear: The president’s tech and media umbrella will merge with a fusion reactor developer in a deal valued north of $6 billion — fortune.com
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, announced Thursday that it will merge with TAE Technologies, a privately held nuclear fusion developer, in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion. The deal will create one
2026 U.S. Defense Bill | Brussels Meeting on Ukraine | Arms Package for Taiwan — feedbinusercontent.com
Daily News Brief December 18, 2025 Welcome to CFR’s Daily News Brief. Today we’re looking at the first annual defense spending bill of President Donald Trump’s second term, as well as... A meeting on using Russian assets to support Ukraine The largest-ever
The post-gamer era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? — pcworld.com
Imagine it’s the year 2030 and Nvidia has just announced its newest RTX 7000-series graphics cards. But the cheapest of the cards is priced over $2,000 and the top model is nearly double that. The series offer minimal uplift on rendering performance, but
The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? — pcworld.com
Imagine it’s the year 2030 and Nvidia has just announced its newest RTX 7000-series graphics cards. But the cheapest of the cards is priced over $2,000 and the top model is nearly double that. The series offer minimal uplift on rendering performance, but
Digital Bank SoFi Joins Stablecoin Race With Own Dollar-Backed Token on Ethereum — bloomberg.com
Digital bank operator SoFi Technologies Inc. has launched its own US dollar stablecoin, joining a growing list of financial firms betting on what is seen as a critical component of the digital asset economy.
The 8 worst technology flops of 2025 — technologyreview.com
Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year. This year, politics was a recurring theme. Donald Trump swept back into office and used his executive pen to reshape the fortunes of entire sectors,
‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry piles misery onto tech stocks after Oracle fails to close AI debt deal — fortune.com
The S&P 500 closed down 1.16% yesterday, marking four straight losing sessions for the index, which is now off 2.6%% from the all-time high it hit on Dec. 11. The decline was led, as usual, by technology stocks. Oracle was down 5.4% and its AI data center
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door — prospect.org
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank
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