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January 17, 2026

Report Shows Massive Increase in Iranian Bitcoin Adoption Amid Nationwide Unrest — gizmodo.com

Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval.

AI raises average wages by 21% and substantially reduces' wage inequality, researchers find — foxbusiness.com

Artificial intelligence "substantially reduces wage inequality while raising average wages by 21 percent," according to a new working paper co-authored by an assistant professor at Stanford University. The paper released this week by Lukas Althoff, titled

America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster — theatlantic.com

For the past week, I’ve found myself playing the same 23-second CNN clip on repeat. I’ve watched it in bed, during my commute to work, at the office, midway through making carrot soup, and while brushing my teeth. In the video, Harry Enten, the network’s

Stablecoins will shake up the $900 billion remittance market—setting up a fight between crypto firms and legacy brands like Western Union — fortune.com

Every year, workers around the globe send approximately $900 billion to their families back home and, when it comes to helping them send that money, the market is suddenly up for grabs. The reason is the recent momentum behind stablecoins, which offer an

Scam and corruption cases spark debate in China over cryptocurrencies’ future — scmp.com

The seizure of enormous cryptocurrency caches in two high-profile criminal cases in China – a former head of the central bank’s digital currency research institute accused of corruption, and an alleged scam centre kingpin linked to about US$15 billion in

He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known? — theguardian.com

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences Tiina Parikka was half-naked when she read the

Trump pushes emergency power auction to make Big Tech pay for soaring energy costs — foxbusiness.com

The Trump administration is pressing the nation’s largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power costs. The White House has urged PJM Interconnection —