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Five years after the short squeeze, GameStop’s CEO is betting on a ‘genius or totally foolish’ $100 billion-plus acquisition — fortune.com
GameStop was once the go-to destination for video games. Then it was the archetypal “meme stock” in 2021, when a band of Reddit-reading retail investors thwarted hedge funds’ shorts on the company stock, sending the company’s stock skyrocketing. There was
Bitcoin’s freefall approaches $80,000 as precious metals also tank — fortune.com
The world’s largest cryptocurrency has tanked to its lowest price since April. Bitcoin is down nearly 2% over the past 24 hours and hit a low of nearly $81,000 late Thursday night—underneath its last floor of $82,175 in November. On Friday, the token
The Melania Trump Documentary Is a Disgrace — theatlantic.com
Recently, I watched a new documentary about an enigmatic woman of notable charm and courage preparing for one of the most momentous events in her life. That woman is E. Jean Carroll, and the movie is Ask E. Jean, a feature about Carroll’s life and her
Binance Founder Zhao Fends Off Crypto Market Crash Accusations — bloomberg.com
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, co-founder and former chief executive officer of Binance, said lingering accusations that the world’s largest digital asset platform bears responsibility for the crypto market crash last October are “far-fetched.”
Digital assets front and center amid SoFi earnings 'blowout' — americanbanker.com
The neobank was bullish on cryptocurrency and stablecoins, which could provide tailwinds as it looks to launch new products including crypto-based lending, institutional trading, and correspondent payments and settlements via stablecoins.
The crypto industry used to store Bitcoin in Swiss vaults. Now one firm is using vaults to hold gold instead — fortune.com
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, is storing gold in a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Switzerland. The company is stockpiling more than a ton of the precious metal every week in the Swiss mountains to back its gold-pegged XAUT Token—an
Bitcoin Slump Cuts Millions From Winklevoss Super-PAC Donation — bloomberg.com
The political fundraising group launched by crypto-billionaire brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss raised more than $22 million in the last five months of 2025, but might not get as much bang for its Bitcoin.
Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women — technologyreview.com
Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically
Spain arrests Chinese hair salon owner for funding Hamas via crypto — scmp.com
Spanish police have detained a 38-year-old Chinese national who owned a hair salon near Barcelona on suspicion of financing the militant group Hamas through about €600,000 (US$715,000) in cryptocurrency transfers, regional police said on Friday.
Fidelity plans to launch a stablecoin — americanbanker.com
Fidelity Digital Assets, the national crypto trust bank subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, is set to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin on ethereum.
Gold Has Been Acting More Like Bitcoin Lately — gizmodo.com
Gold added more than two entire Bitcoin market caps in 72 Hours.
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s turnaround plan includes measuring stores on just five metrics — fortune.com
In today’s CEO Daily: Fortune‘s Phil Wahba reports on the early wins in Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s tunaround. The big story: Apple’s blockbuster earnings fail to impress investors. The markets: U.S. markets are set to drop at the open, and Bitcoin has
Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018 — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018 Bloomberg.com
Rent Money Isn't Wasted — It Buys Protection from Big Risk — thedailyeconomy.org
Landlords are amazing. That’s perhaps a perverse, controversial statement in these Mamdani-ish times, where “free” socialist housing is all the rage. In popular imagination, landlords are rent-seeking middlemen, extracting value from shelter they did not
Bitcoin (BTC) Slumps to Two-Month Low as US Funds Shed Billions — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin (BTC) Slumps to Two-Month Low as US Funds Shed Billions Bloomberg
Meet the scourge of the mafia — unherd.com
Towards the end of the Fifties, Leonardo Sciascia decided that the time had come to write openly about the mafia. The little-known Sicilian author chose to use fiction — which, astonishingly, had never been done in Italian before — and wrote it as a giallo
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