Five digital asset firms have received conditional approvals Friday to become federally chartered trust banks by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) in a major step to bring U.S. dollar stablecoin issuers under federal regulatory oversight. Blockchain firm Ripple and Circle’s (CRCL) First National Digital Currency Bank are on the list, which also…
Global fashion brand Prada has announced a line of limited-edition footwear inspired by Indian-made Kolhapuri sandals, months after it faced backlash for allegedly appropriating the sandal’s design. The Italian luxury brand will make 2,000 pairs of sandals in India’s Maharashtra and Karnataka states, under a deal with two state-backed entities, Reuters news agency reports. “We’ll…
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case to determine whether President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are legal. Until recently, tariffs rarely made headlines. Yet today, they play a major role in U.S. economic policy, affecting the prices of everything from groceriesto autosto holiday gifts, as well as the outlook for unemployment, inflation and…
Such endorsements abound online. Other reta boosters also flag its alleged ability to reduce cravings for drugs and alcohol. (Some clinical literature has suggested the potential of GLP-1-type drugs in the treatment of addiction, attributable to their ability to rewire dopamine signaling in the brain.) Less desirable side effects reported, in trials and anecdotally, include…
Orbex not in prime position … Those companies were chosen in July based on technical and business maturity, and each could receive up to 169 million euros. They were: Isar Aerospace, MaiaSpace, Orbex, PLD Space, and Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA). Isar, MaiaSpace, PLD Space, and RFA each received at least 169 million euros, while Orbex…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer told investors on Friday to buy the sharp, post-earnings sell-off in Broadcom shares. “This company is on fire,” Cramer said on ” Squawk on the Street ,” pointing to the custom chipmaker’s long list of notable clients, including Alphabet , Meta Platforms , ByteDance-owned TikTok, and Anthropic. The stock sank nearly 11%…
Big Tech continues to tiptoe into crypto. The latest example is a move by YouTube to let creators on the video platform choose to receive payouts in PayPal’s stablecoin. The head of crypto at PayPal, May Zabaneh, confirmed the arrangement to Fortune, adding that the feature is live and, as of now, only applies to…
Broadcom on Thursday evening reported another strong quarter and better-than-expected guidance for the current quarter. Nonetheless, the Club stock gave up its initial pop and traded sharply lower as the Q & A session of the post-earnings conference call kicked off. Investors were apparently not satisfied with CEO Hock Tan’s answer to an important question….
Megyn Kelly can’t believe Charlie Kirk was not named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. On Thursday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the host fumed over the fact that the 2025 Person of the Year was not even a single person at all – but rather the architects of AI. She railed against the…
Entertainment In an interview, Epic Games’ CEO says that an appeals court ruling in its case against Apple is ‘really awesome for all developers.’ In an interview, Epic Games’ CEO says that an appeals court ruling in its case against Apple is ‘really awesome for all developers.’ Dec 12, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC Jay Peters…
When are 696 pennies worth $16,744,500? When they’re the last pennies ever produced by the U.S. Mint, and they go to auction at Stacks & Bowers. Billed as the last circulating cents, the final omega pennies were sold in 232 lots Thursday, each containing three pennies, one of which was a 24-carat gold cent piece….
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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images McDonald’s has become corporate enemy number one after its hideous AI holiday commercial went viral across numerous social media platforms for all the wrong reasons. TBWA and The Sweetshop — the agency and production company behind the turd of an ad — have since tried to…
In this article COST Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Customers walk in the parking lot outside a Costco store on Dec. 2, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Costco on Thursday surpassed Wall Street’s quarterly expectations and posted year-over-year sales growth of 8.2% as the retailer attracted more digital sales and…
The case, filed in a California court, is the first suit linking the chatbot to murder. By AP and Reuters Published On 11 Dec 202511 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, have been sued in California state court over claims that ChatGPT, OpenAI’s…
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A former crypto entrepreneur who was behind two digital currencies that collapsed and lost an estimated $40bn (£29.9bn) has been sentenced by a New York judge to 15 years in prison for an “epic” fraud. Do Kwon, a South Korean national, was co-founder of Singapore-based Terraform Labs, which developed the TerraUSD and Luna digital coins….
Paramount Skydance has announced plans to lay siege to Warner Bros. Discovery in a high boardroom drama that feels like a throwback to the “Barbarians at the Gate” era of the 1980s. But what share of hostile takeovers actually succeed? About 24%. That’s according to two law professors who studied a database of more than…
The board of the Federal Reserve System said Thursday that it had reappointed all regional Fed bank presidents, just days after the Trump administration began suggesting that it wanted to make major changes to the reappointment process. Regional bank presidents in the Fed’s 12 districts across the country wield nearly as much influence over interest…
Entertainment However, Apple can collect ‘appropriate’ fees from external App Store links, says court. However, Apple can collect ‘appropriate’ fees from external App Store links, says court. Dec 11, 2025, 10:44 PM UTC Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at…
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has not sold off his multimillion-dollar stake in the airline he led since 1999 despite a promise to do so as part of his ethics agreement, according to a Democratic senator. In a letter to Bryan Bedford this week, Sen. Maria Cantwell said he vowed to sell all…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Dec. 12, 2025. Jeenah Moon | Reuters U.S. equities pulled back on Friday as investors continued to exit technology stocks and move into value areas of the market. The S&P 500 fell 1.07% to end the day at 6,827.41,…
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. December 11, 2025 Federal Reserve Board announces reappointment of Reserve Bank presidents and first vice presidents For release at 4:00 p.m. EST Following a comprehensive review by the boards of directors of the regional Reserve Banks,…
SpaceX intends to go public in 2026 and will seek a valuation of $1.5 trillion, according to media reports. Elon Musk‘s company has been private since its founding in March 2002. Over the past six days, however, speculation has swirled that SpaceX will hold an initial public offering (IPO) next year, offering investors the chance…
In this article LULU Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Calvin McDonald, CEO of lululemon athletica inc., is interviewed by CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 29, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Lululemon shares jumped more than 9% on Friday, after the company announced…
In attempting to keep up with (or ahead of) the competition, model releases proceed at a steady clip: GPT-5.2 represents OpenAI’s third major model release since August. GPT-5 launched that month with a new routing system that toggles between instant-response and simulated reasoning modes, though users complained about responses that felt cold and clinical. November’s…
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A ticket worth $1 million was sold in New Jersey for Wednesday’s massive Powerball lottery drawing. The winner bought the second-prize ticket at Krauszer’s Food & Liquor on Broad Street in Bloomfield, Essex County, lottery officials said. The ticket matched all five of the first batch of numbers, but not the Powerball number. There was…
OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its most advanced model yet and one designed for developers and everyday professional use. OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is coming to ChatGPT paid users and developers via the API in three flavors: Instant, a speed-optimized model for routine queries like…
Rivian detailed Thursday how it plans to make its electric vehicles increasingly autonomous — an ambitious effort that includes new hardware, including lidar and custom silicon, and eventually, a potential entry into the self-driving ride-hail market, according to CEO RJ Scaringe. The announcements at the company’s first “Autonomy & AI Day” event in Palo Alto,…
Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother in August after ChatGPT allegedly suggested she was part of a surveillance campaign. Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother in August after ChatGPT allegedly suggested she was part of a surveillance campaign. Dec 11, 2025, 4:29 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech,…
Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. has one of its stars curious about the economics of the possible deal. On Monday, Paramount, led by CEO David Ellison, launched a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after the latter agreed to a deal with Netflix last week that would sell the Warner Bros. film and…