Argentina's president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap before plunging by 95%+ (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Argentina’s president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap
Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to the NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA chief counsel in Trump's first term and informed Tesla of inaccurate safety claims (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters: Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to the NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA chief counsel in Trump’s first term and informed Tesla
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without algorithmically tracking the user (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs
Apple is at the center of an escalating US-China geopolitical fight spanning tariffs, regulatory probes, and a backlash due to growing anti-US rhetoric in China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is at the center of an escalating US-China geopolitical fight spanning tariffs, regulatory probes, and a backlash due to growing
OpenAI's Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and likely economically valuable work (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: OpenAI’s Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and
Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation
Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023, taking its total to nearly $60B since its 2006 founding (Jem Aswad/Variety)
Jem Aswad / Variety: Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023,
Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending —
Source: OpenAI plans to release a new ChatGPT feature called Operator this week to automate complex tasks typically done via a web browser (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI plans to release a new ChatGPT feature called Operator this week to automate complex tasks typically done via
Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok JV with 50% US ownership (Avery Lotz/Axios)
Avery Lotz / Axios: Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok
