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
Earnest Analytics: ~60% of paid Gemini users kept their subscriptions six months after signing up, better than Perplexity but lagging behind ChatGPT and Claude (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Earnest Analytics: ~60% of paid Gemini users kept their subscriptions six months after signing up, better than Perplexity but
A look at Troodi, a mental health chatbot built by AI startup Elomia Health for Troomi's child-focused phones, with thousands of teen users across the US (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: A look at Troodi, a mental health chatbot built by AI startup Elomia Health for Troomi’s child-focused phones, with
Live blog: The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law (Wired)
Wired: Live blog: The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in TikTok’s appeal against the divest-or-ban law — We’re tuning in live as the justices
Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX bankruptcy claims (Adam James/The Block)
Adam James / The Block: Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX
Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its
