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Bitcoin’s Seven-Year October Winning Streak Ended — Then the Selloff Got Worse

Bitcoin market chart representing the cryptocurrency's October 2025 decline

Bitcoin’s October 2025 decline ended one of the cryptocurrency market’s most closely watched seasonal streaks — but the importance of the month became clearer only afterward. Bitcoin finished October lower for the first time since 2018, breaking seven consecutive years of positive October returns. The reversal was particularly sharp because the cryptocurrency had climbed above … Read more

China Proposes Global AI Governance Body to Counter U.S. Approach

China Proposes Global AI Governance Body to Counter U.S. Approach

At the APEC summit in Gyeongju, Chinese President Xi Jinping took centre stage to advance a bold proposal for a global organisation to govern artificial intelligence, signalling China’s ambition to position itself as a leader in international tech governance. Xi suggested the establishment of a “World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation” that would set governance rules … Read more

Meta Denies Using Adult Videos to Train AI, Says Content Was Downloaded For “Personal Purposes”

Meta Denies Using 2,400 Adult Videos to Train AI, Says Content Was Downloaded For “Personal Purposes”

Meta is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally downloading adult videos to train its artificial intelligence systems, arguing the content was likely accessed for “personal use” and not for AI development. The complaint, filed in July by adult entertainment producers, alleges Meta downloaded at least 2,369 copyrighted films beginning in 2018. … Read more

Coinbase Keeps Lead in U.S. Crypto Market as Rivals Go Public

Coinbase Keeps Lead in U.S. Crypto Market as Rivals Go Public

Coinbase’s first-mover advantage as the only publicly traded U.S. cryptocurrency exchange continued to pay off, helping the company beat profit expectations again. But analysts say the competitive landscape is shifting as regulatory clarity improves and newly listed rivals enter the market. According to Reuters, The global crypto market has climbed to about $3.7 trillion, boosted … Read more

Google to Offer Free 18-Month AI Access to 505 Million Jio Users in India

Google and Reliance Team Up to Offer Free 18-Month AI Access to 505 M Jio Users in India

Google has announced to provide free access to its premium Gemini AI Pro platform for 18 months to users of Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom carrier. The offer — valued at approximately ₹35,100 (US $399) — particularly targets Jio’s 505 million subscribers, marking one of the largest consumer-facing AI offers ever launched. Under the terms … Read more

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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Rival Wikipedia in the Quest for “Truth”

Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Rival Wikipedia in the Quest for “Truth”

Elon Musk has unveiled Grokipedia, a new crowdsourced online encyclopedia designed to challenge Wikipedia and reshape how information is created and verified online. Announcing the launch on X (formerly Twitter), Musk said Grokipedia.com is “now live,” adding that its mission is to deliver “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” The billionaire … Read more

Nvidia Becomes the World’s First Public Company to Hit $5 Trillion Valuation Amid AI Boom

Nvidia Becomes the World's First $5 Trillion Company Amid AI Boom

The U.S.-based tech giant Nvidia on Wednesday became the first publicly traded company in the world valued at $5 trillion, fueled by soaring investor confidence in the artificial intelligence (AI) boom and record demand for its advanced chips. Shares of Nvidia climbed 4.5% to $210.11, pushing its market capitalization to $5.1 trillion. The milestone comes … Read more

Apple Becomes Third Tech Giant to Cross $4 Trillion Market Value

Apple Surges Past $4 Trillion as iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Revive Investor Confidence

Apple Inc. has officially crossed the $4 trillion market valuation mark, becoming the third Big Tech company—after Nvidia and Microsoft—to reach this historic milestone. The surge comes as strong global demand for the newly launched iPhone 17 series and ultra-slim iPhone Air drives record-breaking sales and restores investor confidence. Shares of Apple rose 0.2% to … Read more

StrictlyVC Palo Alto Put Deep Tech, Chips and Brain-Computer Interfaces in Focus

StrictlyVC Palo Alto deep tech event

StrictlyVC’s final event of 2025 brought venture investors and deep-tech founders together in Palo Alto on December 3 for discussions spanning semiconductor manufacturing, brain-computer interfaces, wearable computing and the changing investment case for consumer technology. Held at Playground Global, the event featured former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger alongside executives and investors from xLight, Science Corporation, … Read more

Saudi Arabia Turns Oil Wealth Toward Becoming a Global Artificial Intelligence Provider

Saudi Arabia Invests Oil Wealth to Lead in Global AI Race

Saudi Arabia is planning to invest billions of dollars to transform its oil wealth into technological influence, positioning itself as a major global provider of artificial intelligence (A.I.) computing power. Near the Red Sea, a proposed $5 billion data center could serve coders across Europe, while another complex on the country’s eastern coast would cater … Read more

GTA Online Rolls Out Double Money and PR Rewards in Halloween Update

GTA Online Rolls Out Double Money and PR Rewards in Halloween Update

Grand Theft Auto Online players are in for another lucrative week as Rockstar Games rolls out its latest weekly update, featuring double GTA$ and RP across several modes, limited-time Halloween bonuses, and deep discounts on select vehicles. The update runs through October 30. Early leaks on Reddit revealed that this week’s Diamond Casino podium vehicle … Read more

Amazon to Cut 600,000 Jobs as AI Takes Over—Here’s How to Secure Your Future

Amazon to Cut 600,000 Jobs: Roles at Risk and How to Protect Yours in the AI Era

The future of work is changing faster than anyone expected — and Amazon is leading the charge. According to internal strategy documents, the retail and logistics giant plans to automate an estimated 600,000 human jobs by 2033 through robots, AI, and advanced automation systems. That’s more than half a million roles across warehouses, logistics, customer … Read more

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Warns Gen Z to Think Twice Before Dropping Out of College to Chase Startup Dreams

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Warns Gen Z to Think Twice Before Dropping Out of College to Chase Startup Dreams

Jeff Bezos, founder of the world’s largest online retailer Amazon has a message for Gen Z: think twice before dropping out of college to chase startup dreams. Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025, Bezos warned that while some college dropouts—like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg—became wildly successful, their stories are rare exceptions. “It is possible … Read more

United Nations to Sign Global Cybercrime Treaty in Hanoi Amid Security and Rights Concerns

United Nations to Sign Global Cybercrime Treaty in Hanoi Amid Security and Rights Concerns

Around 60 countries are set to sign a landmark treaty in Hanoi this weekend under the United Nations banner aimed at strengthening international cooperation against cybercrime that costs the global economy trillions of dollars annually. The agreement will come into effect once 40 countries ratify it. The treaty targets a wide range of offences including … Read more

Investors Use Dotcom Era Playbook to Dodge AI Bubble Risks

Investors Revive Dotcom-Era Strategy

Major investors, spooked by AI exuberance yet wary of betting against it, are shifting from hyped-up stocks into potential next-in-line winners, reviving a strategy from the 1990s dotcom era that helped some sidestep the crash. According to Reuters, as U.S. stocks have hit successive records and AI chipmaker Nvidia’s valuation has surged beyond $4 trillion, … Read more