AI
The Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2026 is gearing up to put artificial intelligence at the center of its program, reflecting how quickly AI is reshaping decision making inside global organisations. Gartner projects that by 2027, half of all business decisions will be supported or fully automated by AI agents.
Finance
Kraken has taken a major step toward entering the public markets, quietly filing a confidential S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move places the long-running crypto exchange in the growing line of digital asset companies preparing for listings as interest in the sector rises under the Trump
AI
Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic have launched a new AI compute alliance that reshapes how large-scale models are built, deployed, and governed. The partnership marks a shift away from relying on a single model provider and toward a diversified, hardware-tuned ecosystem designed to support the rapid acceleration of frontier AI. Microsoft
Markets
The competition around Solana exchange traded funds intensified this week as 21Shares rolled out its own offering, joining a fast-growing list of asset managers racing to meet rising demand for crypto exposure. The firm’s new product, the 21Shares Solana ETF (TSOL), began trading Wednesday morning on the Chicago Board
Politics
Malaysia’s battle against electricity theft tied to illegal crypto mining has reached a new milestone, with the national utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad reporting more than 1.1 billion dollars in losses over the past five years. The figures were disclosed in a parliamentary filing from the country’s energy
Markets
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust faced its sharpest single-day withdrawal since launching in January 2024, marking a notable shift in sentiment across digital asset ETFs. Data from SoSoValue shows the fund shed 523.15 million dollars on Tuesday, surpassing its previous record of 463 million dollars set in mid-November. The
AI
Brookfield Asset Management has taken a bold step into the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence with the launch of a $10 billion global AI infrastructure fund, developed in partnership with Nvidia and the Kuwait Investment Authority. $NVDA Brookfield Asset Management announced the launch of a $100 billion global AI infrastructure
Markets
El Salvador has expanded its national Bitcoin holdings by more than $100 million, purchasing 1,090 additional tokens during a recent market dip. The move, confirmed by the country’s Bitcoin Office, lifts the nation’s total reserves to 7,474 BTC—valued at just under $700 million. Hooah! pic.
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Politics
U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott says he plans to bring the long-debated crypto market structure bill to a vote next month, setting up the possibility of Senate action early next year. Speaking Tuesday on Fox Business, Scott said he expects both the Senate Banking and Agriculture committees
DeFi
Kraken has boosted its valuation to 20 billion dollars after raising 800 million dollars across two funding rounds over the past two months, marking a major step forward as the United States based crypto exchange moves closer to a public listing. The largest portion of the raise came from a
Politics
Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of a U.S. crypto ATM operator in what they say was a multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy. Firas Isa, 36, the CEO of Chicago-based Virtual Assets LLC — known to customers as Crypto Dispensers — was indicted Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for