Crypto, Trump, GOP leadershipo gang up on FDIC over debanking

A US Postal Service worker outside a Signature Bank branch in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley wants everyone to know what happened to his crypto company in 2023 during the Biden administration. “Our story is pretty … Read more

How China’s DeepSeek could boost the already booming data center market

The emergence of cheaper and more efficient AI models off the back of China’s DeepSeek could reshape demand for data centers, boosting a sector that investors were already heavily betting would continue to boom. For years now, analysts have forecast exponential growth in data centers — the critical infrastructure required for powering the world’s digital … Read more

Elon Musk company X settles Trump lawsuit over deplatforming

Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2025.  Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Social media company X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump, who has put X’s billionaire owner Elon Musk … Read more

Markets aren’t as keen on Trump and AI as before

The Russel Metals industrial facility seen in Nisku, Alberta, Canada, on Feb. 7, 2025.  Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images The excitement over artificial intelligence and U.S. President Donald Trump’s perceived friendliness to the stock market buoyed up investor sentiment as recently as December. In 2025, it seems those animal spirits have somewhat evaporated. … Read more

Tech megacaps to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 to win in AI

Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs … Read more

Stock gains signal calm, but listen to Fed officials

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.  Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images If investors were to judge the stability of the economy by looking at the stock market, its two-day winning streak might lead investors to think that it’s business as usual. The market’s … Read more

Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025.  Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia lost close to $600 billion in market cap … Read more

DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations

DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup has generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks as a fast-growing rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other leading … Read more

Alphabet shares close above $200 for first time since stock split

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet shares closed at $200 per share for the first time on Friday as investors grow increasingly bullish on the company’s opportunities in artificial intelligence. The stock gained 1.1% on Friday and a little more than 2% for the week to close … Read more

Here’s why you’re suddenly following President Trump on Instagram

(L-R) Priscilla Chan, CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.  Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Instagram users are complaining this week that they’re … Read more