Journals

Reuters: Hashrate Index: China’s bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world’s third-largest miner despite China’s 2021 ban  —  – China’s bitcoin mining market share rebounds to 3rd globally, Hashrate Index shows … Read More »Hashrate Index: China’s bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world’s third-largest miner despite China’s 2021 ban (Reuters)

Bloomberg: Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family’s fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump’s TMTG stake fell by ~$800M  —  In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth.  Now… Read More »Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family’s fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump’s TMTG stake fell by ~$800M (Bloomberg)

Jamie Smyth / Financial Times: Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK  —  Reactor developer closes fundraising round as markets… Read More »Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)

Bart Meijer / Reuters: The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom’s $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world’s largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech  —  The EU Commission on Monday said it had unconditionally approved Omnicom Group’s… Read More »The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom’s $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world’s largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech (Bart Meijer/Reuters)

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025  —  The artificial intelligence startup Model ML… Read More »Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT’s mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025  —  The model policy team leads core parts… Read More »OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT’s mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Bloomberg: Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads… Read More »Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China (Bloomberg)

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google’s AlphaMissense  —  PopEVE system outperformed rivals such as Google DeepMind’s AlphaMissense  —  Scientists have… Read More »Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google’s AlphaMissense (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Bloomberg: Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inventories ~50% higher than usual  —  Lenovo Group Ltd. is stockpiling memory and other critical components to navigate a… Read More »Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inventories ~50% higher than usual (Bloomberg)

New York Times: Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted  —  SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal… Read More »Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted (New York Times)