Trump says his administration will work with major AI firms, starting with Microsoft, to ensure soaring data center power use doesn’t raise household electricity bills, insisting tech companies “pay their own way” for the energy needed to run AI systems.
Bitcoin jumped to about $92,500 after new U.S. inflation data showed consumer prices rose 0.3% in December, as investors expect the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged this month and watch how this may affect demand for BTC.
US cyber agency CISA has ordered federal agencies to secure or stop using Gogs after adding an actively exploited zero-day bug (CVE-2025-8110) to its high-risk list. The flaw lets logged-in users overwrite files and remotely run code, and no fix exists yet.
Brazil’s competition authority has ordered Meta to halt WhatsApp’s new rules that block third-party AI chatbots from using its business API and opened an antitrust probe into whether the policy unfairly favors Meta’s own AI bot.
21Shares has listed its Bitcoin-Gold exchange-traded product (BOLD) on the London Stock Exchange, giving UK investors access to a fund that holds both Bitcoin and gold as physical assets.
Security researchers found flaws in popular AI tools from NVIDIA, Salesforce, and Apple that could let attackers run code when loading a booby-trapped AI model file. Fixes are out, and no real-world attacks have been seen yet.
Brazil’s crypto industry group says it will sue the government if it goes ahead with a plan to tax stablecoins. The dispute could also affect how Bitcoin and other digital assets are taxed in the country.
UK regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into X after its Grok AI tool generated indecent images, and could ultimately seek a UK-wide block under the Online Safety Act if it finds serious, ongoing failures to remove illegal content.
VelaFi has raised $20 million in Series B funding to grow its stablecoin payment network, aiming to make it easier and faster for people and businesses to move money in and out of Bitcoin and other digital assets.
US senators have urged Apple and Google to remove X and its Grok AI chatbot from their app stores after reports that Grok was used to create explicit images of women and children. Regulators in the UK, Malaysia, and Indonesia are also taking action.
