politics
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The documented family bond between Motown founder Berry Gordy and President Jimmy Carter connects slavery, migration and music. A historical comparison explains how 1992’s political shift differs from the 2026 midterms.
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Bipartisan Bitcoin legislation coexists with sharp disagreement over federal reserves and market rules. The 49–50 Senate vote illustrates the difference.
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Oracle has reportedly abandoned an estimated $7 billion AI chip lease with Tencent after U.S. government pressure, according to the Financial Times.
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Abu Dhabi and OpenAI launch a machine-readable government system with a live food-import compliance pilot, in-country inference and human oversight.
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The U.S. Treasury is pushing international partners to adopt “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI,” extending a White House terminology change into global economic diplomacy. Reuters reported on October 15 that Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs Erin Browne said the United States is discussing the wording with International Monetary Fund…
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White House officials are weighing budget-neutral ways to add more Bitcoin to the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, building on authority established by the 2025 executive order.
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned Wednesday that a U.S. moratorium on new data-center construction could push the economy into recession because so much current capital spending is tied to AI infrastructure. Fink told CNBC that “so much of our economy” now depends on the buildout of this capital expenditure. He argued that data centers are…
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Visa has received approval from the People’s Bank of China to begin preparing a domestic bank-card clearing institution, but the company still needs a separate operating license before it can clear domestic transactions.
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Banking regulators in the United States and Europe are increasing scrutiny of how financial institutions use advanced and agentic artificial intelligence, focusing on cybersecurity, outside technology providers and whether increasingly autonomous systems can be controlled when something goes wrong. Reuters reported October 13, citing six people familiar with the matter, that U.S. regulators including the…
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The Trump administration reportedly plans to move three senior officials from the Commerce Department’s federal AI testing center to the White House, a change that could put advanced-model evaluation closer to the administration’s central technology and national-security decision making. Reuters reported on October 12, citing The Information and a White House official, that three officials…
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tells Bloomberg that trade shocks, tariffs and geopolitics are straining the global system, but argues for diversifying—not abandoning—globalization.
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Government-linked wallets transferred roughly $1.5 billion in seized crypto over two days. Here is the wallet math—and why transfers do not prove sales.
