Month: December 2025
Bitcoin Recounding
Bitcoin hit a record high in early October, but then it and other digital tokens pulled back sharply. Bitcoin prices hit a trough below $81,000 in late November. Was that a cold snap, rather than the start of a new “crypto winter”? Bitcoin continued to rally Wednesday, on track for the best two-day stretch since
Waymo starts autonomous testing in Philadelphia
Waymo is adding another four cities to its growing list of robotaxi rollouts. The company announced Wednesday it has begun testing its autonomous vehicles (with a safety monitor) in Philadelphia, and that it will start manual driving to collect data in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Waymo did not offer a timeline for when it
Echoes from the Porsche electric car debacle could be spooking Ferrari shareholders, as the Italian supercar maker prepares to launch its own EV. Ferrari’s share price is wallowing at lows for the year, defying a firmly established tradition.Investment banks remain bullish and unruffled by this, but the share price remains firmly in the dumps weeks
territorial sticking points in Ukraine-Russsia war
The issue of territory remains at the heart of negotiations for both sides. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “territorial issue is the most difficult” element of the peace deal. The Kremlin continues to push for Ukraine to cede territory it still controls in the east – something Kyiv has long-maintained it will never do.The
U.S.-Russia Ukraine Talks Failed
While details of the Kremlin talks are only beginning to emerge, it appears Putin again offered nothing on the key issue of territory, meaning the location of a cease-fire line, and security for Ukraine. After much diplomatic drama, U.S. negotiators are leaving the Kremlin with little.Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump
Vidu Launches Q2 Image Generation
ShengShu Technology, a global leader in multimodal generative AI, today launched advanced image generation on Vidu Q2, expanding its flagship model into a leading AI image platform. The new capabilities upgrade the reference-to-image features from the earlier Q1 model and extend them into a full image stack that covers text-to-image, enhanced reference-to-image and full image
ICE seeks to deport them despite court order to stop the process
Immigrants who win court protections remain detained for months as ICE pursues third-country removals. DHS regulations allow continued detention when “there is a significant likelihood of removing a detained alien in the reasonably foreseeable future.” Immigration lawyers say federal detention practices have rendered court-granted protections for torture victims and persecuted people virtually meaningless. Is Trump
Zelenskyy meets with Macron
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday at the Elysée presidential palace in Paris, part of a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at brokering the terms for a potential ceasefire in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s visit to Paris followed a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials in
Plans to undo Brexit deal
Brexit has done ‘significantly hurt’ to the UK economy, Sir Keir Starmer warned today as he pushed a ‘closer relationship’ with Brussels under his premiership. In a speech in London today he said the country had to ‘face the reality’ of how Britain was faring outside the bloc. It came after it was reported that
NATO to be more aggressive towards Russia
NATO is preparing to take a tougher approach against Russia’s relentless cyber attacks, sabotage operations and drone intrusions in a move that is already stoking anger in Moscow. The alliance’s most senior military commander warned that simply reacting to threats from Vladimir Putin’s regime was no longer working and that NATO must now consider striking