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Texas billionaire banker Andy Beal, a big donor to President Donald Trump, is shifting the focus of one of two banks he owns to crypto. The move would ease a bottleneck that has made it difficult for the crypto industry to access the financial system.
Beal is renaming Beal Bank, one of the two federally chartered banks he owns, Monet Bank, according to a regulatory approval issued by the Texas Department of Banking in May. The approval has not been previously reported. Monet had more than $4 billion in ass
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The advice from five legal experts all boiled down to a blunt reality: employees should watch their mouth if they want to keep their job. Read more âș
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The 'Clone Wars' and 'Rebels' creator will share 'Star Wars' duties with Lynwen Brennan. Read more âș
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The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states. Read more âș
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Ashley St. Clair is suing Elon Musk's AI startup, alleging the chatbot Grok generated explicit photos of her. Read more âș
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After a tumultuous 2025 that saw it lose around 4,000 employees, NASA finally has an operating budget for 2026, and one that largely preserves its scientific capabilities. On Thursday, the Senate passed an appropriations bill funding NASA, alongside the National Science Foundation and a handful of other federal agencies. Going into the appropriations process, the president called for a 24 percent year over year reduction to NASA's total operating budget.... Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Tensions are rising in Minneapolis as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. Whatâs happening? There are some 3,000 Department of Homeland Security agents â both [âŠ] Read more âș
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There's a new name in charge of stewarding Star Wars at Lucasfilm. The studio just announced that Dave Filoni - best-known for his work on The Mandalorian and The Clone Wars - will be taking over as president. Former president Kathleen Kennedy, whose departure had been rumored for some time, will be stepping down and [âŠ] Read more âș
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In the hours and days after news and videos spread of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, a small army of right-wing, pro-Trump creators, journalists, and influencers descended on the city and flooded social media. They filmed protests; rode along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection; documented [âŠ] Read more âș
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The outgoing studio president weighs in on potential projects from James Mangold, Taika Waititi, Donald Glover, and more. Read more âș
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NY State Governor Kathy Hochul wants 3D printer manufacturers to make it impossible to 3D print guns. Read more âș
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Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the many people over the past couple weeks who have found themselves undressed without permission by X's AI [âŠ] Read more âș
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Iran has imposed one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns in its history, cutting more than 92 million people off from connectivity for over a week as mass anti-government protests continue. TechCrunch reports: As of this writing, Iranians have not been able to access the internet for more than 170 hours. The previous longest shutdowns in the country lasted around 163 hours in 2019, and 160 hours in 2025, according... Read more âș
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The Twin Cities, and much of the nation, are still reeling from ICE agent Jonathan Ross shooting and killing Renee Good last week. The local resistance to the federal immigration forces deployed in and around Minneapolis has grown, and the Trump administrationâs rhetoric against Good and the protesters around Minneapolis has heated up. On Thursday, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Department of Homeland Security's AI initiatives in action... Read more âș
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A chip that produces microscopic âearthquakesâ could change smartphone design, allowing manufacturers to shrink internal components while boosting signal handling and data speeds using surface acoustic wave technology. Read more âș
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OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer thatâs building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more âș
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Last summer, a manager at startup Motive Technologies sent an urgent Slack message to 400 employees based in Pakistan. âWE HAVE A PROBLEM,â it said in all caps. Motive sells AI-powered dashcams that allow trucking companies to monitor drivers and send alerts about crashes and other safety issues. In August, the dashcams recorded a string of collisions, but customers never received the alerts. Read more âș
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OpenAI is Microsoftâs most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoftâs cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAIâs archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropicâs top customers and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500 million a year for Anthropic AI to power Microsoft products, according to a person with direct knowledge. At the same... Read more âș
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Amazon has started laying the groundwork to open a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, according to planning documents. That marks a return to similar plans for a Target-like store that Amazon shelved a few years ago. In recent weeks, Amazon has sought approval from the village of ... Read more âș
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One month before Google paid $4.8 billion for Intersect Power, the tech giant had a message for federal energy regulators: They should fast-track approvals for data centers that supply some of their own power. Intersect does just that, producing power for data centers to allow them to operate without relying entirely on the grid. Googleâs purchase of Intersect is the first step by a major tech company to acquire a... Read more âș
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Robinhood and Coinbase are two of the most popular trading apps, historically concentrating on equities and crypto, respectively. But more and more, theyâre competing head to head. Coinbase is launching stock trading, while Robinhood is expanding in crypto. Both are also betting big on prediction markets. Yet as far as stock performance goes, the two companies couldnât look more different. Robinhoodâs shares rose 186% last year, while Coinbaseâs fell 12%.... Read more âș
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Last November, during one of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huangâs five visits to Taiwan last year, he and CC Wei, CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., met with reporters. Wei told the assembled media that Huang had come to ask for more chips, to which Huang, standing next to him, replied: âYes!â Huang wasnât the only U.S. tech executive making such requests. In recent months, Broadcom, which places manufacturing orders with... Read more âș
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BitGo, a crypto custody firm, said Monday itâs launching its initial public offering, seeking to raise as much as $201 million at a valuation of up to $1.96 billion. The company began pitching the shares to investors today, meaning they will likely start trading within the next two weeks. BitGo ... Read more âș
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In a new research paper published this week, DeepSeekâs founder and researchers proposed a new technique that makes AI models more efficient by allowing them to retrieve simple factual information without relying on a compute-intensive process. The technique, called Engram, enables AI models to ... Read more âș
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The revenue picture for AI startups is brightening, a bit. In just seven months, annualized revenue at âAI nativeâ companies selling AI models or apps has doubled, from $15 billion to more than $30 billion, according to an analysis of 32 companies from The Informationâs Generative AI Database.One problem: OpenAI and Anthropic make up nearly 85% of that revenue, while the top 10 companies by revenueâOpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Cognition, ElevenLabs,... Read more âș
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