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Ray Dalio is sounding the alarm — not just about a potential recession, but about a deeper, systemic breakdown of the global economic and political order in an interview with CNBC on Sunday. His concerns aren’t just about market volatility; they point to a broader structural fragility. Interestingly, bitcoin (BTC) has been showing resilience amidst the chaos. The digital asset has broken a three-month downtrend and is approaching $85,000, signaling it may be stepping into a role as a potential alternative safe haven. Mixed signals continue from the White House on tariffs, adding to the growing uncertainty weighing on global…

Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, successfully launched its New Shepard rocket at around 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday, as it seeks to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the space tourism industry.  What stands out most about this mission is that it featured the first all-female space crew since 1963, when Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova completed her solo mission. This also marks the 31st trip of the rocket and its 11th mission with a crew on board. The crew for this launch included pop artist Katy Perry, “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez,…

Chinese officials have implicitly acknowledged responsibility for a series of sophisticated cyber intrusions targeting critical U.S. infrastructure. During a high-level meeting in Geneva with American officials, representatives from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs indirectly linked years of computer network breaches at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports, and other critical targets to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan. The campaign, dubbed “Volt Typhoon” by security researchers, has been described by U.S. officials as an attempt to establish a foothold in critical networks that could be leveraged during a potential future conflict. The admission came during a previously undisclosed half-day summit…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United States for the first time.The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas — part of an investment the company said will produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure in the next four years.“The engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time,” Nvidia founder Jensen Huang said…

The crypto industry found its champion in Donald Trump. Once a skeptic of blockchain, Trump embraced the sector after companies like Coinbase and Ripple donated tens of millions of dollars to elect pro-crypto candidates during the last election cycle. Trump began to adopt talking points rarely heard outside of Crypto Twitter, like calling for the end of “Operation Chokepoint 2.0” and the release of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht—a stunning reversal after referring to Bitcoin as a “scam” just a few years before. It’s fair to say that, for most of the business world, the first few months of the…

Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to generate questions. They can then export the questions into a Google Doc or Google Form. Educators can choose from a variety of filters, including the grade level, the number of questions, and the type of questions (such as multiple choice or open-ended). Additionally, there is an…

When Donald Trump hosted the first-ever White House crypto summit in March, he was surrounded by some of his top advisors in the elegant State Dining Room. To his right at the cloth-draped table was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and to his left was his crypto and AI czar, venture capital heavyweight David Sacks. But next to Sacks was a figure who had been unknown to nearly everyone in the room until just a few months before: Bo Hines, a 29-year-old former congressional candidate and college wide receiver who had helped one of the Trump campaign’s top affiliated super PACs…

FILE PHOTO: People walk past an installation depicting barrel of oil with the logo of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) during the COP29 United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan November 19, 2024. Maxim Shemetov | ReutersOPEC on Monday cut its oil demand forecast for 2025 and 2026 as President Donald Trump’s tariffs weigh on global economic growth.The cartel now sees demand for crude growing by 1.3 million barrels per day this year and next year, down about 150,000 bpd from its previous estimates. OPEC also lowered its global economic growth forecast to 3% and 3.1% for 2025…

Lastly, major U.S. equity indexes, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, appeared headed for the death cross, a bearish technical pattern involving the 50-day simple moving average’s (SMA) move below the 200-day SMA and the dollar index looked oversold as per the 14-day relative strength index. Both observations called for caution in risk assets. The key events and data to watch out for the week ahead are Monday’s stock market reaction to Trump’s tariff exclusions, Wednesday’s U.S. retail sales and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech and earnings reports on Wall Street on Friday. Stay Alert! Crypto: April 14, 2025: Filecoin…

ChatGPT’s image generation feature has sparked a new wave of personalised digital creations, with LinkedIn users leading a trend of turning themselves into action figures. The craze began picking up momentum after the viral Studio Ghibli-style portraits sees users sharing images of themselves as boxed dolls – complete with accessories and job-themed packaging. There are several variations in the latest wave of AI-generated self-representation. The most common format is similar to a traditional action figure or Barbie doll, with props like coffee mugs, books, and laptops reflecting users’ professional lives. The images are designed to resemble toy store displays, complete…