World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance project linked to the family of US President Donald Trump, has entered the cryptocurrency lending market, highlighting renewed interest in onchain credit as regulatory clarity improves. The new product, called World Liberty Markets, launched on Monday and allows users to borrow and lend digital assets, according to a Bloomberg … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google’s parent company Alphabet has become the fourth Big Tech group to hit a $4tn market value, fuelled by investor optimism that its artificial intelligence models can compete with rivals such as OpenAI. Alphabet shares … Read more
We compared how participants fared while eating their habitual diets with how they responded to the two diets that were low in ultraprocessed foods. During the periods when participants ate fewer ultraprocessed foods, they naturally consumed fewer calories and lost weight, including total and abdominal body fat. Beyond weight loss, they also showed meaningful improvements … Read more
Reengineering the Bolt for a new battery pack wasn’t the work of a minute. The cells, modules, and electronics are all different but had to fit in the same size space with the same mounting points as the original. And GM’s own LFP factory won’t be producing cells until sometime next year. Which means for … Read more
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has named Rafael Espinal, executive director of the Freelancers Union and a former New York City Council member, as commissioner of the Mayor’s Office Of Media and Entertainment. Espinal “will advance the Mamdani administration’s agenda to ensure New York City remains a place where artists and creatives can afford to … Read more
Shipping is expected to start for all three Pokémon sets on February 27th, 2026. A set that is only for the most die-hard Pokémon fans and Lego collectors is the Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise diorama featuring the three Pokémon in their final evolutions. It’s a 6,838-piece behemoth that includes articulated and posable versions of the … Read more
Pocketpair announced today that it has partnered with Bushiroad — the company behind the Weiss Schwarz and Shadowverse: Evolve trading card games — to produce a new TCG featuring creatures from Palworld due out on July 30th. Though the company didn’t share any card art, it says that the game will feature “strategic and tactical” … Read more
NFT Paris was supposed to be the kind of week people plan their year around. You book the ticket, you text the group chat, you lock in the flights before prices jump, you tell yourself the hotel bill is “work”, you start quietly hoping the market gives you a reason to feel optimistic again. Then, … Read more
The chair of the US Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, faces a criminal investigation over a $2.5bn refurbishment of the central bank’s headquarters as the Trump administration intensifies its attacks on the institution. Gold jumped to a record high on Monday and the US dollar fell as traders viewed the justice department’s probe as a dramatic … Read more
Apple will use Google’s Gemini AI model to power a more personalized Siri coming this year. “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users,” Apple said in a statement provided to CNBC. … Read more