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Stellantis and Renault back UK to get EU car industry protection
Bosses of Citroën owner and French carmaker also urge UK government to consider limiting imports from ChinaStellantis and Renault have backed the UK car industry for inclusion in …
What are your rights on auto-renew subscriptions?
Martin has advice for listeners caught out by auto-renewing subscriptions, explaining what rights consumers have and whether there's a way to challenge the renewal or cancel.
Bitcoin miners face widening AI financing costs as lenders scrutinize deals
The Bitcoin mining industry needs roughly $50 billion to complete planned AI infrastructure projects, with IREN, Riot Platforms and HIVE Digital facing major funding gaps.
Bitcoin Spooked? Crypto Fear and Greed Index Drops to Pre-Rally August Lows
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has dropped to 56 from an August peak of 82, as oil, bond yields, and ETF outflows hit Bitcoin in October.
Ledger Says All Confirmed Cases in Suspected $87M Drain Tied to Reseller CryptoBilis
The wallet manufacturer said its own systems and direct sales are unaffected, and that the reseller has stopped selling hardware wallets.
Bitcoin drops 2.2% as Ukraine, Iran strikes send oil toward one-month high
Bitcoin price action stayed rangebound after failing to sustain above $84,000 into the Wall Street open on rising oil prices.
Strategy buys $21 million worth of Bitcoin as corporate crypto buying shows signs of revival
Bitcoin’s rebound has turned some corporate sellers back into buyers after months of market turmoil.
Palantir's Europe head warns the region is 'missing the boat' on AI just as it did with the internet
The Palantir UK chief said the U.S. is racing ahead on enterprise AI while Europe hesitates, and explained why he thinks the company faces intense political attacks.
NEXTPredict Paid $12,000 to Hedge Its Conference on a Prediction Market
Where event insurance deals with scrapped shows and what happens inside the venue, NEXTPredict is focusing on flight cancellations.
XRP Ledger’s Payment Engine Had a Counterfeiting Bug Hiding Since 2015
An integer overflow in the payment engine, dormant since 2015, could have let an attacker mint spendable XRP beyond the token’s total supply.
Why some have no choice but to pay costly oil prices
Rural communities are badly hit by the rising cost of heating oil, as our Wiltshire reporter explains.
Tom Lee sees $2 trillion wealth transfer fueling crypto demand as Bitmine buys more ether
The Bitmine chairman said he expects younger investors to drive demand for digital assets as his ether treasury company inches closer to owning 5% of the total supply.
Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: ‘You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand,’ he slams
With $372 billion to his name, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says Americans have been taught to view billionaire success in the wrong light.
Tokenized catastrophe bonds target the disaster-insurance gap
A planned Bermuda issuance would put legal ownership onchain and seek capital for disaster risks that remain costly to insure.
The White House wants AI companies to police themselves. OpenAI just showed why that’s dangerous
We've worked inside a frontier AI lab and help AI whistleblowers speak out. OpenAI's latest firings expose the risks of AI self-policing.
‘His alleged actions show a blatant disregard to the Venezuelan people’: Businessman taken into U.S. custody after ‘corrupting’ government programs
Alvaro Pulido was indicted as part of an investigation into his business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted President Nicolás Maduro.
‘Putin does not read Truth Social’ Zelenskyy said Russia continues striking Ukraine’s energy facilities despite Trump’s ceasefire claim
He said Kyiv would stop striking Russian refineries if Moscow also stopped attacking Ukraine’s energy system, and asked Trump to press the Kremlin
The economics Nobel went to the scholar whose work shaped Fed ‘forward guidance,’ a practice Kevin Warsh says has gone too far
Stanford’s Robert Hall and Columbia’s Michael Woodford reshaped how central banks respond to crises by studying consumer and business decisions.
‘This is not the time to ease pressure on Moscow’: EU imposes sanctions on nearly 1,600 Russian people and firms for drone and missile development
The move brings the total number of Russian officials and “entities” targeted by the EU to more than 4,500—including President Vladimir Putin.
Chinese drivers stopped buying cars, so China’s automakers shipped them abroad: exports are up 64% while domestic sales fell 27%
Chinese automakers are challenging the European auto industry with lower costs and prices
Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford for work on ‘smoothing’ crises
US economists developed models that help central bankers and finance ministers to stabilise their economiesBusiness live – latest updatesTwo US economists have won the 2026 Nobel …
XRP treasury Evernorth’s shares rise 5% at Nasdaq opening print
Evernorth’s share price rose by 5% as investors welcomed the Nasdaq debut of the first pure-play XRP digital asset treasury.
‘This is not what we expected’: Latino voters were key to Trump’s win in a swing Pennsylvania district. Now some say the economy is ‘worse’
In a key congressional district, frustration over gas and grocery prices is testing Republican efforts to retain Latino voters ahead of the midterms.
Ledger implant tests Bitcoin ETFs as safer custodial solutions than hardware wallets
The discovery of an unauthorized Ledger hardware implant reignited debate on whether Bitcoin ETFs are safer than self-custodying Bitcoin via hardware wallet devices.