The Ethereum ecosystem underwent something of a short revival in 2025. Early in the year, as many major cryptocurrencies surged to fresh all-time highs, ether lagged behind. Some in the community pointed fingers at Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) leadership, claiming the organization hadn’t done enough to reinvigorate the network’s momentum. This feature is a part of…
OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. The company is aiming to raise the funding by the end of the calendar first quarter next year, and it may…
Mike ClayDec 18, 2025, 09:56 AM ET Close Mike Clay is a senior writer for fantasy football and the NFL at ESPN. Mike is a member of the FSWA Hall of Fame. His projections power the ESPN Fantasy Football game, and he also appears on “Fantasy Football Now” and the Fantasy Focus Football podcast. Welcome…
Now here is something rare: good news. It was announced earlier this year that, after 26 years, the beloved film festival Ebertfest, founded by iconic film critic Roger Ebert and currently run by his widow Chaz Ebert and festival director Nate Kohn, was coming to a likely end at its longstanding home at the Virginia…
When the billionaire chief executive of AI chipmaker Nvidia threw a party in central London for Donald Trump’s state visit in September, the power imbalance between Silicon Valley and British politicians was vividly exposed. Jensen Huang hastened to the stage after meetings at Chequers and rallied his hundreds of guests to cheer on the power…
Jurien Timmer, Director of Global Macro at Fidelity and a long time bitcoin bull, has become one of the latest financial strategists to turn more bearish on bitcoin BTC$87,853.38, citing the asset’s four year cycle. Bitcoin has historically followed a repeatable pattern, and from both an analog and time-based perspective, the current cycle appears to…
President Donald Trump’s social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), said on Thursday that it’s merging with TAE Technologies, a Southern California-based company that has been chasing the dream of fusion power for nearly 30 years. The all-stock transaction, valued at more than $6 billion, would expand Trump Media’s presence into the nascent fusion…
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In February this year, Indian filmmaker Ananth Mahadevan walked into the film censor board’s office confidently, hoping for a swift certification process. After all, he believed his film was “safe” enough to pass the censorship test — no sex, no gore, no profanity, and no Bollywood innuendo. “Phule” is a reverential tale of anti-caste reformers…
Russia has been attempting to meddle with western democracy for years, but successive governments led by Boris Johnson and others have insisted that the UK’s electoral system can withstand its influence. That argument was recently blown apart by the conviction of former Reform politician Nathan Gill, jailed for 10 years for accepting bribes to advance…