“Not so perfect, but so beautiful”… Global M&A rebounded sharply in 2025, reaching $4.93 trillion, driven by mega-deals: 57% from $1billion+ transactions, with 122 deals over $5 billion generating $1.58 trillion, the strongest activity since the post-pandemic surge. [you lose 100 bonus points if you recognize the lyric]
He’s one-up’d Adam Neumann’s WeWork mission “to elevate the world’s consciousness”… Elon Musk merged SpaceX with xAI, creating a $1.25 trillion company fusing rockets, AI and data centers “to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!”
Is AI next??? Stellantis (Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, etc.) took a $26 billion EV-related write-down, Ford $19.5 billion and GM $7 billion, as US EV adoption has been far weaker than forecasted.
“I’m stronger than yesterday”… Last year the four largest US credit-card issuers (JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Capital One and Citigroup) together collected about $146 billion in revenue from consumer interest, fees, and merchant swipe charges.
We just love a good tailwind!!! 2025 marked a record year for global M&A, with over 50,000 deals completed for the first time, totaling roughly $4.9 trillion, underscoring sustained strength from both strategic acquirers and financial sponsors worldwide.
Is TradFi trembling??? Nasdaq-listed ETHZilla is tokenizing a $4.7 million portfolio of 95 home loans, moving beyond Ethereum treasury management – the onchain loan pool, built on an Ethereum Layer 2, is projected to deliver a 10.36% annualized yield.
“You don’t run the race to lose”… Big tech announced massive annual spend on AI infrastructure: Amazon plans $200B, Alphabet $185B, Meta $135B, and Microsoft $105B – signaling an arms race across chips, data centers, robotics, satellites, and cloud scale.
“Be afraid – be very afraid”!!! Open-source agent OpenClaw is going viral as users clamor for its persistent, autonomous agentic capabilities across computer activities, amid concerns that that this autonomy expands attack surfaces and elevates prompt injection, credential exposure, and malicious skills from theoretical to frighteningly real risks.
“Push come to shove, shove come to push”… PayPal replaced its CEO as the board grew impatient with a slow turnaround (despite progress in buy now pay later, crypto, and Venmo monetization), shrinking market share and the stock price falling 50% YOY and 84% over five years.
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