Did you actually think I was going to write a funny headline for this??? Portable toilets were a $2.8 billion-per-year market in 2024.
It’s good to be the… World Liberty Financial, the $22 billion DeFi token launched with a gold paper, insider allocations and buybacks, inflated the Trump family’s $5 billion paper fortune amid widespread controversy in the crypto community.
Yes, we are still talking about NFTs… A Ninth Circuit ruling confirmed NFTs’ commercial value under US trademark law, strengthening brand protections and making it easier and more defensible to obtain and enforce a registered trademark tied to NFTs, supporting creators’ IP rights.
“The law of unintended consequences is, in effect, the law of life”… OpenAI plans to launch parental controls for ChatGPT, allowing parents to link teen accounts, limit features, disable memory, and receive distress alerts, following a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging the chatbot contributed to a teen’s suicide.
Like a $50 speeding ticket… Anthropic, a leading AI startup backed by Google and Amazon, has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with authors over training on 500,000 pirated books, avoiding potential trillions in damages but still facing numerous other intellectual property lawsuits.
It’s not quite Corporate Currency®, but it’s getting closer… Galaxy Digital became the first Nasdaq listed company to directly tokenize its actual SEC registered Class A common stock on the Solana blockchain via Superstate’s Opening Bell platform, allowing verified holders to transfer GLXY tokens while preserving full shareholder rights.
“I’ve given up, stop, on waiting any longer”… The office CMBS delinquency rate has hit 11.66%, the highest level in history – including the financial crisis – amid unprecedented stress in commercial real estate finance (led by the office sector) as borrowers default, lenders absorb losses, and refinancing collapses.
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else”… Stripe and Paradigm launched Tempo, an Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible layer-1 blockchain for stablecoin payments, built with contributions from OpenAI and Visa, supporting over 100,000 transactions per second, sub-second finality, stablecoin gas, privacy lanes, and permissionless decentralization.
Hopefully to the North Shore of Long Island shortly thereafter… Technologists plan to bring cellular service to the moon, supporting astronauts, research, and mining while providing strategic advantages in space exploration. NASA’s Artemis mission, slated for 2027, expects lunar spacesuits with advanced wireless links, despite the extreme challenges of building durable, low-maintenance systems for space.
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