UK govt says plans crypto regulation from 2027

Nvidia is considering increasing production of its H200 artificial intelligence chips after orders from Chinese customers exceeded current output levels, according to sources familiar with the matter.

California and several other U.S. states are set to file a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s proposed $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, according to the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

With a series of record highs and crushing sell-offs, 2025 has been a rollercoaster ride for bitcoin, the world`s largest cryptocurrency, which is at risk of ending the year with its first annual decline since 2022.

American Bitcoin, a US cryptocurrency mining company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, saw its share price plunge almost 39% on Tuesday as early investors rushed to sell after a lock-up period expired. The drop erased around $1 billion from the company’s market value, with trading volume surging to nearly 40 times the usual daily average, according to Bloomberg data.

Bitcoin dropped more than 5% on Monday, deepening its recent slide as concerns over large-scale liquidations continued to weigh on the cryptocurrency market. The leading digital asset was trading around $86,100 at 0710 GMT, after dipping below $90,000 last month for the first time since April.

Binance and its founder, billionaire Changpeng Zhao, are being sued in the US for allegedly facilitating millions of dollars in transfers to US-designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah. 

The United States is pressuring the European Union to soften its regulations on major tech companies if it wants reduced tariffs on steel and aluminium exports, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Monday.

A factory next to a weed-ridden lot in China`s industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a sector that just a few years ago swore it wouldn`t be caught again by supply-chain disruptions.

Nvidia projected quarterly revenue far above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, with CEO Jensen Huang highlighting surging demand for the company’s AI chips from major cloud providers.

Nvidia and Microsoft on Tuesday announced a combined $15 billion investment in Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI models, marking one of the largest funding boosts yet in the fast-growing generative AI sector.

Apple is accelerating its succession plans as it prepares for the possibility that CEO Tim Cook could step down as early as next year, according to a report from the Financial Times.

Japanese automaker Toyota has confirmed plans to invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years, solidifying earlier remarks made by former President Donald Trump during his visit to Asia.

A woman, said by police to have bought cryptocurrency now worth billions of pounds using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, is due to be sentenced this week for money laundering.

China has removed export restrictions on certain computer chips that are essential for automobile production, the country’s commerce ministry announced on Sunday.

The European Commission announced Saturday that Chinese authorities have confirmed a partial resumption of chip exports from Nexperia, easing supply concerns that had worried European carmakers.

Samsung Electronics reported a 32 percent year-on-year rise in third-quarter profits on Thursday, fueled by surging global demand for memory chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.