🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says he wants to make a deal with Iran, signaling diplomacy is still on the table despite the ongoing military buildup and rising regional tensions.
The pressure campaign continues — but the door to negotiations remains open.
A growing share is explicitly tied to AI: smaller teams, same output.
Here’s the macro risk:
The U.S. economy runs on high-income consumption. Replacing $150K–$200K jobs with software boosts margins — but shrinks the income base that buys homes, cars, travel, SaaS, fintech, and credit products.
Second-order effect:
The same companies cutting workers sell to those workers. Short-term profits rise → long-term demand weakens.
You can get:
Higher productivity Stronger earnings But falling broad participation
That’s how you build a ghost economy — output grows while the customer base underneath erodes.
The key variable now: whether the labor market can absorb the transition before demand starts cracking.
⚡️ LATEST: Ethereum has launched Project Odin, a new initiative designed to help public goods teams build long-term operational strength and sustainable funding — a major push toward a more resilient ecosystem.
🚨 HOTTER-THAN-EXPECTED PPI: U.S. producer inflation came in above forecasts, with headline PPI at 2.9% vs 2.6% expected and Core PPI jumping to 3.6% — the highest in 11 months.
Pipeline price pressures are building again, complicating the Fed’s path and pushing rate-cut expectations further out.
🚨🇺🇸 UPDATE: The DC Scam Center Strike Force has seized $580M+ in crypto linked to “pig butchering” fraud schemes — one of the largest crackdowns yet on industrial-scale scam networks.
🚨 JUST IN: The Tali/ban has called for “dialogue” with Pakistan to end the ongoing fighting — a potential diplomatic opening as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate.
🚨 JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇯🇵 The SEC and Japan’s FSA met in Tokyo for their Spring Regulatory Dialogue, focusing on crypto and digital asset developments and signaling deeper cross-border coordination on regulation.
Bybit says it prevented $300 million in impersonation attacks and fraudulent withdrawals in Q4 2025 alone.
Meanwhile, Chainalysis estimates $17 BILLION was lost to crypto fraud globally in 2025 — highlighting the scale of the battle between security and scammers.
🚨 BREAKING: Reports of explosions inside Iran are emerging, with local sources describing blasts in multiple areas — the cause and extent of the damage are not yet confirmed. Situation developing. #Iran #BreakingNews #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #WarAlert
🔥 JUST IN: $2T banking giant Barclays is exploring blockchain integration — including stablecoins and tokenized deposits — another major signal that traditional finance is moving on-chain.
🚨 JUST IN: 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan claims the attacks on its territory are being conducted with Indian backing — a serious allegation that sharply raises tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI has secured $110B in fresh funding at a $730B pre-money valuation — one of the largest private capital raises in tech history and a clear signal that the AI infrastructure race is accelerating at unprecedented scale.