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Tether advisors have floated a $5 billion raise, down from $20 billion, after investor resistance to a $500 billion valuation, per the FT.
Advisers are now discussing a smaller fundraising of roughly $5 billion, as prospective backers question both the size of the deal and Tether’s lofty valuation.
The move comes amid ongoing tensions with Aave DAO over which entity ultimately controls the Aave lending protocol.
The French action comes as investigations into X’s Grok chatbot expand across multiple jurisdictions, including the UK and EU.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Codex made him feel useless. X users responded by roasting his vulnerability—and airing months of anger over AI job losses.
A French official said the government is looking at ways to stop the use of VPNs to evade an incoming social media ban for kids under 15.
At the time the former Eclipse CEO and founder Neel Somani acknowledged but denied allegations of sexual harassment.
Behind the scenes, the esports powerhouse has moved hundreds of terabytes of content to a decentralized data layer built for scale.
Standard Chartered analyst says Solana's "ultra-low-cost" model will dominate micropayments, but scaling may take several more years.
The acquisitions bring TeraWulf’s capacity to 2.8 gigawatts as it targets major infrastructure expansion to supply power-hungry computing demand.
Trump denied knowledge of a $500 million Abu Dhabi investment in World Liberty Financial as conflict-of-interest concerns mount in Congress.
Kulechov, the founder of decentralized lending platform Aave, bought the luxury property in November, Bloomberg reported.
