China appears to be weighing the launch of a yuan-backed stablecoin, with an initial rollout in Hong Kong and Shanghai, a surprising shift after years of cracking down on crypto while promoting its central bank digital currency, the digital yuan. In the latest episode of Byte-Sized Insight, Cointelegraph spoke with two leaders analyzing China’s potential…
On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Gaza’s largest city is officially suffering from a manmade famine that has already affected more than half a million Palestinians and is likely to spread, the world’s leading authority…
South Korea’s top automakers and battery companies are teaming up for the first time to take on China and advance new technology. Hyundai and Kia announced a new alliance with three EV battery giants to help Korea gain an edge. Hyundai and Kia form new EV battery alliance in Korea The global EV market is…
Thousands of user chats with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok are now publicly available on Google. More than 370,000 Grok chats have been indexed by search engines, exposing hundreds of sensitive prompts that include medical and psychological questions, business details, and at least one password. The chats have been exposed due to a Grok’s “share”…
A strong rally erupted on Friday on Wall Street shortly after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a notably dovish message during his highly anticipated speech at Jackson Hole. Powell said the Fed is prepared to adjust its policy stance—a clear nod to potential interest rate cuts—in response to the sharp cooling in the labor…
The parents of a Hong Kong student at the centre of an academic integrity controversy have said their daughter will voluntarily return all the awards associated with an app she is credited with inventing, as they apologised for the disturbance caused to the public. But they also hit out at the “relentless” cyberbullying suffered by…
La Liga’s proposal to move the league match between Villarreal and Barcelona to Miami on 20 December has drawn strong criticism from several quarters. Several La Liga clubs, including Real Madrid, have opposed the proposal, while the Spanish Players’ Association (AFE) also expressed concerns about the decision that was made without consulting several key stakeholders….
TORONTO — Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday. What You Need To Know Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact Prime Minister Mark Carney…
[LONDON] Social media platform TikTok announced on Friday (Aug 22) it will restructure its UK trust and safety operations, putting several hundred jobs at risk as it shifts to AI-assisted content moderation. The move is part of global restructuring plans by TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, which also affects moderator jobs in South and South-east…
Blokette, whimsigoth, tomato girl, mobwife, gorpcore, old money. It’s 2025 and everything you see (or buy) can likely be folded into a microtrend—and every micro trend has a distinct name, and perhaps a community, behind it. It seems like every word gets the “core” amendment at some point. So much so, that it’s hard to…