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Franklin Templeton files for ETFs that reinvest stock dividends into bitcoin exposure Bitcoin pulled back slightly last week, falling to $62,180 after Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting and Kevin Warsh’s first press conference as the new Fed chair. Similarly, major altcoins such as ether, solana and XRP also saw declines of between 5 to 10% over the week, writes Simon...

Romania’s prime minister-designate Adrian Vestea on Monday failed to secure the votes he needed to invest his government, prolonging the country’s six-week political crisis. After a day fraught with last-minute negotiations, demands and uncertainties, Vestea, 52, fell well short of the votes he needed from the opposition far right despite making a last-minute personal visit to the headquarters of the...

 Nicușor Dan has committed the original sin of Roman’s first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu Traitors from the National Liberal Party called for help both for the formation of the government, and for it to be voted in Parliament. Support from Victor Ponta Support from non-AUR extremists Begging for votes from AUR extremists Minister for Development,  (from ex-PM Marcel Ciolacu) ...

At the VivaTech conference in Paris (Europe’s biggest startup and tech event), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos argued for an extremely optimistic vision of the future of artificial intelligence, pushing against mounting fears regarding mass technological unemployment. Responding to the huge wave of concern that has overtaken public discourse recently, Bezos didn’t say that there was no reason to worry —...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in the Bulgarian capital filed an indictment on Monday at the Sofia City Court against an EU project consultant suspected of fraud involving a project for dental care. The consultant was contacted by a doctor who sought to establish a dental practice in a small town in Bulgaria's Burgas region, with the aim of...

Romania's prime minister-designate Adrian Vestea on Monday will try to secure a majority of votes in Parliament to invest his government, but needs votes from ‌the opposition far right for his government to pass, and it is unclear whether he will get them. President Nicusor Dan nominated Liberal Party member Vestea last week without consulting the party, in what analysts...

Artificial intelligence has turned high speed memory into the most acute bottleneck in today’s digital economy. Industry updates confirm that high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity for 2026 is effectively sold out, with allocation rather than technology now dictating who can scale AI. As a result, we are moving from the developers to the support companies of the AI boom as main...

After more than a month and a half of political crisis, its architects and executors are preparing the next step. President Nicușor Dan did not escape what he had feared: he will have a formidable competitor, in the future presidential race, Ilie Bolojan. This is thanks to the outcome of the National Liberal Party extraordinary, something that was ironically,...

Two Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft were scrambled early Sunday after Russia carried out new drone attacks overnight near the border with Romania, the defense ministry said. Romanian acted after the Ukrainian Air Force sent warning messages that attack drones were moving over the Black Sea towards the Ukrainian  town of Vylkove, across the Danube from Periprava in Romania. It was not...

On Friday, while on an official visit abroad, President Nicușor Dan spoke about the domestic political situation. However, this does not mean he was more convincing, or relevant than in the past. And he gave no indication that he had a fix for the spiraling political crisis. On the contrary, on Friday, the head of state admitted personal failure, when he...