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Ripple acquires GTreasury, a platform used by Fortune 500 companies for managing cash, foreign exchange, and risk, for $1B, set to close in the coming months (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/

Ripple News: Enters Corporate Treasury Business with $1B Acquisition of GTreasury
The deal, pending regulatory approvals, would give Ripple access to large enterprise clients as it is building out financial services around its digital asset business.

A memo from Business Insider EIC Jamie Heller outlines the outlet's AI rules, permitting staffers to use ChatGPT for research and writing first drafts (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/business-insider-ai-policy-chatgpt

Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.

Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-bat…

Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid  | TechCrunch
Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.

Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show was about to be canceled (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/howard-s…

Howard Stern Inks New Deal to Stay With SiriusXM
The radio host had been in talks with the satellite radio company for months, after a report suggested he would be exiting his post.

WhatsApp is testing imposing per-month limits on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/what

WhatsApp will curb the number of messages people and businesses can send without a response | TechCrunch
The company said the controls are designed to be effective against people and businesses that blast messages and spam people.

Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

How Sam Altman Played Hollywood
OpenAI’s CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios’ characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users. Insiders at the major agencies are alarmed — and some wonder whether the studios are doing enough.

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/a…

Sakana AI takes crown as Japan's most valuable unicorn
AI developer valued at $2.63bn in latest funding round

In an informal survey of 300 Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/at-an-ai-c

At a top AI conference, 300 attendees were asked which startup they would short.
300 founders and investors in the audience at Cerebral Valley were asked which startup valued at more than a billion dollars they would bet against.

Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

Shares of Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during their stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO (Ismi Damayanti/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/marke

Superbank trading halted after 24% jump in Indonesia market debut
Grab-backed lender's IPO rides interest in booming digital banking business