Bank of Japan to keep interest rates unchanged at July meeting

Then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK’s ambitions to be a “global cryptoasset hub” all the way back in 2022. Since then, that goal has seemed more like a distant aspiration rather than actuality. But several recent announcements suggest the gap between fantasy and reality might finally be narrowing. Within days of each other, the…

Sovereign AI doesn’t have budget cycles. It has national imperatives. Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). There is a short list of technologies that governments have decided are too important to lose. They are: Nuclear, semiconductors, satellites, GPS, and the internet itself. But now AI just made the list. Recently,…

Most budgets fail because they’re built on assumptions rather than actual spending data. Track every transaction for one full month first and you’ll almost certainly find categories where you’re spending two or three times what you guessed. Build your budget from that reality, not from what you think you spend. Source

Enterprise AI has spent the last two years proving it can summarize documents, answer questions and automate repetitive work. Banking has spent the same two years asking a different question: can artificial intelligence be trusted to make decisions that carry financial, regulatory and legal consequences? That threshold, as Maik Taro Wehmeyer, co-founder and CEO at Taktile,…

Crypto presales did slow down over the past few months. As prices across the market remain under pressure, risk appetite has faded and many early-stage projects are struggling to maintain momentum. Capital has become more selective, with investors less willing to back ideas that rely purely on optimistic price narratives. That slowdown, however, does not…

Concentration risk may have been overshadowed by major geopolitical events this year, but it hasn’t gone away. Indeed, the big AI hyperscalers remain a significant part of portfolios, but with that comes risk. Were AI to actually pop like a bubble, portfolios would suffer in turn. Equal weight ETF strategies can help diversify while also…