Isaac Francis

Bloomin’ Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) reported fourth-quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday that signaled the early stages of a strategic pivot.

Tri Pointe Homes (NYSE:TPH) reported a sharp contraction in fourth-quarter profitability on Wednesday, even as the company moves toward a definitive exit through its previously announced acquisition by Sumitomo Forestry.

Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ:PSKY) has aggressively escalated its pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery, raising its all-cash takeover bid to $31 a share and prompting the target's board to determine the overture could trump an existing merger agreement with Netflix.

A public dispute has erupted over whether the XRP Ledger is decentralised, after Cyber Capital founder Justin Bons argued that its Unique Node List structure makes validators effectively permissioned.

Anthropic has alleged that three Chinese artificial intelligence firms generated more than 16 million exchanges with its Claude model through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts in what it described as large-scale distillation attacks.

Payoneer has filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish PAYO Digital Bank, seeking a national trust banking charter that would allow it to issue a stablecoin and expand into crypto services.

Binance chief executive Richard Teng has threatened legal action against the Wall Street Journal over what he called “inaccurate reporting” that internal investigators uncovered $1.7 billion in digital assets flowing to Iranian-linked entities.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury, depositing 2,016 ETH and outlining plans to stake about 70,000 ETH in total as it becomes a direct participant in network consensus.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed an amicus brief backing Crypto.com in a Ninth Circuit appeal against Nevada regulators, arguing that sports-based prediction markets fall under exclusive federal jurisdiction rather than state gambling laws.

Wagering giant Tabcorp (ASX:TAH) has reported a 14.2% slide in statutory net profit to $21.7 million for the half-year ended Dec. 31, 2025.