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Kevin O'Leary is putting a number on Bitcoin's ceiling — one million dollars — but he's attached a significant condition. He says the cryptocurrency's future depends on whether the industry can solve its quantum computing vulnerability before that technology matures enough to crack existing encryption. He's also walking away from Ethereum, signaling a broader reshuffling of where serious crypto money is placing its bets.
Shifting to the world of AI infrastructure, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is pushing back on the breakneck pace of data center growth in a state that already hosts more of them than anywhere else on earth. Her executive order bans state officials from signing NDAs around data center deals and gives local communities more leverage in the approval process — a notable move that frames the AI buildout as a question of democratic accountability, not just economic development.
And in a story about who gets to own the pipes of American media, the FCC has cleared the way for Gulf state sovereign wealth funds to hold nearly half of a combined Paramount and Warner Bros. entity. That's a significant concentration of foreign capital flowing into the platforms that shape what millions of people watch every day, and not everyone is comfortable with where that leaves the public interest.
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