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Apple is pushing hard to close the gap in the AI assistant race. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, CEO John Ternus is pressing AI chief Craig Federighi to accelerate Siri's roadmap and build a truly agentic experience that can go head to head with rivals from OpenAI and Meta. Apple knows it's behind, and it's not pretending otherwise.
On the crypto front, stablecoins are telling a split story. Supply growth has essentially flatlined this year, yet payments using these tokens are surging. Circle's latest earnings put a sharp point on that divergence — more transactions, but not more dollars sitting on-chain. It raises real questions about what stablecoin adoption actually means in practice.
And in the political dimension of crypto, Democrats apparently had a strong showing at the ballot box, which has some in the industry quietly worried. The crypto world has spent considerable energy courting friendlier regulation, and a Democratic surge could complicate that calculus depending on who holds the levers in the months ahead.
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