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Jamie Dimon is sharpening his knives in Washington. The JPMorgan chief escalated his fight against the CLARITY Act this week, taking direct aim at Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and warning that allowing stablecoin issuers to offer yield-bearing rewards would essentially let crypto firms do what banks do, without playing by the same rules. The banks, Dimon says plainly, will not accept it.
Meanwhile, the contractors working inside Meta's European headquarters are making their dissatisfaction very public. Soon-to-be laid off workers are protesting what they describe as a two-tier severance system, where full-time employees walk away with meaningfully better packages while contractors, who did much of the same work, get what one worker called simply the crumbs. It's a human cost story dressed up in a corporate restructuring announcement.
And looking ahead to Computex two thousand twenty six, Nvidia and Microsoft appear to be coordinating something. Teasing what they're calling a new era of the PC, both companies dropped synchronized social media hints pointing toward Windows on Arm laptops powered by Nvidia's N-one-X chip. Local AI processing, without the cloud. If it delivers, that's a meaningful shift in how we think about personal computing.
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