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Michael Saylor's Strategy is nursing a twelve point five billion dollar loss after Bitcoin dropped from roughly eighty-seven thousand to sixty-eight thousand dollars during the first quarter of twenty twenty-six. The company shows no signs of retreating from its massive Bitcoin bet, but the numbers are a stark reminder of how much volatility that conviction carries.
Shifting to the road, California-based WattEV has placed an order for three hundred seventy Tesla Semis, marking the largest electric truck deployment the state has ever seen. It's a meaningful milestone for commercial EV adoption, suggesting that fleet operators are gaining enough confidence in electric freight to make genuinely large commitments.
And in Europe, privacy advocacy group Noyb is challenging LinkedIn over a feature that restricts profile visitor data unless users pay for a premium subscription. Noyb argues that under GDPR Article Fifteen, people have a right to access their own processed data regardless of whether LinkedIn wants to monetize it. The outcome could reshape how platforms across the EU handle personal data as a revenue tool.
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