A document submitted to Brazil’s competition authority reveals that if PIF were to buy EA, it would own a controlling 93.4% of the company. Silver Lake would have a 5.5% stake, and Affinity would own just 1.1%. Because PIF already invests heavily in both Silver Lake and Affinity, this deal would give it even greater control over EA.
A new framework leverages large language models to extract and track key events from financial news, improving the accuracy of stock price forecasting.
The new version 1.4 update, titled ‘Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree,’ is now available on Steam. We plan to release it on other platforms soon.
When wishing for characters on any banner, you have a 0.6% chance of getting a 5-star character and a 5.1% chance of getting a 4-star. You’re guaranteed to get at least a 4-star character every 10 wishes. The game also guarantees a 5-star character within 90 wishes – this is called ‘hard pity’. Before that, around the 75-80 wish mark (‘soft pity’), your chances of getting a 5-star character significantly increase, so most players get one before reaching the 90-wish guarantee.
On December 2nd, BlackRock’s iShares BTC ETF (IBIT) scooped up $120 million like a kid at a candy store. Fidelity’s FBTC and Bitwise’s BITB weren’t far behind, adding $22 million and $7.4 million respectively. (Names like “BITB” and “FBTC” really scream “we’re serious about blockchain,” don’t they?)
As the digital assets market matures beyond speculation, a new phase of global finance is emerging, one defined by interoperability, compliance, and inclusion. Speaking at Token2049 Singapore 2025, Arthur Firstov outlined how the next evolution of financial systems is closing the gap between decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional financial institutions.
In this, the latest carnival of finance, Bitcoin parades as a “mature” asset, its swings now as tame as a Moscow bureaucrat’s yawn. Institutional players, those daring souls, now frolic in tokenized RWAs like bears in a honey factory. 🐻🍯
Actor Matthias Schoenaerts, 47, has been sentenced to six months in jail, a €4,000 fine, and a year-long driving ban after being convicted of driving without a valid license. The sentencing occurred while Schoenaerts was not present in court.
A scene of remarkable peculiarity was observed as the stocks of American Bitcoin Corp.-that affirmative entity-plunged about 40% under a peculiarly voracious volume, followed by a brief tremor in Hut 8, its majority shareholder sibling. Other Trump-inspired digital currencies also plummeted, eloquently whispering a broader rumour of another frosty downturn.
RaKai, a 17-year-old who quickly became a popular content creator in 2025, has been banned from Twitch for two years due to recent misconduct.
