According to Odaily, the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced that 24 leading artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA, have signed an agreement with the U.S. government to join the 'Genesis Initiative.' This initiative, launched by the White House, aims to promote the application of emerging technologies in scientific exploration and energy projects. On the same day, industry participants, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy responsible for science and the Genesis Initiative, Darío Gil, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, held a meeting at the White House. The meeting aimed to initiate a public-private innovation partnership in the field of AI technology to ensure the establishment of scalable national infrastructure, accelerate scientific development at an unprecedented pace, and ensure that the benefits of AI reach all of America. The 24 companies involved, listed alphabetically, are Accenture, AMD, Anthropic, Armada, Amazon AWS, Cerebras, CoreWeave, Dell, DrivenData, Google, Groq, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, Periodic Labs, Palantir, Project Prometheus, Radical AI, xAI, and XPRIZE. Following this announcement, the stock prices of the involved companies reportedly rose by over 5%.

Dogecoin is showing two very different technical narratives depending on timeframe. Short-term price action reflects a corrective phase with unstable rebounds, while longer-term structure is being interpreted as a potential inflection point by cycle-focused traders. source: https://www.ethnews.com/dogecoin-tests-short-term-support-as-long-term-structure-draws-attention/

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OpenAI is in talks to raise $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. source: https://catenaa.com/industries/technology/openai-in-talks-to-raise-100bn-to-take-valuation-to-830bn/

Wall Street bank Citigroup remains optimistic about the cryptocurrency sector despite the recent market downturn. Analyst Peter Christiansen stated in a report that he is bullish on Circle Financial, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, and reiterated his price target of $243. Furthermore, benefiting from increased institutional investment (especially in the US) and traditional financial participants, Citigroup analysts also highlighted Bullish (BLSH) and Coinbase (COIN). However, Citigroup lowered its price target for MSTR from $485 to $325 and for Gemini (GEMI) from $16 to $13. (CoinDesk)

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XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) slipping below the $2 mark signals near-term weakness, even as technical indicators begin to hint at a source: https://www.benzinga.com/crypto/cryptocurrency/25/12/49511924/xrp-below-2-is-an-opportunity-but-it-better-not-follow-this-cardano-pattern-trader-warns?utm_source=cryptopanic.com&utm_campaign=partner_feed&utm_medium=referral

A recent statement from the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy reveals that 24 leading artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, have signed agreements with the U.S. government to join the "Genesis Initiative." Initiated by the White House, this initiative aims to promote the application of emerging technologies in scientific exploration and energy projects. On the same day, industry participants, including U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Under Secretary of Energy Darío Gil for Science and the Genesis Initiative, and Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, met at the White House to launch a public-private innovation partnership in the field of artificial intelligence. The goal is to ensure the establishment of a scalable national infrastructure to drive scientific progress at an unprecedented pace and ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence reach the entire nation. The 24 companies include (in alphabetical order): Accenture, AMD, Anthropic, Armada, Amazon AWS, Cerebras, CoreWeave, Dell, DrivenData, Google, Groq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Periodic Labs, Palantir, Project Prometheus, Radical AI, xAI, and XPRIZE. (Science and Technology Daily) The stock price of the relevant company rose by more than 5%, possibly due to this news.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Central Bank (ECB) is set to enable blockchain-based settlement in central bank money next year, while also gearing up for the issuance of a digital euro. ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone announced that the institution will facilitate transactions based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) in central bank money starting next year. Additionally, the ECB is preparing to issue the digital euro and integrate its system for international cross-border payments. The infrastructure supporting the digital euro will be accessible to other institutions for settling transactions with other central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Cipollone emphasized that holding limits and the absence of interest are anticipated to maintain banks' roles in credit intermediation and monetary transmission. Assuming legislative approval by 2026, initial transactions with the digital euro could commence in 2027, with the CBDC ready for issuance by 2029. ECB President Christine Lagarde stated that the ECB's work is complete, and the design of the digital euro, including its privacy features, is now in the hands of EU lawmakers. Cipollone highlighted the necessity of a CBDC due to the EU's fragmented retail payment ecosystem and slow cross-border payments. He warned that without a CBDC, tokenization and DLT could lead to fragmentation and increased credit risk. A tokenized digital euro is expected to be available for the digital asset market to prevent such fragmentation. Cipollone acknowledged that stablecoins offer a solution to slow, costly cross-border payments but also pose risks to currencies and financial systems. He cautioned that the expansion of dollar-based stablecoins could undermine the euro's international role. The ECB's stance in 2023 is that the digital euro should not be programmable in a way that restricts spending, while still allowing conditional payments. The ECB noted that the offline model of the digital euro would offer privacy and data protection levels similar to cash. The offline digital euro model would ensure that not all transactions require third-party validation, meeting data protection requirements of proportionality and necessity. This variant would be stored locally, enabling device-to-device payments without needing an online ledger check. The ECB is considering using secure elements in mobile devices to store offline digital euros and is exploring smart cards. These recommendations contrast with the EU's recent privacy-related actions, as EU legislators must approve the CBDC blueprint. Last month, the European Commission's attempt to mandate private message scanning was unsuccessful. An internal EU document from November 27, published by Netzpolitik, indicates that member states view extensive data retention positively, discussing the logging of communication details and location data. The EU's AML Handbook, released in May, prohibits crypto-asset accounts that allow transaction anonymization and accounts using anonymity-enhancing coins from 2027. This followed the EU Innovation Hub's concerns about crypto privacy-preserving technologies in June 2024.

Sports betting giant DraftKings announced Friday that it has launched a standalone prediction app, officially entering the federally regulated prediction market governed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The new product, DraftKings Predictions, will allow eligible users to trade contracts for events linked to real-world outcomes, and will initially cover both sports and financial markets. (The Block)

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