Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 2025 revenue up 22% YoY to $191M and a $29M net income, compared with a $13M net loss in H1 2024
A Letter from Our Founder At the tail end of 2017 I had my “aha” moment on blockchain. Finextra : Blockchain lender Figure files for IPO Will McCurdy / Decrypt : Blockchain Lender Figure Technologies ...
Analysis: in H1 2025, 500+ orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023
Hundreds of organisations are seeking to influence Congress and Donald Trump's White House — Alex Rogers and Ian Hodgson …
The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse in H1 2025 globally, up from just two in H1 2024
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious “nudify” app that has millions of visitors.
In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; in H1 2024, $1.58B had been stolen, but the pace slowed in H2
The Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report — Crypto hacking remains a persistent threat, with four years in the past decade individually seeing …
Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers in H1 2024 and has doubled its subscriber base in the past four years thanks to Japanese-language programming
Netflix's (NFLX.O) subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm's Japanese …
Telegram's H1 2024 unaudited financial docs: revenue up 190% YoY to $525M, a $335M post-tax profit, and $1.3B in digital assets, vs. nearly $400M at 2023's end
Can It Ride a Crypto Bull to a $30B IPO by 2026? Florence Muchai / Cryptopolitan : Toncoin boosts Telegram's crypto holdings to $1.3B in H1 2024 Hassan Shittu / Cryptonews : Telegram's Crypto Holdings...
Adyen reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to €498.3M, vs. €503.3M est., and processed volume growth slowed to 32% from 45% in H1 2024; ADYEN falls 9%+ in Amsterdam
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Sources: ByteDance's international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to ~$17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% YoY to ~$73B, after growing 40% YoY in H1 2023
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Sources: Shein's revenue growth slowed to 23% YoY to $18B in H1 2024 and its profit declined 70%+ YoY to just under $400M, as competition with Temu intensifies
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