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Meta Platforms’ chief human resources officer, Janelle Gale, released an official memo on Thursday confirming that the company plans to lay off about 8,000 employees on May 20, or roughly 10% of its total workforce, and will also pause its plans to fill 6,000 open positions. That same day, Microsoft disclosed a voluntary retirement plan for about 7% of U.S. employees, marking the first time the company has introduced such a program in its 51-year history.

## Coordinated U.S. Action Against Southeast Asian Scam Networks The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Cambodian senator Kok An, accused of running "scam compounds" that defraud Americans by promising high cryptocurrency returns, according to OFAC's statement on

According to Brazilian local media PipeLine, which reported on April 22, the venture capital arm of one of Brazil’s largest banks, Itaú Unibanco (Itau Unibanco), Itaú Ventures (Itau Ventures), has invested in the mobile data center and Bitcoin mining company Minter. The amount has not been officially disclosed; the report said it could be as high as 10 million US dollars to build Bitcoin mining facilities in Brazil and the United States.

Tencent officially open-sourced the Hy3 preview version of a large language model on April 23 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and the ModelScope platform, and simultaneously provided paid API service via Tencent Cloud. According to Decrypt’s report on April 24, the Hy3 preview version began training in late January and reached the publication calendar in less than three months.

FTX, the centralized cryptocurrency exchange that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2022 due to liquidity shortages and capital outflows, would have held investments valued at approximately 158.796 trillion won if it had not collapsed, according to analysis cited by Park

According to an official announcement released by Metaplanet Inc. on April 24, the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company Metaplanet announced the issuance of its 20th tranche of unsecured ordinary bonds, with a total issuance amount of 8 billion yen (approximately 50 million US dollars). EVO FUND will subscribe for the full amount, and the funds raised will be used to purchase Bitcoin (BTC).

Itau Unibanco, through its VC arm Itau Ventures, has made an undisclosed investment in Minter, a company that installs mobile data centers and bitcoin mining operations across Brazil. Minter’s approach allows it to take advantage of surplus energy that would otherwise be wasted. Key Takeaways: It

The United Kingdom is exploring a major step in financial cybersecurity by working with AI firm Anthropic. Early discussions suggest the government may deploy Anthropic’s advanced Claude Mythos model across banks and financial institutions. This move aims to improve defenses as cyber threats

U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds have extended their total net inflow streak to eight days, drawing in over $2 billion during the period, according to data from SoSoValue cited by The Block. ## Thursday Flows Led by BlackRock IBIT Spot bitcoin ETFs logged $223.2 million in positive flows on

A senior admiral has indicated that the US Government is actively operating a node on the Bitcoin network while deliberately avoiding participation in mining activities. The disclosure suggests that authorities are taking a more involved role in blockchain infrastructure for oversight and

Galaxy Digital’s research chief Alex Thorn said in an analysis posted on the X platform on April 23 that Strategy (MSTR)’s bitcoin holdings have become the largest bitcoin-holding institution globally, predicting that the company could most quickly surpass Satoshi Nakamoto’s estimated 1,096,000 bitcoins in holdings as early as November 2026.

Gulf Aluminium Rerouting Capacity Falls to 40% Amid Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Gulf aluminium producers can now reroute only about 40 percent of output away from the Strait of Hormuz, down from earlier estimates of as much as 80 percent, according to Swiss private bank Julius Baer. This

The UAE's two top banks—First Abu Dhabi (FAB) and Emirates NBD (ENBD)—each increased provisions in the first quarter of 2026 as precautionary measures following the outbreak of the Iran war on February 28, according to their Q1 earnings results released April 23, 2026. Despite higher provisions,

Pi Network unveiled the Pi Token Design Framework PiRC1 on April 22 as part of the Protocol V22 upgrade. PiRC1’s core rule is: only projects that already have deployable applications within the Pi ecosystem and that have real user demand are eligible to issue tokens. Token proceeds do not flow to the project team; instead, they flow into a perpetual liquidity pool anchored by Pi Coin to prevent rug-pull behavior.

One of Poland’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Zondacrypto, announced on April 16 via social media that its CEO, Przemysław Kral, said the exchange could not access a wallet holding 4,503 bitcoins, worth more than $350 million in current value. Kral published the address of the wallet in question to rebut allegations of misappropriation, but this disclosure immediately triggered a large-scale withdrawal.

Misty Fog Chief Information Security Officer 23pds forwards a warning from the Bitwarden security team. The Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 version had an npm version that had been tampered with—where a malicious package was distributed through npm—within a 1.5-hour window from 5:57 PM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time on April 22, and that version has been withdrawn. Bitwarden has officially confirmed that password vault data and production systems were not affected.

The U.S. military deployed a third aircraft carrier to Middle Eastern waters on April 23, 2026 (local time), according to U.S. Central Command. The Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush arrived in the Indian Ocean to support operations against Iran, the command announced via social media on