TIME names AI leaders like Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk as 2025 Person of the Year for fueling AI's boom, from ChatGPT's 800M users to trillion-dollar companies and global policy shifts.

Trump rips the Fed's quarter-point cut to 3.6% as too small, wants double to boost growth amid job slowdowns and Fed infighting.

Fiat's 99-inch, 28-mph Topolino EV quadricycle heads to the US as an LSV for urban nooks, with launch details next year.

Beef prices rose 14.7% year-over-year through September 2025, driven by the smallest U.S. cattle herd since 1951. Restaurants face rising costs with no quick relief ahead.

NVIDIA-backed Starcloud trained an LLM and ran inference on Google's Gemma model using an H100 GPU on its Starcloud-1 satellite, paving the way for orbital data centers amid Earth energy strains.

Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2025 featured Fintech Abu Dhabi CEO panels, MENA Fintech Awards winners, ADIO-Prudential deal, and Balyasny insights on expansion and AI.

Saudi Arabia leads MENA data center growth with PIF's $10B Google deal, data embassy plans, and over 40% of upcoming power capacity.

Employees from Palantir, Stripe, and Figma share signals like huge ambition and top founders. Investors add MVP traction for seed funding.

Denise Dresser leaves Slack CEO role for OpenAI's CRO position, bringing 14 years of Salesforce sales experience to manage enterprise revenue amid high AI costs.

AI hype echoes dot-com frenzy with massive debt and investments, but higher stakes and market concentration raise bigger risks today.