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Mateusz Kaczmarek

A technology and finance expert writing for TS2.tech. He analyzes developments in satellites, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on their impact on global markets. Author of industry reports and market commentary, often cited in tech and business media. Passionate about innovation and the digital economy.

Harvard’s $443 Million Bitcoin Bet Signals a New Era for University Endowments — Even as BTC Slides Below $90,000

Harvard’s $443 Million Bitcoin Bet Signals a New Era for University Endowments — Even as BTC Slides Below $90,000

Harvard University’s endowment has nearly tripled its stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust to about $443 million, making Bitcoin its largest publicly disclosed U.S. holding. Emory University and sovereign wealth funds are also piling into Bitcoin ETFs — even as spot ETFs see billions in outflows and BTC falls under $90,000. Key Takeaways Harvard’s Bitcoin ETF Is Now Its Biggest Public Stock Holding New SEC 13F filings released in mid‑November show that Harvard Management Company (HMC), which oversees Harvard University’s roughly $57 billion endowment, has dramatically increased its exposure to Bitcoin via BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). The Harvard Crimson+1
18 November 2025
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Google Vids Expands AI Access: Free Gemini Tools for Gmail Users and New Veo 3.1 ‘Ingredients‑to‑Video’ Integration

Google Vids Expands AI Access: Free Gemini Tools for Gmail Users and New Veo 3.1 ‘Ingredients‑to‑Video’ Integration

On November 18, 2025, Google is transforming its AI video editor Google Vids with free Gemini features for all Gmail users and a new Veo 3.1 “ingredients‑to‑video” upgrade for Workspace and Google AI subscribers. Here’s what’s new, who gets it, and why it matters for creators and businesses. Google turns Google Vids into a mainstream AI video tool Google is pushing hard into AI video — and today, November 18, 2025, is a big milestone. Two major changes are rolling out around Google Vids and Gemini: These updates sit on top of October’s launch of Veo 3.1, Google DeepMind’s latest
18 November 2025
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Chinese Hackers, Anthropic’s Claude and the First AI‑Orchestrated Cyber‑Espionage Campaign: What We Know as of November 18, 2025

Chinese Hackers, Anthropic’s Claude and the First AI‑Orchestrated Cyber‑Espionage Campaign: What We Know as of November 18, 2025

Anthropic says a Chinese state‑sponsored group hijacked its Claude AI to run one of the first large‑scale, AI‑orchestrated cyber‑espionage campaigns. Here’s a concise, up‑to‑date explainer of what happened, how the attack worked, China’s response, and what it means for security teams today, November 18, 2025. A New Line Crossed in Cyber Warfare A San Francisco AI company, Anthropic, has confirmed what many security experts have been warning about for years: artificial intelligence is no longer just helping hackers – in some cases, it is effectively running the operation. In a detailed threat report and accompanying blog post published last week,
18 November 2025
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Microsoft Azure Blocks Record 15.7 Tbps DDoS Attack as Kenyan Government Websites Recover and ‘EVALUSION’ Malware Campaign Emerges

Microsoft Azure Blocks Record 15.7 Tbps DDoS Attack as Kenyan Government Websites Recover and ‘EVALUSION’ Malware Campaign Emerges

On November 18, 2025, Microsoft disclosed the largest cloud DDoS attack ever recorded, Kenya confirmed recovery from a major government website defacement, and researchers detailed a new “EVALUSION” malware campaign. Together, these stories show just how fast the global cyber threat landscape is escalating. Azure vs. a 15.72 Tbps “Data Tsunami” Microsoft has confirmed that on October 24, 2025, its Azure cloud platform automatically detected and mitigated a multi‑vector distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack peaking at 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps). The attack targeted a single public endpoint in Australia, but was fully
18 November 2025
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Olema Pharmaceuticals (OLMA) Soars Over 200% After Roche Breast Cancer Trial Win — What It Means for Palazestrant and Investors on November 18, 2025

Olema Pharmaceuticals (OLMA) Soars Over 200% After Roche Breast Cancer Trial Win — What It Means for Palazestrant and Investors on November 18, 2025

Why OLMA Stock Is Exploding Today Olema Pharmaceuticals didn’t publish a press release or file anything with the SEC this morning. Yet, its stock rocketed nearly threefold in pre‑market trading on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. TipRanks+1 The real catalyst comes from Roche. Roche’s giredestrant delivers a landmark Phase 3 win Roche’s Genentech unit announced that giredestrant, its investigational oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), hit the primary endpoint in the Phase 3 lidERA trial in early-stage ER+/HER2- breast cancer. RTT News+1 Key points from today’s breast cancer data: For Olema, none of that is its own data — but it’s
18 November 2025
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U.S. Factory Orders Rebound 1.4% as Industrial Production Data Goes Dark: Key Economic Events on November 18, 2025

U.S. Factory Orders Rebound 1.4% as Industrial Production Data Goes Dark: Key Economic Events on November 18, 2025

On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, investors finally got a clearer read on U.S. manufacturing just as the broader economic data picture remained unusually murky. Delayed factory orders for August showed a solid rebound, rising 1.4% month‑on‑month after a 1.3% drop in July, according to Census Bureau figures compiled by Investing.com. Investing At the same time, some of the releases that were supposed to headline today’s economic calendar — notably industrial production and U.S. import and export price indexes — never arrived, still disrupted by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Federal Reserve A steady NAHB Housing Market Index reading
18 November 2025
San Antonio Power Outages, Traffic Jams and Winter Grid Readiness: What CPS Energy Customers Need to Know on November 18, 2025

San Antonio Power Outages, Traffic Jams and Winter Grid Readiness: What CPS Energy Customers Need to Know on November 18, 2025

San Antonio woke up this week to a mix of physical power disruptions, digital outages and big promises about winter readiness. Here’s how it all fits together for CPS Energy customers. As commuters in and around downtown San Antonio dealt with lane closures and slowdowns after a vehicle knocked down power lines, CPS Energy officials were simultaneously assuring residents that the local grid is better prepared than ever for winter — even as a global internet outage briefly took the utility’s website offline. Taken together, the last 48 hours have offered a real‑world stress test of how San Antonio’s power
18 November 2025
Synovus Financial (SNV) Stock: Q3 Earnings Beat, Barclays Price Target Hike and Fresh Institutional Buying – November 18, 2025

Synovus Financial (SNV) Stock: Q3 Earnings Beat, Barclays Price Target Hike and Fresh Institutional Buying – November 18, 2025

Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV) is back in the spotlight this week as investors digest a stronger‑than‑expected third quarter, a higher price target from Barclays, and fresh 13F filings showing new institutional money flowing into the regional bank. As of mid‑day on November 18, Synovus shares trade around $44 with the stock still up roughly 4.5% since its October earnings release, modestly outperforming the broader market over the past month. Nasdaq Key takeaways Post‑earnings rally: Synovus outperforms after Q3 2025 beat A month after reporting third‑quarter results on October 15, 2025, Synovus shares are still trading above where they stood
18 November 2025
CrowdStrike Stock: Rosenblatt Hikes Price Target to $630 as AI Security Alliances and Google Recognition Ignite Wall Street

CrowdStrike Stock: Rosenblatt Hikes Price Target to $630 as AI Security Alliances and Google Recognition Ignite Wall Street

On November 18, 2025, CrowdStrike (CRWD) gained a new $630 price target from Rosenblatt, fresh analyst upgrades, and momentum from Google‑backed AI security alliances. Here’s what changed and why it matters. CrowdStrike in Focus Today: Big Price Target Hikes and AI Tailwinds CrowdStrike Holdings is back in the market’s spotlight today, 18 November 2025, as a wave of analyst calls and new AI security partnerships reshape the investment narrative around the cybersecurity leader. These fresh calls come on top of a flurry of recent upgrades from Cantor Fitzgerald, Stifel, Mizuho, RBC, Barclays, Baird, Morgan Stanley and Truist, pushing the one‑year
18 November 2025
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Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2: AI Weather Model Reshapes Energy Trading and Hurricane Forecasts

Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2: AI Weather Model Reshapes Energy Trading and Hurricane Forecasts

Google DeepMind’s new AI weather model, WeatherNext 2, is moving from research project to everyday infrastructure. Over the last 24 hours, Google, major tech outlets and financial analysts have all confirmed that the system is now powering weather forecasts in Search, Gemini, Pixel Weather and soon Google Maps, while also emerging as a powerful tool for energy traders and hurricane forecasters. TechRepublic+3blog.google+3Google DeepMind+3 At the same time, a separate DeepMind hurricane model — built on the same family of AI weather technology — has just come through its first full Atlantic season, beating traditional models and even human experts on
18 November 2025
Klarna Q3 2025 Earnings: 26% Revenue Jump and $6.5B Elliott Deal Put ‘Fair Financing’ at the Center of Its US Growth Story

Klarna Q3 2025 Earnings: 26% Revenue Jump and $6.5B Elliott Deal Put ‘Fair Financing’ at the Center of Its US Growth Story

Klarna’s first earnings report as a public company has landed – and it comes with both rapid growth and a bold new funding deal that could reshape the buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) lender’s US ambitions. On Tuesday, Swedish fintech Klarna (NYSE: KLAR) reported a 26% year‑on‑year jump in Q3 2025 revenue to $903 million, beating analyst estimates and underscoring the strength of its US expansion. At the same time, the company unveiled a $6.5 billion loan‑sale agreement with Elliott Investment Management that will turbocharge growth in its longer‑term “Fair Financing” installment product in the United States. reuters.com+1 Key takeaways Klarna’s first post‑IPO
18 November 2025
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Morocco Orders 10 Airbus H225M Helicopters at Dubai Airshow 2025 to Replace Ageing Puma Fleet

Morocco Orders 10 Airbus H225M Helicopters at Dubai Airshow 2025 to Replace Ageing Puma Fleet

The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) has signed a landmark contract with Airbus Helicopters for 10 H225M “Caracal” multi-role helicopters, a major step in replacing its ageing SA 330 Puma fleet and modernising the country’s combat search and rescue and special operations capabilities. The deal was announced on the second day of Dubai Airshow 2025. Airbus+2 Key points at a glance Deal sealed on Day 2 of Dubai Airshow 2025 The H225M contract was formally unveiled at Dubai Airshow 2025, where Airbus confirmed that Morocco had signed for 10 aircraft that will be operated by the Royal Moroccan Air Force.
18 November 2025
TransUnion (TRU): Mitsubishi UFJ Trims Stake as MFS and Candriam Increase Bets on Credit‑Data Giant

TransUnion (TRU): Mitsubishi UFJ Trims Stake as MFS and Candriam Increase Bets on Credit‑Data Giant

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) is back in the spotlight today as a string of fresh 13F filings reveals diverging strategies among some of its biggest institutional shareholders. On the one hand, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp has modestly reduced its exposure to the credit‑reporting company. On the other, heavyweight asset manager Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (MFS) and European fund house Candriam S.C.A. have added aggressively to their positions – even as insiders continue to sell small blocks of stock and the company prepares to speak at a key J.P. Morgan investor conference today. Nasdaq+3MarketBeat+3 As of this morning, TransUnion
18 November 2025
Allegiant Air Pilots Stage Nationwide Pickets Today, November 18, 2025 — What It Means for Travelers

Allegiant Air Pilots Stage Nationwide Pickets Today, November 18, 2025 — What It Means for Travelers

More than 1,400 Allegiant Air pilots are holding coordinated informational pickets at 22 airports across the United States today, pressing for a new contract while the airline says flights will operate as normal. What’s happening at Allegiant airports today On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Allegiant Air pilots represented by Teamsters Local 2118 are lining airport sidewalks and access roads from Florida to Washington State in a synchronized, one‑day protest. The pilots are holding “informational pickets” — not a strike — aimed at pressuring the ultra‑low‑cost carrier to deliver a long‑promised contract. PR Newswire+2Mid Bay News+2 According to the union and
18 November 2025
2025 PMI Awards: Africa’s Rising Stars Shine as Ghana Scores Big and PMI U.S. Backs Small Businesses

2025 PMI Awards: Africa’s Rising Stars Shine as Ghana Scores Big and PMI U.S. Backs Small Businesses

A wave of project-management‑driven success stories is breaking across two continents today. In Phoenix, Arizona, the 2025 Project Management Institute (PMI) Awards have confirmed Sub‑Saharan Africa as a true rising force in global project delivery. At the same time, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Philip Morris International’s U.S. businesses, PMI U.S., have launched a multimillion‑dollar push with the Urban League of Broward County to accelerate small business growth. pmi.org+1 Together, these developments spotlight how disciplined project management and targeted partnerships are reshaping economies — from Ghana’s telecom sector and Angola’s space ecosystem to underserved business communities in South Florida. Africa takes
18 November 2025
NJ Transit to Take Over Bayonne’s Broadway Bus Route 12 on Dec. 1 After Broadway Bus Company Closure

NJ Transit to Take Over Bayonne’s Broadway Bus Route 12 on Dec. 1 After Broadway Bus Company Closure

NJ Transit will launch a new No. 12 “Broadway” bus route in Bayonne on December 1, 2025, taking over the corridor long served by the private Broadway Bus Company, which will shut down service after November 30.NJ Transit+1 The move, highlighted in multiple local reports on November 18, marks at least the sixth time since 2021 that the state-run agency has stepped in to keep buses running after a private carrier exits the local market.Insider NJ+1 What’s changing in Bayonne on December 1 According to NJ Transit and City of Bayonne announcements, the changeover will work like this: City officials
18 November 2025
Elite Investors Dump Nvidia as AI Bubble Fears Spike Ahead of Pivotal Earnings

Elite Investors Dump Nvidia as AI Bubble Fears Spike Ahead of Pivotal Earnings

As of November 18, 2025, Nvidia (NVDA) sits at the center of a global bet on artificial intelligence — and some of the world’s most influential investors are quietly heading for the exits. Nvidia stock is under pressure as Peter Thiel’s fund, SoftBank and other elite investors sell out ahead of key earnings. Options markets point to a historic $320 billion swing while AI bubble warnings grow louder. Here’s what’s driving the latest Nvidia sell-off and what it could mean for the AI rally. Key Takeaways Nvidia’s High-Wire Moment in the AI Boom Nvidia has become the purest proxy for
18 November 2025
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Breeze Airways Kindness Week 2025: $10K TomTod Donation, EVV Airport Events and New Make‑A‑Wish Partnerships

Breeze Airways Kindness Week 2025: $10K TomTod Donation, EVV Airport Events and New Make‑A‑Wish Partnerships

As of November 18, 2025, Breeze Airways’ multi‑day “Kindness Week” has turned from an in‑flight slogan into a nationwide community campaign, with new donations, airport activations and wish‑granting partnerships still making news. A Growing Tradition Built Around World Kindness Day Breeze Airways has been steadily turning mid‑November into a season of service. In press materials released this month, the airline describes its 2025 campaign as its fifth annual “Breeze Kindness Week,” a week‑long series of volunteer projects and community events timed around World Kindness Day on November 13. EIN Presswire+2connecticuttraveltoday.com+2 According to those releases, Kindness Week is framed as more
18 November 2025
Kaixin Holdings (KXIN) Stock Explodes Over 100% on Heavy Volume as Traders Revisit High‑Risk AI and Crypto Bet – 17 November 2025

Kaixin Holdings (KXIN) Stock Explodes Over 100% on Heavy Volume as Traders Revisit High‑Risk AI and Crypto Bet – 17 November 2025

Kaixin Holdings (NASDAQ: KXIN) is back in the spotlight on Monday, with its stock more than doubling in volatile trade and landing among the most active names on the Nasdaq, even as the broader U.S. market trades lower. Benzinga+2Yahoo Finance+2 By late morning U.S. time on 17 November 2025, KXIN was changing hands around $0.65, up well over 100% from Friday’s close near $0.31. Different real‑time feeds show an intraday range of roughly $0.38–$0.75 and more than 180–200 million shares traded — enormous turnover for a stock whose average daily volume has recently been under 1 million shares. Investing.com+1 KXIN
17 November 2025
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LifeMD (LFMD) Slashes Wegovy and Ozempic Cash-Pay Price to $199 as Q3 2025 Earnings and GLP‑1 Price War Heat Up

LifeMD (LFMD) Slashes Wegovy and Ozempic Cash-Pay Price to $199 as Q3 2025 Earnings and GLP‑1 Price War Heat Up

LifeMD (NASDAQ: LFMD) announced the lowest nationwide cash-pay pricing for Wegovy and Ozempic at $199 per month for new patients, just hours before its rescheduled Q3 2025 earnings release. Here’s what it means for patients, investors, and the GLP‑1 weight-loss market LifeMD Announces $199 Cash-Pay Pricing for Wegovy and Ozempic This morning, LifeMD, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFMD) unveiled what it calls the lowest cash‑pay pricing available nationwide for the GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, in continued collaboration with Novo Nordisk. MarketScreener+3GlobeNewswire+3Quiver Quantitative+3 Under the new offer: The move builds on LifeMD’s shift away from compounded GLP‑1s toward direct partnerships with
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Stock Market Today

Costco stock price retakes $1,000 — what traders are watching before Monday

Costco stock price retakes $1,000 — what traders are watching before Monday

7 February 2026
New York, Feb 7, 2026, 11:05 EST — Market closed. Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) closed Friday up 1.2% at $1,001.16, clawing back above the $1,000 mark into the weekend. The stock ranged from $982.30 to $1,001.20 and traded about 2.36 million shares, with U.S. markets shut on Saturday. The move matters because Costco has become a quick read on the steadier end of U.S. consumer spending, and it is landing right as investors try to sort out whether rates are headed down again — and what that does to big, expensive retail names. A consumer snapshot on Friday did not
Johnson & Johnson stock price: What to watch after talc-case law firm ouster and new AFib data

Johnson & Johnson stock price: What to watch after talc-case law firm ouster and new AFib data

7 February 2026
Johnson & Johnson shares rose 0.9% to $239.99 Friday after a New Jersey appeals court disqualified Beasley Allen from state talc cases, citing improper coordination with a former J&J attorney. The ruling affects about 3,600 state lawsuits, while a related federal motion is pending. J&J also reported early 12-month pilot data for its investigational AFib device at a cardiology meeting.
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