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Illinois Gas Bill Shock: Regulators Poised to Slash Record Utility Rate Hike Proposals

Illinois Gas Bill Shock: Regulators Poised to Slash Record Utility Rate Hike Proposals

<!– Key facts ended; full report follows –> In Illinois, utility regulators are weighing how much of a massive rate increase to approve for Ameren Illinois’s natural gas customers. Ameren filed in January to raise gas delivery rates by $128.8 million statewide. The proposal is intended to fund pipeline upgrades and maintain safety, especially amid a push for cleaner energy sources m.riverbender.com khqa.com. Two Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) judges recently issued a proposed order recommending a cut of roughly $40–44 million from Ameren’s request khqa.com citizensutilityboard.org. In practical terms, that would still leave about $85–$90 M of new revenue to be collected
20 October 2025
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Billionaire-Backed Crypto Bank Approved by Regulators – Are Tech Stocks and Crypto Ready to Soar?

Billionaire-Backed Crypto Bank Approved by Regulators – Are Tech Stocks and Crypto Ready to Soar?

OCC Approval Details The OCC’s approval letter makes Erebor the first new charter since Gould took over in June 2025 benzinga.com. In announcing the decision, Gould stressed that innovative banks need not be blocked: “Permissible digital asset activities… have a place in the federal banking system if conducted in a safe and sound manner,” he said benzinga.com. This is a notable change of tone from prior OCC leadership. As Benzinga reports, the OCC applied its usual rigorous standards but ultimately concluded Erebor’s plan was sound, making it “the first de novo bank to receive preliminary approval under Gould’s tenure” benzinga.com.
16 October 2025
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Meta’s AI Revolution Unleashed: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

META 2025 Stock Surge: AI‑Fueled Growth vs. Regulatory Risks – What Investors Should Know

Meta’s 2025 Performance: Momentum and Volatility Stock movement & technicals Meta’s share price has been a roller‑coaster in 2025. After opening the year near $598 macrotrends.net, the stock tumbled to $479.80 in April but then surged over 53 % to an all‑time high of $789.47 on August 12 macrotrends.net barchart.com. At the end of September the price eased to $734.38, leaving a year‑to‑date return around 25 % macrotrends.net. Technical indicators suggest the stock has cooled after its summer rally. Meta’s relative strength index (RSI) sits near 40, indicating neutral momentum stockanalysis.com. The 52‑week high of $796.25 is only 7 % above current levels and
1 October 2025
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Crypto’s Wild 48 Hours: Bitcoin Rebounds, DeFi Breakthroughs, NFT Surprises & Regulation Shake-Ups (Sept 26–27, 2025)

Crypto’s Wild 48 Hours: Bitcoin Rebounds, DeFi Breakthroughs, NFT Surprises & Regulation Shake-Ups (Sept 26–27, 2025)

Key Facts Market & Macroeconomic Trends Bitcoin Volatility and Sentiment: The crypto market saw roller-coaster moves over 48 hours. On Thursday, a broad sell-off wiped out nearly $1.2B in leveraged positions – roughly $1.1B in longs – as Bitcoin dipped under $110K and Ethereum under $4K coindesk.com. This rout drove the Crypto Fear & Greed Index down to 28 (“Fear”), its lowest since mid-April coindesk.com. Analysts noted that “roughly $3B of levered longs have been liquidated in recent days,” flushing out excess leverage coindesk.com. By Friday, however, markets showed resilience: Bitcoin bounced back above $110,000 and major alts like ETH,
27 September 2025
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Scholar Rock (SRRK) Just Hit a Regulatory Speed Bump—But the Long‑Term Muscle‑Building Story Still Has Legs

Scholar Rock (SRRK) Just Hit a Regulatory Speed Bump—But the Long‑Term Muscle‑Building Story Still Has Legs

Key facts (as of September 26, 2025) What happened this week (Sept. 23–26) Company snapshot & pipeline Scholar Rock is a late‑stage biotech developing apitegromab, a selective antibody that blocks latent myostatin activation to build/maintain skeletal muscle. Pipeline also includes SRK‑181 (anti‑latent TGF‑β1, oncology; Phase 1) and SRK‑439 (next‑gen anti‑latent myostatin; IND planned for 2H25).  Scholar Rock+1 The SMA evidence base: apitegromab’s pivotal data The obesity tie‑in: preserving muscle on GLP‑1s What the CRL really means Expert view: “[We] expect the issue to be resolved in under three months,” said BMO’s Evan Seigerman, framing the CRL as a timetable hiccup rather than a thesis break.  Reuters Financial position & runway Street consensus, targets
26 September 2025
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Crypto Storm: Bitcoin Bounces, Regulators Shake Up Crypto, NFTs Roar Back (Sept 7–8, 2025)

Crypto Storm: Bitcoin Bounces, Regulators Shake Up Crypto, NFTs Roar Back (Sept 7–8, 2025)

Key Facts: Cryptocurrency Market Overview (Sept 7–8, 2025) Bitcoin Holds $110K Range: Bitcoin spent the first weekend of September trading in a tight band around $110,000–$113,000 coindesk.com coindesk.com. This stability comes after a volatile August in which BTC hit record highs above $124K before a correction. As of Sept 8, BTC is steady near $111K cryptorank.io. Analysts say macroeconomic tailwinds – notably growing expectations of U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts after weak jobs data – are propping up bitcoin’s price despite September’s reputation as a weak month. “Bitcoin remains stable around $110K–$113K, supported by expectations of Fed rate cuts and
8 September 2025
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AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Generative AI Breakthroughs and New Tools OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch took center stage, arriving as the company’s first major model upgrade since GPT-4. Announced in August and now rolling out broadly, GPT-5 is described as OpenAI’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” openai.com. It integrates a novel “thinking” mode that allows longer reasoning when needed, giving expert-level responses in coding, math, writing, vision and more openai.com. The model is unified (one system handling both quick replies and deeper reasoning) and significantly improves factual accuracy, coding abilities and reduced hallucinations. GPT-5 is available to all ChatGPT users (with premium tiers getting extended
5 September 2025
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Bitcoin Breaks $110K as DeFi Hacks, Trump’s Token & Regulators Shake Crypto – Early Sept 2025 Roundup

Bitcoin Breaks $110K as DeFi Hacks, Trump’s Token & Regulators Shake Crypto – Early Sept 2025 Roundup

Key Facts (Early September 2025 Highlights) Crypto Market Rally Opens September After a rough August, cryptocurrencies staged a strong comeback as September 2025 began. Global crypto market cap rebounded to around $4 trillion cryptonews.com, driven by renewed risk appetite in both crypto and stocks. Bitcoin (BTC) jumped roughly +2.5% in 24 hours to trade north of $111,000 coindesk.com, a level not seen since its spring highs. “Crypto got off to a strong start in September, led by bitcoin’s rise to nearly $112,000,” CoinDesk noted on Sept. 2 coindesk.com. Traders returning from the U.S. Labor Day weekend catalyzed a surge from BTC’s
3 September 2025
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Crypto Whirlwind: Markets Dip, Regulators Pivot, NFTs Sag as Institutions Double Down (Aug 29–30, 2025)

Crypto Whirlwind: Markets Dip, Regulators Pivot, NFTs Sag as Institutions Double Down (Aug 29–30, 2025)

Crypto Market Turbulence and Trading Highlights Bitcoin and Ether Retreat: Late August saw notable profit-taking in crypto markets. Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled to about $108,400 – its lowest level since early July – after soaring to a record $124,000 on Aug. 13 cryptonews.com. This ~10% pullback from the all-time high extended BTC’s weekly losses to nearly 8% coindesk.com, a comedown partly attributed to the old adage of “buy the rumor, sell the news” around major crypto events. (Indeed, some analysts wryly pointed out that BTC’s drop coincided with the high-profile Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong, mirroring a pattern of price
30 August 2025
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AI Revolution Unfolds in 48 Hours: $3 Trillion Forecasts, $9B Bets, and New AI Rules

AI Revolution Unfolds in 48 Hours: $3 Trillion Forecasts, $9B Bets, and New AI Rules

Big Tech: Soaring Forecasts and Massive Investments Nvidia’s record quarter fuels optimism. On Aug. 27, chipmaker Nvidia delivered another strong earnings report, defying recent chatter about an “AI bubble.” Revenue for the latest quarter hit $46.7 billion (56% higher year-on-year), slightly topping analyst estimates abcnews.go.com. More importantly, CEO Jensen Huang struck an emphatically bullish tone on AI’s trajectory. “A new industrial revolution has started. The AI race is on,” Huang declared on an investor call, predicting “$3 trillion to $4 trillion in AI infrastructure spend by the end of the decade” reuters.com. This jaw-dropping forecast – a multi-trillion dollar market by 2030 –
28 August 2025
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AI Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Regulatory Showdowns – Aug 26–27, 2025 News Roundup

AI Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Regulatory Showdowns – Aug 26–27, 2025 News Roundup

AI Research & Innovation Climate modeling revolution: Scientists at the University of Washington unveiled an AI-driven climate simulator that compresses millennia of weather into hours. Dubbed DL-ESyM, the model couples two neural networks (for atmosphere and ocean) and was trained on historical data washington.edu. The result: it can accurately simulate 1,000 years of Earth’s climate in about 12 hours on a single processor washington.edu. (By contrast, a traditional climate supercomputer needs ~90 days to do the same.) This breakthrough promises cheaper, faster long-range climate forecasts. “We are developing a tool that examines variability in our current climate to ask: Is
27 August 2025
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Bitcoin Blazes Toward New Highs as Regulators Embrace Crypto – Weekend Blockchain Roundup (Aug 24–25, 2025)

Bitcoin Blazes Toward New Highs as Regulators Embrace Crypto – Weekend Blockchain Roundup (Aug 24–25, 2025)

Bitcoin traded around $115,000–$117,000 over Aug. 24–25, 2025, roughly four times its level a year earlier and well above its 2021 all-time high of $69,000. Ethereum neared $4,800 and briefly hit about $4,870 on Aug. 24, 2025, approaching its record and signaling strong institutional demand. Aave deployed its v3 on the Aptos blockchain on Aug. 21, 2025, marking its first expansion beyond Ethereum, with the AAVE token rising about 19% to around $355. The U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act 68–30 in June 2025 to set federal standards for stablecoins, and the CLARITY Act advanced over Aug. 24–25 to unify
25 August 2025
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