India’s inflation accelerated in October, exceeding the upper end of the Reserve Bank of India’s 2%-6% tolerance band and keeping pressure on policymakers to raise interest rates further, according to Bloomberg.

Rolls-Royce plans to buy back £1.5 billion ($1.99 billion) of shares over the coming months, citing strong market demand. According to Sina Finance, the buyback, which runs through February next year, is part of a 2026–2028 program of repurchases worth up to £9 billion, the British engineering and defense company said Thursday. CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç said the move reflected the company’s continued confidence in sustainable free cash flow growth from its transformation, as well as its view of the significant potential for future value creation. Rolls-Royce will review its medium-term targets when it reports full-year 2026 results in February. Earlier this year, the company raised its 2026 operating profit guidance to £4.7 billion–£4.9 billion from £4.0 billion–£4.2 billion. Demand remained strong across its businesses, including defense and civil aerospace, and engine deliveries to civil customers were substantially higher so far this year. Orders in the power systems business rose 62% year on year in the first nine months, while its order backlog stood at £8.6 billion at the end of the third quarter.

Telefónica raised its full-year adjusted EBITDA growth outlook to slightly above 2.5% after a strong third quarter, while lowering its revenue growth target to 1%-1.5%. According to Sina Finance, the company had previously forecast growth of 1.5%-2.5% for both adjusted EBITDA and revenue; Chief Operating Officer Emilio Gayo said the revenue outlook was lowered mainly because of handset sales, while service revenue remained very strong. For the quarter ended in September, revenue was €8.43 billion, up 2.2% year over year excluding currency effects and above the €8.33 billion market consensus. Adjusted EBITDA rose 2.8% year over year to €3.08 billion, topping the €3.03 billion consensus.

Alex Brazier, BlackRock’s head of global investments and portfolio solutions, said the Bank of England may deliver three or four additional rate hikes, in line with current market pricing. According to Sina Finance, after the central bank raised its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 4% last week, Brazier said another increase as soon as December was possible. He said resilient economic growth and an energy shock pushing inflation higher made the market’s pricing of three or four further hikes seem reasonable. That view contrasts with many investors’ expectation that the Bank of England’s eventual tightening will be less than currently reflected in interest-rate swap markets. Brazier added that central banks face a broader challenge: economies appear to need much higher interest rates than in the past to maintain basic balance, let alone address inflation.

Investors should remain exposed to the AI boom despite financing risks and Nvidia Corp.’s leadership turmoil, Julien Lafargue, chief market strategist at Barclays Private Bank, said, according to Bloomberg.

According to ChainCatcher citing Polymarket data, the “no change” outcome in the market for Nvidia’s next CEO rose to 29% from 19% earlier today, ranking first. Nvidia Vice President of High-Performance Computing Ian Buck followed at 25%, while Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress ranked third at 23.3%. Under the market rules, “no change” means Nvidia has not announced a permanent successor by 11:59 PM on December 31, 2028 (U.S. Eastern Time); an interim CEO does not count. The 29% reflects the implied probability that no permanent successor will be announced by the deadline, not the probability that Jensen Huang will remain CEO in the short term.

According to ChainCatcher, Sygnum has launched a market-neutral ETH Alpha Fund that combines staking, options and arbitrage strategies. The fund targets annual returns of 8% to 10% after fees.

Binance Wallet announced on X that its on-chain smart money signals can now trigger automated trades through Agentic Wallet’s On-Chain Copy Trading Skill. The skill buys when a signal appears, with stop-loss and take-profit rules attached. Users can select the signals as a trigger source, set the chain, budget and position size, and configure those rules. Binance Wallet said users can run a cost-free dry run, refine the strategy and then switch to live trading. The copy trading runs automatically 24/7 once set up.

Ethereum research group Ethlabs said Wednesday it will withdraw its proposal to accelerate block production from the planned Hegotá upgrade, shifting its focus to preparing the network for quantum-related threats by 2027. According to Cointelegraph, Ethlabs presented “pqai27,” a proposed roadmap intended to protect Ethereum from risks posed by quantum computing and increasingly capable artificial intelligence, and argued that unrelated upgrades should be reconsidered. The group had previously supported Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)-8198, known as Quick Slots, which would initially reduce Ethereum’s slot time from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. Ethlabs said it would redirect resources toward pqai27 while continuing to pursue faster slots in 2028. The proposal changes the group’s near-term priorities for Hegotá, but it has not abandoned its effort to speed up slots. Ethlabs said work on the quantum-readiness roadmap should take precedence over unrelated changes to the network. For Hegotá, Ethlabs said the planned FOCIL censorship-resistance feature should move forward only if it does not put quantum readiness at risk. The group described Frame Transactions, which would allow more flexible account authentication, as central to the proposed transition. Ethlabs also said the Glamsterdam upgrade, which is scheduled before Hegotá, should proceed as planned. Ethereum core developers have not approved the proposal, and the Ethereum Foundation’s published roadmap continues to target December 2029 for quantum resistance. At Devcon, researcher Justin Drake said he hopes to complete the transition in 2028. The timeline proposed by Ethlabs would therefore bring quantum readiness into focus earlier than the target currently published by the Foundation, though the group’s roadmap remains a proposal. Its withdrawal of the Quick Slots proposal from Hegotá is part of the shift toward that priority, while faster slots remain an objective for 2028.

تعرضت منصة Chainstack لهجوم إلكتروني مدعوم بالذكاء الاصطناعي، كشف عن أسماء العملاء وعناوين بريدهم الإلكتروني وكلمات مرورهم المشفرة. وقد تمكنت الشركة من احتواء الاختراق وحثت العملاء على تحديث كلمات مرورهم وبيانات اعتمادهم.

بعد أن اعترف جنسن هوانغ بإقامة علاقة خارج نطاق الزواج، خسرت شركة إنفيديا أكثر من 400 مليار دولار من الإيرادات في يومين، مما دفع مجلس الإدارة إلى إطلاق تحقيق مستقل ووضع المخاطر المرتبطة بالشخصيات الرئيسية في المقدمة.

مع دمج عملة هونغ كونغ المستقرة بالدولار HKDAP في سولانا، قد تتضاءل القدرة التنافسية لهونغ كونغ في مجال التمويل الرقمي إذا كان لديها فقط الحق في إصدار العملات ولكنها تفتقر إلى البنية التحتية الأساسية.

يستعد نيما موميني، الرجل المدان بقتل مؤسس تطبيق كاش آب بوب لي، للطعن في النتيجة القانونية للقضية بعد صدور حكم عليه بالسجن لمدة تتراوح بين 16 عامًا والسجن مدى الحياة.

ستسمح كوريا الجنوبية لمنصات تداول العملات الرقمية بتجميد عمليات الإيداع والسحب عند الاشتباه في حدوث اختراق، دون انتظار تأكيد، مع فرض متطلبات أمنية أكثر صرامة. كما تطالب هيئة الرقابة المالية (FSC) جميع شركات العملات الرقمية المسجلة البالغ عددها 28 شركة بتلقي دعم في مجال الأمن السيبراني من معهد الأمن المالي، الذي يحقق في اختراق لأنظمته.

شركة مقرها سنغافورة أصبحت أكبر مشترٍ لرقائق الذكاء الاصطناعي لشركة إنفيديا في جنوب شرق آسيا في غضون ثلاث سنوات، وهي الآن في قلب التساؤلات حول كيفية استمرار الشركات الصينية في الوصول إلى أجهزة الحوسبة المتقدمة لشركة تصنيع الرقائق الأمريكية على الرغم من قيود التصدير التي تفرضها واشنطن.

استثمرت MegaETH مبلغ 30 مليون دولار في استدلال الذكاء الاصطناعي، في محاولة لجعل الذكاء الاصطناعي المقدم من قبل مختلف مزودي الخدمات قابلاً للتحقق، ثم تحويل استخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي إلى عقود قابلة للتداول.

طلب بنك PSB من محكمة روسية إعلان إفلاس إيغور رونيتس، مؤسس شركة BitRiver، بسبب ديون غير مسددة تتجاوز 770 مليون روبل (حوالي 9.3 مليون دولار أمريكي)، مرتبطة بقرض كفله لشركة تابعة للمجموعة تعثرت في السداد. ويقبع رونيتس حاليًا رهن الاحتجاز بتهم التهرب الضريبي والاحتيال، كما تواجه عدة شركات تابعة لـ BitRiver إجراءات إفلاس خاصة بها.

من MEXC إلى Binance و OKX، تستخدم الولايات المتحدة إنفاذ القانون والاستثمار والعملات المستقرة المقومة بالدولار لإدخال منصات تداول العملات المشفرة العالمية بشكل أعمق في إطارها التنظيمي المالي.

تم فضح جينسن هوانغ مجدداً لعلاقته خارج إطار الزواج مع إحدى مرؤوساته المباشرات. وقد ارتفعت احتمالية رحيله على منصة بولي ماركت إلى 88%. ويتوقع المحللون أن تنخفض قيمة شركة إنفيديا بمقدار تريليون دولار لتصل إلى 1.2 تريليون دولار في حال رحيله.