⚡️🗣 WATCH - The kid behind one of the most viral rug pulls of 2024 is making headlines again… and his advice on how to make $10,000 a month is pretty telling. In November 2024, while he was still in middle school, he launched the Gen Z Quant memecoin on PumpFun. Eight minutes later, he sold his 51 million tokens and pocketed nearly $30,000, causing the price to plummet. The scene was streamed live and went viral. Ironically, the community then snapped up the token and sent its value skyrocketing: the tokens he had just sold would have been worth several million dollars at their peak. Almost two years later, he appears in this interview with a simple question: “If you were starting from scratch and had to make $10,000 a month, what would you do?” His answer is that he would start by reselling—buying items to resell them at a higher price—and then use that initial capital to move into trading. “That’s the best way to go from zero to something,” he says.

⚡️👀 NEW - PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice while he was working on his own AI model. He claims the first ban was related to “distillation,” while the second happened after he used AI to generate training data. He has now shown off Ajax, a smaller AI model designed to run directly on a normal home PC. It’s based on Qwen3.5-9B and is built to work with his own self-hosted AI setup He also used the open-source Heretic tool to remove many of its built-in refusals, while keeping some safety limits.

⚡️🚨 NEW - An AI-cloned voice was all it took to trigger the transfer of 95 million euros from the accounts of a major Italian bank. In February, Paolo Molesini, then president of Fideuram, a private banking subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo, first received a fake WhatsApp message that appeared to come from the group’s CEO, Carlo Messina. This was followed by a call featuring an AI-generated voice imitating a lawyer Molesini knew. Convinced the transaction was legitimate, Molesini then instructed his teams to make several transfers, mainly to China and Hong Kong, totaling approximately 95 million euros. Thanks to the response from banks and authorities, a large portion of the funds was recovered, including approximately €40 million via a Chinese bank and an additional €13 million intercepted in Portugal. However, approximately €36 million is believed to have been converted into cryptocurrencies and remains untraceable. Most concerning is that the attack did not require directly hacking the bank. The scammers used social engineering by combining WhatsApp, identity theft, and AI-powered voice cloning.

⚡️🇵🇸 NEW - A mass funeral was held for 100 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of a Gaza residential building hit in an Israeli strike in October 2023 (Reuters)

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin: France and the UK are nuclear weapons, and we’re fully aware of that, but in terms of weapons we have, we are unparalleled.

⚡️🇧🇷 NEW - Brazilian President Lula: From time to time Trump tells me: "Mr. President, I’m imposing tariffs on the world because I have the best army in the world, I have the best navy in the world, I have the best rockets in the world." And I tell him: "Trump, I don’t want war with you. I don’t want war with you. I want to defeat you in the narrative. I want to defeat you." That’s why I’ve already written, I think, three articles for The New York Times. I want to talk to the American people about him. And that’s why he treats me with respect. And it’s good that he treats me with respect, because I treat everybody with respect. That’s all I want: respect.

⚡️💬 NEW - Sam Altman answered Elon’s “money won’t matter in 2036” statement Sam Altman: “Clearly I think money will still matter in 10 years.” “One of the greatest concerns I have with AI is the concentration of power and concentration of wealth.” “There are all of these ways where I think it will make a lot of things much cheaper and better, and you don’t have to buy a car, and that’ll be great.” “But yeah, I think that there are many reasons to think that it won’t just magically solve wealth inequality.”

⚡️🚨 NEW - A cybersecurity expert is currently on trial in the United States for allegedly stealing nearly $55 million in cryptocurrency… before laundering a portion of it through extremely rare Pokémon and Magic cards. Jonathan Spalletta is accused of hacking Uranium Finance twice in April 2021. The main attack reportedly exploited a vulnerability in a smart contract to drain 26 liquidity pools and steal approximately $53.3 million. He has pleaded not guilty, and the charges have yet to be proven at trial. According to prosecutors, some of the cryptocurrency was then routed through Tornado Cash before being laundered into collectibles. Among the alleged purchases were a complete first-edition Pokémon Base Set for $750,000, a sealed first-edition Pokémon box for $257,500, a Magic: The Gathering Black Lotus for $500,000, and 18 Alpha booster packs for over $1.5 million. Authorities also say they seized approximately $31 million in cryptocurrency linked to the case in 2025. Although chat logs show Spalletta allegedly writing “I did a crypto heist,” his defense argues that the prosecution will not be able to prove who was actually behind the keyboard at the time of the attacks.

⚡️🚀🇫🇷 NEW - France's 30-Year Bond Yield hits highest level in more than 24 years

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French President Macron on free speech: The so-called American "free speech" that some people promote today is the opposite of free speech. There is no freedom if there is no limit to my freedom beginning with the freedom of others and respect for a common framework. My freedom cannot mean hitting you, insulting you or destroying the common space for everyone.

⚡️⭕️ BIG - Jared Kushner's investment firm is the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company with at least $456 million invested in nine firms supplying Israel's military, CNN reports. Kushner's Affinity Partners holds a 7.4% stake in Phoenix Financial, worth over $1 billion. Phoenix's holdings include: 
➤ $265 million in Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms maker 
➤ $40 million in Reshef Technologies, which makes fuzes for shells used in Gaza 
➤ $68 million in Next Vision, which makes cameras for military drones ➤ Phoenix also holds stakes in Caterpillar, whose D9 bulldozers are used by the Israeli military to ethnically cleanse communities in Gaza (as well as other parts of occupied Palestine and Lebanon), and in Israel Shipyards, a key Israeli Navy supplier. Kushner sits on the Board of Peace overseeing Gaza. In August, after Hamas accepted a Board of Peace disarmament roadmap, Gaza saw its first week-long lull in new killings since October 2023. Kushner then met Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who showed him public opinion polls finding most Israelis want strikes in Gaza to continue, Axios reported. The talks ended with Kushner giving Israel a “green light” to keep striking Gaza, Haaretz reported. Israel has killed more than 200 Palestinians since. Kushner said last year he meets Phoenix's leadership every few weeks. The White House called the conflict-of-interest concerns a "tired narrative."

⚡️🇵🇪 WATCH - Absolutely wild footage Real life sicario shootout in Peru — cops stop a gang with lethal force This was the operation that took place on May 21, 2025, on the Lima Expressway. Two members of the Los Injertos del Centro gang were killed, one was arrested, and three police officers were injured. No civilian injuries or deaths were reported.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Path of Exile 2 game director talks about the return of Cyclone

⚡️📉 NEW - Nike crashes to new 10-year low after missing earnings.

⚡️🚨🤖 ALERT - This is terrifying—it's an AI agent. Tell your parents and grandparents right away. Some really shady scams are coming. FYI: Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

⚡️📅 HISTORY - Exactly 13 years ago, on October 1, 2013, Ross Ulbricht @Ross Ulbricht was arrested in a San Francisco library while using his laptop. This was a particularly significant seizure, as he was suspected of being “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the man behind Silk Road. Investigators seized his computer, which was still logged into his account, allowing them to locate a wallet containing approximately 144,336 BTC. When combined with the 29,655 BTC recovered from Silk Road’s servers, U.S. authorities seized approximately 173,991 BTC, valued at the time at just $33.6 million.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin on Iran: The whole world is amazed by the courage and heroism of the Iranian nation and its resilience.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Farmers unleash chaos outside a tax office in guyancourt, dumping truckloads of waste and spraying the building in fury over rising fuel prices.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Recent AI developments are speeding up game decompilation. Several projects are already making major progress, with some reaching 100%, most projects are using AI agents to handle parts of the reverse-engineering process A fully decompiled game can then be rebuilt and lead to native PC ports, better mods and other fan projects.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - The government plans to LEVY a 17% tax on forgotten bank accounts, Livret A savings accounts, and life insurance policies transferred to the Caisse des Dépôts, in order to raise 1.4 billion euros by 2027. Account holders will still be able to recover all of their money, plus interest. (BFM Business)