⚡️🤖 NEW - OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers An OpenAI representative also confirmed that the company is indeed exploring "ads."

⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 NEW - Trump on Russia-Ukraine deal: "We’re in final stages of talking. It’ll either end or go on for a long time."

⚡️🔎 NEW - Google searches for the term "crypto" have reached their lowest level this year.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Man shows how easy it is to get through New York City’s new MTA turnstile gates, which will cost the city over $7 million to install. Not everyone had an easy time getting through the gates. One woman got her head stuck in it. The city is installing new "fins" and "sleeves" to deter fare-skipping. The changes will be made to all 472 subway stations, costing about $7M to install.

⚡️⛏️ WATCH - Inside the world’s largest Bitcoin mine, Riot Platform’s Texas facility computes the SHA-256 math algorithm 10,500,000,000,000,000,000x every second in a global race to find the next block of the blockchain.

⚡️🇫🇷🇮🇱 NEW - Despite being the subject of an international arrest warrant, Benjamin Netanyahu once again flies over France without being worried.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Nancy Pelosi says she is completely confident Democrats are headed for a massive midterm victory and will retake control of the House. She adds that the next Democratic House Speaker would be very open to impeaching President Trump once again.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Michael Saylor hints at buying more Bitcoin. "Back to Orange."

⚡️📈 NEW - AMD's 5-year-old Ryzen CPUs are popular again because RAM is too expensive. The Ryzen 7 5800X, which launched five years ago, is currently the top-selling CPU on Amazon UK, while its refresh, the 5800X3D, sits in fourth place on the US site.

⚡️👀 WATCH - Gen Z is waking up to a hard truth: for centuries, central bankers have fueled conflict to protect their monopoly over money creation.

⚡️🇫🇮 WATCH - Finland's underground data centers heat entire city blocks using server waste heat In Finland, several data-centres now feed their waste heat into municipal district-heating networks instead of simply dumping it into the air. For example, waste heat generated by data-centre cooling is captured and transferred into the district-heating grid, providing carbon-neutral heat to thousands of homes and public buildings. This reuse of thermal energy helps reduce reliance on fossil-fuel heating, cuts emissions, and turns the by-product heat from digital infrastructure into a genuine resource rather than waste.

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - China is currently rolling out the world's largest offshore photovoltaic project in the open sea. With an installed capacity of 1 GW, it will generate enough electricity each year to meet the energy needs of around 2.67 million residents.

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - Spotted in Shenzhen: special police on patrol—plus a full-size EngineAI T800 humanoid robot walking right alongside them at Window of the World, a well-known cultural and tourism attraction in Shenzhen.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Michigan jail inmates join hands to recite the Lord’s Prayer on Christmas Eve "I saw unity and hope. I saw people choosing something better for themselves and for each other. When this happens, communities are safer and generational incarceration is broken," said Sheriff Swanson of the Genesee County Sheriff's Office

⚡️🇵🇸 ALERT - Gaza’s displaced families woke up to flooded tents after a night of rain. It is important to remember that these people all had homes, jobs, and schools before being invaded and bombed by Israel.

⚡️👀 NEW - A man goes viral for playing video games with a gaming screen and headset while his girlfriend was giving birth. Deranged behavior.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: Did any Arab movement — Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Syrian government — fire a single shot to help Iran? I can say that over the past forty-five years that I have followed Iran’s foreign relations, not a single shot has been fired in our defense. We were attacked, we suffered because of our support for Arabs, but not a single shot was fired to support us — not against Israel and not against any other country.

⚡️🎮 WATCH - Be honest. Can you really tell the difference?

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: "We're gonna need the help of robots and other forms of ... I guess you could say employment. We're gonna be employing a lot of artificial things."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Kash Patel says the online attacks against him and his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, are driven by jealousy over their relationship and says he is now “over the target.” Patel becomes emotional discussing his success at the FBI, saying the criticism aimed at both him and Alexis comes from envy and resentment. He says Alexis should be touring the country as a country music sensation rather than dealing with the hypersensitive nature of social media. “We’re thriving. We’re surviving.”