Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms Inc. is “in a really good position” to benefit from the increasingly volatile energy market in Texas as the state faces another <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"SC5MURDWRGG0","_id":"0000018f-3584-d4b6-a98f-f5b5e6640000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">potential surge in power demand this summer, its chief executive officer said.

Signs of stress are flashing across spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded funds after the cryptocurrency sank to a <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"SCSWRMT0G1KW","_id":"0000018f-3555-d4b6-a98f-f575cd880000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">two-month low.

Prospects are dimming for fast-track congressional consideration of legislation to open banking services to marijuana businesses, regulate stablecoins and promote more competition on credit-card swipe fees.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/2213302D%20VI%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-34a7-d4b6-a98f-f5b720570000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Tether Holdings Ltd., the British Virgin Islands-incorporated operator of the largest stablecoin, said it posted record net profit of $4.52 billion in the first quarter, largely driven by interest earned from its holdings of US Treasuries and appreciation in Bitcoin and gold.

Autodesk Inc. shares are down 1.6% in premarket trading, after Berenberg downgraded the software company to hold from buy.

The prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates is weighing on crypto, underlined by deepening <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-339e-d4b6-a98f-f7bf5aef0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Bitcoinlosses after the token’s worst monthly drop since the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX empire in November 2022.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-3595-d4b6-a98f-f5b5ecfe0001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Laxman Narasimhan’s honeymoon phase is over.

New York City Comptroller <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-356c-d4b6-a98f-f57daf560000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Brad Lander is pressing BlackRock Inc. shareholders to vote against the election of Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Officer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-356c-d4b6-a98f-f57daf570000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Amin Nasser as an independent member of the company’s board.

Elon Musk has upended a deal the White House saluted early last year to open Tesla Inc.’s electric-vehicle chargers to other automakers, dealing a blow to President Joe Biden’s EV agenda.

Retailer Kohl’s Corp. picked an unlikely cost to downplay as it reported 2023 annual results to the market: its rent.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/ABX%20CN%20Equity/HDS","_id":"0000018f-352d-d4b6-a98f-f53d9bed0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Barrick Gold Corp.’s chief executive officer says the gold miner will continue to host virtual-only annual general meetings despite calls for public companies to return to an in-person format.

Microsoft Corp. and <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/BN%20CN%20Equity/FA","_id":"0000018f-3504-d4b6-a98f-f53533fc0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Brookfield Asset Management’s green energy arm signed the biggest corporate clean-energy purchase agreement ever announced, as the technology giant ramps up its investment in artificial intelligence.

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order barring data aggregator InMarket Media LLC from selling or licensing sensitive location information.

Meta Platforms Inc. was sued by internet scholar Ethan Zuckerman who is asking a San Francisco federal court to rule that a browser extension he helped develop that would turnoff a Facebook user’s newsfeed is legal.

Accounting and consulting firm Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker LLC failed to protect the personal information of 1.1 million people that was disclosed in a September 2023 data breach that hit one of its vendors, a proposed federal class action says.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-34fe-d4b6-a98f-f5ffe0e10001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Andrew Witty told lawmakers the company is still trying to determine why its computer systems were left vulnerable to hackers who perpetrated a devastating cyberattack.

Colorado teens would receive social media pop-up notifications nudging them to stop scrolling under a bill awaiting action by Gov. Jared Polis (D).

A&O Shearman is Big Law’s newest player, but the transatlantic firm still faces challenges to truly join the legal industry’s elite.

Senior US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington federal trial court expressed frustration at how long lower court judges have waited to receive guidance from appellate courts on how to interpret key statutes in prosecutions against US Capitol rioters.

Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is strongly encouraged to appear in a Texas courtroom next week to address claims he defended Musk against defamation without permission from the court, a judge said Wednesday.

Conservative activist John Sabal may proceed with three of his four defamation claims against the Anti-Defamation League for associating him and his business, The Patriot Voice, with QAnon, a federal court said.

A US District judge in California engaged in misconduct by ordering a defendant’s 13-year-old daughter handcuffed as a warning against drug use, a federal judicial council said.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-358b-d4b6-a98f-f5bfc4d60000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Harvey Weinstein faces a new trial as early as September as Manhattan prosecutors told a judge that there was “nothing consensual” about the sexual assault allegations made against him.

A Texas owner of a radio frequency identification patent has constitutional standing to sue a maker of RFID products, despite arguments that it lost standing due to a loan agreement, the Federal Circuit said.