TREE NEWS update: European Union Commissioner for Economic Affairs Valdis Dombrovskis said the Commission will continue to support Ireland, holder of the rotating EU presidency, in reaching an agreement on tobacco taxation. The statement, made in the context of EU tax policy coordination, signals continued executive backing for the presidency’s efforts to broker a deal among member states. No timeline or specific tax measures were disclosed.
TREE NEWS reports: Iceland’s population is projected to reach 500,000 within a quarter of a century, up from 394,000 at the start of 2026. The projection indicates Iceland’s population is aging more slowly than the EU average.
TREE NEWS update: Shield AI said its Hivemind software flew multiple U.S. Air Force drones as a coordinated team, following an earlier test in which an F-22 pilot directed a single Fury aircraft. The broader Collaborative Combat Aircraft program remains in operational experimentation, the company said. No further details on the number of drones or the timing of the test were provided.
TREE NEWS reports: CEG climbed 10.5% over the past 24 hours and was trading at 277.44 USDT.COM data. The move marks a sharp single-day gain for the token.
TREE NEWS reports: Bank of America expects US high-grade bond sales to shrink to $1.9 trillion in 2027, the bank said. Hyperscalers are diversifying their funding channels, and corporate M&A activity is slowing.
TREE NEWS update: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics will not publish 12-month (year-over-year) CPI or core CPI figures when it releases inflation data, the agency said. The release will therefore exclude the headline annual inflation rate and the annual core measure that markets and policymakers typically track. No reason for the omission was given.
TREE NEWS reports: The US Department of Agriculture forecast 2027/28 US corn planted area at 95.5 million acres, with production of 16.025 billion bushels. In the same projections, the USDA put soybean area at 87.5 million acres and soybean output at 4.635 billion bushels, while wheat area was forecast at 44 million acres with production of 1.792 billion bushels.
TREE NEWS update: The US House of Representatives has filed articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The filing marks a formal move by House members to initiate impeachment proceedings against the Pentagon chief. No further details on the grounds or sponsors were immediately available.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin hovered near $75,000 on Monday after a wave of liquidations, even as U.S. stocks rallied and oil fell. The cryptocurrency’s muted price action comes ahead of Tuesday’s U.S. inflation report, which is set to test market bets on a December Federal Reserve rate hike.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic launched two new models, Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, at lower token prices. The models share an underlying system but use different safeguards, with access to Mythos restricted to verified organizations. The release pairs lower pricing with differentiated safety controls across the two offerings.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI said ChatGPT Enterprise is now available on Amazon’s AWS Marketplace, giving businesses a new channel to purchase the enterprise-grade chatbot. The listing lets AWS customers procure the product through their existing cloud accounts. OpenAI did not disclose pricing or terms of the arrangement.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC released new versions of its Fable and Mythos artificial intelligence models, Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, slated for Monday. Fable 5.2 handles harder software engineering work, hardware-related tasks such as robot control, long-horizon projects, and can coordinate more than 1,000 AI agents simultaneously; it is also cheaper. Mythos 5.2 is the same model with reduced safeguards for cybersecurity and life sciences work, available to select organizations through a previously announced verification program.
TREE NEWS reports: The onshore yuan closed at 6.6724 per dollar at 03:00 Beijing time, 39 pips stronger than the previous Friday night-session close. Trading volume for the session totaled $36.58 billion.
TREE NEWS reports: The Hang Seng Index main futures contract closed down 0.01% at 24,506 in the overnight session. The Hang Seng Tech Index futures contract fell 0.15% to 4,047 in the same session.
TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia’s board has opened an investigation into controversies surrounding CEO Jensen Huang, but prediction markets see little chance of a near-term departure. Kalshi puts the probability of Huang leaving by end-2027 at 17%, rising to 30% by end-2028, 35% by end-2029 and 75% by end-2031. Polymarket prices the odds of Huang resigning or being forced out by end-March 2027 at about 25%.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC said it has designed three working hardware prototypes as part of its work on geometric 01 reasoning. The company disclosed the prototypes without giving specifications, deployment plans or a release date. No further details on the devices were provided.
TREE NEWS update: Ethersphere, the development team behind decentralized storage project Swarm, suffered a supply-chain attack after a malicious version of bee-js 13.3.0 was published to npm on Nov. 9 and a trojanized Swarm Desktop 0.56.2 was pushed via auto-update. The code reads Bee node config files and encrypted wallet keystores and sends them to attackers; because config files store keystore passwords in plaintext, node wallets may be exposed. A remote-control backdoor is also installed. npm has removed the version and Ethersphere has pulled the desktop release; no confirmed fund losses so far.
TREE NEWS update: Sen. Richard Blumenthal has given Binance, Tether and two Trump crypto ventures until Jan. 4 to produce records for an 18-month inquiry, warning he will consider “alternative measures” if they do not comply. The senator said the companies have so far produced no records.
TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia shares are trading 26% below their record closing price, with the stock having already lost 22% by Friday. A semiconductor ETF fell 30.5% over the same month-long window, underscoring the breadth of the pullback across chip stocks.
TREE NEWS reports: The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) fell as much as 21.0% intraday on Tuesday to 20.25, while the S&P 500 climbed more than 2.3%. The sharp drop in the fear gauge accompanied a broad rally in U.S. equities.