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For now, the message to workers is counterintuitive but clear: the fastest way to a raise in late 2025 might be to sit still, build institutional knowledge, and wait for the inevitable pendulum swing. The job-hopping premium isn’t dead; it’s just taking a nap. When it wakes up, the kangaroos will be leaping again.

As 2025 draws to a close on December, the United States stands at a peculiar economic crossroads - one where the stock market dances on record highs amid a labor market echoing the ghosts of the Great Recession. Through November, U.S. companies announced a staggering 1,170,821 layoffs, a 54% surge from the same period in 2024 and the highest tally since the depths of the 2009 financial crisis.

With groundbreaking in 2018 behind it and final touches underway, the museum is poised to fling open its doors on September 22, 2026, inviting visitors into a world where ancient myths collide with modern fantasies.

Crypto is decoupling from pure hype, transitioning from a casino of token launches and Twitter buzz to a landscape where real revenue, user growth, and product velocity are starting to matter. The "token premium" - that magical markup for merely existing on a Layer-1 or riding a viral narrative - is evaporating, replaced by something alien to most projects: actual economics.

This isn't a minor footnote in the ongoing barrage of lawsuits against OpenAI. It's a potential gut punch. Authors and publishers, already fuming over claims that their works were vacuumed up without permission, now stand to gain explosive evidence.

The humanoid robot bubble is real. Paradoxically, it is also the strongest signal that China is about to take this industry deadly seriously — and when China takes an industry seriously, the rest of the world usually ends up playing catch-up.

In a plot twist worthy of its own Marvel blockbuster, The Walt Disney Company—long the unyielding guardian of its intellectual property empire—has inked a landmark three-year pact with OpenAI, injecting $1 billion into the AI powerhouse while unleashing over 200 iconic characters into the wilds of generative video.

In a bold stride forward for artificial intelligence, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.2 on December 11, 2025, heralding it as the pinnacle of frontier models tailored for professional knowledge work and autonomous agents.

In a provocative declaration that has sent ripples through the cryptocurrency world, Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy), has vowed to acquire every last Bitcoin in existence.