The ISM Manufacturing PMI rose to 52.6 in January, beating the roughly 48.5 consensus and ending 26 months of contraction. Analysts say the shift could support Bitcoin, which hovered near $78,000 and briefly touched a 10‑month low of $75,442 on Monday.

Ripple's XRP recently fell below the key $1.77 swing low, putting the April 2025 trough at $1.61 at risk. Technical signals on the H4 chart point to a potential bounce toward the $1.85-$1.94 band as a short-selling zone, with downside targets at $1.50 and $1.39. A sustained move above $1.94-$2.0 would be needed to hint at a bullish recovery.

According to OpenAI, Elon Musk's xAI deleted internal messages ahead of its antitrust lawsuit, a claim set out in a Monday filing in U.S. federal court. X and xAI brought the case in August seeking billions of dollars, and in November a Fort Worth judge allowed it to proceed.

Pepe Coin has fallen to $0.000004118 after an 11% slide over several days, leaving it down 14% in a week, 31% in a month and 66% over the past year. Technical indicators, including the MVRV long-short difference and RSI, suggest PEPE may be near a bottom and could retest higher levels such as $0.00000450 and $0.0000070 in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, presale project SUBBD has collected more than $1.47 million as it develops an AI-powered content platform and offers its SUBBD token at $0.0574875.

SpaceX confirmed the acquisition of xAI on Monday via a memo from Elon Musk posted on the company website. The move consolidates rockets, satellites, and AI, with Musk outlining space-based power and orbital data centers to meet rising compute needs. For investors, pre-IPO access remains limited, with SPVs and select public funds offering indirect exposure.

New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sent a letter to Congressional leaders criticizing the GENIUS Act. According to CNN, they contend the law lets issuers keep interest on assets backing flagged coins rather than prioritizing restitution; Chainalysis reports illicit crypto flows hit $154 billion in 2025 with stablecoins at 84%.

OpenAI began searching in 2025 for alternatives to Nvidia's inference hardware after internal teams flagged speed constraints in code generation and software-to-software tasks. The company has since signed a deal with Cerebras and is evaluating AMD GPUs to potentially handle about 10% of future inference demand, while talks with Groq ended following a $20 billion Nvidia licensing agreement. A separate plan for Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI remains unresolved, even as both firms publicly emphasize that Nvidia still powers most of OpenAI's inference fleet.

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