Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/india/with-freebies-openai-google-vie-indian-users-training-data-2025-12-17/
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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US
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Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho is up 95% from its IPO offer price, valuing it at nearly $11B and making it India's best-performing major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/meesho-is-india-s-top-performing-big-ipo-of-2025-after-95-rally
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Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho is up 95% from its IPO offer price, valuing it at nearly $11B and making it India
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Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-exchange-hashkeys-rise-03-hong-kong-trading-debut-2025-12-17/
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Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% and then falling 8.4% intraday, amid recent weakness in digital assets
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Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)
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Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust Chair Gary Hoffman and retain CEO TS Anil, who is in the role until February
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Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
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Exclusive: AI for patent filings startup Ankar secures $20 million Series A round | Fortune
Founded by Palantir alums Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi, the company counts L’OrΓ©al and Vorys among its early customers.
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Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico
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Monzo receives an Irish banking license, allowing the London-based digital lender to offer current and savings accounts across the EU (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/monzo-gets-irish-banking-license-to-expand-into-european-markets
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Monzo receives an Irish banking license, letting the London-based digital lender offer its personal, business, children
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Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (Vismaya V/Decrypt)
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The 10,000 BTC will generate yields for GMC's growth while being held long-term, with Bhutan ruling out selling the reserves.
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Bhutan pledges up to 10K bitcoin, valued at ~$1B, to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham: Bhutan holds 5,984 BTC, ranking seventh among sovereign holders
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The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
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Marshall Islands launches world’s first universal basic income scheme offering cryptocurrency
Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacifi...
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The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers ~$200 payments per quarter to every resident citizen via USD stablecoin or traditional currency
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Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup (Financial Times)
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Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B in shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany
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Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete (Jill R Shah/Financial Times)
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Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B+ per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete
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