Trump's $1.2B crypto earnings and Humble Robotics
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🪙 HugoDécrypte Details Trump Crypto Earnings
_Donald Trump_ earned ~$1.2B from crypto in 2025, raising conflict-of-interest concerns amid administration deregulation. His net worth rose from $2.3B to over $6.5B, driven by _World Liberty Financial_—co-founded by his sons and _Steve Witkoff_'s son—where a UAE-linked firm bought a 50% stake for $500M+ and _Trump_ holds 15.75B tokens ($900M). The _Trump_ administration has already cut _Joe Biden_-era crypto rules and halted industry lawsuits. His real estate also surged, yielding $122M from his Miami golf course and $77M from _Mar-a-Lago_.
🦾 TechCrunch Interviews Humble Robotics CEO
_TechCrunch_ interviewed _Eyal Cohen_, CEO of _Humble Robotics_, which raised $24M led by _Eclipse_ for cabless electric haulers. Pre-trained vision language models cut engineering time, letting cameras recognize complex road scenarios on sub-50-mile routes. _Cohen_ noted that strong company culture is vital to attract scarce physical AI engineering talent.
☁️ Cloudastic Solves CKAD Exam Question
_Cloudastic_ published a walkthrough for question 22 of the Certified _Kubernetes_ Application Developer exam simulation. The guide shows how to target pods in the "sun" namespace to apply a "protected=true" label to "type=worker" or "type=runner" pods. It also details adding a "protected=do not delete this pod" annotation to those labeled pods, verifying via YAML.
📌 Quick Roundup of Smaller Updates
Guides by _Fireship_, _Nate B Jones_, and _Computerphile_ highlight rising digital system complexity and costs. - Internet history: Traced from the 1969 ARPANET launch and 1983 TCP/IP to the World Wide Web and mobile browsing. - AI model selection: Experts advise using cheap models like _GLM 5.2_ for routine tasks, reserving frontier models like _Claude_ or _ChatGPT_ for complex problems. - Token costs: Agentic tools like _GitHub Copilot_ consume millions of tokens via multi-step workflows, forcing a shift from flat-rate to pay-per-token pricing.