Maria Sherman / Associated Press:
Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams  —  The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025.  It's a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, which held the previous record.

Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero  —  Partner offers  —  Quick Take  — XMR hit an all-time high of $797.73 on Jan. 14, coinciding with a series …

Valentine Baldassari / Bloomberg:
Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026  —  Micron Technology Inc. has signed a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp …

Sage D. Young / Sherwood News:
Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ethereum's total supply, worth ~$119B, are now staked, as institutional investors grow their share  —  The new record comes as institutional players grow their share in the staking scene.  Ether.fi, a restaking protocol known …

Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times:
Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat  —  UK digital bank due to give current chief executive broader than expected remit when he steps down next month