This week, we’re bringing you an episode of Bold Names, which presents conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. On this episode, hosts WSJ’s Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak with Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state, the current leader of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a founding partner at the strategic consulting firm Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC. She explains why she says the U.S. needs to “run hard and run fast” and win the tech race with China. She also discusses why executives can no longer afford to think of foreign policy as separate from strategy. For additional information on the Bold Names podcast and more episodes click here.
Across the country, colleges and universities are struggling to figure out how to incorporate AI into the classroom. ChatGPT debuted almost exactly three years ago. And very quickly, students began to see its potential as a study buddy, an immense research tool and, for some, a way to cheat the system.
This week on The Sunday Story we look at the rapid growth of AI in higher ed and consider what it means for the future of teaching and learning.
The UN climate summit in Brazil has closed with a commitment to triple adaptation funding for developing countries, but there was no explicit mention of the fossil fuels that drive climate change. A bitter row at COP30 saw oil-rich nations led by Saudi Arabia overcome more than 80 countries that wanted a deal advancing previous commitments to transition away from oil, coal, and gas.
Also: President Trump says his plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war is "not his final offer" as Kyiv and its allies push back on proposals they see as too favourable to Moscow. Several airlines suspend flights to Venezuela after the US warned of dangers from heightened military activity. Princess Diana's personal designer Paul Costelloe dies aged 80. How new technology, the size of a grain of rice, is tracking the migration of Monarch butterflies across North America. And a watch worn by Titanic passenger Isidor Straus as the ship sank fetches a record price at auction.
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Nearly 200 nations agree on a compromise deal on tackling climate change at the COP30 summit in Brazil - but without any commitment to phase out fossil fuels. We speak to Sierra Leone Minister of The Environment and Climate Change Jiwoh Abdulai, who represented the Least Developed Countries group on finance and transition talks.
Also in the programme: All educational institutions in Niger state have been ordered to close following a mass abduction on Friday of more than three hundred children and staff from a Catholic boarding school; and we reflect on the lasting cultural relevance of beloved Pixar film series Toy Story.
(Pictured: André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, sits as Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, left, speaks with other U.N. officials during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit. Credit: AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Bitcoin's volatility and MSTR stock with Strategy Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor.
Strategy Co-Founder & Executive Chairman Michael Saylor joins us to discuss bitcoin's sharp decline to nearly $80,000, calling the volatility "Satoshi's gift" and a necessary "feature" for performance. He argues that investors need a 4 to 10-year time horizon and defends MicroStrategy's stock and financial resilience against index exclusion rumors and market noise. Saylor stresses that the long-term fundamentals of digital capital and financial sovereignty will override near-term pain.
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Russia's long-standing requests are predominant in a peace deal for Ukraine brokered by American and Russian envoys. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., says she will resign her Congressional seat in January. Pill versions of the obesity drugs now requiring injections are on the way. BONUS: 2025's best plot-driven books.
US and Ukrainian talks set to take place in Switzerland, but will Ukrainian public opinion accept the proposals?
Also in the programme: Key MAGA figure Marjorie Taylor Green to quit Congress after falling out with President Trump; and Rosalia, the multilingual Spanish singer on her new album.
(Photo: Zelensky and his wife place wheat sheaves at statue. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)
We hear about a rare meeting between a living organ donor and the child whose life was transformed by receiving her kidney. Aly Coyle says she was delighted to see 5-year-old Xavier happy and healthy after the transplant. His parents tracked her down through social media to say thank you, and describe her as an angel who's now part of their family.
Also: how a new machine could dramatically increase the number of liver transplants, by improving the way the organs are stored outside the body.
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A grand prix with a difference - why cows, and their riders, race through a small Swiss village.
Plus: the newly rediscovered works of Bach that have been performed for the first time in over three hundred years.
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Bitcoin's down 30%, ETF holders are underwater, and treasury companies are struggling. Colin and Charlie break down the anatomy of the November 2025 crash and what it means for miners, leverage plays, and your portfolio.
Colin and Charlie break down the brutal November 2025 Bitcoin selloff. With BTC trading at $87K, the average ETF holder is now underwater, hash prices are at all-time lows, and treasury companies like MicroStrategy and Nokia are facing serious headwinds. We discuss whether this is just typical Bitcoin volatility or something more concerning, analyze the dangers of leverage in crypto, and examine what happens when treasury companies can no longer access capital markets.
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**Notes:**
• Bitcoin trading at $86-87K (red for the year)
• Average BTC ETF holder now underwater
• Hash price at all-time low for miners
• MicroStrategy convertible notes taking haircuts
• 30% drawdown within historic BTC range
• Treasury companies face capital access issues
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:34 Number Go Down WTF!
04:15 Bitcoin is volatile, strap in!
09:02 But why go down?
16:50 NAKA
20:20 Treasury company bubble
21:50 Metaplanet
25:09 Leverage will break you
28:32 Hashprice
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Which of the major home improvement stores came out on top this week? And why is Target investing $1 billion more in store upgrades? Plus, how did the Trump administration’s loan to Constellation Energy affect its stock this week? Host Telis Demos discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
