Norway's sovereign wealth fund has approximately half of its employees using Anthropic's Claude large language model to create AI tools that assist with decision-making and analyzing ESG risk. In the future, the fund will permit AI to make autonomous decisions under supervision. The CEO stated that companies not using AI are "complete idiots." The fund has already seen significant returns on its AI investments.

As Bitcoin continues to gain institutional adoption in 2025, its energy consumption and environmental impact have once again become the focus of public debate. ESG and sustainable development researcher Daniel Batten pointed out that many criticisms of Bitcoin mining are not based on data but stem from misunderstandings of the technology's mechanisms. He summarized nine common misconceptions about Bitcoin's energy issues and refuted each with real-world data. First, the claim that "Bitcoin transactions consume大量 energy, water resources, and electronic waste" is not accurate. Multiple peer-reviewed studies have shown that Bitcoin's energy consumption is unrelated to the number of transactions, meaning the network's transaction capacity can expand without a corresponding increase in energy input. This conclusion is fundamentally different from the linear scaling model of traditional payment systems.

Gold Financial reports that U.S. President Trump has issued an executive order attempting to limit the influence of proxy advisory firms, as part of his efforts to weaken third-party organizations' ability to impact listed company decision-making. The executive order released on Thursday instructs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman to review rules and regulations related to proxy advisory firms and consider amending or rescinding those that are inconsistent with the purpose of this order, including rules, regulations, guidance documents, notices, and memoranda, especially concerning "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)" and "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)" policies. (Jin10)