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Did you know 12.3% of Norwegians now own crypto?
It's no longer a grey area; it's a household name.
Over 2.1 million adults in the Nordics hold crypto.
Crypto adoption across the Nordics is on the rise.

Get more insight, reports, news, and video recordings on our Crypto Adoption 2025 landing page.

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Why is Elon Musk Throttling the Signal App? Links to a popular encrypted messaging app used by federal workers are being blocked on X.

Why is Elon Musk Throttling the Signal App?

Links to a popular encrypted messaging app used by federal workers are being blocked on X.

Self-professed free speech crusader Elon Musk seems to be trying to censor users on his own platform.

How is it possible to present «breaking news» about Trump and Putin «agreed» on piece negotiations for Ukraine? Even from Norwegian broadcasters like NRK and TV2. Isn’t there one party missing in this way of presenting «news»?

AI Agents strike back with a powerful stock price surge While the exchanges, Nasdaq and especially Nvidia experienced sharp price drops in Monday, the crypto-based AI agents struck back.

AI Agents strike back with a powerful stock price surge

While the exchanges, Nasdaq and especially Nvidia experienced sharp price drops in Monday, the crypto-based AI agents struck back with price gains of 35-40 percent. Kaupr gives you the explanation.

Kinesiske DeepSeek ryster tech-gigantene og finansmarkedene Den kinesiske AI-startupen DeepSeek har på rekordtid skapt kaos i teknologiverdenen. Med sin nye modell utfordrer selskapet amerikanske tech-giganter.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has wreaked havoc in the tech world in record time. With its latest model, the company is challenging US tech giants - at a fraction of the cost. Financial markets are also reacting. At the same time, the news is received with enthusiasm by the crypto communities.

In Kaupr we are now re-launching our main newsletter as ‘Next by Kaupr, which also will be our flagship newsletter. Next will be available both in English and Norwegian.

Today we published the first edition in 2025, which you can find here:
next.kaupr.io

Dozens of German universities turn back on X accounts BERLIN: Dozens of German universities said on Friday (Jan 10) they would no longer use social network X – owned by the world's richest man, Elon Musk – citing ethical concerns. More than 60 German uni...

More than 60 German universities and academic institutions said in a joint statement that X was now incompatible with their principles.

"The platform's current direction is not compatible with the basic values of the institutions concerned», they said.

Have you caught up with our latest deep dives and analyses on Agentic AI? Two fresh articles.

AGENTIC AI & WEB2
Now comes the AI agents: A new industrial revolution?
www.kaupr.io/en-us/news/n...

AGENTIC AI & WEB3
AI Agents and Crypto: The New Narrative in 2025?
www.kaupr.io/en-us/news/a...

Thanks Ebony! Much appreciated!

Interesting! I am also following these trends in a media, content and creator context, where there seems to be a movement towards onchain publishing. With AI and agents in the mix, it becomes even more interesting.

AI Agents and Crypto: The New Narrative in 2025? AI plus crypto, powered by AI agents and backed by an open and social internet, has become the new narrative in the transition between 2024 and 2025.

AI Agents and Crypto: The New Narrative in 2025

AI plus crypto, powered by AI agents and backed by an open and social internet, has become the new narrative in the transition between 2024 and 2025. What were previously seen as separate technologies are now converging.

- Bluesky er en ny mulighet for norske medier - Det er rimelig å anta at Bluesky vil være blant de ti største sosiale mediene i Kantar Medias Interbuss allerede i første kvartal 2025, skriver Knut-Arne Futsæter i denne kommentaren.

kampanje.com/medier/2025/...

Virtuals Protocol

Thanks! You are probably right regarding most of the AI agents. But to me, the development seems to go much faster. For instance there are already more than 13,000 AI agents launched on this platform: app.virtuals.io. And some of them are transitioning from content to action.

Now comes the AI agents: A new industrial revolution? Artificial intelligence is entering a new era, with generative AI giving way to agentic AI-systems that act independently and perform complex tasks.

Now comes the AI agents: A new industrial revolution?

Artificial intelligence is entering a new era, with generative AI giving way to agentic AI-systems that act independently and perform complex tasks.
You can read your article in English and Norwegian on kaupr.io

www.kaupr.io/en-us/news/n...

Jeg har likevel mange gode opplevelser på Bluesky, nettopp fordi jeg skreddersyr det jeg følger, søker, har som feed. Er egentlig ganske imponert over hvilken rekkevidde Bluesky har allerede, selv om f.eks. Threads har 10x antall kontoer.

Takk for kommentar! Og ikke uenig med deg. Jeg er fortsatt også på X av faglige grunner. På Bluesky er brukeropplevelsen avhengig av hvem jeg følger, bruk av startpakker, feeds, søk og nå kanskje trender. Tror ikke Bluesky vil ta i bruk AI uten å gi brukerne en måte å styre det på.

Hundretusener av nordmenn bruker Bluesky: Nesten halvparten så stort som X For noen måneder siden hadde få hørt om X-utfordreren. Nå bruker over 300.000 nordmenn Bluesky.

Norwegians are changing their social media habits:

7% of Norwegians aged 18 and older now use Bluesky weekly, equivalent to 310,000 people, with 4% using it daily.

Threads has 5% weekly and 2% daily users.

For X, the figures are at 16% weekly and 10% daily.

Såvidt jeg kan se er det bare spurt om fremtidig bruk av X, ikke om sosial mediebruk totalt fremover. Men @futsaeter.bsky.social fra Kantar slår til med en spenstig spådom:
– 300.000 er ikke noe lite tall. Om Bluesky ikke tar igjen X neste år, så gjør det det i hvert fall året etter, sier han.

Hundretusener av nordmenn bruker Bluesky: Nesten halvparten så stort som X For noen måneder siden hadde få hørt om X-utfordreren. Nå bruker over 300.000 nordmenn Bluesky.

A few months ago, few had heard of the X challenger. Now, over 300,000 Norwegians use Bluesky.
Seven percent of all adult Norwegians use the social media platform Bluesky weekly. Meanwhile, half of X users report plans to reduce their usage. Is a shift in dominance approaching?

Hundretusener av nordmenn bruker Bluesky: Nesten halvparten så stort som X For noen måneder siden hadde få hørt om X-utfordreren. Nå bruker over 300.000 nordmenn Bluesky.

For noen måneder siden hadde få hørt om X-utfordreren. Nå bruker over 300.000 nordmenn Bluesky.

Sju prosent av alle voksne nordmenn bruker det sosiale mediet Bluesky hver uke. Samtidig sier halvparten av X-brukerne at de vil bruke X mindre framover. Nærmer det seg et tronskifte?

AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.

My prediction in @wired.com: 2025 is the year of AI agents.
The coming psychopolitical regime "directs the environments where our ideas are born, developed, and expressed. Its power lies in its intimacy—it infiltrates our subjectivity.

We will be playing an imitation game that ultimately plays us."

How is that a publication like Rolling Stone gets it right when so many other news orgs are failing at real journalism & keeping it real—and so damn obvious about it?

Do any human want to live in this kind of dystopia? on.ft.com/41MbAp3

Both, but I also use the Quiet feed a lot!

Researchers in countries from the UK to Bangladesh - and my analysis of X Community Notes - failed to turn up much evidence that the technology was a weapon of choice for disinformation campaigns this year

NPR and PBS Stations Brace for Funding Battle Under Trump Republicans in Congress have tried to defund public media for decades. With the help of Elon Musk, could they finally make good on their threat?

scoop: a document circulated among the directors of the biggest NPR stations after the election raises alarms about the stability of government funding w/@kateconger.com

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b...

How one Canadian is trying to keep a fast-growing social media platform troll-free | CBC News Canadian Aaron Rodericks is head of trust and safety for Bluesky Social. Can he keep the rapidly growing social media platform free of trolls and misinformation, and stop foreign actors from using Blu...

How one Canadian is trying to keep a fast-growing social media platform troll-free

As Bluesky Social's head of trust and safety, it's up to Rodericks to keep one of the fastest growing social media platforms from becoming a playground for trolls, misinformation and election interference.

For Bluesky, Massive User Uptick Brings Growing Pains and Divisive Bots It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division.

For Bluesky, Massive User Uptick Brings Growing Pains and Divisive Bots

It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

Elon Musk’s Critics Stripped of Verification Badge After Publicly Challenging Billionaire: ‘The Beginning Stages of Censorship’ Several conservative critics of Elon Musk were stripped of their verification badges on X, Thursday after publicly challenging Musk's stance on immigration.

Elon Musk’s Critics Stripped of Verification Badge After Publicly Challenging Billionaire: ‘The Beginning Stages of Censorship’

Several conservative critics of billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk were stripped of their verification badges on X after challenging Musk’s stance on immigration.