Cryptocurrencies and personal AI: Tech to watch out for in 2025

Will 2025 be a hinge year for cryptocurrency and will personalised AI appear on your phone?

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As 2022 drew to a close the outlook was bleak for the cryptocurrency business.

One of its best know firms, FTX, had collapsed with $8bn (£6.3bn) of customer funds unaccounted for.

In March of 2024, the company's co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried received a 25-year jail sentence for defrauding customers and investors.

The scandal rattled confidence in the whole sector.

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