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Pat Gelsinger and Naveen Rao: we've seen Silicon Valley move fast and break things, but consider the math of where we're headed
We Work In AI. We've Seen It Eliminate Jobs. We've Also Seen It Create More Jobs Silicon Valley used to encourage one another to “move fast and break things.” Then we broke everything. And people started to get angry. Every major tech…
California's billionaire tax will 'kickstart a movement' that spreads to more states, the federal government and other countries, Nobel laureates say
A ballot initiative that would impose a wealth tax on California's billionaires could be the start of a global trend, according to six Nobel Prize-winning economists. In a letter published on Saturday, they endorsed the state's Proposition 40…
Bastion conditionally OK for US trust bank
Latest News PublishedSep 19, 2026 Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally regulated entity. Stablecoin infrastructure provider…
Spain's SETT Drives $521 Million Investment Push to Build Global Audiovisual Players
No Spanish industry initiative is likely to drive more conversation at this year's San Sebastián Festival than the latest moves by the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT). Over the past 12 months, state-backed venture…
Could Anthropic's IPO Be Bigger Than SpaceX's?
Could an Anthropic IPO top that of Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX -1.36%)? Three months after SpaceX listed, that is the question all over Wall Street. While SpaceX reset the IPO scoreboard, Anthropic has to decide whether it wants to beat…
Shiloh Luckey Charged in $13.3 Million Startup Fraud
Shiloh Luckey spent months handing out tax advice on TikTok while federal investigators were looking into whether she lied about being a certified public accountant to raise millions for her tax startup. Now she is facing 15 federal charges.
Google launches MCP server for Merchant API as legacy Content API for Shopping is wound down
Google has released an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Merchant API, bringing agentic tooling directly into developer IDEs as the older Content API for Shopping reaches the end of its life. Google has shipped two separate MCP…
The 10 Best Books of the Decade So Far, Ranked
The 2020s have been an exhausting six years marked by a fracturing society and an increasingly surreal reality, with its literature reflecting exactly that. We've spent the last half decade living through a meat-grinder of rolling global…
New Review Blames Fed Culture for SVB Collapse Delays
Federal Reserve examiners knew, or should have known, about vulnerabilities inside Silicon Valley Bank as much as a year before the lender collapsed in 2023, according to a new independent review. The review, commissioned by Fed Vice Chair for…
What is fascism in the present? Two recent books attempt to diagnose these conditions
“A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West,” reads a recent recruitment ad for Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm that increasingly provides data-driven “intelligence” for intelligence, police and military agencies…
Fed Rate Hike September 2026: Why Bitcoin Held $76K
The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to raise interest rates by 25 basis points on September 16, lifting the target range to 3.75–4.00%. It's the first rate increase in over three years — a reversal of the cuts that started in late…
StepStone Group Inc. $STEP Shares Bought by Corient Private Wealth LP
Corient Private Wealth LP grew its holdings in StepStone Group Inc. (NASDAQ:STEP - Free Report) by 29.5% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 131,465 shares of…
Engineers Gate Manager LP Buys Shares of 13,640 Hamilton Lane Inc. $HLNE
Engineers Gate Manager LP purchased a new stake in Hamilton Lane Inc. (NASDAQ:HLNE - Free Report) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional…
Is Markel the New Berkshire Hathaway Blueprint for Value Investors Post-Buffett?
Warren Buffett's exit from Berkshire Hathaway reignited a debate value investors have circled for years: whether one smaller insurer running the same three-engine compounding model can fill the void, and whether its recent struggles make it a trap…
From BFFs to open war: Better.com's founder vs. the investor who replaced him
Hours after Better.com founder Vishal Garg was ousted as CEO this summer, the board member picked to replace him texted Garg after midnight. “You are the last person I am texting tonight—you are on my mind,” interim CEO Daniel…
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