The U.S. military just struck more than 1,000 targets inside Iran in the first 24 hours of its campaign — a pace of destruction that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The secret weapon wasn’t a new missile. It was software. Let that number sink in for a moment. One thousand targets. In a single day. To put it...
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Fewer Players, Fewer Choices: How the Collapse of Broker-Dealers and Public Companies Is Quietly Locking Ordinary Americans Out of the Market
Let’s start with a number that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: 8,090. That was the total number of publicly traded companies listed on U.S. exchanges at the market’s peak in 1996. Today, that number has been cut nearly in half — sitting just under 4,000. Meanwhile, the firms responsible for connecting investors to those companies — broker-dealers — have followed...
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When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we documented the demographic freight train bearing down on America’s college campuses — a declining birth rate, shuttering institutions, and a generation of students that simply never arrived. But while administrators have been laser-focused on the enrollment cliff ahead, a second...
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- An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from U.S military contractorby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on March 10, 2026 at 1:56 am
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- Electric air taxi maker Archer hits back at Joby in countersuit alleging concealed Chinese tiesby Kirsten Korosec on March 10, 2026 at 1:41 am
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The Algorithm Goes to War: How AI Has Changed the Battlefield Forever
The U.S. military just struck more than 1,000 targets inside Iran in the first 24 hours of its campaign —...
Fewer Players, Fewer Choices: How the Collapse of Broker-Dealers and Public Companies Is Quietly Locking Ordinary Americans Out of the Market
Let’s start with a number that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: 8,090. That was the total number of publicly traded...
The Perfect Storm:
When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we...
The Human Cost of the Machine: AI, Public Companies, and the Soul of Capitalism
Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at...
Iran: The New Proxy Battleground — And the War Has Already Started
The chess match for Iran’s future didn’t start Saturday. It started the moment Washington, Moscow, and Beijing each decided —...
Easy Part: What Comes After Khamenei?
Operation Epic Fury They got him. Early Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, in a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation dubbed “Operation...
The Club Nobody Asked to Join: How the Epstein Files Are Unmasking the Institutions That Rule the World
Let’s start with a simple question. Have you ever wondered who decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize? Five people....
Mexico on Fire: El Mencho’s Death, the Asylum Question, and the Money Nobody Wants to Follow
Let’s be honest about something from the start. The story of Mexico’s cartel crisis and the United States border debate...
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- An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from U.S military contractorby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on March 10, 2026 at 1:56 am
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. […]
- Electric air taxi maker Archer hits back at Joby in countersuit alleging concealed Chinese tiesby Kirsten Korosec on March 10, 2026 at 1:41 am
Archer's countersuit comes four months after Joby sued its rival for alleged 'corporate espionage.'
- Founders Fund nears $6B close for latest growth fund, sources sayby Marina Temkin on March 10, 2026 at 1:03 am
The fresh fundraise comes less than a year after Founders Fund closed its third growth fund, a $4.6 billion vehicle intended primarily for follow-on […]
- Electric air taxis are about to take flight in 26 states by Kirsten Korosec on March 9, 2026 at 10:30 pm
The federal government has selected eight proposals to test electric aircraft across 26 states.
- OpenAI and Google employees rush to Anthropic’s defense in DOD lawsuitby Rebecca Bellan on March 9, 2026 at 9:15 pm
More than 30 OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees signed onto a statement supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Defense Department after the […]
- Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated codeby Rebecca Bellan on March 9, 2026 at 7:41 pm
Anthropic launched Code Review in Claude Code, a multi-agent system that automatically analyzes AI-generated code, flags logic errors, and helps […]
- Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps downby Sarah Perez on March 9, 2026 at 7:32 pm
Graber explained that, as a more mature company, Bluesky needs a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution." Graber said she feels better […]
- It looks like the DOJ isn’t going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmasterby Amanda Silberling on March 9, 2026 at 6:49 pm
The DOJ and Live Nation agreed to a tentative settlement, but dozens of state attorneys general don't want to drop the lawsuit.
- Periwinkle is making self-hosted social media on Bluesky’s AT Protocol even easierby Sarah Perez on March 9, 2026 at 6:18 pm
Periwinkle offers managed hosting for AT Protocol users who want social media accounts on their own domains, with backups, storage, and migration […]
- OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agentsby Tim Fernholz on March 9, 2026 at 5:49 pm
This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business operations.
- GM figured out how to navigate EV uncertainty with the Chevy Boltby Tim De Chant on March 9, 2026 at 5:29 pm
The 2027 Chevy Bolt might not be a groundbreaking new EV, but incremental improvements have made it better without inflating the price.
- Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply-chain risk designationby Rebecca Bellan on March 9, 2026 at 5:25 pm
Anthropic filed suit against the Department of Defense on Monday after the agency labeled it a supply-chain risk. The complaint calls the DOD's […]