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Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has more than $20 billion in assets under management, after launching less than two years ago (Peter Rudegeair/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Father of the iPod and iPhone: Developing Taste, Judgment and Creativity in the Age of AI…

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Analysis based on the current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests that approximately $370 billion in philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are close to becoming liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan’s Substack)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Rebuilding computing from the ground up for the AI era: Serval’s Jake Stauch Sequoia Capital partners…

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Inside Consensus Conference, one of the largest crypto conferences, which took on a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The unlikely marriage of Anthropic and SpaceX, the revelations of the OpenAI trial, the AI…

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Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: Runway’s Cris Valenzuela: Creating Hollywood-Friendly Video AI That OpenAI Couldn’t Veteran technology journalist Alex Konrad…

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Filings: Caterpillar acquires assets of autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor, after raising more than $200 million and struggling to pivot into software services (Sean O’Kane/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Sean O’Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Caterpillar acquires assets of autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor, after raising more than $200…

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Thrive deck leak: $26.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for first four funds, including 2.4x for 2016’s Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 25, 2026

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Thrive Deck Leak: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, Deal Value Peaked in Q4…

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Sources: Privately held Stripe has expressed preliminary interest in potentially acquiring PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps more than 7% (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Bloomberg: Sources: Privately held Stripe has expressed preliminary interest in potentially acquiring PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps 7%+— Payment…

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World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, allowing users to lend and borrow digital assets from each other, supporting its own USD1 token and others (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 12, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: Why we only use 1% of AI | Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean Grit explores what it…

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PwC US boss Paul Griggs said PwC decided to “lean in” to crypto work after years of taking a more cautious stance, following Trump’s embrace of digital assets (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The High Growth Handbook: Molly Graham’s Frameworks for Managing Chaos, Change, and Scale Interviews with world-class…

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Peter Thiel and Larry Page could leave CA over a proposed ballot measure, which Newsom opposes, that levies a one-time 5% tax on those with more than $1 billion in assets (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 27, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Alex and Ranjan’s Outlook for 2026: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple’s Big Year, AI…

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Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

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Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC massively backfired

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has more than $20 billion in assets under management, after launching less than two years ago (Peter Rudegeair/Wall Street Journal)

Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million TPUs in 2028; Nvidia tests Intel technology for new processor, conducts 18A trials (Qianer Liu/The Information)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said tech companies must introduce safety measures on children’s phones to stop them sharing nude images or face laws forcing them to do so (Reuters)

London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts such as jet engines and semiconductors, raised a $300 million Series C round led by Temasek at a valuation of $2.4 billion (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

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Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has more than $20 billion in assets under management, after launching less than two years ago (Peter Rudegeair/Wall Street Journal)

Analysis based on the current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests that approximately $370 billion in philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are close to becoming liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan’s Substack)

Inside Consensus Conference, one of the largest crypto conferences, which took on a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Filings: Caterpillar acquires assets of autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor, after raising more than $200 million and struggling to pivot into software services (Sean O’Kane/TechCrunch)

Thrive deck leak: $26.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for first four funds, including 2.4x for 2016’s Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Sources: Privately held Stripe has expressed preliminary interest in potentially acquiring PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps more than 7% (Bloomberg)

World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, allowing users to lend and borrow digital assets from each other, supporting its own USD1 token and others (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

PwC US boss Paul Griggs said PwC decided to “lean in” to crypto work after years of taking a more cautious stance, following Trump’s embrace of digital assets (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

Peter Thiel and Larry Page could leave CA over a proposed ballot measure, which Newsom opposes, that levies a one-time 5% tax on those with more than $1 billion in assets (New York Times)