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Technology

As America’s AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, the continent’s startups are turning to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local venture capital firms (Rivaldo Jantjies/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 28, 2026

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Politics

Trump creates slush funds and publishes election conspiracies while ignoring San Diego mosque mass shooting

By Frank M. EverettMay 18, 2026

At some point, the rest of the country will have to realize that Trump has no interest in doing the…

Technology

Letter to investors: TCI, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has reduced almost its entire $8 billion stake in Microsoft, citing AI risks for Office and Azure (Costas Mourselas/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Costas Mourselas / Financial Times: Letter to Investors: TCI, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has reduced almost its…

Technology

At least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to raise money from U.S. investors in recent months (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2026

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Technology

Late-stage U.S. growth and venture funds have raised $23.6 billion so far this year, up from $7.4 billion in 2025 and above the totals in any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders,…

Technology

A look at Neo, a venture capital firm that made early bets on startups like Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds well above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

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Technology

Sources: Moonshot AI may abandon its Cayman structure to allow a Chinese or Hong Kong entity to prepare for an IPO in Hong Kong and plans to raise funds at a valuation of around $18 billion (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Moonshot AI may abandon its Cayman structure for a Chinese or Hong Kong entity to prepare…

Technology

Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky is suing his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now part of Apple’s design team, alleging improper use of funds and theft of intellectual property (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Live from Nvidia’s Nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over technology and the future of banking AI A…

Technology

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…

Technology

Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “no impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and is “very confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds” (@oracle)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 2, 2026

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Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Nepali PM confuses mandate with immunity – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

Morgan Stanley to open its wealth management funnel to agents

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

Analysis: 10 Trump officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, reported holding stakes in SpaceX or xAI worth more than $9.9 million collectively, before SpaceX’s IPO (Bloomberg)

GitLab lays off 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as it evolves into an AI-driven enterprise software development platform and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

Browsing: funds

As America’s AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, the continent’s startups are turning to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local venture capital firms (Rivaldo Jantjies/Bloomberg)

Trump creates slush funds and publishes election conspiracies while ignoring San Diego mosque mass shooting

Letter to investors: TCI, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has reduced almost its entire $8 billion stake in Microsoft, citing AI risks for Office and Azure (Costas Mourselas/Financial Times)

At least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to raise money from U.S. investors in recent months (Bloomberg)

Late-stage U.S. growth and venture funds have raised $23.6 billion so far this year, up from $7.4 billion in 2025 and above the totals in any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Neo, a venture capital firm that made early bets on startups like Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds well above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Moonshot AI may abandon its Cayman structure to allow a Chinese or Hong Kong entity to prepare for an IPO in Hong Kong and plans to raise funds at a valuation of around $18 billion (Wall Street Journal)

Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky is suing his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now part of Apple’s design team, alleging improper use of funds and theft of intellectual property (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

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)

Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “no impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and is “very confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds” (@oracle)