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States crack down on tax breaks for wealthy investors

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

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DefiLlama: Investors withdrew about $14 billion from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290 million from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280 million from Drift (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 6, 2026

Financial Times: DefiLlama: Investors withdrew about $14 billion from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290 million from…

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After Trump’s World Liberty raised $550 million from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions of dollars were sold privately in “white glove” transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Expensive stakes in the NFL and NBA push investors toward smaller leagues

By Stacey D. WallsApril 30, 2026

Trinity Rodman #2 of the Washington Spirit avoids Sarah Schupansky #11 of Gotham FC during the 2025 NWSL Championship final…

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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

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Paul Tudor Jones – Lessons from 50 years of markets The leading destination for…

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A look at AI METR, a nonprofit organization whose time horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Anthropic completes employee tender offer at a valuation of $350 billion, short of the $6 billion investors sought because employees held shares before the IPO (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

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Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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Sources: SpaceX offers $2 trillion-plus valuation to potential investors in IPO; SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI would have valued the combined company at $1.25 billion (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX offers $2 trillion-plus valuation to potential investors in IPO; SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI would have valued the…

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OpenAI suspends erotic chatbot projects ‘indefinitely’ as it refocuses on core products, sources say following concerns from staff and investors (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: Harvey’s Winston Weinberg: From Law Partner to CEO of $11B Legal AI Startup Veteran technology…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Commercial Real Estate Sees Record Lending Competition in April

Increased World Cup-related travel has yet to materialize for U.S. businesses

Pandemic car shortages still drive up new and used car prices

GM eyes new type of battery to expand data center and energy storage business

LIV Golf CEO says to take PIF ‘at its word’ as funding cliff approaches

Democrats have all the information they need to end Trump and Vance with a real investigation into Epstein

Trump says he likes high inflation in new disaster for Republicans

Republicans go off the rails and say they don’t need proof to say the election is rigged

Top House Democrat demands answers about Trump’s health after he falls asleep during NBA Finals

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Russia’s FSB-orchestrated internet outages, intermittent but indiscriminate, have pushed one of the world’s most connected countries to resort to cash and paper cards (Financial Times)

Opendoor announces closure of its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-based teams in the United States (Moneycontrol)

Sources: OpenAI plans to significantly lower the price of its tokens in anticipation of similar reductions expected by the company at Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

Amazon secures $17.5 billion loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling C$14 billion in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars (Bloomberg)

Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruptions caused by advanced AI systems (Anthropic)

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States crack down on tax breaks for wealthy investors

DefiLlama: Investors withdrew about $14 billion from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290 million from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280 million from Drift (Financial Times)

After Trump’s World Liberty raised $550 million from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions of dollars were sold privately in “white glove” transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Expensive stakes in the NFL and NBA push investors toward smaller leagues

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)

A look at AI METR, a nonprofit organization whose time horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Anthropic completes employee tender offer at a valuation of $350 billion, short of the $6 billion investors sought because employees held shares before the IPO (Bloomberg)

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

Sources: SpaceX offers $2 trillion-plus valuation to potential investors in IPO; SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI would have valued the combined company at $1.25 billion (Bloomberg)

OpenAI suspends erotic chatbot projects ‘indefinitely’ as it refocuses on core products, sources say following concerns from staff and investors (Financial Times)