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Vietnamese auction fetched Tycoon’s luxury car and Hermès handbags for over $1 million – The Diplomat

By Frank M. EverettMay 25, 2026

A Maybach luxury car and two white Hermes handbags that belonged to imprisoned Vietnamese real estate developer Truong My Lan…

Technology

Tether buys SoftBank’s approximately 26% stake in Bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, bringing its stake to approximately 71%; SoftBank’s stake was worth about $679 million (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is OpenAI Ready to IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI The…

Technology

Moment, which develops AI tools to automate fixed income and equity trading technologies, raised a $78 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, with participation from a16z (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The AI paradox: more automation, more humans, more work | Dan Sender Interviews with world-class product…

Technology

Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80 million from KKR’s growth equity arm at a valuation of more than $1 billion, bringing the total raised to $285 million (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 23, 2026

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, has raised $80 million from KKR’s growth equity…

Technology

Filing: Zoom’s stake in Anthropic is worth about $1.27 billion based on a February round that valued Anthropic at $380 billion; Zoom has invested an additional $46 million in recent months (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 23, 2026

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom’s stake in Anthropic is worth about $1.27 billion based on a February round that…

Technology

Activision shareholders reach a $250 million settlement following allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision in 2023 (Tom Hals/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Substack CEO talks AI slop, free speech and taking over YouTube A show about the inside conversations…

Business & Money

LIV Golf seeks to raise up to $350 million from investors

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2026

LIV Golf is preparing to launch its updated business plan and investor pitch as early as Thursday, aiming to raise…

Technology

Commure, which offers AI, revenue cycle management and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $70 million led by GC at a post-funding valuation of $7 billion (Paige Minemyer/Fierce Healthcare)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: Vox Media’s Jim Bankoff explains why he’s selling to James Murdoch Media and technology…

Technology

Filing: SpaceX has set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, including suits involving Grok "Spicy" fashion, which he described as a "increased risk" (Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2026

Wired: Filing: SpaceX has set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok’s “Spicy” mode, which it…

Technology

Exa, which offers a search engine designed for AI agents, raised $250 million led by a16z at a valuation of $2.2 billion, up from $700 million in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 20, 2026

Bloomberg: Exa, which offers a search engine designed for AI agents, raised $250 million led by a16z at a valuation…

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

2026 was a crazy year for Southeast Asian stock markets – The Diplomat

Vietnam’s quiet strategy during the Shangri-La dialogue – The Diplomat

The emergence of Uzbekistan as a mobility hub in Central Asia – The Diplomat

The real crisis in Andhra Pradesh is development, not demographics – The Diplomat

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

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Berkshire Taylor Morrison bet suggests housing market has bottomed out

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

Interior Secretary Breaks Down and Admits Trump Is Stealing America’s 250th Birthday

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Chey Tae-won, president of SK Hynix, said the company plans to double the capacity of its memory chips over the next five years, in response to a shortage that could last until 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

A profile of Valve, which PrivCo says generated $5.2 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net profit in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (Bloomberg)

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Vietnamese auction fetched Tycoon’s luxury car and Hermès handbags for over $1 million – The Diplomat

Tether buys SoftBank’s approximately 26% stake in Bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, bringing its stake to approximately 71%; SoftBank’s stake was worth about $679 million (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Moment, which develops AI tools to automate fixed income and equity trading technologies, raised a $78 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, with participation from a16z (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80 million from KKR’s growth equity arm at a valuation of more than $1 billion, bringing the total raised to $285 million (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Filing: Zoom’s stake in Anthropic is worth about $1.27 billion based on a February round that valued Anthropic at $380 billion; Zoom has invested an additional $46 million in recent months (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Activision shareholders reach a $250 million settlement following allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision in 2023 (Tom Hals/Reuters)

LIV Golf seeks to raise up to $350 million from investors

Commure, which offers AI, revenue cycle management and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $70 million led by GC at a post-funding valuation of $7 billion (Paige Minemyer/Fierce Healthcare)

Filing: SpaceX has set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, including suits involving Grok "Spicy" fashion, which he described as a "increased risk" (Wired)

Exa, which offers a search engine designed for AI agents, raised $250 million led by a16z at a valuation of $2.2 billion, up from $700 million in September 2025 (Bloomberg)