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Jeep eyes U.S. return after years of sales woes

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 17, 2025

2025 Jeep Cherokee SUVStellantisAUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Jeep is betting Americans still love a good throwback story.It’s a mantra that…

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U.S. BNPL usage has grown to 91.5 million users, 25% of whom finance groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans go unreported, creating ‘phantom debt’ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots and why the world’s models are next | Dr.…

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51 U.S. tech IPOs raised $16.8 billion in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, which is above the average of the past three years but well below 2021’s 127 IPOs raising $74.4 billion (Valida Pau/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

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A look at the construction of global AI data centers, its limitations and ROI issues; by 2025, U.S. capacity built, in progress, planned or locked in exceeded 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

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Local opposition blocked or delayed 17 U.S. data center projects worth $98 billion in the second quarter of 2025, compared to 16 projects worth $64 billion from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

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As U.S. schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-based monitoring tools such as GoGuardian to analyze student chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI bailout?, Elon’s $1 trillion payment deal, Amazon continues perplexity The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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U.S. FEC filings and public statements: A handful of crypto super PACs raised about $263 million ahead of the 2026 midterm elections; Fairshake remains the largest with $141 million (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 29, 2025

Bloomberg: U.S. FEC filings and public statements: A handful of crypto super PACs raised about $263 million ahead of the…

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The U.S. AI data center boom is consuming capital, energy and people that the rest of the economy needs, and eclipsing Trump’s manufacturing recovery plans (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 26, 2025

Bloomberg: The AI data center boom in the United States is consuming capital, energy and people that the rest of…

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A U.S. judge said Meta’s lawyers asked staff to block or remove parts of internal research into adolescent mental health to limit liability; Meta says no findings removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 24, 2025

Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: A U.S. judge said Meta’s lawyers asked staff to block or remove parts of internal…

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process of connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 24, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth…

ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

Generation X is driving beauty sales

The clock is ticking for Spirit Airlines as bondholders weigh in on Trump bailout

New York pied-à-terre tax sparks legal fight over values

Procter & Gamble (PG) Third Quarter 2026 Results

FDA Speeds Up Research on Psychedelic Drugs Following Trump Order

White House Correspondents’ Shooter’s Dinner Changes Nothing

Many Americans don’t care about Trump’s third assassination attempt

Jamie Raskin crushes Dana Bash’s efforts to blame Democrats for WHCD attacker

Trump brags about crowd size after someone tries to shoot up WHCD

The shooter did NOT enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

By the end of 2025, 79 of the 500 software companies tracked, including HubSpot, Adobe and Salesforce, had adopted usage-based AI fees, more than double from 2024 (The News)

Sources detail Microsoft’s “Windows K2,” an ongoing initiative aimed at addressing Windows 11 users’ top complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more. (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

OpenAI releases framework of five principles for AGI development, pledging to resist the concentration of AI power and collaborate with businesses and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it’s a great achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company’s ICE and DOD contracts during Trump’s second term, his manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

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Jeep eyes U.S. return after years of sales woes

U.S. BNPL usage has grown to 91.5 million users, 25% of whom finance groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans go unreported, creating ‘phantom debt’ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

51 U.S. tech IPOs raised $16.8 billion in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, which is above the average of the past three years but well below 2021’s 127 IPOs raising $74.4 billion (Valida Pau/The Information)

A look at the construction of global AI data centers, its limitations and ROI issues; by 2025, U.S. capacity built, in progress, planned or locked in exceeded 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)

Local opposition blocked or delayed 17 U.S. data center projects worth $98 billion in the second quarter of 2025, compared to 16 projects worth $64 billion from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)

As U.S. schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-based monitoring tools such as GoGuardian to analyze student chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)

U.S. FEC filings and public statements: A handful of crypto super PACs raised about $263 million ahead of the 2026 midterm elections; Fairshake remains the largest with $141 million (Bloomberg)

The U.S. AI data center boom is consuming capital, energy and people that the rest of the economy needs, and eclipsing Trump’s manufacturing recovery plans (Bloomberg)

A U.S. judge said Meta’s lawyers asked staff to block or remove parts of internal research into adolescent mental health to limit liability; Meta says no findings removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process of connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)