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Blackstone’s Gray Defends World’s Largest Private Credit Fund

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 3, 2026

Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray speaks during the Axios BFD event in New York, U.S. October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan…

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Inside the world’s largest crypto casino stake, which claims about 4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebrities like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Bad Date”, with Jason Snell The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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despite investing more than $150 billion over more than 10 years, China is expected to produce 2% of the world’s AI chips in 2026 and 70 times less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion The Big Technology Podcast…

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Apple’s iPhone 16 was the world’s best-selling smartphone in 2025, followed by the 16 Pro Max and 16 Pro; Apple took 7 of the top 10 places and Samsung 3 (Counterpoint Research)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: The Wellness Industry Part 1 1 Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo and Paul…

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Electricity prices are soaring in Virginia, home to the world’s largest data center hub; record demand expected during winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Why Your Product Stopped Growing (And the 5-Step Framework to Restart It) | Jason Cohen Interviews…

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Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% rise in South Korea’s Kospi, the world’s best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 30, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: The most serious conversations of 2025: AI, business and beyond Grit explores what it takes to create,…

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Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world’s first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power select Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 19, 2025

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world’s first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around…

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Meta improves horizon worlds with meta horizon studio, allowing creators to use IA prompts to build worlds, fed by its new "Built from zero" Virtual Engine (Jay Peters / The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 18, 2025

Jay Peters / The penis:: Meta improves the Horizon worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, allowing creators to use IA prompts…

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Pitchbook: AI startups received 53% of all the world’s dollars in VC invested in H1 2025, going to 64% in the United States and represented 29% of all the world’s world startups (Dan Primack / Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 5, 2025

Dan Primack / Axios:: Pitchbook: AI startups received 53% of all the world’s dollars in VC invested in H1 2025,…

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How one of the world’s main money laundering networks, linked to the Cambodia Huione group, online crooks of services using cryptocurrency, telegram, and more (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2025

New York Times:: How one of the main global money laundering networks, linked to the Cambodia Huione group, online crooks…

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

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

Local car dealerships grow, die amid rise of auto mega-retailers

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

RFK Jr.’s Peptide Policy Could Boost Hims & Hers as Its GLP-1 Business Scales

Cognitively declining Trump wants praise for ability to sign his name

Jared Kushner under investigation for potential violations of federal bribery and foreign agent laws

Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Donald Trump has lost his power to America

RFK Jr. collapses in front of the country during a hearing at home

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will allow AI agents to access Salesforce platform features through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a key supplier of Nvidia’s ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the first in the industry to integrate spatial and color sensing (Reuters)

Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing wait times of up to 12 weeks in the United States, with analysts citing strong demand from power users of AI agents (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

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Blackstone’s Gray Defends World’s Largest Private Credit Fund

Inside the world’s largest crypto casino stake, which claims about 4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebrities like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)

despite investing more than $150 billion over more than 10 years, China is expected to produce 2% of the world’s AI chips in 2026 and 70 times less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

Apple’s iPhone 16 was the world’s best-selling smartphone in 2025, followed by the 16 Pro Max and 16 Pro; Apple took 7 of the top 10 places and Samsung 3 (Counterpoint Research)

Electricity prices are soaring in Virginia, home to the world’s largest data center hub; record demand expected during winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% rise in South Korea’s Kospi, the world’s best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world’s first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power select Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)

Meta improves horizon worlds with meta horizon studio, allowing creators to use IA prompts to build worlds, fed by its new "Built from zero" Virtual Engine (Jay Peters / The Verge)

Pitchbook: AI startups received 53% of all the world’s dollars in VC invested in H1 2025, going to 64% in the United States and represented 29% of all the world’s world startups (Dan Primack / Axios)

How one of the world’s main money laundering networks, linked to the Cambodia Huione group, online crooks of services using cryptocurrency, telegram, and more (New York Times)