The Iran war exposed Southeast Asia’s energy vulnerability. Now its import bill could triple to $245 billion
The Iran war has exposed major risks for Southeast Asia that could cost the region billions of dollars, if it...
Trump’s DOJ asks judge to halt first reparations program in U.S. history
The federal government on Tuesday asked a judge to halt the United States’ first reparations program that offered Black people...
Meet the YouTubers remaking Hollywood, one Gen Z box-office smash at a time
Some of the most promising young filmmakers in the movie business are arriving in Hollywood already experts at entertaining audiences...
CFO pay surged 8% last year—and long-term incentives now account for 63% of the average package
Good morning. CFO pay is rising but not in the way you might expect. New data from Compensation Advisory Partners...
Exclusive: Universal beat Disney as Hollywood’s maker of the most expensive movie of all time
NBCUniversal has taken Disney’s title of making the most expensive movie of all time, according to analysis of recently filed...
Michael Burry is ‘tempted’ to short Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but says it’s not enticing enough for ‘fundamentally a small space company’
Famed investor Michael Burry—of “The Big Short” fame—considered antagonizing the richest man on the planet over the IPO of his...
Cohere CEO on G7 leaders’ choice: sovereign AI or digital serfdom
The sudden restriction of access to Anthropic’s models exposes a reality many global leaders have chosen to ignore. We are...
OpenAI’s balance sheet remains the most mysterious—and consequential—in business
OpenAI’s balance sheet leaked, and it’s hard to know what to think. A combination of blogger Ed Zitron and the...
Your raise used to go offshore. Then it went to a buyback. Now it’s going to a data center
For four decades, the formula was simple: keep labor costs low, borrow cheap, return cash to shareholders. It worked spectacularly...
The man who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union and helped wealthy Chinese move to Canada sees a familiar picture in America
Nuri Katz was a 24-year-old college student when he moved to Moscow in 1990 from his native Moscow. Though he...
A 76-year-old was about to lose his entire $3 million retirement to a scam. TIAA’s AI caught it—but a human prevented disaster
Artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era for scammers. Within seconds, the technology can clone voices, generate convincing emails,...
No country for rich men: 6 out of 10 wealthy Americans want to pull a Clooney and pack their bags
George Clooney sent a holiday season warning to the U.S. economy in December 2025: your wealthy citizens aren’t so impressed...
Trump’s OBBBA will cap federal loans on July 1. Republicans are going over Trump’s head to save student loans for nurses
On July 4 last year, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, a sweeping...
He fled Iran for the American dream, became a millionaire, and could have retired—instead, he built the health tech that saved his father from cancer
Ardy Arianpour fled Tehran at six years old with his family and four suitcases. Forty years later, he’s helped scale...
The new problem for millennial parents in the Northeast: the million-dollar starter home
They waited out the pandemic boom. They saved longer, rented longer, delayed longer, and watched the typical first-time homebuyer age...
