Twenty One Capital, Inc. (“Twenty One”) led by CEO Jack Mallers and Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. (“CEP”) announced on the 3rd of December that their shareholders approved the combination of the two businesses, meaning that Twenty One is set to go public very soon. The vote is expected to have received […]
During the days of the Great Recession, rapidly falling home prices caused all sorts of havoc for our major financial institutions. Unfortunately, home prices are starting to plummet once again in many areas of the country. And just like during the last housing crash, we are also seeing a surge in […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” on Monday, telling employees that ChatGPT needs serious improvement in terms of user experience – including personalization features, speed, reliability, and allowing it to answer a wider range of questions. In a companywide memo, Altman also said that OpenAI would be pushing back work on other […]
Gleaming office buildings, concrete flyovers and ever-sprawling housing developments and industrial parks, the modern city is increasingly presented as a symbol of progress. But what if this very ‘progress’ conceals a destructive order? What if the modern city represents the command-centre of an extractive, neoliberal order that has reshaped land, […]
Donald Trump is implementing an Israel Lobby plot to eliminate nonprofits critical of Israel and to crack down on the First Amendment rights of his citizens, under the guise of targeting Muslim Brotherhood organizations. This insidious conspiracy is part of a carefully calibrated plot to silence all dissent and is […]
Ibecame a scientist because I was drawn to difficult questions. As a child, I searched for patterns and tried to uncover the deeper logic behind everyday phenomena. That instinct carried me into chemistry and physics, then into a PhD at MIT, where I worked at the intersection of biophysics, engineering, […]
Japan’s FSA plans to require crypto exchanges to hold liability reserves to compensate customers for losses from hacks, failures, or bankruptcies. Japan is preparing another major tightening of its digital-asset rulebook, with the Financial Services Agency (FSA) planning to require crypto exchanges to set aside liability reserves to compensate customers in the […]
Trump’s political opponents in the Democratic Party and establishment media trotted out a new line of attack on his administration over the weekend. It began after the Washington Post ran a story on Friday about the first strike against what the Pentagon claims were drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean back on September 2. According […]
The government shutdown “proved an argument that conservatives have been making for 45 years: The U.S. Department of Education is mostly a pass-through for funds that are best managed by the states.” The most significant thing about this statement in a November 16 USA Today editorial is not its substance. […]
While the US labor market defied expectations in September – adding 119,000 jobs according to delayed numbers, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, the highest level in four years. Normally, this would be the time for most employees to make sure they’re the most valuable asset at a company – especially with layoffs surging and AI slowly […]
