Michael Saylor’s Strategy may have BlackRock to thank for the 11% rise in Bitcoin
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) now owns just under 60% of all Bitcoins owned by ETFs, he said, bringing its total to 776,474.65 coins as of Dec. 1. Its Q4…
You don’t need to have fun at work—take it from NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla: ‘Fun is a cop-out sometimes when things aren’t going well’
You can watch Mazzulla’s candid response to the young reporter’s question below.source
CEOs are making the business case for AI—and dispelling talk of a bubble
With that in mind, a few themes emerged for me:With the notable exception of California Governor Gavin Newsom, nobody had a negative word to say about Trump, tariffs or much…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp defends being an ‘arrogant prick’—and says more CEOs should be, too
Alex Karp is known for founding and running a $414 billion company and being one of the highest-paid CEOs in tech. He is also known, as he admitted during the…
Microsoft AI’s design head wants her team to be AI-native by the end of the fiscal year
Yet Liz Danzico, Microsoft AI’s vice-preisent of design, noted that not all of her design and research team, which numbers about 200 employees within the broader lab, weren’t AI-native. “We…
Alex Karp credits his dyslexia for Palantir’s $415 billion success: ‘There is no playbook a dyslexic can master … therefore we learn to think freely’
Instead, Karp pointed to a lifelong struggle he had long kept hidden: dyslexia, which he called the “formative moment” of his life.For years, the narrative surrounding Karp has focused on…
Why Spotify Wrapped understands the genius of ‘optimal distinctiveness theory’
Like parents all over the world, I rue how my son’s musical tastes have hijacked my listening history. But I’m also tickled to learn that our household is probably one…
Google’s plan to put data centers in the sky faces thousands of (little) problems: space junk
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Scott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’
“During the GFC,” Bessent told Sorkin, “there was a panic among the billionaire class.” He claimed wealthy individuals acted to create the Giving Pledge and feared the public would “come…
Bank of America predicts an ‘air pocket,’ not an AI bubble, fueled by mountains of debt piling up from the data center rush
“Is this 2000? Are we in a bubble? No,” Subramanian said during BofA’s outlook call on Tuesday. “Will AI continue unfettered in leadership? Also, no.”Subramanian unpacked her thoughts in a…
