Robinhood CEO says a ‘tokenization supercycle’ is underway
Crypto prices remain mired in a prolonged slump, but Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company remains bullish on the broader sector. During a first quarter earnings call on Tuesday,…
April 2026
Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks
The White House released a list of donors for the Trump administration’s new ballroom construction project in October, following a historic East Wing demolition. The projected cost of the 90,000-square-foot…
The uncomfortable truth about AI and the American worker
Surveys consistently show that workers dread artificial intelligence. They worry it will render their skills obsolete, hollow out their roles, and eventually eliminate their paychecks altogether. That anxiety has shaped…
CEOs got millions after boards ‘neutralized’ the impact of tariffs. Some won’t say what it was worth
Christopher Calio, CEO of RTX, collected $27.7 million in compensation last year. That was his total after the $241.5 billion aerospace and defense giant’s board decided the trade war wouldn’t…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution
There may be no single person more integral to shaping the future of work than Jensen Huang. As cofounder and CEO of Nvidia, Huang has transformed a company once focused…
‘Take the money and run’: Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke on why the UAE quit OPEC
The decision was shocking. But the announcement April 28 that the UAE was leaving OPEC caps years of tension where the desert state chafed under the cartel’s quotas, and recently,…
Islamic finance aligns naturally with ESG, says Maybank’s first-ever chief sustainability officer
Islamic finance covers roughly $2.8 trillion in assets worldwide, yet only a sliver of sustainable loans today are Shariah-compliant. But Datuk Shahril Azuar Jimin, Maybank’s chief sustainability officer, thinks that…
Ten years after Ethereum’s DAO disaster, it’s time to try again
It’s been a decade since I frantically pounded out a warning letter known as The DAO Moratorium. So urgent was the missive that we pushed the document live before it…
Bob Diamond: The settlement window is closing as 24/7 trading opens up
When I started my career at Morgan Stanley in the early 1980s, trades were executed over landlines and settled with handwritten tickets. Over the following four decades, the industry built…
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
The recent tech layoffs would initially appear to indicate the great labor shift from human workers to AI may already be happening. Meta announced last week in a memo that…