Apple’s longtime CEO sat out the crypto revolution. His successor should choose a different path
It’s been quite a run for Tim Cook. During his 15 years as the head of Apple, Cook grew the company’s market cap from $350 billion to $4 trillion and…
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DOJ uses White House correspondents’ dinner shooting to pressure preservations to drop lawsuit over Trump’s $400 million ballroom
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is using the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday to try to pressure preservationists to drop their lawsuit over his planned $400…
The ‘obscene economics’ of modern warfare show how the race to military supremacy is transforming, while U.S. rearmament relies on China
The Iran conflict has confirmed a transformation in the economics of warfare toward cheap, mass-produced weapons, forcing a wholesale rethinking of military procurement, according to a recent report. While the…
John Ternus, Apple’s new CEO, inherits a rebounding China business—and some messy headaches
John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, takes over as CEO on Sept. 1, ending Tim Cook’s 15-year tenure at the top of the world’s most valuable consumer…
The White House correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect apparently traveled by train with guns. ‘This isn’t about, in my mind, changing the law’
The alleged gunman who attempted to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday traveled to Washington, D.C., from California by train, according to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Police…
More than 90,000 tech workers have been laid off this year. But here’s why companies like Microsoft are offering voluntary buyouts instead
It’s been a tough year for tech workers. Some 92,000 employees have been laid off from tech companies as they look to cut overhead costs and invest heavily in AI.…
AI is frying our brains — here’s what leaders need to do about It
The promise of AI was that it would save us all time by automating our clerical tasks, like email, personal admin, and running programs in the background. In reality, researchers…
Kalshi and Polymarket are racing to ban insider trading. The economist who built the theory behind prediction markets says it’s the whole point
The walls have started closing in on prediction markets. On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced it was charging a U.S. Army soldier who helped plan the operation to capture…
Trek spent over $300,000 closing women’s cycling’s prize-money gap. Its CEO says the point is to make the checks obsolete
When Trek CEO John Burke talks about women’s cycling, he frames the company’s investment less as a marketing campaign and more of a question of corporate purpose. “One of the…
Florida’s influx of rich residents is killing the middle class and housing market
For decades, the Sunshine State has been seen as, well, sunny and bright. Florida has no income tax, and many metros had a cost of living that allowed for the…