Philip Morris International (PMI) is attempting an ambitious reinvention, repositioning itself around smoke-free alternatives in the U.S., while still carrying the financial weight of a global cigarette business. The roughly $280 billion tobacco company, best known for the Marlboro brand,…
The S&P 500 is up 14% over the past 12 months; the Magnificent 7 is up near 17%. Bull spirits are riding high, billions upon billions of dollars are being funnelled into artificial intelligence, which the vast majority of Wall…
The market is mammoth, expanding, and—here’s the kicker—we have no clue how big it really is. The secondaries market has exploded in recent years, driven by a simple problem: companies are staying private longer, exits have dried up, and investors…
Singtel, Singapore’s largest telecoms company, is continuing its push to become more than just a mobile network provider with a new “center of excellence,” established with U.S. chip giant Nvidia. Targeted for launch in June, the center will help firms…
Don’t toss that scratched-up, questionably stained, borderline EPA Superfund site, 12-year-old cutting board just yet! Your vintage fermentation lab with knife marks might not be so dangerous after all. Scientists have warned for years that microplastics are found in everything:…
It’s no secret that Gen Z is struggling. They’re unemployed in the millions, feeling anxious about the future, and getting told that their shot at building a career is about to get bleaker thanks to AI. But few understand what…
Communication platform Discord is under fire after its identity verification software, Persona Identities, was found to have frontend code accessible on the open internet and on government servers. Nearly 2,500 accessible files were found sitting on a U.S. government-authorized endpoint,…
Most critics of President Donald Trump view him as the ultimate threat to American democracy. But to Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu, Trump is merely a fever, the result of an infection that’s been brewing for years before he rode…
Summer Yue may work on safety and alignment on Meta’s superintelligence team, but even she admits she isn’t immune to overconfidence when it comes to autonomous AI agents. In a post on X Monday, Yue described how her OpenClaw autonomous…
Bill Deng, CEO of China-based fintech platform XTransfer, thinks stablecoins can help finally digitize business-to-business transactions, often still stuck in a world of PDFs and emails. Much of cross-border trade now operates around the clock. Ports, airports, and fulfillment centers…