Good morning. For CFOs across banks, payments companies, and nonbank lenders, Open Standard’s upcoming launch of Open USD, a new stablecoin for global money movement, deserves more than a cursory glance at yet another stablecoin brand. With more than 140…
Drones, missiles, and warships were, for a long time, deemed uninvestable in Silicon Valley—or, at minimum, contentious. Consider 2018: Googlers were storming out over their company’s involvement in the AI military initiative Project Maven, and Anduril was the anomaly, a…
The debate over the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. merger has focused on a familiar concern: whether combining two major studios will eliminate jobs and reduce competition in Hollywood. Those concerns deserve serious consideration, but missing from the conversation is a bigger…
Tech stocks led declines globally overnight. The Nasdaq 100 closed down 1.54% yesterday. By contrast, the equal weight S&P 500 actually hit a record high yesterday—indicating that tech companies are the ones dragging down the broader index. “The main culprit…
Emily Blunt just took home a cool $15 million for her role on Disclosure Day—hot off the back of a $12.5 million payday for reprising her role as Emily Charlton on The Devil Wears Prada 2. But she could have…
Drones, missiles, and warships were, for a long time, deemed uninvestable in Silicon Valley—or, at minimum, contentious. Consider 2018: Googlers were storming out over their company’s involvement in the AI military initiative Project Maven, and Anduril was the anomaly, a…
Anthropic has restored global access to Fable 5, two weeks after the Trump administration slapped export controls on the company’s most powerful AI model, citing security concerns. The AI company announced Tuesday the controls had been relaxed—a shift also confirmed…
President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure has drawn attention for their sheer scale: thousands of stock trades, over $1 billion in crypto income, golf revenue, book royalties, all crammed into a filing that ran to 927 pages this year—compared to…
President Donald Trump is officially a crypto billionaire, with proceeds from his memecoin and family crypto company accounting for the bulk of his digital assets fortune. But the commander-in–chief has also shown an appetite for blockchain-related stocks and more exotic…
Melania Trump made 28 times as much income from NFTs in 2025 as she did the year before, according to a 2026 annual federal disclosure report. Of her roughly $17 million in total earnings, she raked in $6 million from…