American Exceptionalism Acquisition, a SPAC led by Chamath Palihapitiya and focused on energy, AI, DeFi, and defense, files for a US IPO, seeking to raise $250M
American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A 25,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares … Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch : Chamath Palihapitiya warns ‘no crying in the casino’ as he launches another SPAC after ...
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
Now, Trump wants to create a crypto “strategic reserve.” (1/2) @theangrydonkey : Earlier this week, Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in this reserve, spiking the...
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : OpenAI unveils AI model for advanced reasoning Bojan Stojkovski / Interesting Engineering : OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning AI model to tackle compl...
Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty
think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binance are ludicrous. Th...
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports losses of $206M on $589M in revenue, 31.1M DAU, and 22.2B engaged hours, up 122% YoY, for the first nine months of 2020
here's what we learned from the most recent wave of IPO filings Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Roblox Files IPO Amid Surge in Videogame Spending Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch : What is Roblox ...
As Palantir files to go public, an in-depth analysis of its business model, a look at its politics and challenges it faces amid a widespread move to privacy
Byrne Hobart / The Diff :
A look at the rise of Jio, which is also a bet on tech nationalism and really one more chapter in Reliance's long history of coopetition with India's government
Byrne Hobart / The Diff : Tweets: @karthiks and @langvalcapital Tweets: Karthik / @karthiks : This is an absolutely brilliant (and free) post by @ByrneHobart in the latest edition of The Diff. About ...
Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec., and plans to freeze development of new features to focus on security and privacy
And An FBI Warning Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : ‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom's Password Problems Kari Paul / The Guardian : ‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing pl...