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- BlackRock Shares Tumble Over 7% After Firm Limits Withdrawals From Private Credit Fund
Shares of the world’s largest asset manager are now down 10% on the year.
- Gas Prices Surged This Week Amid Iran War—These States Are Being Squeezed Tightest
Gas prices spiked well above the $3 mark this week as strikes between the U.S. and Iran escalated amid the de facto shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.
- OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes AI will be able to do 80% of all jobs by 2030. Here’s how life could be affordable after mass unemployment
The Silicon Valley billionaire laid out a vision to Fortune of a deflationary economy—but also free healthcare and education, along with a tax overhaul.
- Kennedy Center Loses Another Of Its Directors After Trump Takeover
Jean Davidson, executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra since 2023, said she’s taken a job in California.
- February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo
Startup funding surged to a historic $189 billion in February, driven almost entirely by three AI mega-rounds that captured 83% of the total.
Technology
- Google's new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data
This could make it easier to plug AI into Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product.
- Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
- Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk…
- Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
The binary asteroid's orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact.
- How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others.
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