• October 10, 2026
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Europe’s Largest Pension Fund Writes Its First Check to a Homegrown Tech Bet

ABP, the pension fund for Dutch government and education workers, is the biggest retirement pool in the Netherlands and one of the largest on earth. So when it announced on…

  • October 10, 2026
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A Dark Web Bazaar Ends in a 40-Year Sentence

Raheim Hamilton was 30 years old when a federal judge in Chicago handed down the sentence on Monday: 40 years in prison, a $5 million fine, and the loss of…

  • October 10, 2026
  • 28 views
Inside the $28 Billion Family Office George Soros Built

In the summer of 2011, George Soros made a decision that puzzled the hedge fund world: he gave his outside investors their money back. Soros Fund Management, the firm he…

  • October 10, 2026
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The Florida Retiree Fighting a Jeffrey Epstein Rumor

Peter Simel was driving a convertible down a Florida highway in March when a stranger’s camera made him famous for the wrong reason. The footage, posted online, looked enough like…

  • October 10, 2026
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Wall Street’s Trading Boom Starts to Split

When Goldman Sachs reports third-quarter results on Tuesday morning, the first of the big banks to step forward, the number most likely to move its stock sits a line or…

  • October 9, 2026
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A Coffee Giant Looks at a Burrito Chain

The report landed Tuesday and did what such reports do: it moved a stock on a rumor. On October 8, word emerged that Starbucks had held internal discussions about whether…

  • October 9, 2026
  • 21 views
A $1.5 Billion Loan to Keep a Chip Supplier at Home

The letter arrived at Wolfspeed with a specific purpose: to keep a stretch of the American chip supply chain from leaving the country. On October 7, the War Department’s Office…

  • October 9, 2026
  • 21 views
The Super Bowl, Now Behind a Subscribe Button

For half a century, the Super Bowl has been the one night when broadcast television could count on the whole country showing up at the same time, on the same…

  • October 9, 2026
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An AI Scorekeeper’s Valuation Doubles in Ten Months

The most expensive companies in artificial intelligence sell capability. Arena sells a smaller product: a way to tell whether that capability is real. On October 8, the evaluation platform closed…

  • October 9, 2026
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A Chart, a $1.88 Cap, and a Fight Over the Chip Market’s Biggest Licenses

The dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, the two companies whose designs sit inside nearly every smartphone on Earth, returned to a Delaware federal courtroom this week, and the argument came…