Monday, December 29, 2025

Government: "‘We wasted a lot of time’: The next shutdown deadline will be here sooner than you think"

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From Politico, December 22 : No tangible progress toward funding the government was made before lawmakers left for the holidays.  Congress ...

"The most unbelievable cyber statistic of 2025?"

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From Biometric Update, December 26: It’s look-back season again. Time to dust off old favourites like the World’s Most Surveilled Cities a...

"SoftBank Nears Deal for Data Center Investment Firm DigitalBridge"

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 From Bloomberg, December 28/29: SoftBank Group Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group Inc. , a private equity firm that...

"Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions"

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 Following on December 10's "Amazon, Microsoft pledge mega AI investments in India" (AMZN; MSFT) . From the New York Times, De...

"China industrial profits plunge at record pace: What’s driving slump"

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From Pakistan's The News, December 27: In November the profit fell 13.1 percent from a year earlier after a 5.5 percent decline in Octob...

"AI Already Acting As Co-founder And Causing Growth Of Small Firms, Suggests Paper"

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From India's OfficeChai, December 19: Some in tech had predicted that the rise of single-person AI-enabled unicorns, and while that has...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Jobs: "The highest paid entry-level engineers in the world are at Hudson River Trading and Jane Street"

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From eFinancial Careers, December 19:  OpenAI might be paying exorbitant fees to poach quants and traders from prop trading firms, but it...

Artificial Intelligence: Large Language Models Are Not The Be-All And End-All Of AI

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A quick hit from MIT Technology Review's Hype Correction series: ....01: LLMs are not everything In some ways, it is the hype around ...

"A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving"

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From the New York Times, December 26: It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires...

"Family Offices Have Become the New Power Players on Wall Street"

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From the Wall Street Journal, December 26: Wealthy families are launching offices to manage their money at a record clip and are getting a s...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

"Tech Wrapped 2025"

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From the San Francisco Standard, December 21: 996 workweeks, vanishing entry-level jobs, and an engineer with 44 employers: Here’s a roundu...

"NVIDIA’s Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle" (NVDA; GOOG)

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From Spyglass, December 25: NVIDIA gets a creator of the TPU, access to inference tech & IP, and stops anyone else from getting such thi...

European Carmakers Needn't Focus On China On Their Home Turf, They Will Be Crushed In Emerging Markets

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From Robin J Brooks' substack, Dec. 9: China's invasion of EM car markets   China's massive ramp-up in vehicle production mostly...
Friday, December 26, 2025

"Nvidia's Groq deal underscores how the AI chip giant uses its massive balance sheet to 'maintain dominance'" (NVDA)

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From Yahoo Finance, December 26:  Nvidia’s ( NVDA ) licensing deal with chip startup Groq ( GROQ.PVT ) shows how the tech giant is leverag...

"The economic divide between big and small companies is growing"

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But you knew that. *   From the Wall Street Journal via MSN, December 25:  It has been a good year for most of America’s biggest companies,...