Tech giants
Alphabet raises $80B: who can still compete in AI
Alphabet just raised $80 billion for AI infrastructure in a single operation. Less a corporate announcement than a structural signal about who still gets to compete at the top of this industry.
Meta bought Manus. China made it undo the deal
Meta acquired Manus for $2 billion. Four months later, the Chinese government ordered the deal unwound. A global first that shows how mergers and acquisitions, the operations that reshape jobs, products and strategies worldwide, can fail in ways no one anticipated.
Cryptocurrencies and digital assets: the basics
Bitcoin passed $100,000. Entire economies have adopted it as legal tender. Regulators worldwide are still trying to catch up. Before forming an opinion, it helps to understand what blockchain actually does, why crypto behaves the way it does, and what distinguishes a serious asset class from speculation.