The mainstreaming of AI is turning into a trillion dollar business, yet the two biggest data center real estate firms have lagged in public markets. Here’s why—and how they could catch up. My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

🚨 NEW 🚨 During three months in summer last year, over 30,000 Apple devices, worth some $35 million, were shipped to a warehouse in a small industrial park. DHS says it's part of a sprawling Chinese fraud involving gift cards obtained in sextortion and romance scams. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

DOJ has become an absolute joke. This response about why Lindsey Halligan continues putting herself out as U.S. Attorney is both over the top in presentation and embarrassingly bad as to argument.

A ‘holy grail’ pill for sleep apnea could be on the market next year. My latest @forbes.com feature profiles Apnimed, whose nightly pill could help some of the est 80M people in the U.S. w/ the breathing disorder, the majority of whom are undiagnosed and untreated. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Checkr, which got its start running criminal record checks on Uber drivers and gig workers, has seen its revenues jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of AI-generated CVs and faked financial documents. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Y’all, this is thing.

🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers. A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers. The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025. 1/ me, for @forbes.com

NEW: Four days before oral arguments, Justice Sam "stock trader" Alito decides he "will not continue to participate" in a case involving oil companies. This means that he did participate in certiorari stage proceedings, despite owning relevant stocks.

Three SpaceX rockets exploded unexpectedly last year – twice raining down debris over busy airspace. “It literally looked like the sun coming out,” one passenger said. Such midair scrambles could become more frequent as launches increase, experts say. www.propublica.org/article/spac...

Okay, remember in 2024 when RFK Jr. admitted he dumped a dead black bear cub in Central Park in 2014? An event that was a NY mystery for a decade? if this story has also haunted you...... I got new docs, emails, & pics about it from NYC's Dept of Parks & Rec via FOIA: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

NEW: Tesla’s manufacturing hangover helps explain its robotics push The EV maker used just 70% of its plant capacity last year – a level comparable to traditional auto rivals. That's one reason Elon Musk wants to start building Optimus at its U.S. plants #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

New: "Oil And Gas Industry Spent $250 Million On Elections That Produced The Current U.S. Government—And A Potential Venezuela Windfall" 88% of that $250M went to Republicans. me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

Helpful org chart www.ft.com/content/ad94...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Lovable just raised at a $6.6 billion valuation. That makes it's 26-year-old cofounder, Fabian Hedin, one of Europe's youngest ever self-made billionaires (another Swedish AI whiz holds the lead) www.forbes.com/sites/alicia...

"The S.E.C., the top federal regulator that polices wrongdoing in the financial markets, is no longer actively pursuing a single case against a firm with known Trump ties." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Yikes! "Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week" Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com

After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

“I hate it,” VanderMeer said in an email. “If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social” www.404media.co/instagram-is...

POLITICO: I wonder what grade you'd give the economy TRUMP: A+ POLITICO: A+? TRUMP: A+++++

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

I would prefer protection from predatory pricing and mandated easy refunds, thanks!

1) Impose massive tariffs on China 2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports 3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans 4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase 5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NEW: Los Angeles says it's officially kicked coal as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power prepares to fire up the world's largest green hydrogen power plant #carbonfreeenergy #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Eric Trump is learning from his father's playbook and now has a larger individual fortune than any of his siblings. Here's how he did it: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

After #investing in the likes of OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Flock Safety, former SV Angel managing partner (and former professional opera singer!) Beth Turner is striking out on her own. My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

The new edition of Forbes magazine just dropped - the cover story is on two 30-year-old entrepreneurs from Poland, who sick of bad movie dubbing, built their own voice AI model. Today, it's worth $6.6 billion, they are new billionaires & are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants

🚨NEW🚨 Google shipped its AI code editor Antigravity with a bunch of security vulnerabilities. The most severe, discovered within 24 hours of launch, allows for a persistent backdoor on target systems. It remains unpatched. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

It took more than fame for Donald Trump and his sons to build a crypto empire. They got a lot of help from industry insiders, many of whom happened to need a hand from the president. Meet Trump's crypto cronies. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Lindsey Halligan is the Cybertruck of lawyers

The company, which went public in March, long relied on subsidiaries to sell its TV audience everything from supplements to annuities to controversial health and finance advice. Will that business model live on in the era of Trump?

Forbes raised questions about the massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm #Napster announced as a done deal in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday. With @iainmartin.bsky.social for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

New: Alt5 Sigma, one of Trump's key business partners, told the SEC that it suspended its CEO in mid-October. An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier. me, for @forbes.com 1/

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

🚨NEW🚨 A US AI founder and NVIDIA partner got caught trying to ship the most powerful of the chip maker's processors to China, the DOJ says. He just got offered a job at another NVIDIA partner as CTO. The offer has been rescinded. H/T @courtwatch.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

The Musk-led #AI company has a lot of cash in the bank. But it still needs more—and more. It’s using some creative off-balance-sheet financing to get it. Some details on xAI's financials and weird/novel capital raise, from Anna Tong and me for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.