Last night, I published the last edition of Nightcap, the CNN Business newsletter I launched six years ago. It feels weird! But it means I'll be able to do more in-depth reporting outside the confines of a daily deadline. I'm excited, if a bit sad. www.cnn.com/newsletters/...

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

1. This is super well done. 2. There's a kicker that doesn't get talked about enough: "We are making the most money we have ever made, yet we have the least financial freedom we have ever experienced."

Bottom line: Nothing about this offer makes much sense, financially or strategically.

I just think if you know me here, you should also know Hank. This is Hank.

“Try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom...perhaps you've never done that before. This would be a first. Can you agree to that?" --Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, per CNN's Samantha Delouya

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

The nail in the coffin of Millennial optimism

I don’t know how you run this story on a pile of evidence that amounts to “these two cryptography enthusiasts on the internet sometimes said similar things”

So good.

The first words I ever published about the Metaverse 💅

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

Horrifying as expected but also pretty funny at the end when Mace says "if you can't define what a woman is, you can't define what fraud is."

The FBI director fired a dozen counterintelligence experts, days before the Iran attacks, because those people did their jobs. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

“This isn’t an AI story. It’s a workforce correction wearing an AI costume,” wrote Jason Karsh, a former Block employee, on X. Gift link:

The biggest obstacle to this website's growth is that almost all of its user base goes to bed at 8 pm

"The narrative that U.S. growth was dependent on AI spending emerged early last year when the economy looked wobbly ... It was tough to shake the narrative once it took hold."

Super sustainable, I'd say

Gosh if only some economist would have warned us this would happen

Every time one of these AI CEOs goes viral for saying the most self-serving, demonstrably false nonsense I am fascinated by how many people take it seriously.

OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, created in 2024 to promote the company's stated mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, per @caseynewton.bsky.social @platformer.news.web.brid.gy

This is not a "free grocery store," it's a pop-up food bank, open for one long weekend, designed to give Polymarket some good press.

Fun fact: Yale University holds a 379-year-old “perpetual” bond, written on goat skin and issued by Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams, a Dutch water authority. som.yale.edu/story/2026/p...

Scoop: In a letter to lawmakers, NY AG Tish James and four DAs call out Tether and Circle for throttling law enforcement efforts to claw back funds for victims of fraud.

Instead of career journalists, we really ought to be sending Gen-Z interns with three roommates and no health insurance to cover Davos

In my “listening to Max Richter and crying while I make dinner” era, join me fam this shit rips

“Racy”

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

There are no more Gary Genslers for crypto to blame for its problems. The industry got everything it wanted this year, and it still can't find its footing.

We're already seeing brands shun AI. That's only going to get louder as corporate America realizes their consumers aren't computers.

I lived in Hong Kong in a golden era of free speech, when Jimmy Lai's pro-democracy Apple Daily was just part of the ether. His conviction should be a warning to democracies everywhere.

When your “exclusive” lasts all of 7 hours, because you publicly named a guy who was never charged with a crime, and who now is being hounded by trolls, and will have this show up in internet searches for the rest of his life.

Stealworkers

If we want to cheer the "architects" of AI, fine, but they aren't Sam Altman or Elon Musk. Those guys built word generators. GenAI simply doesn't exist without the writers and artists whose work is the only real value underpinning chatbots.

#econsky question: The Fed says inflation is elevated and econ growth is forecast to be stronger next year. There's no change to their unemployment forecast. So why are they cutting rates?

These are not pull-ups.

Wall Street is finally coming around

So much for a chill Friday

I stand so hard by my 2022 take

Great read. Servicemembers are trading crypto tips from the decks of aircraft carriers. Base parking lots are peppered with new Porsches and Humvees. Gift link: www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Hey, #EconSky! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is here @usbls.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/usbl...

Well this seems fine

my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Pardoning CZ and Ross Ulbricht may have been just the beginning

The Andrew formerly known as prince.

Over the summer, I wrote about how CEOs were planting the seeds for mass layoffs that they can chalk up to "efficiency gains" linked to AI rather than, say, a slowing economy or tariffs. The AI promise is still speculative; the layoffs are now very, very real.

"You can replace bullsh*t with bullsh*t ... but that doesn’t really make it more broadly useful."

Incredible reporting and writing from the CNN investigative team on the scammy world of crypto ATMs