A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

I just want to tell my cat how much I love him

@darthbluesky.bsky.social here is a baby cat harvesting potatoes www.instagram.com/reel/DOoejdW...

The vice president is laughing over a critic of the president getting replaced by a government official. How would we cover it if it happened somewhere else?

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

The nine members of the Supreme Court should make a post on their website saying To Be Clear, The President Cannot Punish You For Making Fun Of Him. I don’t care that there’s no justiciable question, no case, no plaintiff. It doesn’t matter. They should say this to the country, now.

you won’t wanna miss this

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

If BuzzFeed News still existed we would’ve pubbed this in a heartbeat Quiz: Who Said It? Trump Comedy Crackdown Chief Brendan Carr or CCP Head Censor Zhang Rongwen? (and then all the quotes would be Carr)

Rogan interview Kimmel about cancel culture when

a dude who got elected on the backs of comedians who make controversial jokes is now yanking comedians off the air for their jokes

Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

as an elder millennial who reads, I continue to be dismayed by the short videoification of everything www.theverge.com/news/779832/...

NEW - Irregular, formerly Pattern Labs, has announced $80 million funding at a $450m valuation. It works with OpenAI, Anthropic and other frontier AI labs to test models for their potential to do evil—in particular how cybercriminals can turn them into hacking tools. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Friends, let me introduce you to a new, truly wild genre of YouTube vids www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

logically the horizontal line here would be the equator (or closer to it!), but no… (And yes of course D is the right answer)

This is one hell of a read. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

Clemson doesn’t have a law school and it shows.

No more secret TikTok deals. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

💸NEW: "Trump Media General Counsel Sold Every Share He Could—Becoming Second Insider To Cut Stake" me, for @forbes.com

I know a lot is happening, but— Trump Media announced ETFs explicitly tied to his politics yesterday. Trump owns 115M DJT shares and, as president, wields huge influence over the sectors these ETFs will target.

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Violence begets violence.

Read this investigation on US tech companies played a major role in designing and building China's surveillance state, by @dakekang.bsky.social and @yaelwrites.com apnews.com/article/chin...

The listing comes as #OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion. Scoop for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

NEW - ICE has given Clearview AI its biggest federal deal to date, with a contract worth up to $10 million. It'll be used for investigating assaults on agents as well as CSAM. Meanwhile, ICE has just bought a bunch of Greykey tools for searching Android and iPhones. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

um, that is specifically NOT what indiscriminate means.

One thing about the COVID-era that I find particularly irritating: Americans referring to shots/injections/immunizations as "jabs."

a dozen federal judges went on background! wowza

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

New: If you bought Trump’s WLFI crypto token directly from the company, your holdings could be up 5–15x. If you jumped in when it hit the open market, you might be down 25%. Sound familiar? With @siladitya.bsky.social for @forbes.com 1/

Oh. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nathan Xu's AI-powered note-taking gadgets have found a fast growing audience. Since launching in 2023, Xu has sold over 1 million such devices to doctors, lawyers, and other overworked folks with long days and short memories. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Tech legend Jack Dangermond founded Esri in 1969. Now 80 years young and with a net worth of $10B+, he's still "all in" on his company and global mission. @upstarts.bsky.social spent an hour with Jack this week for one of our best interviews yet, full of lessons on startup-building and life.

🚨NEW🚨 Russia is mandating a new VK messaging app called Max. We had some researchers take a look and—surprise, surprise—it's tracking basically everything users do. “This app just gathers all the data and logs it. I don’t remember seeing that in any messenger app." www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Intel has been touting partnerships with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms as Trump announces that the USG is taking a stake in the company: www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

“Courtroom-grade AI” www.lawnext.com/2025/08/lexi...

Just read 5 stubs about the xAI v OAI / Apple lawsuit and nobody linked to the complaint. Someone. Anyone. Everyone. Why would you ever not link to the complaint!??

So this is the President of the United States reacting to being criticized by saying we should revive a defunct and well outside the statute of limitations criminal investigation against the person offering the criticism.

With all due respect to the New York Times, the only reason anyone outside the movement knows Kevin DeAnna writes under the pseudonym is me. I outed him in 2020. You can read on his central role in the alt-right here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha... www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...