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Today Melania Trump met with execs in support of AI in education. It's part of a big push by tech companies and the Trump Administration to get AI products into schools fast. If there's an American child you care about, pls read my recent article about what's happening. Let's be informed.

This @bloomberg.com Businessweek story on the billion-dollar business of Big Doodle is so, so good, as are the photos and the make-a-doodle widget and just…all of it! It’s so good. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This is a really terrific piece that reads like an American tragedy: a smart and curious young man interested in history and technology bought into the online far-right ideas about govt and used his talents to eviscerate it. Some thoughts 🧵

Reaaaaally love this Businessweek story from @viajoshhunt.bsky.social about the world’s largest zipper-maker, YKK, which is totally fascinating in too many ways to enumerate in a post. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A great deep dive in a genre I love–how supply chains explain the world—about YKK, whose products you almost certainly own even if you don't know it. By @viajoshhunt.bsky.social

NEW: @kateclark.bsky.social and i went deep on the unhinged spying saga between Rippling and Deel for @BW (and this gif!!!) two of the world's most valuable startups are volleying accusations back and forth at the center is one alleged spy, who says he smashed his phone w an axe (!)

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

On his 100th day in office in 2017 Trump headed to a PA wheelbarrow factory to launch his trade policy and put the US on the path to today’s tariffs. Eight years on that factory is closed. The wheelbarrows are now made in China. My latest for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

New from me in @bloomberg.com: a profile of Russ Vought, the architect of Trump’s imperial presidency. 🎁 link 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will. Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Meet the startup, backed by big Silicon Valley investors, Macmillan's owner, and former HarperCollins and Penguin execs, that wants authors to "just spitball a few bullet points" to get AI to write books — "and then suddenly each author is writing 1,000 books." 👀 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A new Bloomberg documentary follows a team of attorneys representing families whose children have suffered devastating digital harms

🚨NEW: Google has spent the past 2+ years trying to remake search with generative AI. The results? Mixed. Check out my cover story with @davey.bsky.social on missed opportunities, Google's attempts to right the ship & the price being paid across the web. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For the latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the fascinating history of “Buy American” campaigns and what they’re actually used to accomplish: stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and consolidating domestic corporate power. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Beginning to uncork our new package... on college! Higher education, as its existed in last 40 or so years, is being dismantled. What's next? My boss @bradstone.bsky.social had the idea of going to the top: asking college presidents about their impossible jobs www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New 📦 package alert! Timed to Bloomberg's Invest conference, we took a look at personal finance in 2025. It's the Age of Risk. How much can you stand? Here are 8 answers to the biggest questions of 💸 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For the latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the booming business of American med spas, which are in some ways the vape shops of the healthcare world: 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nice thread from one of our ace tech reporters on how @julialove.bsky.social’s story fits in with our ongoing coverage.

For my latest story, I reported on the lives of the undocumented contract workers who helped power Elon Musk's expansion in Austin. Sweeping debris, laying plumbing and pouring concrete, these workers built facilities that helped make Musk’s $400 billion fortune. Read for free: bloom.bg/41gG6a3

One thing they I don’t think is well appreciated, yet, is how big a deal the DOGE cuts will be outside of DC and how mad people are going to get. So I wrote about Elon’s attempt to defund a bunch of Lutheran charities www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Beginning to roll out our big package on the NA drink industry! First up: how the new market doesn't serve people who would arguably benefit the most: recovering alcoholics www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Elon Musk is opening up a new front in his political battle by, basically, shutting down the government through shitposting. If you are wondering WTF happened this year to bring us to this moment... listen to @chafkin.bsky.social unpack the insanity here open.spotify.com/episode/2oEe...

Families of teens who ODed on fentanyl are taking Snapchat to court, using a novel legal argument to get around big tech's immunity shield, Section 230. Another must-read from Olivia Carville for parents and anyone concerned about social media’s effects. [gift link] www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Footballs! Hell yeah! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Omg this story www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I get why journalists are reticent to try to port a following to a new platform—I was, and I still post my work everywhere—but if your career is predicated on people clicking your links and engaging with your work, this site is the only one not actively working against that.

I get why people jump to this theory—it was my assumption going into the story—but I swear to you that the full explanation is a lot more interesting than that, and that understanding how the world works in greater detail is well worth the time to read it. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Why you should reconsider going Clear, and 31 other delightful rules for airline travel in 2024 (and probably 2025, but who can say). www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Governments are relying on virus hunters in some of the world’s most remote places to stop the next pandemic www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New cover. December Businessweek.

Really liked this one (and I think the reference to the Jordan documentary is apt - many truly exceptional people are relentlessly driven and, perhaps, also unhappy).

ICYMI: @chafkin.bsky.social and I out with a big piece today. Elon Musk oversees 6 companies. His political project--electing Trump, having ongoing influence--is now the 7th. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Come children, gather around and I'll tell you the tale of the hero who successfully unsubscribed from Expedia's Travel Edit emails.

new story: The crypto industry made a $135 million bet on the election. It paid off spectacularly. * gift link * www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Been working hard with @chafkin.bsky.social on a series that will hopefully shed light on the most confounding pairing of this year: Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Mostly, been driven crazy by one question, what does it matter that Musk has gone all in on Trump??? open.spotify.com/episode/7eyt...

If you’ve ever wondered how sports gambling apps can set so many odds, so quickly—and just how big the information gap is between them and the average gambler—this fascinating Samanth Subramanian piece will demystify all: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...