Today was my last day at CNBC. I joined as a writer and editor in 2018, without even a thought I'd make the jump to TV, perform live interviews on stage, launch a podcast, and so much more. Always say yes. You might surprise yourself. Who knows what I'll say yes to next? I can't wait.

*2 years ago!

One hour until the real State of the Union #$NVDA www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/n...

Excellent idea from Samsung

Nothing should start after 9pm on a weeknight

AI is going to make it harder and more expensive to buy: computers, phones, video game consoles...

I can hear @joannastern.bsky.social crying happy tears

An all-timer, The Onion

No dollar sign on Dow 50k?

Spotify will help you haunt your relatives from beyond the grave newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-24/l...

The CEO of Siemens, a giant manufacturing supplier, flat out told me on Decoder that US factory buildout talk was partially theater, and that anything being built here should be as automated as possible because we don't have the skilled labor supply anyway www.theverge.com/podcast/8752...

The Tin Building closed yesterday. It'll be replaced by... The Balloon Museum? ny.eater.com/news/409555/...

Waller: Stop reading fan fiction

bluesky is a lot better if you mute "bluesky"

Is this the first time someone's fanfiction caused markets to drop more than 1%? www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Can’t even see the billboards in Times Square

Well I must see this www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/t...

Microsoft Gaming isn’t growing, even after the $69 billion Activision deal Huge leadership shakeup in the House of Xbox to turn things around www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/m...

Back of the envelope: a 10% global tariffs could mean a large increase in total tariff revenues compared with IEEPA. Would raise $433b if applied to all imports. $343b if only applied to goods. IEEPA tariffs brought in $175b in '25, though that might not have been a full year. Could be exemptions.

The best kind of day

Still waiting for my tariff check

A truly business-friendly admin. would NEVER have imposed these tariffs. The amount of uncertainty it has created and will continue to create is paralyzing to businesses. As I said back when the IEEPA tariffs were imposed, admin should have gone to Congress providing certainty.

Something something Biden’s fault

I think we deserve another season of The Crown now

Hassett under fire for calling for ny fed researchers to be “disciplined.” www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

Remember in 2022 when Apple killed its plan to detect CSAM stored in iCloud accounts? (There was a huge uproar from privacy advocates.) Now West Virginia is suing Apple over the decision. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/a...

I think we deserve another season of The Crown now

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

We aren't ready for what's next www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/m...

three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again

Happy Kevin wants economists to be disciplined by their bosses for contradicting the regime's understanding of The Truth.

Funny how the CBS censorship machine just brings MORE attention to the thing they're trying to censor

RIP

Matt "Something Big Is Happening" Shumer will be on CNBC at 2:15pm ET 👀👀👀 shumer.dev/something-bi...

But the Dow's at $49,000!

Facebook is going to add facial recognition to its AI glasses because it thinks you're too distracted by politics to notice www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I love the internet

Even if this is true, the government can't do a thing about it and is wasting its time trying to scare Apple into submission. Apple is allowed to make Apple News go full woke. Just like Elon Musk is allowed to make Twitter go full whatever it is now.

A friend of mine in Maryland just got an $800 electricity bill for December. She has to dip into savings to pay it. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...

Apple has until December 31 to launch before personalized Siri is technically “delayed” a second time, but these internal delays are not helping the perception Apple doesn’t have a handle on AI

James Van Der Beek died www.tmz.com/2026/02/11/j...

Over 1,400 Salesforce employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Marc Benioff to drop potential business with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. On Tuesday, Benioff joked about ICE being present at an employee gathering in Las Vegas. cnb.cx/4abwbqK

El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson: "Medical evacuation flights were forced to divert to Las Cruces. All aviation operations were grounded, including emergency flights. This was a major and unnecessary disruption. One that has not occurred since 9/11."

The Dow hit “50,000 dollars,” Bondi testified

Bluesky in a nutshell. Some context: BLS released its jobs numbers today, which were better than expected, and resistance libs would rather stay mad/conspiratorial than listen to actual on-the-ground experts that the data is still reliable.

NEW: OpenAI has disbanded its Mission Alignment team and transferred employees to other teams. Joshua Achiam, a leading voice on safety issues at the company, will become its chief futurist www.platformer.news/openai-missi...

bread and circuses