Why National Parks Are Important For Wildlife, History And Local Economies

Why are national parks so important? Explore their role in protecting biodiversity, preserving history and supporting local economies.

Nvidia Moves To Buy Hugging Face To Shape The Model Distribution Layer

Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face targets the model distribution layer where developers choose what to run and where future compute demand forms.

Nvidia Stock Blowout Earnings Reveal A $279 Billion Bet On AI

Nvidia’s $279 billion supply commitments show how far the company is betting on long‑term AI demand as revenue surges and data-center growth accelerates.

Former Professor Becomes Billionaire As China Bolsters Its Semiconductor Supply Chain

Liu Jianfang quit his teaching job at China’s Jilin University in 2019 to focus full-time on his semiconductor component maker GK Precision. He is now a billionaire after the company’s shares surged nearly 400% since its August listing.

Eyeing Expansion Into Wealth Management, Vanguard Buys Fintech Altruist For As Much As $5 Billion

The acquisition is only the second ever for the 51-year-old company as it tries to expand beyond index-fund fees.

VCs Are So Obsessed With This AI Assistant That Its Valuation Jumped Fivefold In Weeks

A hot new AI agent called Instinct was valued at $500 million earlier in August, sources say. Now it’s raising a new round at a $2.5 billion valuation from Benchmark and Index.

A Silicon Valley Startup Aims To Fill A Battery Supply Chain Gap

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how DOGE broke America’s weather machine and using AI to create new materials for green hydrogen and batteries

Electric Copters Will Fly Out Of Downtown L.A. Ahead Of 2028 Olympics

Archer Aviation, which will test its eVTOLs over Los Angeles this year, plans a “vertiport” at AEG’s L.A. Live, next to the Lakers’ arena and city convention center.

3 Strategies Entrepreneurs Are Using To Scale Smarter With AI

AI can help a business do more without doing more of everything. The founders getting real value from it are using it to protect what makes their business worth building.

Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More

The Kushner scion’s VC firm Thrive Capital nearly tripled its assets thanks to smart bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. Now he’s looking to spend some cash on the NBA’s Lakers.