1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (372+ words) Atira estimates that industrial “sales engineering”—the work of turning a customer’s request into a technically viable, priced bid—accounts for more than $128 billion in annual labor spending worldwide. “Sales engineering is one of the largest workflows in manufacturing that…...

49+ min ago   (531+ words) Good morning. After nearly a decade helping steer Charter Communications’ cable and broadband business, CFO Jessica Fischer is leaving for a Blackstone- and Google-backed venture investing billions to meet soaring demand for AI computing capacity. The move puts an experienced…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (504+ words) In a world of infinite information, trust is the scarcest resource. In 1999, I co-founded Epinions, one of the first user-generated review sites, and helped pioneer the reviews economy. The premise was that anyone could review anything, and the collective judgment…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1038+ words) At 8 a.m. Eastern Time today, the current price of Ethereum (1 ETH) is $2,409.50. That’s a $31.52 increase from yesterday and roughly a $2,040 loss over the past year. In terms of market cap, Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency—currently valued at around $233 billion. That’s…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (947+ words) The secondaries market offers a window into the most-watched-IPO horse race, perhaps ever, between OpenAI and Anthropic. “Anthropic has been the most in-demand name in the secondary market for about a year,” Javier Avalos, CEO at private markets platform Caplight,…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (378+ words) The DNB hasn’t reallocated all of its gold reserves outside North America—of the 612 tons it holds, 18.5% remains in New York and Ottawa. But the situation wasn’t lost on economists in the current climate, in which a series of actions…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (673+ words) Really? More oil is getting through the Strait now than before the war? Really? It appears that Wright is adding up transfers over multiple days into a single day, said Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, jokingly calling it “mathemagics....

3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (880+ words) Right now, top high-yield savings accounts are offering up to 4.50% annual percentage yield as of Sept. 3, 2026—and that blows away the FDIC’s national average of 0.38%. For savers who actually want their money to earn something, that’s worth paying attention to....

3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (462+ words) I’ve been asking people how AI is shaping what they consume and create. At a party for David Booth’s terrific book Stay Calm earlier this week, a prominent academic told me he’s now using AI up to 10 hours every day,…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1001+ words) Good morning. Condolences to Steve Ballmer, still Microsoft’s largest individual shareholder, who yesterday received a yearlong suspension from the NBA. The men’s pro basketball league found that his Los Angeles Clippers illegally circumvented its salary cap by funneling millions of…...