Where Money, Investing, and Technology Meet
What caught my eye this week. Despite all the noise about US mega-cap tech shares and the gloom around the moribund UK economy, London’s FTSE 100 index beat the hallowed US markets in 2025: Source: Google Finance These figures don’t even include dividends. Adding them in would favour the FTSE further, with its higher yield. […]
Finance content is seasonal. Tax stuff in the spring. Earnings coverage is once a quarter. Someone is contractually obligated to write a Sell in May blog post that month every year. Right now it’s a combination of look-backs and look-forwards. It’s outlook season for the upcoming year — biggest risks, opportunities, price targets, etc. for 2026. […]
On the last day of 2025, while most traders were half watching fireworks and half pretending they were not checking charts, the quietest corner of the financial system started making a lot of noise. Banks pulled a record amount of cash from the Federal Reserve’s SRF, about $74.6 billion, on December 31. That number matters […]
Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. The investor interest has taken shape in the latest all-equity Series D round from GEF […]
Jan 01, 2026Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News The first ThreatsDay Bulletin of 2026 lands on a day that already feels symbolic — new year, new breaches, new tricks. If the past twelve months taught defenders anything, it’s that threat actors don’t pause for holidays or resolutions. They just evolve faster. This week’s round-up shows how […]
Wolf escapes enclosure at Tokyo Zoo, visitors flee Anadolu Agency Those Curious Naturalists Wild Information I No Longer Think GLP-1s Are the Answer MedPage Today French cinema legend Brigitte Bardot dies at 91 France24 Climate/Environment ‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps? The Guardian ‘When you plant something, […]
What caught my eye this week. The Christmas break seems to be whizzing by even faster than usual this year. Perhaps it’s the cliché of time speeding up as you get older? Or maybe there’s just too much going on these days for us to ever slow down. Forty years ago I’d go through our […]
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2026.] I grew up during a very special time on the internet. I’m an older […]
Over the past year, AI development has exploded. More than 1.1 million public GitHub repositories now import an LLM SDK (+178% YoY), and developers created nearly 700,000 new AI repositories, according to this year’s Octoverse report. Agentic tools like vllm, ollama, continue, aider, ragflow, and cline are quickly becoming part of the modern developer stack. […]
Since the AI floodgates opened with the release of ChatGPT in Nov 2022, the industry has grown and expanded to cover nearly every tech company today. According to Crunchbase, a little over $100 billion was invested into AI and AI companies. While many of you have been vocal about being tired about hearing about AI, […]
