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Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B in 2025; small companies face higher interest rates given investor wariness over unproven AI businesses (Joe Rennison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines…

As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious.

An interview with Substack CEO Chris Best about the new TV app, how videos and livestreams complement editorial content, plans for audio posts, and more (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/substa…

Substack CEO Unpacks Logic of Launching a TV App
On the heels of Instagram rolling out a Reels app for connected TV, newsletter creators can now offer videos and livestreams to subscribers via Apple TV and Google TV.

Interessant wie die Leute welche sich am lautesten über die SED Diktatur beschweren kein negatives Wort über die Bespitzelung der Interventionistischen Linken, Flüchtlingsrat, sowie Die Linke in Bremen verloren haben.
Hier hat jemand für Jahre Menschen ausspioniert, sogar persönliche (sexuelle) Beziehungen mit seinen Opfern geführt und mit ihnen unter einem Dach gelebt. Leute, es geht um den Flüchtlingsrat, keine Terrororganisationen. Zudem wurde diese „Ermittlung” auch nicht eingestel…

“And the cost of credit default swaps, which protect bond investors from losses, has surged in recent months on some A.I. companies’ debt.”
Cool cool So like a dot-com boom-bust with mortgage crisis characteristics?
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As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious.

Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that "What's happening with ICE is going too far" and he hopes President Trump "will rise to this moment" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/business/dealbook/altm…

OpenAI’s Altman and More C.E.O.s Weigh In on Minnesota
Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.

An interview with Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch about shifting the company's business model from print and web ads to events, paywalls, and other revenue sources (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/conde-nast-business-9781b1e3?…

Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-red-bull-leaks/

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1

‘It’s been an expensive year’: Meituan counts cost of China’s delivery wars
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group

Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/ar

AI-for-Science start-up DP Technology raises US$114 million in Series C round
The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to speed up scientific discovery.

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.