Amazon raises its forecast for capital expenditures to $125B in 2025, up from its earlier estimate of $118B, and says that number will likely increase in 2026 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html
PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
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Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/…
The day after Democrats swept this month’s voting, a group of jubilant Democratic congressional candidates gathered on Capitol Hill to listen to Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) explain how they could triumph in next year’s midterm elections, too.
Crow, dressed in jeans, boots and an open-necked shirt, urged them to campaign next year as if they were running for mayor:
Be local, be authentic, don’t listen too much to campaign consultants, he argued,
and be ready to separate f…
I have yet to hear any, much less a solid, argument against my suggestion that Presidential pardons and commutations are revocable by a subsequent president.
Were I elected president I would revoke all of El Cheato's pardons and commutations and let the people involved make arguments (probably in the context of Habeas Corpus proceedings) why those actions are not Constitutional.
My own sense is that the question tends more towards the "not revocable" with regard to …
Trump: We should release them.
Trump: UH, THEY'RE NOT IMPORTANT.
Trump: I SAID THEY'RE A NOTHINGBURGER
Trump: DON'T YOU DARE RELEASE THEM
Trump: IT'LL CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM
Trump: I'LL UNLEASH FURY ON EVERYONE
Trump: Go ahead & release them.
☑️ In stark reversal, #Trump says House should vote to release
S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-center-deals-…
Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…