Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…
U.S. Pours More Firepower Into the Caribbean as Trump Ramps Up Threats (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-pours-more-firepower-into-the-caribbean-as-trump-ramps-up-threats-8e964845?st=ZJrgKR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p11#a251213p11
Republicans Relive Healthcare Nightmare as Midterms Loom (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-healthcare-plan-0e8428be?st=4C9joZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p6#a251213p6
Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/matthew…
Stocks of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are being sold via invitation-only markets to the ultrawealthy before their IPOs, creating a two-tier system (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/priv…
OpenAI strikes a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy 750 MW of computing capacity from Cerebras over three years; sources: the deal is worth more than $10B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-fo…
Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200 live events since March 2023 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/…
PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/po
A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepre…