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A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before founding Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth over $10B (Dom Cooke/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction/

Sarah's Wager
Sarah Guo built Conviction into the venture firm closest to the AI frontier. Now she's betting against its biggest companies.

Schwarz Digits eröffnet seinen 3500-Mitarbeiter-Campus im Süden Deutschlands
Die neue Heimat für die IT-Sparte der Schwarz Gruppe steht. In Bad Friedrichshall finden Tausende Mitarbeiter Platz.

Schwarz Digits eröffnet seinen 3500-Mitarbeiter-Campus im Süden Deutschlands
Die neue Heimat für die IT-Sparte der Schwarz Gruppe steht. In Bad Friedrichshall finden Tausende Mitarbeiter Platz.

speaking of slophub, here's environ-config 26.1.0 (my #Python take on loading config from env variables and secrets from safe places) a minor modernization update. thanks so much to every single name in the thanking section and to github who made it possible:

Release 26.1.0 · hynek/environ-config
Highlights Mostly packaging, small bugs, and docs updates. Only heads-up is that the created classes are now using attrs's NG-style ones with subtly different defaults. Full changelog below! Specia...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/bessent-china-ai-sanctions.html

Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model 'theft'
Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

SpaceX announces a senior unsecured notes offering and discloses that it has about $100.8B in cash; SPCX drops 8% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-spcx-bond-sale-ipo.html

SpaceX makes bond sale days after record IPO, discloses over $100 billion cash pile
SpaceX on Monday unveiled a senior unsecured notes offering and said it held about $100.8 billion in cash.

How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho, with new millionaires, job growth, rising housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/20/micron-boise-chip-fab-expansion.html

How Micron's $50 billion Boise buildout is reshaping its hometown
Micron's AI-fueled rise and expansion are creating jobs and wealth in Boise, Idaho, while adding pressure to housing, traffic and the city's identity.

TSMC forecasts "several years" of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/trump-pressure-ai-chips-us-tsmc-margins.html…

Trump's push for American-made AI chips hits TSMC's margins
The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing output token usage by up to 17% vs. 3.5 Flash (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/google-gemini-flash-ai-mythos-rival.html

Google expands Gemini lineup with cheaper models and new Mythos rival
Google is expanding Gemini with cheaper, more efficient models and a new cybersecurity offering as it tries to close product gaps and compete on cost.

SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html

SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has turned its Colossus data center into a commercial computing power platform, landing recent deals with Anthropic, Google and Cursor.

Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it "the largest ever by a Korean company" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/samsung-shareholder-…

Samsung plans up to $80 billion in shareholder returns after SK Hynix buyback
Samsung Electronics plans shareholder returns totaling 90 trillion won to 110 trillion won, including about 30 trillion won in third-quarter cash dividends.