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Warren Buffett and his son Howard at a Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha.

📉 Buffett Cedes Chair to Son, Abel Runs the Machine

Berkshire Hathaway slips 0.6% to $507.7 as Warren Buffett hands the chairmanship to son Howard. 📉 The $1.1T conglomerate now splits control—Greg Abel drives operations and deals, Howard guards the culture. Abel's already spent $32B on tech and real estate. Berkshire's biggest test:

Illustration of a Bitcoin token and a court gavel on a descending line chart

💸⚖️ Celsius Estate Sues BitMEX for $495 Million in 2020 Liquidations

Celsius's estate is suing BitMEX for $495M—or 6,360 BTC—over March 2020 forced liquidations. 💸 The estate says BitMEX ran both the liquidation engine and the insurance fund that pocketed the proceeds, with some sell orders placed 24% below the next ask. The filing lands 11 days

Federal office corridor with empty desks and a sign on the wall reading "Fork in the Road" email offer.

💼🇺🇸 The $9.5 Billion Buyout That Strained Federal Capacity

The federal government spent $9.5 billion in 2025 to pay employees to leave 💼 That's the tab for 144,312 resignations across 76 agencies — with $6.7B traced to one voluntary-exit program. Payroll savings were meant to outpace the payout. Instead: wildfire units hit 75% quitting rates,

Aerial view of a bulk iron ore cargo ship loading at an industrial port terminal.

⚖️📉 Glencore Cuts Ties, Takes $480M Hit on Radiant World

$480M provision, $2B in mutual lawsuits, and a $499M asset freeze. ⚖️ Glencore cut all ties with iron ore trader Radiant World after confirming falsified invoices and fabricated emails that broke its trade-financing model. — Now a Jefferies-managed fund and regulators are circling a market that moved 80M+ tonnes annually.

Illustration of two developers orchestrating a fleet of AI software agents across a virtual code factory.

🚀 Factory's AI Coding Startup Jumps to $5B Valuation

Factory went from a $1.5B to $5B valuation in just five months—tripling its worth. 🚀 The AI coding startup raised $200M led by Blackstone, Khosla, and Sequoia, barely three years after two Princeton grads met at a hackathon. Revenue doubled month-over-month for six straight months before its

Mary McAleese seated at a conference table during the Where We All Belong integration steering group launch in 2022.

🇮🇪 Board Chair Quits Twice in 24 Hours Over Broken Timetable

A former president resigns as integration chair. Then resigns entirely 24 hours later. When the GAA withdrew from the 2027 unification deadline and proposed extending to 2032–34, Mary McAleese departed—and the steering group lost its most visible champion. The integration project has no chairperson, no agreed timeline, and

Form Ki Q document platform interface showing document list with compliance tags and versioning history

🏗️🔐 Form Ki Q launches AWS-native document platform with compliance-first architecture

Form Ki Q launched a document platform on AWS where compliance is architecture, not a checkbox. S3 + DynamoDB decouple storage from metadata, Bedrock handles PII/PHI classification, and Document Events fire real-time audit streams. All in a space ruled by Google Drive and Box. 🏗️🔐 Would you trust a startup