After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: with the rise of powerful AI agents like Claude Code, developers may no longer need a code editor at all. With Anna Tong.
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Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.
Here’s how it works 1/
By @forbes.com' estimates, the elder Ellison, who is also Oracle’s largest shareholder, doesn’t have enough cash to fulfill his part of Paramount’s $111 billion offer for Warner Bros.
We'll know more in the coming days, but here’s how it could play out:
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The Oracle cofounder’s official residence is now in Manalapan, Florida, not the Hawaii island that he famously bought in 2012, according to previously unreported county records.
More details in my latest for @forbes.com:
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Exclusive profile: Plaid co-founder William Hockey is building a 'durable' unicorn at Column, his startup with $200M in revenue and a valuation of (maybe) $6B. His bigger fight: a new financial 'Cold War' with China.
I spent months reporting this piece, the first edition of The Upstarts Profile 👇
"People would literally laugh in my face... no one has an investment memo for dog longevity."
Loyal CEO Celine Halioua is pioneering her own startup category, raising $250M+ to secure FDA approval for drugs to help our furry friends live longer 🐕
Hear her story now of The Upstarts Podcast 👀
Nothing is surer to generate goodwill around the world than the US curating its very own state-sponsored 4chan board
NEW: An ex-Top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid with solid-state transformers www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
#infrastructure #renewableenergy
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
an elon musk tweet comparing answers to the question "is the US on stolen land"
three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again
two researchers in pretty bad panda suits in the forest in China, holding a radio receiver
just need everyone to know that this is how wildlife biologists in China introduce panda cubs to the wild
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech.
They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet.
An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social
Influencer marketing has helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just eleven months. But misleading marketing tactics, payment problems and a social media strategy based on shock has led to backlash among creators.
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New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange.
Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119.
me, for @forbes.com
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ
GALLEGO: Let's say Trump wins that lawsuit. Where would that $10 billion come from?
BESSENT: It would come from Treasury
GALLEGO: So, taxpayers?
BESSENT: Yes. Part of the 44,000 whose returns were leaked
GALLEGO: They're not suing
Wrote about some of the history of the Wyden Siren from @wyden.senate.gov and why we should take it VERY seriously when he sends a cryptic letter like he did yesterday.
(Bloomberg) - Elon Musk can be forced to testify in a lawsuit brought by government workers and contractors who accused him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of the [USAID] while he was a senior White House adviser, a judge ruled.
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$Trump recently launched a game to increase the coin’s utility, potentially boosting demand for the token.
Doesn’t seem to have helped.
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Jeffrey Epstein being super creepy in front of a startup founder
When a PR fixer turned VC introduced a startup founder to Jeffrey Epstein... what a lede from @iainmartin.bsky.social 🫠
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Thiel, the king of contrarian investors, told Epstein to pass on Spotify, and also advised against investing in Palantir, the defense-tech firm he co-founded, saying the price was "below market."
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
On Elon: “It's crazy to me how much time he spends attacking us. And, you know, ‘Do you care enough about safety?’ and this and that, while their own house is on fire on these things consistently."
"Sam Altman says the stick of uranium in his office is nothing to worry about. Sitting vertically on his desk like a squat ebony Slim Jim, it is perhaps the most eyebrow-raising among the impressive array of historic innovations he has collected over the years."
Here's our big Sam Altman profile, featuring interviews with Sam, Bob Iger, Masa Son, Jony Ive, Paul Graham and Brian Chesky. Also appearing: a uranium rod, a piece of a Concorde jet engine, a Stone Age hand axe and more … www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
