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Stories by Sonny Jang
- White House Requests Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Resignation as Greece Ambassador
Press Secretary Katie Zacharia announced the request during her first White House briefing Tuesday, without providing further details.
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- MoonPay Names Anne Giviskos CFO for Global Business
Giviskos previously held senior finance roles at Navan, the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext. Mouna Ammari Siala remains interim CFO of MoonPay’s U.S. business.
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- Gladstein Says Centralized AI Poses a Bigger Freedom Risk Than Extinction
Human Rights Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein advocates local, open-source AI and Bitcoin (BTC) as tools for individual control.
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- Microsoft Expands Charles Lamanna’s Role Across AI and Productivity Businesses
Lamanna oversees Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams infrastructure, Dynamics 365, Exchange Online, Power Platform and AI agent technologies. Microsoft has not named him as Satya Nadella’s successor.
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- Uber Expands Autonomous Partnerships Amid Company Restructuring
The reported plan would divide Sarfraz Maredia’s duties between Samarth Kejriwal and Aaron Emrich as Uber reorganizes its operations.
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- Paul Tudor Jones Warns 2027 Could Pressure U.S. Stocks
The Tudor Investment founder and Chief Investment Officer expects big-tech and AI-related offerings to increase equity supply as buybacks and mergers fade as market support.
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- STMicroelectronics Seeks One-Year CEO Reappointment for Chery
Shareholders will vote on Jean-Marc Chery’s proposed continuation as president and CEO at the company’s 2027 annual general meeting.
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- Jez Sees Perpetual-Futures Market Growing About 10x Despite Leverage Risks
The Papertrade co-builder urged retail traders to avoid derivatives, keep stable income and focus on opportunities they understand deeply.
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- Cathie Wood Warns China’s Memory Chip Expansion Could Increase Price Volatility
The ARK Investment Management co-founder is avoiding traditional memory-chip makers as China expands production capacity in a market marked by sharp boom-and-bust cycles.
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- DBS CEO Tan Su Shan Presents Singapore Stability as Global Refuge
Tan said Singapore’s predictable business climate can help companies manage geopolitical risk and fragmented supply chains, while DBS helps customers pivot between markets.
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- Michael Saylor Says Bitcoin ‘₿ears’ Are Under Control
The Strategy executive chairman posted a brief comment on bearish sentiment surrounding Bitcoin.
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- Michael Morgan to Become Mueller Water Products CFO Around Nov. 19
Morgan will take over as executive vice president of finance on Oct. 28, while Melissa Rasmussen remains CFO through the fiscal 2026 annual report filing.
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- Backpack Names Daisuke Nakagawa to Lead Japan Strategy
The former Kraken Japan and Binance Japan COO will oversee strategy and corporate development as Backpack navigates Japan’s stringent crypto rules.
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- Tom Lee Says $1.5 Trillion-$2 Trillion Transfer May Lift Crypto Demand
The Bitmine chairman said younger heirs may allocate more inherited wealth to cryptocurrencies and other risk assets from 2026 through 2028.
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- Apple Chairman Tim Cook Meets Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Beijing
He Lifeng invited Apple and other technology companies to expand their involvement in China’s economy.
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- ARK Invest Maintains Five-Year Bitcoin Thesis as Stablecoins Reshape View
Lorenzo Valente said stablecoins have changed ARK’s emerging-market Bitcoin thesis, while tokenized stocks and real-world assets remain part of its broader market outlook.
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- Willem Middelkoop Targets $1 Million Bitcoin by 2030 on Debasement Trade
The Commodity Discovery Fund founder links his outlook to institutional adoption, currency debasement and growing demand for assets outside the dollar system.
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- Bausch + Lomb Names Thomas J. Appio Interim CEO
Appio will continue leading parent company Bausch Health after taking over the role effective immediately.
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- Solana Foundation Executive Says Meme-Coin Tools Could Aid Tokenization
Nick Ducoff said infrastructure developed for meme coins may support Solana’s efforts to build tokenized-equity and other financial applications.
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- CZ Warns Community Against Paying Intermediaries for Meetings
CZ said he will never charge for a quick meeting and will not meet anyone who paid an intermediary to arrange access.
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- Société Générale Strategist Compares AI Boom With Pre-1997 Bubble
Albert Edwards says rapid capital spending and optimistic growth expectations may be masking weak productivity gains in the United States.
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- Trump Names Trump Media Advisor Katie Zacharia as Press Secretary
Zacharia starts Oct. 12 and will hold her first White House briefing the following morning.
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- Alexandr Wang Uses Muse Memes in Push to Make Meta “Cool Again”
Meta’s chief AI officer said spontaneous posts about Muse generated attention and affected growth after the assistant reached the top of Apple’s App Store.
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- Michael Saylor Says AI May Cut Costs as Scarce Assets Get Pricier
Saylor described consumer-price inflation at about 3% while saying the cost of capital tied to scarce assets rose 15% annually for six years.
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- Bubblemaps Estimates Ethan Made About $125,000 From 49 Token Promotions
Bubblemaps alleges suspected linked wallets bought tokens before promotions and began selling an average of three minutes after Ethan’s first shout-out.
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- Ripple CEO Says He Owns 'a Lot of XRP' and Sees Institutional Use
Brad Garlinghouse tied his bullish view to payments utility and financial-institution adoption, while Ripple’s treasury products support XRP alongside fiat and stablecoins.
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- Palantir CEO Says Vocational Training, Neurodivergence May Aid AI-Era Success
Alex Karp also warned that a philosophy degree from an elite school may be difficult to market without another skill as artificial intelligence changes work.
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- Ray Dalio Urges Inflation Protection Amid AI Debt Concerns
The Bridgewater Associates founder favors diversification and overlooked AI companies as borrowing, interest rates and market concentration raise correction concerns.
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- NCPG CEO Heather Maurer Resigns After Kalshi’s $2 Million Contribution
Maurer will leave the National Council on Problem Gambling on Oct. 16 after less than 10 months as several state groups and regulators cut ties over the contribution.
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- Jefferies Strategist Warns Debt-Funded AI Spending Could Destroy Capital
Chris Wood says U.S. hyperscalers may not earn returns that justify accelerating infrastructure investment as debt financing grows and cheaper Chinese models pressure pricing.
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- Former FTX COO Constance Wang Criticizes Netflix’s ‘The Altruists’
Wang said FTX had fewer than 200 employees and that many worked 16 to 18 hours a day. The series is scheduled to premiere Nov. 19.
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- Binance Executive Richard Teng Pushes Unified Fiat and Crypto Services
Teng said users want a single platform for fiat currency, stablecoins and yield products as the Digital Asset Summit approaches.
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- Orkut Founder Seeks User Support to Revive Social Network
Orkut Büyükkökten is asking users to register support for a possible return of the platform, which Google shut down in Sept. 2014.
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- Andreessen Horowitz Partner Olivia Moore Sees Limits in AI Subscriptions
Nearly half of U.S. consumers use AI, but only 4.5% had paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude in August 2026.
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- Jesse Pollak Sees Tokenized Equities Driving Blockchain’s Next Cycle
The Base creator said non-dollar stablecoins could expand blockchain finance beyond dollar-denominated markets as tokenized-stock activity grows.
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- Commodity Fund Founder Keeps $1 Million Bitcoin Target Before 2030
The founder said an earlier $100,000 target reflected a 2021 prediction and pointed to Bitcoin’s limited supply.
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- Solana Foundation Executive Predicts ‘Token Supercycle’ Over Next Decade
Nick Ducoff says money, assets and ownership could increasingly move onto the internet as tokenization expands across finance and other sectors.
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- Loren Asmus Calls $300T Bond Market Bitcoin’s Next Frontier
The UTXO Management executive said education remains the main barrier to broader institutional adoption as Bitcoin is considered for portfolio allocations.
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- Judy Shelton Named Treasury Adviser on Monetary Policy
Shelton will advise Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after her 2019 nomination to the Federal Reserve Board failed to win Senate approval.
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- Ray Dalio Warns China and Japan May Trim U.S. Treasury Holdings
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield is hovering around 5.3%, its highest level since 2002, as global bond markets face sustained selling pressure.
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