Ed Zitron on Twitter / X

Less than a month ago, OpenAI was looking to raise “at least” $30 billion at a valuation of $1.4 trillion. Today it raised $11 billion at $1.25 trillion valuation and faced “tepid” interest. https://t.co/VVhNs01LX6 pic.twitter.com/hlNGwD7EBn— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) October 31, 2026

Ten more unintuitive things about impact philanthropy fundraising

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This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it?

Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.

The price of Ether, a bitcoin rival, is soaring because of a radical, $150 million experiment

Thousands of people have pumped $150 million into what might be the biggest crowdfunded project in history, something called the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Compare this to the $20 million raised by the project with the most funds on Kickstarter, the Pebble Time smartwatch. The strange thing about this crowdfunding is that the DAO doesn’t produce any concrete products or services–not yet, anyway.

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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.

FUTO on Twitter / X

There is a rhyme that goes "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime". The open source equivalent apparently is "Big tech makes a dollar, FOSS dev makes 1/20th of a penny". https://t.co/9lQDIbCX2w— FUTO (@FUTO_Tech) April 2, 2025

USA Today CEO Says Higher Pricing Strategy Working, Micropayments Showing ‘Interesting’ Results

USA Today Co.’s push to get readers paying higher prices for journalism is working and despite a nearly one-third drop in its…

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