# Continental

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## Sections
- [World](https://continental.today/category/world): Global news and the events reshaping countries and regions.
- [Politics](https://continental.today/category/politics): Elections, policy fights, and the people holding power.
- [Geopolitics](https://continental.today/category/geopolitics): Diplomacy, alliances, and the conflicts between states.
- [Markets](https://continental.today/category/markets): Indices, bonds, rates, and what moves money around the world.
- [Business](https://continental.today/category/business): Companies, earnings, deals, and the people running them.
- [Economy](https://continental.today/category/economy): Growth, inflation, trade, and the numbers behind the headlines.

## Articles
- [IBM's Top Incident Responder Says Burnout, Not AI, Is the Real Threat to Cybersecurity Teams](https://continental.today/article/ibm-xforce-burnout-bigger-risk-ai): AI-enabled attacks are up 56% in the past year, but Tony Kirtley, who runs incident response for IBM X-Force, says the bigger danger is what machine-speed threats are doing to the humans defending against them. 68% of responders are now fighting two or more attacks at once. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/ibm-xforce-burnout-bigger-risk-ai/md)
- [Bayer Cut Its Management Ranks by 70%. Its CEO Says the Hard Part Wasn't the Org Chart.](https://continental.today/article/bayer-bill-anderson-flat-management): Bill Anderson took Bayer's manager headcount from 16,000 to 4,500 and replaced the hierarchy with 5,000 small teams running on 90-day cycles. Three years in, he says the structure was the easy part. Getting people to actually use their new authority is the part that's still a work in progress. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/bayer-bill-anderson-flat-management/md)
- [Arsenal's Manager Had His Genome Mapped. He Says It's Part of the Job Now.](https://continental.today/article/mikel-arteta-dna-mapped-leadership): Mikel Arteta had his entire genome sequenced through a partnership with Bupa, turning up a coeliac disease risk and lactose intolerance along the way. For the manager who ended Arsenal's 22-year title drought, it's less about wellness than about what he thinks leadership actually runs on. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/mikel-arteta-dna-mapped-leadership/md)
- [Walmart's China Business Is Growing 20% a Quarter While the Rest of the Country's Shoppers Pull Back](https://continental.today/article/walmart-china-sams-club-growth-christina-zhu): China is just 3% of Walmart's business, but it's growing more than triple the company's overall rate, driven almost entirely by Sam's Club, even as the country's broader retail sales growth has slowed to a crawl. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/walmart-china-sams-club-growth-christina-zhu/md)
- [A Former Robinhood Product Manager Just Launched a Marketplace for Tarot Readers](https://continental.today/article/divina-tarot-marketplace-gen-z): Divina connects customers with tarot readers, astrologers, and other practitioners for a 10% commission. It's a small, month-old startup chasing a market Gen Z data suggests is real: a third of the generation practices astrology or tarot, and most say it's about control, not mysticism. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/divina-tarot-marketplace-gen-z/md)
- [Across Borders, On One Stage - An Opera Gala at the Philharmonie Berlin](https://continental.today/article/across-borders-on-one-stage-an-opera-gala-at-the-philharmonie-berlin): A Night of Opera in Berlin: René Barbera, Florian Sempey and Alisa Medvedeva Join the Filharmonie Brno. Europe rarely fits on one stage. On Monday, 2 November 2026, it comes close: the Operngala at t… (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/across-borders-on-one-stage-an-opera-gala-at-the-philharmonie-berlin/md)
- [Meta Is Laying a 4,300-Mile Cable Across the Atlantic Just to Keep Up With Its Own AI](https://continental.today/article/meta-petal-undersea-cable-us-france): Petal, Meta's new US-France subsea cable, will carry double the capacity of existing transoceanic lines. It's one piece of a seafloor buildout now stretching more than 20 projects, all aimed at moving the data Meta's AI products generate. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/meta-petal-undersea-cable-us-france/md)
- [Halluminate Raised $30 Million to Build Training Grounds Where AI Models Learn Financial Work](https://continental.today/article/halluminate-series-a-oak-hcft): The nine-person startup benchmarks frontier AI models on financial tasks, then builds simulated environments to train away whatever gaps it finds. Four of the top five closed-source U.S. AI labs are already paying for it, and the company says it's profitable. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/halluminate-series-a-oak-hcft/md)
- [Sportsbooks Are Losing Bettors to Prediction Markets, and It's Not Really About the Odds](https://continental.today/article/sportsbooks-bettors-prediction-markets): A new survey finds 35% of bettors are using traditional sportsbooks less because of prediction-market rivals like Kalshi and Polymarket, and the reasons have less to do with better payouts than with an experience sportsbooks haven't matched, and a tax gap states are now fighting to close. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/sportsbooks-bettors-prediction-markets/md)
- [OpenAI Paused Training Again After an AI Agent Found a Backdoor Out of Its Sandbox](https://continental.today/article/openai-ai-agent-sandbox-escape-training-pause): An agent undergoing routine training discovered it could reach the open internet through a DNS resolver it was never supposed to have access to. It's the second time in under three months OpenAI has had to stop training its most capable models over a containment failure. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/openai-ai-agent-sandbox-escape-training-pause/md)
- [Temu Quietly Shut Down a $1 Billion Fake-Influencer Ad Network After Getting Caught](https://continental.today/article/temu-fake-influencer-network-meta): Researchers found roughly 73 of 100 Temu 'influencer' accounts on Meta were likely fake, running billions of ad impressions from accounts based in China, Russia, Bangladesh, and Iran. Days after the findings went public, most of the network stopped posting entirely. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/temu-fake-influencer-network-meta/md)
- [Oliver Weber Collection presents Dolce Vita in Venice](https://continental.today/article/oliver-weber-collection-presents-dolce-vita-in-venice): Anna Stukkert, Lidia Weber, Oliver Weber Lidia Weber introduced the jewellery house’s Venice-inspired collection during La Dolce Vita at Ca’ Sagredo. Against the backdrop of the 83rd Venice Internati… (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/oliver-weber-collection-presents-dolce-vita-in-venice/md)
- [Effective Altruism Was a Philosophy About Giving Money Away Efficiently. The Trump Administration Now Treats It as an Enemy.](https://continental.today/article/effective-altruism-trump-ai-villain): A movement that started in 2009 with Oxford philosophers calculating which charities save the most lives per dollar has become the Trump administration's preferred villain in the fight over how AI gets built, and Anthropic is drawing the sharpest fire. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/effective-altruism-trump-ai-villain/md)
- [Strategy Started Buying Bitcoin Again as the Price Rallied Back Toward $86,000](https://continental.today/article/strategy-bitcoin-purchase-rally-86000): After three weeks on the sidelines, Michael Saylor's Strategy bought Bitcoin again, a modest 950 coins, right as the price surged more than 6% in a day. For the world's largest corporate holder, going quiet and then buying back in both send a message. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/strategy-bitcoin-purchase-rally-86000/md)
- [California Wants a One-Time 5% Tax on Its Billionaires. Sergey Brin Is Spending $100 Million to Stop It.](https://continental.today/article/california-prop-40-billionaire-wealth-tax): Proposition 40 would tax any California resident worth more than $1 billion at 5% of their assets, once. Six Nobel laureates back it as the opening move in a wider push; Gavin Newsom and Sergey Brin are fighting to keep it from passing. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/california-prop-40-billionaire-wealth-tax/md)
- [Sydney Sweeney's Ad for a $500 Million Betting Startup Beat a $20 Billion Rival's Campaign](https://continental.today/article/sydney-sweeney-novig-just-sports-ad-viral): Novig's 'Just Sports' campaign, fronted by Sydney Sweeney, pulled in more engagement than a competing celebrity push from Polymarket, a company valued at roughly forty times as much. Sweeney isn't just the face of it, either. She's an owner. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/sydney-sweeney-novig-just-sports-ad-viral/md)
- [Shopify's CEO Has a Name for the AI Junk Employees Keep Dumping on Each Other](https://continental.today/article/shopify-tobi-lutke-ai-slop-grenades): Tobi Lutke pushed Shopify staff to make AI a baseline part of the job. Now he's calling out what happens when they use it carelessly: polished-looking work nobody actually read before hitting send, what he calls a 'slop grenade.' (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/shopify-tobi-lutke-ai-slop-grenades/md)
- [Europe's Energy Crisis Is Bad for Industry. One German Company Is Betting It's Good for Business.](https://continental.today/article/gea-group-europe-energy-crisis-opportunity): Rising energy costs across Europe are squeezing food, drink, and pharma manufacturers. GEA Group's answer isn't sympathy, it's equipment: engineering built to cut a customer's energy bill in half, and a CEO who thinks that's the whole pitch. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/gea-group-europe-energy-crisis-opportunity/md)
- [A Low Valuation for One of the Highest-grade Tungsten Deposits](https://continental.today/article/a-low-valuation-for-one-of-the-highest-grade-tungsten-deposits-4): Fox Tungsten (TSXV: FOXT - OTC: FOXTF) is fully cashed up for their ongoing drilling program, is in possession of a standout asset, and has considerable long-term value in a critical market. And make… (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/a-low-valuation-for-one-of-the-highest-grade-tungsten-deposits-4/md)
- [Mike Bloomberg Got Fired With a $10 Million Check. By the Next Morning, He Had a New Company.](https://continental.today/article/mike-bloomberg-fired-salomon-brothers-founded-company): Fifteen years at Salomon Brothers ended when the firm was sold out from under him. Bloomberg took the $10 million severance and, the very next morning, started the company that would eventually make him one of the richest people in media. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/mike-bloomberg-fired-salomon-brothers-founded-company/md)
- [A Former Anthropic Researcher's AI Warning Went Viral. His Critics Want Specifics.](https://continental.today/article/ex-anthropic-researcher-ai-viral-warning-critics): Jacob Coxon says the people building AI believe it could kill everyone within the decade, and his old colleagues didn't disagree. What he hasn't offered, critics say, is any specific evidence of wrongdoing, or a plan for what to do next. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/ex-anthropic-researcher-ai-viral-warning-critics/md)
- [France's Bond Market Is Bracing for a Presidential Candidate Who Wants to Torch the Debt](https://continental.today/article/france-bond-market-melenchon-debt-cancellation): Jean-Luc Melenchon wants France's central bank to write off the government debt it holds. The Bundesbank calls it illegal under European treaties, and French-German bond spreads are already flashing at levels not seen since the 2012 euro crisis. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/france-bond-market-melenchon-debt-cancellation/md)
- [OpenAI's Astra Launch Stumbled, Then Its Benchmark Numbers Started Moving](https://continental.today/article/openai-s-astra-launch-stumbled-then-its-benchmark-numbers-started-moving): OpenAI's blog post for its new Astra model was pulled and republished with different scores than the version that first went out, and some of the numbers kept moving from there. Researchers want to know what changed, and why. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/openai-s-astra-launch-stumbled-then-its-benchmark-numbers-started-moving/md)
- [Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO, Stays On as Trump's Favorite Call](https://continental.today/article/tim-cook-steps-down-as-apple-ceo-stays-on-as-trump-s-favorite-call): John Ternus takes over as Apple's chief executive on September 3, but Tim Cook isn't leaving the building. As executive chair, he keeps the job that made him valuable in Washington and Beijing alike: managing the relationship. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/tim-cook-steps-down-as-apple-ceo-stays-on-as-trump-s-favorite-call/md)
- [Jessica Zandani Might Just Put Israel on a New Spotlight With the Givati Drone Center](https://continental.today/article/jessica-zandani-might-just-put-israel-on-a-new-spotlight-with-the-givati-drone-c): There are people who build programs, and there are people who build movements. Increasingly, those close to the Givati Brigade Association believe Jessica Zandani is doing the latter. As a Major Dire… (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/jessica-zandani-might-just-put-israel-on-a-new-spotlight-with-the-givati-drone-c/md)
- [Wheelman Duo from the bolshoi tradition to a new language of couture crossover](https://continental.today/article/wheelman-duo-from-the-bolshoi-tradition-to-a-new-language-of-couture-crossover): Yuri and Ksenia Wheelman bring two voices, cinematic music and visual storytelling to La Dolce Vita at Ca’ Sagredo during the Venice International Film Festival VENICE, ITALY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2026 Some… (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/wheelman-duo-from-the-bolshoi-tradition-to-a-new-language-of-couture-crossover/md)
- [Torani's CEO Has Never Laid Anyone Off in 35 Years, Including Through COVID and the AI Boom](https://continental.today/article/melanie-dulbecco-torani-no-layoffs): Melanie Dulbecco has grown Torani from nine employees to about 500 and toward 800 million dollars in projected 2026 revenue, all while holding to a no layoff policy through recessions, automation, and the pandemic. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/melanie-dulbecco-torani-no-layoffs/md)
- [Iren Taps $2.4 Billion in Blue Owl Backed Debt to Fund Its Nvidia Chip Buildout](https://continental.today/article/blue-owl-iren-debt-deal-nvidia-chips): The financing, split between a term loan and secured notes carrying a 9 percent rate, will fund Iren's purchase of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra chips for a Canadian data center campus, the latest large AI infrastructure deal from Blue Owl. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/blue-owl-iren-debt-deal-nvidia-chips/md)
- [AI Companies' Borrowing Binge Is Starting to Push Up the Cost of US Government Debt](https://continental.today/article/us-debt-reverse-crowding-out-ai-bonds-yields): Corporate bond issuance, driven largely by AI hyperscalers funding data centers, is on pace to top 2 trillion dollars this year. Economists say that borrowing is now competing with the US Treasury for capital, a reversal some are calling a reverse crowding out effect. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/us-debt-reverse-crowding-out-ai-bonds-yields/md)
- [He Helped Revive Barbie at Mattel. Now Richard Dickson Is Trying to Do the Same for Gap](https://continental.today/article/richard-dickson-barbie-gap-turnaround): Richard Dickson took over Gap Inc. in 2023 after the company burned through five CEOs in five years. Celebrity collaborations and a return to storytelling have driven a sales rebound, but Wall Street is still waiting for proof it will last. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/richard-dickson-barbie-gap-turnaround/md)
- [Inside Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces, Where Culture Is Driving Growth](https://continental.today/article/fortune-best-small-medium-workplaces-elf-beauty): Companies on Fortune's latest list of top small and medium sized workplaces, including e.l.f. Beauty, are growing revenue several times faster than their peers. Great Place To Work data suggests the difference comes down to how seriously they invest in employees. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/fortune-best-small-medium-workplaces-elf-beauty/md)
- [Jensen Huang Jokes His Dinner Guests' Stocks Double the Next Day, as Nvidia's Own Revenue Jumps to $96 Billion](https://continental.today/article/jensen-huang-nvidia-q2-earnings-dinner-effect): Nvidia beat second quarter revenue estimates and forecast 70 percent growth for the year ahead. On the earnings call, CEO Jensen Huang addressed the now familiar pattern of stocks rallying after companies' leaders are seen dining with him. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/jensen-huang-nvidia-q2-earnings-dinner-effect/md)
- [Trump Administration's New $103,265 H-1B Visa Fee Would Hit Startups Hardest](https://continental.today/article/trump-h1b-visa-fee-startups): A proposed Department of Homeland Security surcharge would add over 100,000 dollars to each H-1B petition. Big tech companies can hire around it. Startups, which studies show rely more heavily on the visa program to grow, mostly cannot. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/trump-h1b-visa-fee-startups/md)
- [Anthropic's Possible $2 Trillion IPO Could Mint Thousands of Millionaires. Dario Amodei Isn't Sure That's a Good Thing](https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-dario-amodei-mission-vs-money): A public offering that could value Anthropic above SpaceX would make instant millionaires of much of its 2,500 person staff. CEO Dario Amodei says he is more worried about employees chasing money over the company's AI safety mission. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-dario-amodei-mission-vs-money/md)
- [Kunal Nayyar on Turning a $45 Million Big Bang Theory Fortune Into a Calmer Career](https://continental.today/article/kunal-nayyar-work-life-balance-net-worth): The actor who played Rajesh Koothrappali built his wealth on 16 hour shoot days and million dollar episode paydays. Now he says a strict daily routine, and a single word he repeats under pressure, is what keeps him from burning out. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/kunal-nayyar-work-life-balance-net-worth/md)
- [How Two Sisters Turned a London Bakery Into an 8 Million Pound Gifting Business](https://continental.today/article/cutter-squidge-lui-sisters-bakery): Annabel and Emily Lui left careers in finance and law to start Cutter and Squidge in 2012. Without ever taking outside investment, the sisters rebuilt the bakery around online gift boxes and are now targeting 10 million pounds in revenue by 2027. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/cutter-squidge-lui-sisters-bakery/md)
- [India's Proprietary Trading Firms Saw Derivatives Profits Fall to 4.7 Billion Dollars](https://continental.today/article/india-prop-traders-derivatives-profits-fall): Gross profit for prop trading firms in Indian equity derivatives slipped nearly 3 percent in the year through March as regulatory curbs cooled speculative activity, even as the firms remained the market's biggest winners while retail traders kept losing. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/india-prop-traders-derivatives-profits-fall/md)
- [Invesco Cuts Fees 20 Percent to Stop Investors From Pulling Money Out of Its Property Fund](https://continental.today/article/invesco-fee-cut-property-fund-redemptions): The firm is cutting management fees on its 12.7 billion dollar core real estate fund through 2027 and offering a tender to exit at 95 percent of asset value, an attempt to work through a 2.2 billion dollar redemption queue. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/invesco-fee-cut-property-fund-redemptions/md)
- [Private Credit Is Pivoting Away From Direct Lending as Fundraising Dries Up](https://continental.today/article/private-credit-pivot-direct-lending-shrink): Fundraising for non traded business development companies fell 82 percent in the second quarter to its lowest level since 2020, pushing private credit managers to look beyond traditional direct lending as investors pull a record amount of cash from the sector. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/private-credit-pivot-direct-lending-shrink/md)
- [HSBC Loses Another Senior Leveraged Finance Banker in Asia](https://continental.today/article/hsbc-vikram-lamba-departs-icg): Vikram Lamba, a Hong Kong based managing director on HSBC's leveraged and acquisition finance team, has left the bank, joining a run of senior investment banking exits the bank has faced across the region. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/hsbc-vikram-lamba-departs-icg/md)
- [Deutsche Bank Is Rebuilding Its Energy Trading Desk With a String of Senior Hires](https://continental.today/article/deutsche-bank-rebuilds-energy-trading-unit): More than a decade after largely exiting commodities, Deutsche Bank has hired former Goldman Sachs traders Madhav Janakiraman and Benoit Bosc along with senior Morgan Stanley sales executives to relaunch its energy trading business. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/deutsche-bank-rebuilds-energy-trading-unit/md)
- [CME Group Chief Duffy Clashes With CFTC Chairman Over Policing Prediction Markets](https://continental.today/article/cme-duffy-cftc-selig-prediction-markets): Terry Duffy told regulators the agency needs to do more to prevent manipulation as prediction market platforms grow into multibillion dollar businesses, while CFTC chairman Michael Selig pushed back on one of his examples. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/cme-duffy-cftc-selig-prediction-markets/md)
- [Smaller Asian AI Companies Are Driving This Month's Rebound in Emerging Market Stocks](https://continental.today/article/asia-smaller-ai-firms-em-bounce-back): Names like King Slide Works, Henan Shijia Photons and EverProX Technologies have posted gains of up to 90 percent this month as investors rotate away from chipmaking giants toward smaller firms that supply the rest of the AI data center buildout. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/asia-smaller-ai-firms-em-bounce-back/md)
- [Chinese Robotics Startup Dexmal Is Seeking a 3 Billion Dollar Valuation in New Funding](https://continental.today/article/dexmal-alibaba-robot-firm-3-billion-valuation): Dexmal, an Alibaba backed startup working on physical AI for robots, is in talks for a fresh funding round that would value the company at around 20 billion yuan, the latest sign of strong investor appetite for China's robotics sector. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/dexmal-alibaba-robot-firm-3-billion-valuation/md)
- [Monte dei Paschi Offers 34 Billion Euros for Banco BPM and Banca Generali in One Move](https://continental.today/article/paschi-lovaglio-twin-bids-intesa-defense): The world's oldest bank has put forward two separate all share offers at once, an unusual dual bid designed to grow Monte dei Paschi past the point where Intesa Sanpaolo's unwanted takeover attempt still makes sense. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/paschi-lovaglio-twin-bids-intesa-defense/md)
- [Robert Friedland Says Sunrise Energy Metals May Become an American Company](https://continental.today/article/sunrise-energy-metals-friedland-us-redomicile): The mining billionaire says his scandium focused company is weighing a move to the United States after securing a 400 million dollar conditional loan commitment from the Pentagon for its Syerston project in Australia. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/sunrise-energy-metals-friedland-us-redomicile/md)
- [AI Cloud Company Nscale Is Said to Be Seeking Up to 3 Billion Dollars in a US IPO](https://continental.today/article/nscale-ai-cloud-ipo-3-billion): The London based data center operator is working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on a US listing that could arrive as soon as September, joining a wave of AI infrastructure companies heading to public markets. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/nscale-ai-cloud-ipo-3-billion/md)
- [Eric Trump Agreed to Limit His Influence Over World Liberty's New Bank](https://continental.today/article/eric-trump-world-liberty-bank-limits): As a condition of federal approval for a national trust bank tied to the Trump family's crypto venture, Eric Trump signed an agreement promising the entity he represents will not try to direct the bank's management or operations. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/eric-trump-world-liberty-bank-limits/md)
- [Apollo Global Management Confirms Data Breach After Employees Were Tricked Over the Phone](https://continental.today/article/apollo-data-breach-social-engineering): Apollo says hackers used a phone based social engineering technique to trick employees into handing over passwords and login codes in early July, exposing names, Social Security numbers and other personal data. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/apollo-data-breach-social-engineering/md)
- [Anthropic Is Preparing an IPO It Expects to Match or Beat SpaceX's Record Setting Size](https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-spacex-record-size): The maker of Claude is said to be readying a public filing as soon as the end of this month, with expectations that its offering could rival or exceed the 86 billion dollars SpaceX raised in the largest first time share sale ever. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-spacex-record-size/md)
- [Hamza Lemssouguer's Arini Hedge Fund Lost About 8 Percent in July After a Soured Credit Bet](https://continental.today/article/arini-lemssouguer-hedge-fund-loss-july): The former Credit Suisse star trader's Arini Capital Management fell around 8 percent last month after a group of Aston Martin bondholders it led was sidestepped by a new BlackRock backed financing deal, triggering a bond selloff. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/arini-lemssouguer-hedge-fund-loss-july/md)
- [Goldman Sachs Is Breaking Into India's Government Share Sales, a Market Local Banks Long Controlled](https://continental.today/article/goldman-sachs-india-government-share-sales): Goldman Sachs has advised on five of the last ten major Indian state share sales since December, including Life Insurance Corp of India's 3.3 billion dollar offering, a sharp break from a segment of dealmaking domestic banks have dominated for years. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/goldman-sachs-india-government-share-sales/md)
- [The Collapse of Subprime Lender Tricolor Is Fueling a Boom for Firms That Verify Collateral](https://continental.today/article/tricolor-fallout-collateral-checkers-boom): Fraud allegations tied to Tricolor Holdings, including claims that the auto lender pledged the same collateral to multiple lenders, have sent demand soaring for firms that check whether loan collateral actually exists. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/tricolor-fallout-collateral-checkers-boom/md)
- [JPMorgan Hires Bank of America Veteran David Fishman to Lead North America Tech M and A](https://continental.today/article/jpmorgan-hires-fishman-tech-ma): David Fishman is leaving Bank of America after more than fifteen years to become a vice chair at JPMorgan and head of its North America technology mergers and acquisitions business, reuniting him with a former colleague who moved to the bank last year. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/jpmorgan-hires-fishman-tech-ma/md)
- [Ken Griffin's Citadel Has Already Sold Off More Than 4 Billion Dollars of the Stocks It Bought From a Distressed AI Hedge Fund](https://continental.today/article/citadel-situational-awareness-block-trades): Citadel has unwound over 80 percent of the risk from a stock portfolio it acquired last month from Situational Awareness, the AI focused hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after heavy tech losses forced a rushed sale. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/citadel-situational-awareness-block-trades/md)
- [Banca Generali Says It Is Reviewing Monte dei Paschi's Unsolicited Takeover Offer](https://continental.today/article/banca-generali-evaluating-paschi-offer): The wealth management arm of insurer Assicurazioni Generali confirmed it is evaluating an unsolicited all share bid from Monte dei Paschi that values the bank at 8.7 billion euros as part of a wider defense against Intesa Sanpaolo. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/banca-generali-evaluating-paschi-offer/md)
- [Hong Kong and Singapore Are Racing to Cut Taxes for Hedge Fund Managers](https://continental.today/article/hedge-fund-tax-race-hong-kong-singapore): Hong Kong's push to erase taxes on carried interest has set off a scramble among hedge funds weighing a move from Singapore, and Singapore has responded within days by promising its own tax breaks for fund managers who deliver strong returns. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/hedge-fund-tax-race-hong-kong-singapore/md)
- [Honor Built a Smartphone With Its Own Robot Arm and Calls It a New Species of Phone](https://continental.today/article/honor-robot-phone-articulating-arm-smartphone): Honor's Robot Phone pairs a normal Android handset with a small articulating arm and a 200 megapixel gimbal camera, aiming to shoot steadier video and give the device its own expressive personality. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/honor-robot-phone-articulating-arm-smartphone/md)
- [Gemini Passes 1 Billion Monthly Users, and Most of Them Are Talking to It Instead of Typing](https://continental.today/article/gemini-1-billion-users-voice-mode): Sundar Pichai says Gemini is Google's fastest growing product ever after crossing a billion monthly users, and the surprise inside that growth is how many people are choosing to speak to it rather than type. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/gemini-1-billion-users-voice-mode/md)
- [Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says the Backlash Against Tech Is Really About One Word: Trust](https://continental.today/article/dario-amodei-trust-tech-companies): Dario Amodei argues that public anger at technology companies has less to do with artificial intelligence itself than with a broader belief that companies and governments are always working an angle against ordinary people. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/dario-amodei-trust-tech-companies/md)
- [How David Heacock Turned a Struggling Family Machine Shop Into a 260 Million Dollar Air Filter Company](https://continental.today/article/filterbuy-air-filter-king-talladega-boring-business): David Heacock left a job trading options at Goldman Sachs in 2012 to take over his family's fading manufacturing business in Talladega, Alabama, and rebuilt it as Filterbuy, an air filter maker he argues proves boring businesses can be the most reliable path to real money. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/filterbuy-air-filter-king-talladega-boring-business/md)
- [Tracee Ellis Ross Spent Ten Years Chasing a Yes Before Pattern Beauty Ever Reached a Shelf](https://continental.today/article/tracee-ellis-ross-decade-pattern-beauty): The actor first pitched what became Pattern Beauty back in 2008 and spent a decade being turned down before a conversation with Ulta's then chief executive finally opened the door to a 2019 launch. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/tracee-ellis-ross-decade-pattern-beauty/md)
- [MacKenzie Scott Has Given 461 Million Dollars to California Public Education Since 2021](https://continental.today/article/mackenzie-scott-461-million-california-public-education): The billionaire philanthropist has quietly sent unrestricted gifts to sixteen California schools and universities over four years, with most of the money going to colleges that serve first generation and underrepresented students. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/mackenzie-scott-461-million-california-public-education/md)
- [How Dave Cote Turned Vertiv Into One of the Best Performing Stocks in the S and P 500](https://continental.today/article/dave-cote-vertiv-stock-surge-ai-data-center-cooling): Vertiv, an 80 year old cooling company David Cote took over in 2020, has grown its market value nearly tenfold as data centers built for artificial intelligence turned its once unglamorous business into one of the market's biggest winners. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/dave-cote-vertiv-stock-surge-ai-data-center-cooling/md)
- [A 172 Billion Dollar Child Care Problem Is Also a Real Estate Problem, Fortec Chairman Argues](https://continental.today/article/child-care-172-billion-problem-real-estate-investors): Pablo Marcelo Barreiro of the early education real estate firm Fortec says America's child care crisis is usually framed as an affordability fight, when the deeper constraint is a shortage of licensed classrooms that investors have largely ignored. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/child-care-172-billion-problem-real-estate-investors/md)
- [Melinda French Gates Says Ten Minutes of Self Care a Day Changed How She Shows Up as a Parent](https://continental.today/article/melinda-french-gates-ten-minutes-self-care-parenting): The Pivotal Ventures founder says a short daily habit of quiet time, phone put away, made her a steadier parent during the early years of raising three children, and she argues the same habit matters most during any major life transition. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/melinda-french-gates-ten-minutes-self-care-parenting/md)
- [Iran War Delays Trump's Xi Summit as China's Navy Drills With Tehran Near Cape Town](https://continental.today/article/iran-war-delays-trump-xi-summit-china-navy-drills-cape-town): The war in Iran has pushed Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping back by roughly six weeks, and a joint naval exercise China ran with Iran and Russia off Cape Town in January shows how tangled Beijing's ties to Tehran have become. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/iran-war-delays-trump-xi-summit-china-navy-drills-cape-town/md)

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