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Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has said it plans to raise up to $80bn (£59bn) in equity to fund its vast artificial intelligence infrastructure investments, raising further questions over the economics of the AI boom. The move, the largest equity fundraising...

Democrats oppose Trump officials’ effort to include crypto in 401(k) plans

Congressional Democrats are strongly opposing a US Department of Labor proposal that would allow 401(k) investments to include cryptocurrency, private credit and private equity assets, arguing the change will expose workers to riskier and more complex investments. In a letter...

Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market

Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering on the US stock market, the company announced on Monday. The AI firm makes the Claude chatbot, popular with software engineers and other business clients, and has seen a meteoric...

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ show

Scott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, called out CBS News management in a heated meeting on Monday morning, attacking the network’s decision on Thursday to fire the show’s executive producer, executive editor, and two fellow correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi...

Ex-Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sounds alarm over political interference

Jerome Powell, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, has warned that a single act of political interference in monetary policy could permanently destroy public trust in the central bank. As Donald Trump’s administration continues to test the Fed’s longstanding...

‘Where are the jobs?’: as US autoworkers face offshoring, Democrats vie to win votes

Brenda Davis, a retiree who worked at Ford in Ohio for more than 20 years, was dismayed to learn that a new Buick she bought from General Motors was manufactured entirely in China. Foreign vehicles are strongly discouraged from...

The founder who can’t sit through a quiet weekend without checking Slack often isn’t dedicated in the way it looks — many built a...

The founder who opens Slack at 9pm on a Saturday isn’t proving how committed they are. They’re keeping something at bay. The conventional wisdom says high-output founders are wired differently, that the inability to switch off is the price of...

‘I want my life back’: drugs shortages lay bare economic impact of diamond crash in Botswana

In late 2023, Boitumelo Mosege fell sick. Her neck swelled up, her whole body itched and she fainted frequently. She was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and had to give up her work as a farmer on the outskirts of Molepolole,...

Why $1bn in Balkans energy contracts are going to an obscure company connected to Donald Trump

On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past an overgrown patch of garden to a white door. Beyond is the registered office of a company that is on the brink of winning contracts worth more than $1bn. AAFS Infrastructure...

Inflation won Trump the presidency, but could cost him the midterms

For such an uncannily successful politician, Donald Trump exhibits a perplexing political myopia. His most recent own-goal was endorsing Ken Paxton, a state attorney general, against four-term senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary for Senate in Texas. Trump’s...
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The WTF, Chocolate?! at Good Grief 

This story was originally published in The Stranger’s July 2026 print issue. Upon perching myself at Good Grief’s bar, my...
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