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The global memory boom, with Samsung at the epicenter of the production ecosystem, appears to be generating a sudden wealth effect among some employees, with local media reporting that newly enriched chip workers are now panic-buying luxury sports cars.  A short clip from MBC News, the news division of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation and one of South Korea's top national TV and radio broadcasters, featured at least one exotic car dealership reporting a sharp uptick in Samsung Electronics and Hynix employees seeking to buy high-end sports cars.

"My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer..."

"The cost of living continues to be a first-order concern..."

"The Trump administration is leading the world into a new era of American innovation."

...a shameful whitewash that will only further corrode trust in public health...

Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts, a government department has said.

FAFO...

"JetBlue just pulled the ultimate power move."

"They had the opportunity to make sure they could survive. They didn't want to look at the math." 

Submitted by Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Germany is hunting for solutions to reroute crude oil supplies to the PCK Schwedt refinery after Russia said it would halt Kazakh oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline starting May 1, with roughly 43,000 barrels per day (bpd) now at risk.

Test routes could become commercial flight patterns for Joby Aviation’s electric air taxis, crossing Manhattan in less than 10 minutes, the company stated.

The “dollar is dying” narrative does what every bear narrative does at cyclical inflection points: it trades a kernel of truth for a wholesale conclusion.

The company's board of directors have started to closely examine the company’s data-center deals in recent months and questioned Sam Altman’s efforts to secure even more computing power despite the business slowdown

"prohibit foreign investment" ... 

“...people don’t actually need something to be real…they just need it to feel responsive.”

Late Friday afternoon, as most people were checking out for the weekend after nearly two months of U.S.-Iran war fatigue, Anthropic quietly released a note titled "Project Deal." The company built a closed marketplace where AI agents negotiated prices, struck deals, and completed real transactions with money changing hands.