DOGE Alumni Launch AI Startup To Target Waste On Main Street - And Already Have Their First Target

Efforts To Curb Data Center Speculation Gain Ground Across The US By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive, “A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.” That was the headline on a May 2025 Utility Dive article that explored the conundrum speculative data center requests pose for U.S. electric utilities. More than a year later, it’s unclear how much has changed. Sections of the Stargate Oracle AI data center undergo construction on Aug. 26, 2026, in Abilene, Texas. Community opposition has emerged as a major barrier to data center development...

The Facts Behind China's "Gold Reset" Authored by Peter Reagan, The internet loves a reset. A “reset” takes an impossibly complicated subject and boils it down to a date, a decision and one big red button. China’s recent gold market announcements launched a veritable cottage industry of dire warnings and hysterical predictions. Over the past few weeks, my feeds have been absolutely flooded with claims that China’s brought back the gold standard. And that Beijing built a machine designed to “collapse the dollar.” Some warned that July 24 would mark “the end of gold trading” – somehow eliminating manipulation and revealing gold’s “real” price. (One...

KOSPI, Samsung Soar After 11th-Hour Union Deal Averts Chip Strike; Workers Eye $340k Bonuses South Korea's benchmark KOSPI jumped overnight after Samsung Electronics reached a tentative wage-and-bonus agreement with its main labor union, neutralizing the immediate risk of a paralyzing strike at the world's largest memory-chip producer. The wage-and-bonus deal removes a major supply-chain threat in an already tight memory market, where AI data center buildouts have driven surging demand, soaring prices, and heightened procurement risk across global semiconductor supply chains. Samsung Electronics' shares surged after it clinched an 11th-hour deal with...