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Tech journalist @PitchBook. Formerly @GeekWire @Reuters @CNBC @FinPlan. @NYU business and economics reporting grad

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Reality Denied

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By James Thorne Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Elon Musks recent interview with The Economist underscored a simple but increasingly uncomfortable truth: In todays political climate, stating the obvious can sound like provocation. The Overton Window, the range of ideas considered acceptable in public debate, has not merely drifted, it has been pulled away from the constraints of reality. Musks real value in this conversation is not that he is always right. It is that he forces a confrontation between reality and rhetoric.
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A few VC firms are poised to win the future

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By James Thorne Verified, Stephanie Zhu
| Yahoo Finance Verified
In 2022, two events profoundly reordered the venture capital landscape. The Fed began a hiking cycle that would take rates from near zero to over 5%, cratering private tech valuations and shutting off the IPO market. Then, OpenAI released ChatGPT, kicking off a global scramble to fund the future of AI. The story since then has been one of concentration. A small number of AI companies absorbed vast amounts of venture capital and reached valuations that were once unfathomable in private markets.
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Trump and the End of the Rules-Based Illusion on America's 250th Birthday

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By James Thorne Verified
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As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, it is confronting a reality that Alexander Hamilton would have recognized immediately: the so-called "rules-based international order" was never a neutral system. It was a political construction, shaped by power, sustained by incentives, and increasingly misaligned with the interests of the country that built it.
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