A freak diagnosis, an idea for less invasive brain surgeries, a cameo from novelist John Grisham -- read Noah Buhayar's latest for Businessweek

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project pays out crypto in exchange for eyeball scans in Indonesia, Kenya and Nigeria (but not the US) to test how its orb device handles "different climates and geographies." Governments are pushing back Angus Berwick wsj.com/tech/sam-altma…

How one billionaire engineered a "baby project" using the thinly regulated/booming US fertility industry -- wild tale by Jackie Davalos Sophie Alexander

In Dubai, (alleged) crypto frauds of all flavors find a place to flourish. Alice Kantor investigates: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Eric Trump riled up Bitcoin enthusiasts in Abu Dhabi, while a new set of crypto-related conflicts looms for his father's second term bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

How does the Trump Org look now vs. Trump's 2017 inauguration? For one thing, many more licensing deals in Dubai, Riyadh, Jeddah... w/ tom maloney Max Abelson & graphics from Demetrios Pogkas Marie Patino Bloomberg Graphics bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

new story with Todd Gillespie -- Trump's pick for Commerce Secretary bought a minority stake in Tether bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Trump Media pivots to finance -- with a plan to build "America-first" investments bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Trump Media awarded new stock grants to Kash Patel & Linda McMahon -- both board members and Trump appointees. The awards could be worth more than $800k apiece $DJT bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Kash Patel received a stock award worth $800k+ from Trump Media last week. It doesn't appear on his ethics disclosures, leading to new questions about how he'd handle the shares if confirmed to lead the FBI w/ Bill Allison bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Bessent, a figure of the traditional finance world, is more on board with the Musk crew’s mission than has been widely understood.” Unpaywalled link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Ted Mann Nancy Cook Saleha Mohsin Emily Birnbaum Billy House

new insane job listing just dropped

Trump Media plans to trademark "Made in America" and "bitcoin plus" investments -- themes that track Trump policy priorities bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Eric Trump & Don Jr. are now advisors to a friend's penny stock biotech firm-turned-investment bank, headquartered in Trump Tower bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Today, Elon Musk said "I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Yet, DOGE will not confirm the names of people who work for it. So we did.

Donald Trump Jr invests in ‘steroid Olympics’ on.ft.com/41ebrdg

Highlights from Trump Media's 2024 financial report (released Valentine's Day evening): -Net loss of more than $400m -Earned $3.6m in revenue -Handed out $107m in stock awards bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sometimes in journalism a story ends up right where you think. But this Businessweek chronicle of a quaint finance empire led me and @Emily_Graffeo to $70,000 of Ritz-Carlton booze, $4,800 of Hermes scarves and emails about pay-to-play. Please read and share bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The Trump Organization sued "woke" Capital One for closing hundreds of its accounts, alleging the bank wanted to distance itself from President Trump bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

new from Todd Gillespie on how the crypto's DC takeover is benefiting Cantor Fitzgerald whose longtime chief is now Commerce Secretary bloomberg.com/news/articles/…