chipmaking is hard, and cool, and critical. @ianking and I went deep on the topic in the new @bw tech issue. Check it out (in gift lift form) bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

Would you buy a car without Apple CarPlay?

General Motors is betting iPhone users will love its vehicle software platform instead.

A big Businessweek look at why GM is ditching Apple:
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WHAT CORPORATE EXECUTIVES ARE SAYING ABOUT THE US ECONOMY

Happy Fed Day! In today's newsletter, I looked at what execs from McDonald's, Starbucks, Trane, Amazon etc. saying.

Big themes: Consumer slowing, capex booming, inflation normalizing,wages rising, and HVAC HVAC HVAC

In the upcoming issue of Businessweek, Anna Edgerton and I look at how the TikTok ban slipped through Congress, and why we may be headed for both a Supreme Court showdown and a crackdown by Beijing on American interests bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

this profile of CZ that Justina Lee and i wrote, and especially this line holds up pretty well bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I'm so honored to be recognized with second place in the magazine feature writing by the National Headliner Awards, and to be sweeping the category with a pair of fantastic @bw stories! Kit Chellel Evan Ratliff headlinerawards.org/2024-print-pho…

I love this. Please read it! Smart take from Ellen Huet about why we should fear the (fake Zuck) beard

I'm so honored to be a Livingston finalist for my reporting on how human smuggling networks recruit vulnerable US citizens to transport migrants on the last leg of their journeys. I'm grateful to Bloomberg Businessweek for their support of ambitious work like this!
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Some thoughts about what was for me the nuttiest tesla earnings call ever bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

reupping this for the morning crowd! what an insane story

This is a great piece, and confirms the broader scale of a piece I did a long time ago: Apple has 'must shred' agreements with e-waste recyclers that require them to destroy devices that could easily be repaired/refurbished/reused after having data wiped

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Whatever your Passover plans are this year, don't miss Deena Shanker's essay for Businessweek on her visit to Streit's matzo factory, which I had the pleasure of editing. Come for the photos, which somehow make matzo look sumptuous, stay for the rabbinical debate! bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

i wrote about the quest to replace alcohol and the dream of a substance that makes you feel free and happy and sexy but won’t get you addicted or shave years off your life or make you feel shit the next day.

spoiler: i don't think we'll ever find it

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Deena Shanker is one of the best food reporters out there. I am so excited that she has her own column now. This will be a must-read.

Big Food wants to put Doritos and Froot Loops on the dinner table. Deena Shanker has some beef with that. Read on in her delicious new column, 'Extra Salt.' bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

Today's Rest of World feature on TSMC's Arizona plant is the latest in a series from Viola Zhou about the global realities of manufacturing tech.

Read together, it's a harrowing vision.

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So excited Deena Shanker has a new food x biz column for Businessweek!

In her first Extra Salt: Inside big junk food's campaign to get you eating more ultra-processed foods—not less bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

One man started a 'predatory' lending operation. The other was a retired hedge fund legend. A private credit fund had what both were looking for. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek