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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 8d

new from me: time is a flat circle

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Trump’s TikTok Deal Seems Like The One The Biden White House Rejected

Trump appears poised to accept a set of terms similar to Project Texas, a ByteDance proposal that Biden felt perpetuated an unacceptable risk to national security.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12d

New: "Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal—Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law" 🏌️🚔

me, for @forbes.com

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Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal That Could Violate Federal Law

The Virginia property marks the sixth Trump golf course to display the presidential seal since 2021—despite federal law prohibiting its use in ways that suggest government endorsement.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 11d

Amid all this $ORCL's proxy came out ... Larry Ellison now has 346 million shares pledged (as of 9/19/25), up from 277 million last year. The difference is worth ~$20 billion (more than the supposed EV of whatever portion of TikTok's U.S. business that's supposed to spin out)

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 12d

The exact lineup of investors taking control of TikTok U.S. is still under wraps, but the network of players is in some cases nearly half a century in the making.

Inside their ties to #Trump and each other for @forbes.com:

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The Web Of Billionaires Taking Control Of TikTok U.S.

The exact lineup of investors is still under wraps but the network of players is in some cases nearly half a century in the making.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW🚨 A recently-unsealed warrant shows how teens from a dozen countries used Discord to discuss plans for terror attacks across the world in the name of ISIS.

They were serious, buying and learning how to make deadly weapons.

Cops caught them in time.

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ISIS Kids Planned A Violent 'Caliphate Revival' On Discord

Hundreds of pages in classified NCIS files were left out for the trash collectors, a search warrant reveals.

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Dan Alexander @danalexander21.bsky.social · 15d

Trump has long badgered the Fed to lower interest rates, which it finally did last week. A review of the president's personal fortune shows he has billions of reasons for doing so. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Here’s Why Trump Wants Lower Interest Rates

Donald Trump has been demanding lower rates from the Fed for years—one of the clearest conflicts of interest in a presidency full of them.

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 15d

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 18d

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

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Iain Martin @iainmartin.bsky.social · 15d

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns

Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 15d

Nuclear power firm $OKLO is up 400% since March. Relationships with the energy sec & #OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped.

(Altman bought shares in the SPAC that merged w/Oklo for $0.002 each in 2021. His stake is now ~$880 million.)

My latest @forbes.com:

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MIT Couple Behind Nuclear Fission Company Are Now Billionaires Thanks To AI Hype

Nuclear power startup Oklo is now worth $21 billion. Its relationships with the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped.

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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 15d

How AI hype minted two new billionaires from Oklo, a nuclear power startup with no revenue. Its relationships the Energy Secretary Chris Wright and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped, from my colleague @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

MIT Couple Behind Nuclear Fission Company Are Now Billionaires Thanks To AI Hype

Nuclear power startup Oklo is now worth $21 billion. Its relationships with the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 15d

3/ The core of what's at risk here, and how CoreWeave's cofounders are thinking about it: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 15d

2/ A closer look at financials here: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 15d

New @forbes.com magazine cover story—from @rashis.bsky.social and me—is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think:

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Rashi Shrivastava @rashis.bsky.social · 15d

A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires

Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on bil...

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Giacomo Tognini @giacomotognini.bsky.social · 20d

This is a fabulously written, in-depth profile of Edwin Chen, the billionaire founder of Surge AI and one of the key people to watch in the AI revolution. Incredible reporting and a must-read story from @pheebini.bsky.social

Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture.

Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI:

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AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion

An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 20d

The AI Billionaire you've never heard of-partly because he's never given an interview before. @forbes.com reporter @pheebini.bsky.social has the goods on this influential but little-known entrepreneur, who previously worked at Google and Twitter.

Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture.

Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI:

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AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion

An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for sharing!

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TheLindaChung @thelindachung.bsky.social · 20d

Ted Chiang’s "Story of Your Life" has always stuck with me—it makes you think differently about language, perspective, and possibility. Turns out I’m not the only one. That inspired Edwin Chen to found Surge in 2020. Check out why he's the most successful tech entrepreneur you've never heard of. #AI

Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture.

Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI:

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion

An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

www.forbes.com

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

3/ “If Surge didn’t exist, what would Edwin do for fun? He’d probably make data and train AI," says Surge AI head of product Nick Heiner. "It just happens to be a lucrative thing."

Lucrative = there'll be competition. And no one minces words in this space:
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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

2/ Surge has grown quickly and is profitable, but in a rapidly changing and competitive industry, that doesn't mean it's a clear path ahead.

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The existential question for outfits like Surge: As AI advances, will there come a time when there is no need for human data annotations? Models like Meta’s Llama 4, released in April, already relied heavily on AI creating and labeling its own data, so-called “synthetic data,” per a Meta researcher. Surge uses a “human-in-the-loop” variation to this approach, in which AI generates its own data and labels it but humans critique its performance. Chen feels strongly that humans are vital.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture.

Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI:

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion

An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

www.forbes.com

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

Which nonprofit are you referring to? OpenAI's nonprofit?

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Monica Hunter-Hart @mhunterhart.bsky.social · 21d

1/2 Amazing story from my colleague @pheebini.bsky.social about the CEO & founder of Surge AI, which is generating more revenue than any other AI company focused on data labeling (labeling = a crucial step in the process of training AI models).
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AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion

An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

www.forbes.com

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 29d

The listing comes as #OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion.

Scoop for @forbes.com:

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Sam Altman Is Selling His Most Valuable Known Property

The listing comes as OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here's the FCC filing that breaks down some of the ownership structure in New Paramount: