Samsung’s founding family doubled its wealth in a year. Its workers want a share.
Samsung’s founding family doubled its wealth in a year. Its workers want a share.

The Lee family of South Korea, which controls Samsung, has doubled its wealth in twelve months. Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index now values the dynasty’s holdings at $45.5 billion, up from $22.7 billion a year ago, propelling the Lees from tenth to third…

Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access
Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access

Euro-area finance ministers will discuss Anthropic’s Mythos AI model with banking supervisors on Monday, according to a senior EU official. The technology that will be on the agenda is one that no government in the European Union has access to, built b…

Blue Owl made 10x its money on SpaceX and has already sold half its position
Blue Owl made 10x its money on SpaceX and has already sold half its position

The alternative asset manager’s co-CEO disclosed the returns on a Q1 earnings call, framing the SpaceX gain as a hedge against potential software credit losses from AI disruption, a revealing window into how private credit firms are navigating the AI e…

Navigating AI complexity with strategic finance: Sapphire CFO Solutions on the evolving role of CFOs in startups
Navigating AI complexity with strategic finance: Sapphire CFO Solutions on the evolving role of CFOs in startups

Heather Hall, a fractional CFO and founder of Sapphire CFO Solutions, observes a growing sense of AI overwhelm among startup founders. “New tools may promise greater automation and efficiency, but they also add layers of complexity to financial choices…

Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance
Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance

Google Cloud grew 63%, AWS 28%. Meta raised its full-year capex guide to $125-$145 billion, sending its shares down 6% after hours. Combined 2026 AI spending across five hyperscalers is now on track to exceed $650 billion. The question hanging over Wed…

Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT
Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT

Schroders Capital and Teachers’ Venture Growth join as new investors. The transaction gives early investors and long-serving employees a route to liquidity. Vinted says it is ‘IPO-ready’ but has set no timetable. FY2024 revenue grew 36% to €813 million…

The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.
The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.

The Shiller cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 stands at approximately 38 to 40, depending on the day you check. In 155 years of recorded data, the CAPE has been higher exactly once: March 2000, when it reached 44.19, one m…

Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund lost NOK636 billion ($68 billion) in investment returns in the first quarter, driven by the equity slide among large US technology companies. The S&P 500 posted its deepest quarterly decline since 2022. The…

SpaceX’s public IPO filing confirms Musk and insiders retain dominant voting control
SpaceX’s public IPO filing confirms Musk and insiders retain dominant voting control

The now-public S-1 prospectus shows Musk controls roughly 79% of SpaceX’s votes despite owning approximately 42% of its equity, a gap created by a dual-class share structure. The company is targeting a June listing at a $1.75 trillion valuation, a rais…

Intelligent Investing founder Arnout Ter Schure on integrating AI capabilities with human market insight and structure
Intelligent Investing founder Arnout Ter Schure on integrating AI capabilities with human market insight and structure

Intelligent Investing, a research-driven market analysis platform, works from the premise that artificial intelligence can expand financial forecasting by processing large datasets, accelerating strategy development, and enabling systematic execution. …