Author: Megan Burrows

Something subtly contemporary is being designed inside a quiet, wood-paneled institution on Threadneedle Street, the kind of structure that has been handling Britain’s finances since 1694. A digital pound’s architecture is being developed by the Bank of England, a company whose name has come to be associated with financial prudence. Not a cryptocurrency. It is not a stablecoin. Something more basic: a digital banknote that is backed by the state and issued by the same organization that prints the physical one. It can be stored in your digital wallet in the same manner as a tenner in your coat pocket.…

When you launch the app, it learns something about you in about 30 seconds. Quietly, algorithmically, with the soft precision of a system that has been optimized to hold your attention longer than you intended to give it—not in a dramatic, Hollywood-surveillance manner. The feed on TikTok picks things up quickly. quicker than any previous platform. And one of the more genuinely complex technological debates of the last few years revolves around that speed, that uncanny accuracy about what you want to watch next. The app’s data collection isn’t the only issue. In the end, it’s who can access that…

When the next generation just doesn’t care about a product, a certain kind of silence descends upon it. Not animosity. Don’t object. Just apathy, like the construction of a new road around an old town, or a quiet detour. That is essentially the issue that Facebook has been dealing with for several years. The platform that used to feel like the internet itself—the first thing you checked in the morning from your office cubicle or dorm room—has evolved into something that a sizable percentage of people under 25 primarily associate with their parents’ generation. For the biggest social network in…

When you first unfold the Galaxy Z TriFold, a specific moment occurs. The device opens once, which is already impressive, and then opens again. A full 10-inch screen that shouldn’t have been in your shirt pocket a moment ago is revealed when the second hinge releases with a soft mechanical click. It’s the kind of thing that causes people to pause in the middle of a sentence. Samsung has been pursuing that response for almost ten years, and with the release of the TriFold in December 2025, it has at last created something that justifies it without an asterisk. Contrary…

Today, nothing about an Apple Store appears to be under pressure: the spotless white tables, the glowing gadgets in the warm lighting, the blue-shirted employees calmly describing features. However, something important has changed beneath that familiar exterior. Apple, which used to be the industry leader in technology, is currently navigating an AI race that it did not design, lead, or, to be honest, anticipate coming soon enough. Apple was first, which is an awkward irony. Siri, a voice assistant that could carry on a conversation, respond to inquiries, and set reminders, debuted on the iPhone 4S in 2011 as something…

A subtle but profound shift occurred in British finance on October 8, 2025. There was only a policy update from the Financial Conduct Authority confirming that it was lifting a four-year ban on retail investors purchasing cryptocurrency exchange-traded notes—no front-page splash or parliamentary debate. It was the kind of regulatory change that doesn’t immediately make headlines but tends to change behavior over time for the millions of UK investors who had been watching Bitcoin and Ethereum ETPs trade on American and European exchanges while being shut out of comparable products at home. The prohibition was first implemented in January 2021,…

There’s a certain controlled urgency in the air every morning this year when you walk into the FCA’s offices at 12 Endeavour Square in Stratford, London. Building a completely new regulatory architecture for an asset class that didn’t exist in any significant form when the Financial Services and Markets Act was first drafted in 2000 is something the regulator is currently engaged in, something it hasn’t quite attempted before. It is truly astounding how big that task is and how quickly it is currently progressing. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026, a piece of secondary legislation…

Michael Intrator watched CoreWeave ring the opening bell on its first day as a publicly traded company on March 28, 2025, while standing in front of a Nasdaq billboard in Midtown Manhattan. The IPO was priced at $40 per share, which was less than what Wall Street had anticipated and was met with a collective shrug. The modest debut was noted by analysts. Some questioned whether the AI infrastructure hype had limits. CoreWeave’s stock increased by almost 300% in just three months, and Intrator’s net worth increased from about $3 billion at IPO to over $10 billion. It’s hard not…

Arkady Volozh officially renounced his Russian citizenship in February 2026. There was no press conference, no statement, just a legal finality that closed a chapter spanning more than 60 years. The confirmation came quietly through a person familiar with the matter who declined to be named. The act carried a weight that goes far beyond paperwork for a man who founded Russia’s most powerful internet company out of a Moscow office the size of an apartment. However, there’s something almost inevitable about this as you watch it happen from a distance. By then, the nation that made him famous had…

A company that has been discreetly managing money for more than thirty years is located somewhere in Reno, Nevada, inside the offices of Navellier & Associates. It currently oversees a portfolio with disclosed holdings totaling close to $892 million across 327 positions. The founder, chairman, and chief investment officer, Louis Navellier, has been doing this since the majority of his present clientele were most likely still in high school. In the field of investment advising, such longevity is uncommon. His story isn’t either. Louis Navellier has never disclosed a precise figure for his net worth. That much is evident. He…