Posts by Amelia Frost
Anthropic’s Upcoming IPO is Buoying Markets After Steep Losses. Stocks Rebounded.
Stocks climbed on Monday as investors bought the dip following a string of losses, buoyed by Anthropic’s latest step toward making its IPO. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.29%, while the S&P 500 did so 0.70%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite overperformed, climbing 0.82%. Anthropic is asking investors to finance its artificial intelligence ambitions while…
Read MoreA $15.8 Million Diesel Deal Wasn’t What It Seemed. Myanmar Was Receiving Sanctioned Iranian Jet Fuel.
A $15.8 million shipment described as South African diesel was actually Iranian jet fuel delivered to Myanmar, according to newly examined contracts, government correspondence and shipping evidence revealing how the country’s military government concealed fuel purchases despite U.S. sanctions. The tanker Reef arrived in Myanmar waters in December 2025 carrying approximately 113,000 barrels of aviation…
Read MoreBuilding Software That Can Withstand Tomorrow’s Attacks
Software is being built faster than ever, and the pressure to launch quickly may be leaving security as an afterthought. The effects of that are already visible. The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded nearly $21 billion in losses from cyber-enabled crime, a 26% increase on the year before. The report also found that more…
Read MoreWhy Longer Ownership Horizons Could Improve Care for Behavioral Health Organizations
Ownership does more than determine who holds a company’s shares. It sets a time horizon for decision-making and shapes what happens to an organization’s resources. In behavioral health, those choices can affect whether a provider plans around a future sale or invests in services meant to endure. Since 2024, several proposed transactions have explored nonprofit…
Read MoreHaversack Is Betting That the Future of Logistics Still Needs People
The founder and CEO of Haversack, Christopher Nadeau, believes technology has an increasingly important role to play in logistics. His company has built its own transportation management system and is developing its own AI capabilities. But Nadeau is equally convinced that adopting technology should not mean removing the people, relationships and human intuition that businesses…
Read MoreHow a Boxing Gym on Chicago’s South Side Became the Youth Sports Science Institute
Noma Shields was cleaning gloves, wrapping hands and hitting bags in a boxing gym on the South Side of Chicago when the idea for the Youth Sports Science Institute took shape. She had gone there to work through a period she describes as traumatic. A degree and international experience were already behind her. Neither had…
Read MoreIran’s Economy Keeps Grappling Under the U.S. Blockade. Bessent Said it Will Shrink By More Than 25%.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that the Iranian economy will shrink by more than 25% as a result of the U.S. blockade of its ports and the ongoing war. Speaking to Iran International, Bessent said the country is short on foreign currency and oil production is falling. “I would predict that from March of ’26…
Read MoreMicrosoft is the Latest Company to Reduce its Workforce Over AI. It’s Offering Buyouts to Tens of Thousands.
Microsoft has become the latest large company to reduce its workforce over the artificial intelligence boom, offering buyouts to tens of thousands of employees. The company said on Monday that some 60,000 employees are eligible for the buyout. Those reached are in the U.S., Canada, India and the UK and have an experience level of…
Read MoreIranian Supreme Leader Urges For Faster Progress in Nuclear Tech as Tensions With U.S. Remain High
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is urging for faster technological progress, including in the nuclear area, as tensions with the U.S. remains high and speculation mounts about whether he will openly direct the country to develop an atomic bomb. Fars news agency, closely linked with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed that Khamenei claimed that…
Read MoreThe Documentation Gap Behind Missed R&D Tax Credits
The research and development tax credit has existed for decades. It is legislated, it is available, and it is audited more aggressively than most business owners realize. The IRS has designated research credit claims as a Tier I audit issue, noting that claims are often filed using high-level estimates, invalid assumptions, lack of means between…
Read MoreCan a Shared Baseline Make Halal Labels Mean the Same Everywhere?
Halal requirements are spreading across international markets, and Indonesia offers one of the clearest recent examples. On October 16, the government moved the mandatory certification deadlines for imported food and beverages, cosmetics, and several other categories from October 2026 to October 2028. Officials linked the delay partly to completing mutual recognition agreements, and the country…
Read MoreBeyond the Check: How Andreas Marrendt Is Building the Next Generation of Technology Ventures
For Andreas Marrendt, securing capital is only the beginning of building a successful business. The entrepreneur and investor, whose interests span real estate, financial technology and emerging businesses, believes that funding alone rarely determines whether an ambitious idea becomes a successful enterprise. Equally important is the ability to bring together the right people, specialized expertise…
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