Paresh Dave / Wired:
A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges  —  Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit's wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps.

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024  —  Dealmaking has been driven by Trump administration's crypto-friendly policymaking  —  A record $8.6bn worth of crypto deals were struck in 2025 …

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD  —  When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane.

The Information:
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global  —  Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq …

Takehiro Hasegawa / Nikkei Asia:
A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components  —  TOKYO — China's Huawei Technologies has raised the ratio of domestic components in its new smartphones to nearly 60% by value …