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What everyday life is like for Iranians right now

The war in Iran will enter its fourth week on Saturday, with no real end in sight. The Pentagon is reportedly requesting $200 billion to fund the ongoing military operation, even as it unsettles the world economy. Meanwhile, Iranians say that airstrikes are growing louder and more intense as the US and Israel pursue high-ranking […]

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone  —  In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.

Here’s how Iran could become a “forever war”

The Trump administration’s end goals for the war in Iran, never particularly well-defined to begin with, appear to be narrowing.  While President Donald Trump once spoke ambitiously about regime change and insisted that he should play a role in selecting Iran’s next supreme leader — similar to Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela — the White House now says […]

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025  —  Gemini Space Station Inc.'s workforce reduction has reached roughly 30% since the start of the year following layoffs …

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021  —  Savvy Games Group has agreed to buy the Moonton studio from ByteDance Ltd. as the Saudi Arabian firm builds up its mobile gaming assets.