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Hand-picked coverage from across real estate, lending, fintech, and quantum computing — updated hourly. Kevin's own writing, photos, and commentary will appear here too.

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RFR Buys Prada-Anchored Upper East Side Retail Condo at 841 Madison Avenue for $57M

US appeals court rejects Trump bid to implement new vote-by-mail rules

Man jailed after threatening to kill sons teacher in French village

New credit score pricing grids point to higher borrower costs, report shows

Could Pakistan enter Yemen conflict under Mecca agreement?

Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with UAE: What we know

Roadway Moving, Contenur Take Combined 231K SF at Innovo’s 28-90 Review Avenue

Jimmy Kimmel moves Senate interview to YouTube in latest collision with FCC

Amnesty accuses Russia of trafficking foreigners to fight in Ukraine

The ‘Super-Terrorist’ We Still Can’t Escape

Yemens Houthis reportedly seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha

Apparel Manufacturer Bagatelle International Takes 24K SF at 463 Seventh Avenue

Secret son revelation ignites bitter succession dispute in Ugandan kingdom

Fifth Circuit upholds dismissal of NAR three-way agreement suit

Two Supermarkets Ink Deals Along Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue

S3 Capital Lends $45M to Build Williamsburg Apartments on Church Land

Homeowners insurance costs hit another record high of $209 per month in Q2 2026

Why Leading With Value Is the Best Marketing Strategy in 2026

Pretty Doesn’t Pay. Here’s How to Build a Website That Actually Converts.

Can Trump really pay $5,000 to every American adult?

Mortgage rates top 7% as oil hits $100 and yields climb

Pilot warned Amazon cargo plane going too fast before deadly crash, data shows

Existing home sales slip to 3.98 million in August as rates take a bite

He Took a Part-Time Job at McDonald’s 50 Years Ago. Now He Owns Six of Them: ‘I Never Could Have Imagined the Journey Ahead of Me’

Israels Netanyahu to sue newspaper over claim UAE warned him of 7 October attack

Kevin O’Leary Still Uses the Simple Productivity Strategy Steve Jobs Taught Him

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

The Anthropic Researcher Who Quit Over AI Fears Isn’t the Only One Sounding Alarm Bells: ‘Things Could Be Out of Control Next Year’

The Paradox of Prabowonomics

The Political Cost of Sending Korean Forces to Hormuz

The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

Scientists Saved Us From Catastrophic Risk Before

Powering AI is an architecture problem

This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

Can the US battery market untangle from China?

God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.

Top Signs You’re Heading for a Quagmire

Finite-energy Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill state-enhanced optical interferometry

Reconstructing fluid velocity fields from sparse sensors using a variational quantum algorithm

The Geometry of Transport in Quantum Walks and Parrondos Paradox

Python in the front, party in the Backline: compiling quantum workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs

Universal Entanglement Dynamics of Unitary Operators

Uganda to withdraw from Invictus Games ‘out of respect for King Charles’, says military chief

What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?

Babies born to anaemic mothers have smaller brains, study finds

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

Hijacking pirates exploit regional chaos to return to seas off Somalia

Weather tracker: Typhoon Saudel causes mass evacuations in south-east China

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In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Kalshi bans George Santos for life over State of the Union bets

Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt

Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

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