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               FTX invested about $101 million in Mysten Labs last year. Mysten was building a blockchain platform called Sui that relied on technology developed for Diem, Facebook’s aborted crypto project. Mysten attracted investors like Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, pushing its valuation at one point to about $2 billion.
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               Its ownership interest included warrants for 890 million Sui crypto tokens that would be exercisable once the Sui platform launched. But FTX collapsed months later.
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             Shares in Carl Icahn’s publicly traded investment vehicle fell 15 percent yesterday, after it revealed that
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             had asked for documents in the wake of allegations by the short seller Hindenburg Research.
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             But Icahn, the octogenarian billionaire who is known for a decades-long career of aggressively shaking up companies, made clear that he isn’t going down without a fight.
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             Hindenburg, which makes money by betting that a company’s shares will fall, said in a report last week that Icahn Enterprises was running “
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             The accusations have made their mark: Icahn Enterprises’ stock price is down 40 percent since Hindenburg published its report. That also hits Icahn directly, since the majority of his shares in the firm — he owns 84 percent of it — are pledged as collateral for bank loans.
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              Icahn took the gloves off,
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             calling Hindenburg a peddler of “disinformation campaigns to distort companies’ images, damage their reputations and bleed the hard-earned savings of individual investors.” He added that “unlike many of its victims, we will not stand by idly.”
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             Meanwhile, Icahn Enterprises noted in a securities filing that federal prosecutors hadn’t accused the company or Icahn of any impropriety, and that it was cooperating with the inquiry. Hindenburg itself hasn’t accused either of fraud.
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             He chalked up his company’s financial underperformance to its bets against the stock market, and said it would concentrate more on shareholder activism, the investment strategy that made Icahn a billionaire.
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             Speaking of which, Icahn scored a victory in his fight against the gene sequencing company Illumina yesterday, after the proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis recommended that investors
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             For months, Google has preached a more cautious approach to artificial intelligence, even as rivals and the public embraced ChatGPT and other new technologies as vanguards of the future.
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             But at its annual developer conference yesterday, the Silicon Valley giant unveiled a
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              Search was the star of the show.
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             Google was eager to talk about the long-awaited revamp of its core service, which it hopes will steal back the buzz that Microsoft generated when it unveiled a ChatGPT-augmented Bing in February. The updated
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             will incorporate results generated by A.I. and allow users to ask follow-up questions. (Note, however, that it’s not a chatbot.)
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             Two dozen other Google products, including Gmail, are also being A.I.-ified to help automate user tasks. But perhaps more important, the company revealed its work on more powerful A.I. models, including what it called PaLM2, that could power an even broader and more sophisticated array of services.
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              “We are at an exciting inflection point,”
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             Sundar Pichai, Google’s C.E.O., said yesterday. But his longtime caution about a hasty embrace of A.I. — particularly a wariness of products spewing false or misleading information — remained. The new search engine clearly labels its A.I. aspects as “experimental,” and getting access to it requires signing up for the Search Labs service.
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             That said, investors liked what they saw: Shares in Alphabet, Google’s parent company, rose 4 percent yesterday, lifting its market value
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               Donald Trump
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              , the leading Republican candidate for president, urging his party to take a tough stance in negotiating spending cuts to the federal budget, even if that ultimately brings the country to default.
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             The political debate over the investment approach known as E.S.G. — short for environmental, social and corporate governance issues — went national yesterday, as a fight that has largely
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              played out in state capitals
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             moved to Congress.
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             From the get-go, the hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee was contentious, as Republican and Democratic lawmakers sparred with witnesses, and each other.
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              Republicans called E.S.G. “​​an undemocratic tax” on Americans,
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             designed to force an embrace of climate-focused policies that would raise costs for many. The hearing’s witnesses included the attorneys general of Alabama and Utah, who oppose letting their states’ retirement funds go into E.S.G.-guided investments.
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             To Sean Reyes, Utah’s attorney general, E.S.G. was “
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              an open conspiracy
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             to bypass Congress and instead impose costly changes on American consumers,” driven by unelected financial institutions like BlackRock that have pushed to include climate concerns in many investment decisions.
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             His Alabama counterpart, Steve Marshall, argued that focusing on E.S.G. led to higher energy prices because it discourages the use of cheaper fossil fuels, risking harm to key industries like farming.
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              Democrats defended E.S.G. as just another investment strategy.
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             Calling opposition to the concept a “widespread, highly coordinated, politically motivated attack” on investors and average Americans, the Illinois state treasurer, Michael Frerichs, said that E.S.G. was simply a different way of weighing risks and opportunities.
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             It meant that an investor could weigh whether a carmaker was prepared for a market shift to electric cars, or whether to buy into a drugmaker facing a flurry of lawsuits over its role in the opioid epidemic, he said.
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             Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, said that asset and pension managers weighing E.S.G. angles to investments were simply being smart — and to not think about those angles was “a negligent and inattentive investment strategy.”
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             The committee’s Republican chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky, said lawmakers “would continue to expose and investigate harmful E.S.G. practices and hold unelected bureaucrats accountable for pushing their interests on the American people.”
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               The lithium producer Allkem agreed to buy a rival, Livent, to create a
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                $10.6 billion mining giant
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               . (WSJ)
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               Investors including Elliott Management struck a deal to buy Syneos Health, a drug-research services company,
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                for $4.4 billion
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               . (Bloomberg)
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               The
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                parent company of Vitamin Shoppe
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               will sell itself to a consortium led by its C.E.O. in a $2.6 billion deal. (Reuters)
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               Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, said he would
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                oppose President Biden’s nominees
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               to the E.P.A. to protest a forthcoming rule that would shutter coal plants in his state. (Politico)
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               Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pledged more crackdowns on
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                Russia’s efforts to skirt international sanctions
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               over its invasion of Ukraine. (Bloomberg)
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                raised interest rates to 4.5 percent
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               Adidas may soon sell its $1 billion worth of
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                Yeezy merchandise
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               and donate the proceeds to charity. (Bloomberg)
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               A year ago, Miami embraced the crypto industry. Now?
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                Not so much
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               Scientists unveiled a
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                new, more diverse human genome
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               that could lead to advancements in personalized medicine. (NYT)
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               Gen Z doesn’t appear to want to work for
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               firms. (FT)
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