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            "highlights": "Why are even great startups still struggling to raise capital despite record venture funding? In February 2026, U.S. startups raised $62.5 billion across 462 deals. It was the largest single month of venture funding in recorded American history. That $62.5 billion was almost entirely two companies. Anthropic raised $30 billion. Waymo raised $16 billion. Two names took roughly three-quarters of the biggest funding month in history before the other ~460 startups split what was left. This is the story nobody tells you cleanly: venture capital is having its best year on paper and one of its hardest years in practice - at the same time. The headline number and the founder’s reality have completely decoupled. The market has become a barbell. Enormous weight on one end. A thinning bar in the middle, where almost every real company actually lives. In Q1 2026, just four companies - OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo - raised $188 billion between them. That was 65% of all global venture capital for the quarter. Sixty-five per cent. To four companies. Everyone else on the planet - every SaaS startup, every biotech, every fintech, every consumer app, every climate company, in every country - split the remaining third. So when you read “record venture funding,” translate it. It does not mean capital is widely available. It means a small number of companies are absorbing staggering sums, and the average reported deal is being dragged upward by a handful of giants. $62.5 billion across 462 deals is an average of $135 million per deal - a number that describes almost no real company’s actual round.",
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            "title": "Porfirio Rubirosa",
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            "highlights": "Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22, 1909 – July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player. He was a supporter of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was rumored to be a political assassin under his regime. Rubirosa made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women His five spouses included two of the richest women in the world After World War II, Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions, polo and car racing, both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his wives. His first race at 24 Hours of Le Mans took place in June 1950 with his partner Pierre Leygonie, and his second race, this time with Innocente Baggio, was four years later; Rubirosa entered one Formula One race, in 1955, the Grand Prix de Bordeaux on April 25 Rubirosa died in the early morning of July 5, 1965, at the age of 56, when he crashed his silver Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet into a horse chestnut tree After Trujillo's assassination on May 30, 1961, Rubirosa supported his son, Rafael \"Ramfis\" Trujillo, as successor and attempted to persuade John F. Kennedy to help his government.",
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            "title": "Life in a secret Chinese nuclear city",
            "excerpt": "- In 1958, thousands were mobilised to build a secret city called 404 in the Gobi Desert, enduring brutal sandstorms and living in makeshift shelters.  \n- They achieved extraordinary precision in creating China’s first atomic bomb, even as famine threatened; self-sufficiency was secured through farming, melting snow for water, and hunting.  \n- By 1991, 404’s main role had shifted to processing nuclear waste, separated from residential areas due to radioactive risks; occasional accidents led to strict containment measures.  \n- The city maintained excellent welfare, countless resources, and its own security and justice systems; a brutal murder over a small debt resulted in an immediate death penalty.  ",
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            "highlights": "In 1958, elite scientists and laborers from across China gathered in the Gobi Desert to build a city from scratch, with a single goal: to build the atomic bomb. I grew up in this small city. Located west of the Yumen Pass, 404 was a secret society hidden in the Gobi Desert. In 1958, the state mobilized thousands to build this oasis for the radioactive industry. Conditions were brutal. Sandstorms were a daily reality. The early settlers dug holes in the ground and covered them with thatch just to survive the nights. To this day, the name of our railway station remains “Di Wo Pu” — which literally means “Low-Lying Hollow.” The first generation of 404 were the country’s brightest elites. At that time, sophisticated CNC machines didn’t exist, yet the core components of an atomic bomb required a level of precision that bordered on the impossible. The final, most delicate cuts were executed by human hands manually guiding the machine tools, maintaining a margin of error within 1/80th the width of a human hair. During the “Three Years of Hardship” (1959–1961), when more than 30 million people across China starved to death, our factory area faced a desperate crisis. At one point, there were only a few days’ worth of rations left in the warehouses, and workers began to suffer from severe edema due to malnutrition. They established a farm to grow their own grain and vegetables. They channeled melting snow and ice from the Qilian Mountains for water, and organized hunting teams to venture deep into the mountains to bring back meat. the factory area achieved self-sufficiency 404 grew into a fully functioning city “Dedicate your youth, dedicate your life, and dedicate your descendants.” I was born in 1991, thirty years after China’s first atomic bomb explosion, and right around the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. By then, the city’s mission had shifted. With the bomb long finished, 404 had transformed into a massive processing center for nuclear waste. 404 held a strange political prestige. When the weather forecast aired on provincial TV, the capital, Lanzhou, was mentioned first. The second city was always the “Gansu Mining Area” Because our grandparents were the country’s elite and we lived in the “Nuclear City,” I always felt like I was living at the center of the world. Because of the radioactive materials, our residential area was separated from the factory by an hour-long train ride. Occasionally, we heard whispers about accidents — hair falling out overnight, or leaks caused by local farmers digging up buried chemical drums and protective gear. Once, a soldier entered the residential area after coming into contact with radioactive material. His hands turned a necrotic black, like charred wood. The authorities didn’t just isolate him; they traced his entire trajectory and burned every single item he had touched. Welfare in 404 was excellent. We almost never had to buy rice, flour, or oil; watermelon and Hami melon were handed out by the sackful. When my uncle’s family received fish, they would bring a few to our house, and when our family received chicken, we would send some back in return. most of our family’s money was used to buy “toys.” In 1992, my parents’ combined salary was 500 yuan, yet they spent 3,500 yuan to buy a VCR. The plant area also had its own public security and judicial system; in addition to a detention center of two or three rooms, there was a Public Security Bureau and an Intermediate People’s Court. There was a middle school kid in the plant who owed money for table time to an old man at the billiards hall. The old man cornered him at school, threatening that if he didn’t pay, he wouldn’t let him continue his studies. If the old man told the teacher, the entire plant would find out about it. The kid went to the old man’s house and hacked him to death with an axe.\n\nThe debt was only 5 yuan. The trial was swift. The judge shouted, ‘Death penalty, execute immediately.’",
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            "excerpt": "- Hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand are linked to Chinese-Cambodian funds that have corrupted Thailand’s elite.  \n- Thailand’s military attacks scam centres, aiming to distance itself from illicit revenues that surged since Covid.  \n- In December, Thai police seized US$300 million from a South African money launderer who used Cambodian scam proceeds to infiltrate Thailand’s ruling class.  \n- The individual fled to Dubai, and Thailand’s focus on Cambodian scam centres appears to shift blame abroad rather than address domestic corruption.  ",
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            "highlights": "You can't understand the ongoing Cambodia--Thailand hostilities without considering the extent that Chinese-Cambodian dirty money has corrupted Thailand's ruling class. Why has Thailand's military made a point of attacking scam centers as part of this latest round of fighting? Thailand's elite is desperately trying to distance itself from the scam industry that targets Americans, even as it has benefited from these enormous illict revenues since Covid. On Dec. 2, Thailand's police seized $300 million in assets connected to Benjamin Mauerberger, a South African money launderer who used billions of dollars in Cambodian scam proceeds to infiltrate Thailand's governing class. In a statement, Thailand's police said Mauerberger only succeeded because of political protection from Cambodia's leadership. No mention of his protection from every level of Thailand's elite: Prime Ministers, police generals, bureaucrats. Mauerberger has fled to Dubai, where many elite Thais are hoping he stays. He is under investigation, but has not been indicted. Perhaps Thailand hopes the attacks on scam centers in Cambodia shifts the blame overseas. But there has yet to be a reckoning in Thailand over the deep corruption caused by scam center cash.",
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            "excerpt": "- People used to gain strength naturally through physical work.  \n- Today, strength requires intentional exercise rather than everyday tasks.  \n- Writing faces a similar shift with AI, making conscious effort essential.  \n- Smart individuals will remain, but only among those who actively choose to develop their intellect.  ",
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            "highlights": "Paul Graham on why you shouldn’t write with AI: “In preindustrial times most people's jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be. It will be the same with writing. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.\"",
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            "title": "China's experiment in Hainan to compete with Singapore",
            "excerpt": "- Hainan offers duty-free import on most products, and adds a 30% local value requirement for tariff-free access to mainland China.  \n- Its corporate tax rate of 15% is notably lower than Hong Kong, Singapore, and the wider mainland.  \n- Hainan permits broad access to medicines approved elsewhere, allows open internet usage for registered companies, and welcomes foreign universities without local partners.  \n- It provides visa-free entry for 86 countries and special currency accounts without the usual mainland foreign exchange restrictions.  ",
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            "highlights": "This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the rest of the country, and an extremely attractive entry gate for the Chinese market. You can now import most products in the world (74% of all goods) entirely duty free into Hainan. And, if you transform the product and add 30% value locally, you can then send it to the rest of mainland China completely tariff-free. So for instance: import Australian beef into Hainan tax free. Slice it and package it for hotpot in Hainan: it can enter all mainland supermarkets duty-free. They also have insanely low corporate tax rates: 15%, lower than Hong Kong (16.5%) and Singapore (17%) or the rest of the mainland (25%). Hainan now has different rules from the rest of China in dozens of areas: HEALTH: Basically the rule is that if a medicine or medical device is approved by regulatory agencies anywhere in the world, it can be used in Hainan - even if banned on the mainland. Which undoubtedly makes it THE place in the world with the widest range of medical treatments available. NO FIREWALL: Companies registered in Hainan can apply for unrestricted global internet access OPEN EDUCATION: Foreign universities can open campuses without a Chinese partner VISA-FREE: 86 countries get visa-free entry, probably one of the most open places in the world CAPITAL: Special accounts let money flow freely to and from overseas - normal mainland forex restrictions don't apply They're basically building a \"greatest hits\" of global free zones: Singapore's tax regime, Switzerland's medical access, Dubai's visa policy - all in one giant tropical island attached to the 1.4 billion people Chinese consumer market.",
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            "highlights": "Rivalry between stars of a unique accordion-based style of music in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho has sparked years of deadly gang warfare that has turned the tiny country into the murder capital of the continent. Famo has the gentlest of origins. It developed when traditional \"wayfarers' hymns\" - a form of spontaneous oral poetry, or rap, composed by herders or travellers to while away long hours guarding cattle or journeying on foot through Lesotho's mountains - began to be accompanied first on the concertina, and later the accordion. But in 2004, after one Famo musician allegedly shot another, a cycle of revenge developed, fuelled by poisonous lyrics in songs. And over the last two decades scores of Famo artists and hundreds of other people connected with the music - producers, fans, DJs, musicians' family members - have been gunned down. The Famo wars are perhaps the main reason the overwhelmingly rural, stunningly beautiful country of just two million people - entirely surrounded by South Africa - recorded the sixth-highest homicide rate in the world last year.",
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            "title": "Accordion wars in Lesotho",
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            "title": "Life in a secret Chinese nuclear city",
            "excerpt": "- In 1958, thousands were mobilised to build a secret city called 404 in the Gobi Desert, enduring brutal sandstorms and living in makeshift shelters.  \n- They achieved extraordinary precision in creating China’s first atomic bomb, even as famine threatened; self-sufficiency was secured through farming, melting snow for water, and hunting.  \n- By 1991, 404’s main role had shifted to processing nuclear waste, separated from residential areas due to radioactive risks; occasional accidents led to strict containment measures.  \n- The city maintained excellent welfare, countless resources, and its own security and justice systems; a brutal murder over a small debt resulted in an immediate death penalty.",
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            "highlights": "In 1958, elite scientists and laborers from across China gathered in the Gobi Desert to build a city from scratch, with a single goal: to build the atomic bomb. I grew up in this small city. Located west of the Yumen Pass, 404 was a secret society hidden in the Gobi Desert. In 1958, the state mobilized thousands to build this oasis for the radioactive industry. Conditions were brutal. Sandstorms were a daily reality. The early settlers dug holes in the ground and covered them with thatch just to survive the nights. To this day, the name of our railway station remains “Di Wo Pu” — which literally means “Low-Lying Hollow.” The first generation of 404 were the country’s brightest elites. At that time, sophisticated CNC machines didn’t exist, yet the core components of an atomic bomb required a level of precision that bordered on the impossible. The final, most delicate cuts were executed by human hands manually guiding the machine tools, maintaining a margin of error within 1/80th the width of a human hair. During the “Three Years of Hardship” (1959–1961), when more than 30 million people across China starved to death, our factory area faced a desperate crisis. At one point, there were only a few days’ worth of rations left in the warehouses, and workers began to suffer from severe edema due to malnutrition. They established a farm to grow their own grain and vegetables. They channeled melting snow and ice from the Qilian Mountains for water, and organized hunting teams to venture deep into the mountains to bring back meat. the factory area achieved self-sufficiency 404 grew into a fully functioning city “Dedicate your youth, dedicate your life, and dedicate your descendants.” I was born in 1991, thirty years after China’s first atomic bomb explosion, and right around the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. By then, the city’s mission had shifted. With the bomb long finished, 404 had transformed into a massive processing center for nuclear waste. 404 held a strange political prestige. When the weather forecast aired on provincial TV, the capital, Lanzhou, was mentioned first. The second city was always the “Gansu Mining Area” Because our grandparents were the country’s elite and we lived in the “Nuclear City,” I always felt like I was living at the center of the world. Because of the radioactive materials, our residential area was separated from the factory by an hour-long train ride. Occasionally, we heard whispers about accidents — hair falling out overnight, or leaks caused by local farmers digging up buried chemical drums and protective gear. Once, a soldier entered the residential area after coming into contact with radioactive material. His hands turned a necrotic black, like charred wood. The authorities didn’t just isolate him; they traced his entire trajectory and burned every single item he had touched. Welfare in 404 was excellent. We almost never had to buy rice, flour, or oil; watermelon and Hami melon were handed out by the sackful. When my uncle’s family received fish, they would bring a few to our house, and when our family received chicken, we would send some back in return. most of our family’s money was used to buy “toys.” In 1992, my parents’ combined salary was 500 yuan, yet they spent 3,500 yuan to buy a VCR. The plant area also had its own public security and judicial system; in addition to a detention center of two or three rooms, there was a Public Security Bureau and an Intermediate People’s Court. There was a middle school kid in the plant who owed money for table time to an old man at the billiards hall. The old man cornered him at school, threatening that if he didn’t pay, he wouldn’t let him continue his studies. If the old man told the teacher, the entire plant would find out about it. The kid went to the old man’s house and hacked him to death with an axe.\n\nThe debt was only 5 yuan. The trial was swift. The judge shouted, ‘Death penalty, execute immediately.’",
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