Bhutan has confirmed it has quietly been running a bitcoin mining operation after @SarahNEmerson and I began digging into its secret investments in cryptocurrency earlier this month. Here's what we have learned 🧵 https://t.co/Tha3i4tM3L

PolyAI Raises $86 Million As Fight To Answer Calls With AI Heats Up via @forbes

low velocity, concentrated seed investing (~15 names per fund) is truly terrifying but can generate really outlier returns what Hummingbird has done -- with consistency -- is wildly impressive. incredible execution of a specific strategy

Hummingbird is one of the greatest and most underrated VC firms in the world: >> 10x DPI >> 17.4 TVPI >> 46% IRR These are all stats from its second fund. It's headed up by @ileri and @akshay__mehra who have built a portfolio including: >> Lovable >> Kraken >> BillionToOne

When startup BillionToOne went public last month its largest shareholder was a little-known fund Hummingbird, who had led a $15m round in 2019. Now that stake is worth $745m. And other outlier bets on Lovable, Kraken & Peak Games have driven 10x returns.

LOL. "In 2018 Marsalek invited Ben Halim and other backers of the Libya projects to invest in a new crypto token — Toncoin — being launched by Russian-owned messaging platform Telegram, whose founder Pavel Durov had met Marsalek and invited him to participate."

Liz Truss is back. The short-lived UK prime minister and businessman Robert Tchenguiz are launching an ultra-exclusive club in London. Truss and Tchenguiz are hoping to recruit 700 founding members — each paying £500,000. Find out more here: https://t.co/K0Ric7UEac

In my opinion one of the best early funds in the world. I envy their portfolio. Kraken, BillionToOne, Aspora, Lovable among others @ileri @akshay__mehra and team are absolute legends. https://t.co/CpJoqblz4Y

This story about Andrew Tate is important in so many ways. I find it maddening that this administration talks about family values and the outrage of human trafficking -- and then helps someone like Tate repeatedly accused of sexual assault and trafficking escape consequences.

Pentagon now appears to be working with far-right activists to threaten and smear journalists writing critical stories. Another stage in the department's assault on the press. "A Pentagon spokesperson and Posobiec both denied coordination. Geressy declined to comment. But

The long-awaited IPOs of Klarna and Figma have helped shake up this year's rankings along with a handful of massive raises for startups like Revolut ($75bn), Mistral and Trade Republic https://t.co/Kz6hvuoHnN

Hummingbird Ventures debuts with two partners on the list for the first time. Here's how the London-based fund has driven top decile returns with its deep focus on founder psychology https://t.co/0AxrG1Inj1

New to the list this year are: @barendvandenb of Hummingbird Ventures His investing partner @ileri TCV's John Doran @fheinemann of Project A Dan Lupu of Earlybird And @denisbarrier of Cathay Innovation https://t.co/iIyqNOVbct

The 2025 Midas List Europe is now live! Here are the top 25 venture investors in Europe and the Middle East this year https://t.co/iIyqNOVbct

Incredible story-- with oh my god text messages-- from @mega2e and Isabella Kwai on how Andrew Tate, the manosphere star accused of rape + trafficking, secured his freedom. He was barred from leaving Romania. But he courted Barron Trump, among others. After support from Trump

This pretty much encapsulates one of the most ludicrous conflicts to erupt in recent years

NOW — The British government has delayed my request for information about a meeting between Larry Ellison of Oracle and UK ministers for a second time. Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle Corporation, one of the world’s largest cloud and data infrastructure firms,

This current *low* estimation would make El Fasher by far and large the largest single mass murder event of the 21st century, largest in 32 years actually (since Rwanda).

Minimum estimates contend 60,000 people were killed over three weeks in El Fasher, and around 150,000 are thought to still be missing

A day after the Signal chat story was published, U.S. Africa Command conducted multiple airstrikes against ISIS affiliates. I FOIAed for info similar to the Yemen info that officials said was unclassified. I was told it would harm national security. https://t.co/lu9PsQrdZv

We are down bad