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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Wild Rise and Abrupt Crash

Sophie Caldwell

There comes a moment in the development of a new technology when the hype is so common it passes for common sense. Lawyers, accountants and regulators are nowhere to be…

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G.M.’s Cruise Moved Fast in the Driverless Race. It Got Ugly.

Sophie Caldwell

Two months ago, Kyle Vogt, the chief executive of Cruise, choked up as he recounted how a driver had killed a 4-year-old girl in a stroller at a San Francisco…

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Mint, One of the First Budgeting Apps, Is Shutting Down

Sophie Caldwell

Mint, one of the earliest and most popular personal finance apps, is shutting down, and its owner, Intuit, is encouraging users to switch to Credit Karma, its platform that offers…

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Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies

Sophie Caldwell

Chris Caputo stood on the tarmac at Burlington International Airport in Vermont in early October and looked to the clouds in the distance. He had piloted military and commercial aircraft…

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Sam Bankman-Fried Is Found Guilty of 7 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy

Sophie Caldwell

Sam Bankman-Fried, the tousle-haired mogul who founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was convicted on Thursday of seven charges of fraud and conspiracy after a monthlong trial that laid bare the…

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Jury Begins Deliberations for a Verdict in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial

Sophie Caldwell

A jury of nine women and three men began deliberating a verdict on Thursday afternoon in the criminal fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced entrepreneur who has been accused…