Ken Brown

New York

Senior Finance Editor at The Information

I do financial investigations at the WSJ. Before that I ran the Heard on the Street column and was the Asia finance editor during five great years in Hong Kong

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Nearly 1,000 ICE detainees held at Butler County jail in 22 weeks, sheriff says

3 weeks ago | wkyt.com | Ken Brown

BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones says his jail has had to expand the number of beds available due to the increase in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees. Three months ago, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office opened a portion of the jail to ICE. As part of the deal, Sheriff Jones would open 300 beds at the jail to hold detainees. They have already eclipsed that number in the three months.
Mary Meeker Has a lot to Say About AI

4 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Ken Brown

Source: The InformationMary Meeker says artificial intelligence is growing faster than anything that came before it. The technology has spread rapidly across the globe and “AI leadership could beget geopolitical leadership.”The most famous internet analyst of the dot-com boom era says that and a lot more in a 340 page report on AI called “Trends – Artificial intelligence.” With colleagues at Bond, the venture capital firm she founded, Meeker reprises her 1996 “Internet Report,” for the AI era.
Trump Media Company Raises $2.5 Billion to Invest in Bitcoin

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Ken Brown

Source: The InformationPresident Donald Trump’s media company is raising $2.5 billion from big investors to buy bitcoin, deepening the president’s involvement in cryptocurrency. Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates Trump’s social media company Truth Social, will be following the lead of several other big players in crypto including Strategy, formerly Microstrategy.
Track and Field Roundup

1 month ago | hardwickgazette.org | Ken Brown

NEWPORT – Craftsbury Academy (CA) junior Soren Stelma-Leonard led all local competitors with an impressive runner-up finish last week as the Chargers joined neighboring Hazen Union and Danville at North Country for the third high school track and field meet of the season. Stelma-Leonard ran his best time of the season last Tuesday in the 800m, beating his personal record by nine seconds.
Huawei to Test New AI Chip

2 months ago | theinformation.com | Ken Brown

Source: The Wall Street JournalHuawei Technologies is talking to Chinese tech companies about a powerful new artificial-intelligence chip it has developed, The Wall Street Journal reported. Huawei is aiming for the chip to replace some high-end products from Nvidia, the U.S. chipmaker that dominates AI chips, the Journal said. The new chip, called the Ascend 910D, is still in early stages of development and will require testing before it can be shipped to customers.
Miami University frat suspended following weeks of hazing, law firm says

2 months ago | wave3.com | Ken Brown

OXFORD, Ohio (WXIX) - Miami University’s Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is suspended for 15 years following an alleged hazing incident involving students and alumni. According to a press release from Merriman Legal, LLC, Kappa Alpha Psi’s chapter president and vice president beat four students with paddles and canes during “nightly hazing rituals at their campus apartment.” These beatings allegedly continued at a house in a Dayton suburb by alumni members.
Klarna and StubHub Offerings Become Tariff Casualties

2 months ago | theinformation.com | Ken Brown

That was fast. The window for technology company stock offerings slammed shut less than a week after it opened, dashing hopes that the moribund market would come to life this year. CoreWeave, the deal that was supposed to lead the pack in a reopened market, got done on Friday. StubHub and Klarna were waiting in the wings, until President Donald Trump’s tariff plan sent stocks spiraling downward. Ticket seller StubHub succumbed to market pressure first. Consumer lender Klarna followed soon after.
Tesla Has Worst Quarter for Deliveries Since 2022

2 months ago | theinformation.com | Ken Brown

Source: The InformationTesla had its worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries fell well below expectations. The company delivered 336,681 vehicles in the first quarter, down 13% from 386,810 in the first quarter of 2024. The company widely missed analyst estimates, spurring concerns the electric vehicle maker was damaged by Elon Musk’s political activities and had fallen behind other automakers.
What Trump’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Could Mean for Tech

Feb 4, 2025 | theinformation.com | Ken Brown

The U.S. should start a sovereign wealth fund and maybe it should invest in TikTok, President Trump suggested earlier this week. Well, maybe. But if the fund ever does come to life, its money would be arguably better spent on a bigger, more speculative investment: Stargate, the $500 billion OpenAI-SoftBank-Oracle data center expansion that Trump announced last month.
Historic radio station in West Chester remembers final broadcast anniversary

Nov 14, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Ken Brown

Share WEST CHESTER, Ohio (WXIX) - The Bethany Relay Station at the Voice of America Park is remembering the day its mission of transmitting broadcasts ended. The historic station was built in West Chester by radio pioneer and Cincinnati native Powel Crosley Jr. The station and its shortwave broadcasts served as countermeasures to propaganda spreading across Europe during World War II, allowing people from all over the world to receive crucial information about wartime happenings. On Nov.