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Leading up to that, he was one of the earliest entrepreneurs to plant his flag in the basic cable realm with the Atlanta-based “superstation” we’d eventually come to know as TBS.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

The real-estate tech platform was one of the earliest companies to roll out a ChatGPT app back in October.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

As a result, the Treasury can wait to hike longer-term debt sales until 2028 at the earliest, he writes—a later time frame than the consensus estimate for between February and August 2027.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

That combination makes the market’s earliest worst-case scenario for global oil hitting $200 a barrel hard to rule out, according to Josh Young, author of oil-and-gas investment newsletter Bison Insights.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

This philosophy—the interchangeability of music, math, and nature—led to the earliest Pythagorean model of the planets.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife