The Washington Post analyzed 461 corporate securities filings issued by public companies between March 10 (the day SVB failed) to March 13 (the day after the government rushed in with extra assistance). wapo.st/3lmbD8f
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., by law, insures deposits of up to $250,000 per account. But these filings showed that many companies held much more in their accounts.
If the government hadn’t stepped in, most of this money might have been lost. wapo.st/3lmbD8f
According to S&P Global, entities had $151.6 billion in uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, or 93.9 percent of the company’s total holdings. wapo.st/3lmbD8f
Due to disparities in these corporate filings, it’s unclear exactly how much some of the firms stood to lose if SVB collapsed without aid.
Here’s a closer look at the billions of dollars of unprotected deposits that companies had at Silicon Valley Bank: wapo.st/3lmbD8
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In the seven years since TikTok was born as lip-syncing app for Chinese teens, the platform has reshaped the media landscape — forcing U.S. tech giants to reckon with a foreign rival. wapo.st/3TmyuwQ
The short-form video platform has amassed startling economic power, with more than a billion users and revenue expected to surpass YouTube’s, at nearly $25 billion by 2025. wapo.st/3JrWEBJ
Critics argue that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, makes the app a national security threat, potentially allowing it to share data about its American users or steer its algorithms at Beijing’s behest. wapo.st/3JrWEBJ
A new report shows the extent of the challenges D.C. schools endured in the 2021-2022 school year, a term marked by low test scores, rising absenteeism and a greater demand for mental health services — reflecting trends in education seen nationwide. wapo.st/3JHvk3w
More than a decade of annual enrollment growth in D.C. came to a halt during the pandemic as adults left the city or pulled their children out of public schools. wapo.st/3JHvk3w
D.C. has seen recent gains in its high school completion rates. In 2020, 31 out of every 100 ninth-graders would not finish high school. In 2022, that number dropped to 25. While high school graduation is up, fewer are finishing college. wapo.st/3JHvk3w
In the span of a year, a seemingly unrelated gaggle of recently formed companies bought nine properties about two blocks east of the U.S. Capitol — all within steps of one another.
Unbeknown to most of the sellers, the limited liability companies making the purchases — a shopping spree that added up to $41 million — are connected to a conservative nonprofit led by Mark Meadows, former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff. wapo.st/3mYSEAQ
The Conservative Partnership Institute, as the nonprofit is known, now controls four commercial properties along a single Pennsylvania Avenue block, three adjoining rowhouses around the corner, and a garage and carriage house in the rear alley. wapo.st/3mYSEAQ
Moscow said Wednesday that it will try to retrieve the wreckage of a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea after a collision with a Russian jet fighter. wapo.st/3LpXHEI
“I don’t know if we can get them or not,” Kremlin Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said of the drone fragments, “but it has to be done, and we’ll surely engage in it. I hope for success, of course.” wapo.st/3LpXHEI
Patrushev said that the presence of the MQ-9 Reaper drone in part of Russia’s self-declared Black Sea exclusion zone on Tuesday was “proof” that the United States military is “directly participating” in the Ukraine War. wapo.st/40rTkgX
The Justice Department has fired back at a bid by defense attorneys to have the seditious conspiracy case against the far-right group Proud Boys thrown out based on footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot aired by television personality Tucker Carlson. wapo.st/3yENaxY
Prosecutors released footage of Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman,” that showed him doing more than just walking around the Capitol with police on Jan. 6. wapo.st/3YVrBEc
The prosecutors noted that Carlson only showed Chansley’s actions from 2:56 to 3 p.m.
But video released Monday, and played at Chansley’s sentencing in November 2021, showed that he was part of a mob that breached an outer police line at 2:09 p.m. wapo.st/3YVrBEc
GPT-4 has arrived. It will blow ChatGPT out of the water wapo.st/3mMwLop
The long-awaited OpenAI tool, which can describe images in words and pass the bar exam, marks a huge leap forward for AI power — and another major shift for ethical norms. wapo.st/3YI7cC9
It has the potential to revolutionize work and society, but has fueled anxiety over how people will be able to compete for jobs outsourced to eerily refined machines or trust the accuracy of what they see online. wapo.st/3YI7cC9