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Sterilization Services of Virginia last year received a presidential exemption from EPA rules that would have required the company to update its equipment and use a continuous emissions monitoring system. In April, a faulty valve on the roof of its facility in Henrico County emitted more than 500 pounds of carcinogenic ethylene oxide. Residents say they weren’t notified of the release.

Datadog told Wall Street it had landed an eight-figure deal with "one of the largest AI foundational model companies" — but didn't say which one. Hunterbrook found Datadog's monitoring software embedded across Claude sessions and products, with public bug reports dating back to January and a leaked source map suggesting a much deeper rollout may be ahead. If the biggest new logo in Datadog's history is who we think it is, the consumption-priced contract could scale directly with Anthropic's growth.

While the world obsesses over private credit, private equity might be in murkier territory. Firms like Hamilton Lane are collecting fees on day-one markups. What happens when investors want real money back?

A mysterious data center company has drawn the ire of local residents in Ohio. They voice concerns about the impact on their water supply, noise pollution, and rising energy costs — and criticize the secrecy around the 600-acre project. The shadowy developer, a Delaware-registered LLC, appears to be a front for one of the largest tech companies on earth: Meta.

With old, reliable minesweepers sitting in Philadelphia, the U.S. stares down the barrel of a bleak scenario: new, flawed ships responsible for keeping open a global shipping artery that carries one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

$HIMX appears to be manufacturing critical optical components for NVIDIA's AI data center revolution. Clues indicate it may be supplying Apple's new smart glasses, too.

Multiple former RadNet accountants affirmed Hunterbrook’s reporting. One told Hunterbrook that RadNet’s goal was to present a “better financial picture than what’s truly accurate.”

America’s most software-exposed major private credit firm is among the most richly valued. It also happens to be marking its software debt at 100 cents on the dollar — for now.

As AI data centers race to come online, lead times for backup generators stretch past two years. Permitting documents reveal that OpenAI's flagship project has turned to Baudouin — a French engine brand whose U.S. distribution network barely exists, save for one major player: Generac.

Five military branches just adopted an internal Pentagon AI product partnered with Google and OpenAI. Who lost out? BigBear, which had just spent the equivalent of over half its cash acquiring a military AI tool offering a very similar product. BigBear’s newly named CTO took to LinkedIn to call the Pentagon’s move “stupid, wasteful and moronic.”

Newly surfaced documents from the Department of Justice reveal Ubiquiti’s gear was integral to communications and surveillance at Little St. James.

After Richtech ($RR) stock added more than $370 million in market cap on the announcement of a "collaboration" Tuesday, the company announced a dilutive fundraise the next morning. Microsoft tells Hunterbrook Media the engagement was a "standard" customer program with "no commercial element." This comes after Richtech missed its 10-K deadline, hampering its ability to raise money through at-the-market offerings.

TB Drugs Fail Due to Manufacturing Flaw and Cuts to U.S. Aid During Global Rifampicin Shortage from U.K. to Australia

This week, legislators from both sides of the aisle questioned the CEOs of Cigna, UnitedHealth, and CVS about Hunterbrook’s reporting on PBM GPOs. A congressman entered the Hunterbrook investigation into the Congressional record.

Exxon spinoff Sable Offshore faces seven barriers to restarting its pipeline, idled since a major oil spill in 2015. One of those approvals needs to come from the California Coastal Commission, which Sable CEO Jim Flores criticized for its “Teflon" “eco-Nazi attitude” in a leaked call recording newly obtained by Hunterbrook. Because of these barriers — and despite Trump Administration intervention — Sable’s project, originally scheduled to go online in Jan 2024, may never sell oil. At least not under the ownership of Sable ($SOC), which is quickly running out of cash.

Achieve Life Sciences ($ACHV) is near FDA approval of cytisinicline as a safe, effective treatment for smoking addiction.

Lawsuit seeks to bar business activity in state as company pitches massive data-center expansion.

How a mystery payment may help explain billions in backlog funneled through a single suspicious intermediary.

A 33-year old multibillionaire founder. Huge banks and funders. A 728-page prospectus filled with big promises and omissions. All raising a critical question: Does this Czech arms dealer actually have the capacity to mass-produce the ammunition that it calls its “principal driver of revenue and profitability” — or is CSG mostly refurbishing old ammo and running out of supply?

Ubiquiti, a $33 billion tech empire, is led by Robert Pera, owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. He pledged to tighten controls on his products years ago — so why are Russian military units sending Ubiquiti vendors thank-you notes?

Three mysterious entities. Tens of billions in revenue. Our multinational investigation reveals how CVS, UnitedHealth, and Cigna created new subsidiaries to divert billions of dollars from health plans and patients. All three tried to keep it secret. None answered repeated questions. CVS sued to stop evidence getting out. Cigna called the police on a reporter. And the cost isn’t just higher drug prices. People have died.

Wall Street keeps asking if there's an AI bubble. The answer seems obvious once you move past the usual suspects.

Internal training document appears to direct unlicensed mortgage activity by sales agents as part of a strategy to control and pressure buyers.

On a leaked call, Sable Offshore CEO Jim Flores told a select group of investors in October that the company would likely have to raise up to $200 million in equity by the end of 2025. The company had not disclosed this dilutive equity offering publicly. It’s one of several examples of apparently selective disclosure from Sable. The company seems to have shared information only with certain investors, a list that includes golfer Phil Mickelson, according to messages from a group chat leaked to Hunterbrook. In one of those messages, Mickelson passed on a tip allegedly from the company’s CEO in an X group chat that Sable would be issuing an 8-K filing about a material update later that day. Sable did in fact issue a market-moving 8-K shortly thereafter. “I believe this beyond any doubt: These guys definitely have first hand communication from Jim and they are being fed information from Jim and giving it to other group members,” one member of the chat, who previously owned the stock, told Hunterbrook, in reference to some of his fellow group chat members. Whether that material information was actually worth having is another question. While Sable’s stock rose 8% after hours on the day the 8-K was issued, it gave that all back (and then some) the following trading day. Meanwhile, courts, regulators, and activists have so far stopped Sable from utilizing its sole asset — a pipeline that in 2015 erupted into one of the worst oil spills in California history. Mickelson declined to comment directly to Hunterbrook despite repeated outreach. In a message to the group chat, which is called “Sable Quantum Offshore Compute,” he warned that Hunterbrook was “looking into this chat as if we have inside info.” “What’s funny about it is we’ve all been wrong on just about everything and we’ve all lost money but whatever,” Mickelson added, before posting a phone number of a Hunterbrook reporter to the chat. (Another group member then attempted to dox the reporter in a Craigslist post offering free dog food, apparently not realizing that Hunterbrook was still reading their messages. Lol.) On Wednesday, an anonymous X account posted a very short excerpt from the same call with investors obtained by Hunterbrook. Soon thereafter, a member of Mickelson’s chat relayed to the group that the company had contacted them claiming that the audio was AI generated, and asking investors to push back against an anticipated Bloomberg News article on Sable’s conduct. Within hours, a chorus of Sable investors, including Mickelson, was repeating that message on social media. In response to questions about this, Sable told Hunterbrook that “based upon information provided to us we believe that the alleged recording was either AI generated or otherwise altered.” The company did not respond to follow up questions regarding what led it to that belief, or what portions of the recording it believed had been altered. At Hunterbrook’s request, a leading AI detection company ran the recording through their platform and concluded that it is likely not to be manipulated using generative artificial intelligence in any way. Hunterbrook also asked a senior AI engineer at a top research lab to analyze the recording; he also confirmed that it was highly unlikely to be AI generated or altered. The recording Hunterbrook obtained includes the short excerpt that was posted on X, though the version on X sounds distorted. Perhaps the most notable part of the call comes toward the end — when Flores lays out his Hail Mary plan to bring his project online: Enlisting President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to avoid California regulations and secure federal funding for the project. A carrot Sable is prepared to offer, according to the recording? A round of golf with “a certain lefty.” A source close to Lutnick told Hunterbrook: "He's never heard of the company and has no plans to golf with Mickelson."

As sickness spreads and names of former employees fill obituary pages, Danville residents surrounding Viscofan's sausage casing factory are left asking: Why is this plant still here?

An investigation shows national homebuilder LGI Homes ($LGIH) may be targeting low-income renters with deceptive ads promising unrealistically low prices, then pressuring them to buy expensive homes through highly scripted, aggressive sales tactics. LGI homeowners were four times as likely to lose their home to a foreclosure than a typical FHA borrower — a pool already at higher risk — according to a Hunterbrook data analysis.

After inaccurate readings from Dexcom’s flagship G7 device, some diabetics are ending up in the ICU — or dead. A surprise FDA inspection revealed Dexcom made an unauthorized design change to a key component of the G7 that internal studies showed was inferior by “every accuracy metric.” Dexcom sold the “adulterated” device anyway. Then several execs fled amid FDA scrutiny, soaring complaints, rising competition, insiders dumping $DXCM, and questionable accounting. Patients are now returning to the G6 or switching to competitors. This investigation reveals Dexcom’s problems are far worse than previously known. It also tackles the mystery: How did a great innovator lose its way — and the trust of diabetics across America?

Contaminate. Clean Up. Repeat. This is the first investigation in a new Hunterbrook Media series on the poisoning of American communities. For decades, polluters have sickened towns and cities across the country by releasing toxic chemicals, often with impunity. Now — with the Environmental Protection Agency captured by the same industries the EPA was meant to regulate — the crisis worsens. Hunterbrook has built a nationwide database to expose harm to communities and ecosystems, then hold accountable those responsible. We start today in Nebraska. A factory in rural Hastings, Nebraska, is among the top emitters nationwide of trichloroethylene, a carcinogenic chemical. The county has among the highest rates of cancer in the country. From mechanics and a bartender, to parents and neighbors, the community is asking: Why are we so sick?

As the Trump administration reportedly prepares to pull funding for war crime investigations, a new international exposé reveals how microelectronics from American tech giants — household names like Intel and Texas Instruments — enable precision strikes on Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and shopping centers.

Bird flu, alone, is not the answer.

Sterilization Services of Virginia last year received a presidential exemption from EPA rules that would have required the company to update its equipment and use a continuous emissions monitoring system. In April, a faulty valve on the roof of its facility in Henrico County emitted more than 500 pounds of carcinogenic ethylene oxide. Residents say they weren’t notified of the release.

Datadog told Wall Street it had landed an eight-figure deal with "one of the largest AI foundational model companies" — but didn't say which one. Hunterbrook found Datadog's monitoring software embedded across Claude sessions and products, with public bug reports dating back to January and a leaked source map suggesting a much deeper rollout may be ahead. If the biggest new logo in Datadog's history is who we think it is, the consumption-priced contract could scale directly with Anthropic's growth.

While the world obsesses over private credit, private equity might be in murkier territory. Firms like Hamilton Lane are collecting fees on day-one markups. What happens when investors want real money back?

A mysterious data center company has drawn the ire of local residents in Ohio. They voice concerns about the impact on their water supply, noise pollution, and rising energy costs — and criticize the secrecy around the 600-acre project. The shadowy developer, a Delaware-registered LLC, appears to be a front for one of the largest tech companies on earth: Meta.

With old, reliable minesweepers sitting in Philadelphia, the U.S. stares down the barrel of a bleak scenario: new, flawed ships responsible for keeping open a global shipping artery that carries one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

$HIMX appears to be manufacturing critical optical components for NVIDIA's AI data center revolution. Clues indicate it may be supplying Apple's new smart glasses, too.

Multiple former RadNet accountants affirmed Hunterbrook’s reporting. One told Hunterbrook that RadNet’s goal was to present a “better financial picture than what’s truly accurate.”

America’s most software-exposed major private credit firm is among the most richly valued. It also happens to be marking its software debt at 100 cents on the dollar — for now.

As AI data centers race to come online, lead times for backup generators stretch past two years. Permitting documents reveal that OpenAI's flagship project has turned to Baudouin — a French engine brand whose U.S. distribution network barely exists, save for one major player: Generac.

Five military branches just adopted an internal Pentagon AI product partnered with Google and OpenAI. Who lost out? BigBear, which had just spent the equivalent of over half its cash acquiring a military AI tool offering a very similar product. BigBear’s newly named CTO took to LinkedIn to call the Pentagon’s move “stupid, wasteful and moronic.”

Newly surfaced documents from the Department of Justice reveal Ubiquiti’s gear was integral to communications and surveillance at Little St. James.

After Richtech ($RR) stock added more than $370 million in market cap on the announcement of a "collaboration" Tuesday, the company announced a dilutive fundraise the next morning. Microsoft tells Hunterbrook Media the engagement was a "standard" customer program with "no commercial element." This comes after Richtech missed its 10-K deadline, hampering its ability to raise money through at-the-market offerings.

TB Drugs Fail Due to Manufacturing Flaw and Cuts to U.S. Aid During Global Rifampicin Shortage from U.K. to Australia

This week, legislators from both sides of the aisle questioned the CEOs of Cigna, UnitedHealth, and CVS about Hunterbrook’s reporting on PBM GPOs. A congressman entered the Hunterbrook investigation into the Congressional record.

Exxon spinoff Sable Offshore faces seven barriers to restarting its pipeline, idled since a major oil spill in 2015. One of those approvals needs to come from the California Coastal Commission, which Sable CEO Jim Flores criticized for its “Teflon" “eco-Nazi attitude” in a leaked call recording newly obtained by Hunterbrook. Because of these barriers — and despite Trump Administration intervention — Sable’s project, originally scheduled to go online in Jan 2024, may never sell oil. At least not under the ownership of Sable ($SOC), which is quickly running out of cash.

Achieve Life Sciences ($ACHV) is near FDA approval of cytisinicline as a safe, effective treatment for smoking addiction.

Lawsuit seeks to bar business activity in state as company pitches massive data-center expansion.

How a mystery payment may help explain billions in backlog funneled through a single suspicious intermediary.

A 33-year old multibillionaire founder. Huge banks and funders. A 728-page prospectus filled with big promises and omissions. All raising a critical question: Does this Czech arms dealer actually have the capacity to mass-produce the ammunition that it calls its “principal driver of revenue and profitability” — or is CSG mostly refurbishing old ammo and running out of supply?

Ubiquiti, a $33 billion tech empire, is led by Robert Pera, owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. He pledged to tighten controls on his products years ago — so why are Russian military units sending Ubiquiti vendors thank-you notes?

Three mysterious entities. Tens of billions in revenue. Our multinational investigation reveals how CVS, UnitedHealth, and Cigna created new subsidiaries to divert billions of dollars from health plans and patients. All three tried to keep it secret. None answered repeated questions. CVS sued to stop evidence getting out. Cigna called the police on a reporter. And the cost isn’t just higher drug prices. People have died.

Wall Street keeps asking if there's an AI bubble. The answer seems obvious once you move past the usual suspects.

Internal training document appears to direct unlicensed mortgage activity by sales agents as part of a strategy to control and pressure buyers.

On a leaked call, Sable Offshore CEO Jim Flores told a select group of investors in October that the company would likely have to raise up to $200 million in equity by the end of 2025. The company had not disclosed this dilutive equity offering publicly. It’s one of several examples of apparently selective disclosure from Sable. The company seems to have shared information only with certain investors, a list that includes golfer Phil Mickelson, according to messages from a group chat leaked to Hunterbrook. In one of those messages, Mickelson passed on a tip allegedly from the company’s CEO in an X group chat that Sable would be issuing an 8-K filing about a material update later that day. Sable did in fact issue a market-moving 8-K shortly thereafter. “I believe this beyond any doubt: These guys definitely have first hand communication from Jim and they are being fed information from Jim and giving it to other group members,” one member of the chat, who previously owned the stock, told Hunterbrook, in reference to some of his fellow group chat members. Whether that material information was actually worth having is another question. While Sable’s stock rose 8% after hours on the day the 8-K was issued, it gave that all back (and then some) the following trading day. Meanwhile, courts, regulators, and activists have so far stopped Sable from utilizing its sole asset — a pipeline that in 2015 erupted into one of the worst oil spills in California history. Mickelson declined to comment directly to Hunterbrook despite repeated outreach. In a message to the group chat, which is called “Sable Quantum Offshore Compute,” he warned that Hunterbrook was “looking into this chat as if we have inside info.” “What’s funny about it is we’ve all been wrong on just about everything and we’ve all lost money but whatever,” Mickelson added, before posting a phone number of a Hunterbrook reporter to the chat. (Another group member then attempted to dox the reporter in a Craigslist post offering free dog food, apparently not realizing that Hunterbrook was still reading their messages. Lol.) On Wednesday, an anonymous X account posted a very short excerpt from the same call with investors obtained by Hunterbrook. Soon thereafter, a member of Mickelson’s chat relayed to the group that the company had contacted them claiming that the audio was AI generated, and asking investors to push back against an anticipated Bloomberg News article on Sable’s conduct. Within hours, a chorus of Sable investors, including Mickelson, was repeating that message on social media. In response to questions about this, Sable told Hunterbrook that “based upon information provided to us we believe that the alleged recording was either AI generated or otherwise altered.” The company did not respond to follow up questions regarding what led it to that belief, or what portions of the recording it believed had been altered. At Hunterbrook’s request, a leading AI detection company ran the recording through their platform and concluded that it is likely not to be manipulated using generative artificial intelligence in any way. Hunterbrook also asked a senior AI engineer at a top research lab to analyze the recording; he also confirmed that it was highly unlikely to be AI generated or altered. The recording Hunterbrook obtained includes the short excerpt that was posted on X, though the version on X sounds distorted. Perhaps the most notable part of the call comes toward the end — when Flores lays out his Hail Mary plan to bring his project online: Enlisting President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to avoid California regulations and secure federal funding for the project. A carrot Sable is prepared to offer, according to the recording? A round of golf with “a certain lefty.” A source close to Lutnick told Hunterbrook: "He's never heard of the company and has no plans to golf with Mickelson."

As sickness spreads and names of former employees fill obituary pages, Danville residents surrounding Viscofan's sausage casing factory are left asking: Why is this plant still here?

An investigation shows national homebuilder LGI Homes ($LGIH) may be targeting low-income renters with deceptive ads promising unrealistically low prices, then pressuring them to buy expensive homes through highly scripted, aggressive sales tactics. LGI homeowners were four times as likely to lose their home to a foreclosure than a typical FHA borrower — a pool already at higher risk — according to a Hunterbrook data analysis.

After inaccurate readings from Dexcom’s flagship G7 device, some diabetics are ending up in the ICU — or dead. A surprise FDA inspection revealed Dexcom made an unauthorized design change to a key component of the G7 that internal studies showed was inferior by “every accuracy metric.” Dexcom sold the “adulterated” device anyway. Then several execs fled amid FDA scrutiny, soaring complaints, rising competition, insiders dumping $DXCM, and questionable accounting. Patients are now returning to the G6 or switching to competitors. This investigation reveals Dexcom’s problems are far worse than previously known. It also tackles the mystery: How did a great innovator lose its way — and the trust of diabetics across America?

Contaminate. Clean Up. Repeat. This is the first investigation in a new Hunterbrook Media series on the poisoning of American communities. For decades, polluters have sickened towns and cities across the country by releasing toxic chemicals, often with impunity. Now — with the Environmental Protection Agency captured by the same industries the EPA was meant to regulate — the crisis worsens. Hunterbrook has built a nationwide database to expose harm to communities and ecosystems, then hold accountable those responsible. We start today in Nebraska. A factory in rural Hastings, Nebraska, is among the top emitters nationwide of trichloroethylene, a carcinogenic chemical. The county has among the highest rates of cancer in the country. From mechanics and a bartender, to parents and neighbors, the community is asking: Why are we so sick?

As the Trump administration reportedly prepares to pull funding for war crime investigations, a new international exposé reveals how microelectronics from American tech giants — household names like Intel and Texas Instruments — enable precision strikes on Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and shopping centers.

Bird flu, alone, is not the answer.