Jackie Davalos

@jackiedavalos.bsky.social

Reporter @ Bloomberg News

🎙️All five episodes of my podcast IVF Disrupted: The Kindbody Story are out! It's an investigation into clinical mistakes, staffing crises, and financial pressures at one of America's fastest-growing IVF chains. You can listen on Apple/Spotify or find all eps here: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The human cost of disrupting America’s fertility industry.

An investigation into clinical mistakes, staffing crises, and financial pressures at one of America’s fastest-growing IVF chains.

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I also took a closer look at grants that Ted Cruz flagged as “woke”. One of them is for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign which uses NSF funds to buy NVIDIA GPUs for researchers. Just last month, Marc Andressen credited UIUCs computing resources for helping him develop the Mosaic browser.

Jackie Davalos@jackiedavalos.bsky.social · last yr.

My latest explores how layoffs and Trump’s budget cuts at the NSF could set the US back in AI race vs China.

Jaw-dropping story about a billionaire who duped women into donating their eggs so he could have a brood of blonde, blue-eyed children. The "project" continued even when he was behind bars (and he's probably going back to prison, leaving the kids' care to nannies). Free link:

How a Billionaire’s ‘Baby Project’ Ensnared Dozens of Women

Disgraced tycoon Greg Lindberg built a network of egg donors and surrogates. Several say he conned them—and that US fertility clinics helped him do it.

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