What I read this week...

Tom Alberg, early Amazon investor and long-time Amazon board member, dies at 82 (WSJ)

Biden’s ties to BlackRock deepen with latest Treasury hire (Bloomberg)

Oil crisis: Why the world needs more of ‘The Great Canadian Barrel’ (Canadian Energy Centre)

Ford raises price of electric F-150 Lightning by up to $8,500 due to 'significant' battery cost increases (CNBC)

July’s heatwave may have killed thousands of Britons (The Economist)

Billionaires are funding a massive treasure hunt in Greenland as ice vanishes (CNN)

Serena Williams says farewell to tennis on her own terms – and in her own words (Vogue)

Why Serena Williams’ retirement is different (The Atlantic)

Inside the war between Trump and his generals (The New Yorker)

What should we make of the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago? (Common Sense)

The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN and it's absolutely wild (LADBible)

OnlyFans bribed Meta to put thousands of porn stars on terror watchlist, suits claim (NY Post)