OpenAI subpoenaed for documents covering broad scope of activities (WSJ); coalition of state AGs opens investigation into OpenAI over user impact (Polymarket); both June 13 2026
It was a historic day for markets. Over 500 million shares of SpaceX, $SPCX, were traded today, with volume exceeding $80 BILLION. SpaceX is now the 7th largest public company in the world. Congratulations to all!
Solana tokenized equities $25M → $1.2B in 12 months; 47x; faster than DeFi Summer 2020; 96% market share (xstocks/Sunrise/Backpack); ETH $380M tokenized equities vs 6x more total RWA TVL; Solana 76% of all tokenized stocks globally
solana tokenized equities went from $25m to $1.2b in 12 months. 47x. faster than defi summer 2020. 96% market share in tokenized stocks across xstocks, sunrise, and backpack. ethereum has 6x more total RWA TVL but only $380m in tokenized equities. solana owns 76% of that
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering whether to block CME's bid to launch a round-the-clock oil contract, heightening tensions between the market stalwart and its regulator
Export control directive received 5:21pm; Fable 5 + Mythos 5; all foreign nationals + non-US Anthropic employees blocked; government claims jailbreak discovered; Anthropic: 'no testers have yet uncovered a universal jailbreak'; AWS global revocation; industry-wide application 'would effectively stop all new model deployments for frontier providers'
Just occurred to me that Anthropic employees who are not US persons will not be able to use Fable/Mythos, making this plausibly (and to be clear, accidentally) the first regulation on recursive self-improvement.
Iran: multiple one-way attack drones (upgraded from 2 previously reported); target: commercial ships Strait of Hormuz; all downed by US forces; traffic unimpeded; CENTCOM official statement
Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. forces have downed all of them in recent hours as traffic flow through the strait continues unimpeded. The international trade corridor remains open for
Anthropic Fable 5 & Mythos 5; national security export control directive; foreign nationals — including Anthropic employees — suspended from all access
[QT @AnthropicAI]: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
ether fi distributed $3.2m to ETHFI holders in november. december $2.6m. january $1.4m. march $430k. april $30k. may and june: $0. seven month revenue collapse from $38m annualized to zero. eigenlayer mainnet has been live 18 months and AVS fee demand is still largely
JTBC, the broadcaster owned by South Korea's media giant JoongAng, defaulted on securitized loans and was downgraded to junk by a local ratings firm, triggering a series of rating cuts across the conglomerate
HYPE: $4.4B OI / $13B mcap = 33% OI-to-mcap; PURR $170M HYPE at $60 in 1 week → borrow rate raised to 30%; Arthur Hayes $18M full exit 3 days post-public endorsement
hyperliquid carries $4.4b in open interest on a $13b market cap. 33% OI-to-mcap ratio. PURR accumulated $170m in HYPE at $60 in a single week then immediately jacked borrow rates to 30% to push users out. arthur hayes sold his entire $18m position 3 days after publicly betting
Joachim Nagel (Bundesbank president, ECB GC member): 'Prices are likely to stay elevated for longer even if the war in Iran were to end soon' — Deutschlandfunk interview, June 13 2026
bittensor subnet registration cost went from 230 to 1,500 TAO in under a year. 6.5x. that's raw demand for launching AI businesses on the network eating liquid supply. meanwhile daily emissions just got halved to 3,600 TAO, 73% of supply is staked, effective float is 3.4%, and
Basically China export controlled Japan, causing their WF₆ supply chain to go down. Meaning 25% of the world's supply required for SK Hynix, Samsung, $TSM go bye
Access to @AnthropicAI's latest models has been paused for all customers, including in the US and UK. The main lesson: as we debate the future of national security and technological sovereignty, access to AI capabilities is crucial.
2X LONG AND SHORT SPACEX ETFS LAUNCHING ON MONDAY. The 2x Long and Short SpaceX ETFs will begin trading ... here are the tickers to watch out for from Leverage Shares - $SPCH - 2x Long SpaceX ETF - $SSPC - 2x Short SpaceX ETF - NO margin account needed - 0.75% Expense ratio
Iran FM Baghaei: 'memorandum signing exact time won't be tomorrow'; 'cautious approach needed amid other side's hesitation'; 'signing in coming days cannot be ruled out'
Cool new open-weight model by Cohere: a new lightweight 30B open-weight model for agentic coding tasks. This one builds on Command A+ using the parallel transformer design. Interestingly, even though it's almost half as big, it almost doubles the number of layers.
lol. Senator from Massachusetts who created a self inflicted housing shortage wants to tax the people of Texas, who build electric cars and rockets, to subsidize the self inflicted housing shortage
The US Justice Department cleared Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it was unlikely to harm competition or consumers
Bitcoin ETF outflows are accelerating: US Bitcoin ETFs have posted -$2.1 billion in outflows so far in June, on pace to exceed -$2.4 billion in outflows recorded in May. This has been driven by the largest spot Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, which saw -$401.4 million in outflows this
US senior official: 'strong Iran agreement'; 14-point deal, 1-2 pages; US de-mining offer with G7 nations as Strait reopens; Polymarket 52% permanent peace deal by month-end; Iran FM: 'not planning to visit Geneva or other locations in coming days'
Trump just reposted the Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif's post that a US-Iran peace deal is imminent. --- All we know is that it is 14 points that take up 1 to 2 pages. The exact language is not public. The Iranians think they will control the Strait, regulate its traffic, and can
Nabiullina missing since May 28; skipped June 4 SPIEF ('Russian Davos'); skipped June 9 critical interest rate meeting with Putin; 3 major events missed; Kremlin statement unresolved
Russian Central Bank Head Elvira Nabiullina has been missing from public view since May 28, skipping three major events—including the June 4 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ("Russian Davos"), and a critical interest rate meeting with Putin on June 9th. The Kremlin
US-Iran deal; 24-hour finalization window; MOU scope: war ceasefire only (nuclear excluded); Pakistan facilitating e-signing; Trump: 'final drafting stage'; Fars News Agency (IRGC-affiliated): high probability Iran approves text
BREAKING: Global technology funds posted +$12.3 billion in inflows in the week ending June 10th, the largest weekly inflow since at least 2017. This includes +$3.0 billion into the 3x leveraged long S&P 500 ETF, $SPXL, and +$2.9 billion into the Semiconductor ETF, $SOXX.
$SPCX; BlackRock via $BIA: ~$450M buy; ETF holders: 4 (Fri morning) → 40; faster ETF adoption than $META/$BABA (weeks vs days); driven by shift from passive index-governed to active ETFs
A ton of ETFs bought $SPCX yesterday (esp BlackRock via $BIA w/ $450m buy). There were 4 ETF holders on Fri morning but now there are 40. Wild. I remember w $META and $BABA it took weeks for it to enter ETFs. Back then tho almost everything was passive governed by index rules.
Trump: 'no money will exchange hands in Iran deal'; Iran FM spokesperson: release of frozen funds 'integral part of agreement'; deal wording still not public; 14-point deal ~1-2 pages
Red Headlines on Bloomberg Now *TRUMP SAYS IRAN DEAL SCHEDULED TO BE SIGNED SUNDAY *TRUMP SAYS NO MONEY WILL EXCHANGE HANDS IN IRAN DEAL *TRUMP SAYS 'WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH IRAN' --- The deal's wording is still not public.
An MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter lifts off from the flight deck of USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) as the ship transits the Arabian Sea in support of the blockade against Iran. As of June 13, CENTCOM forces have redirected 141 commercial vessels and disabled 9 to ensure compliance.
Mahmoud Nabavian; Deputy Head Iran Parliamentary National Security Commission; Khamenei red lines absent from draft; public statement; deal text not released
Red Headlines on Bloomberg crossing at the same time as the post below ... *TRUMP SAYS IRAN DEAL SCHEDULED TO BE SIGNED SUNDAY *TRUMP SAYS NO MONEY WILL EXCHANGE HANDS IN IRAN DEAL --- The deal's wording is still not public [QT @MarioNawfal: 🇮🇷 A senior Iranian parliamentarian just publicly shredded the current Hormuz draft. And he named the Supreme Leader's red lines one by one to show they aren't in it. Mahmoud Nabavian, Deputy Head of Iran's Parliamentary National Security Commission, explicitly:]
Iran FM spokesperson via Fars News: Iran 'will have to charge for services provided in Strait of Hormuz'; framed as 'national security and common good of world community'
5 days after OpenAI's IPO filing, 42 states came knocking. New York's subpoena wants records on ads, user data, and minors, and now it all has to go in the S-1 on an $852B listing.
Global high-yield credit market stress is surging: Investors now demand +6.4 percentage points of extra yield to hold CCC-rated global corporate bonds over BB-rated bonds, the biggest premium in 14 months. CCC bonds sit at the lowest tier of investable corporate debt, while BB
Google and Microsoft now have a combined AI backlog of more than $1 Trillion - Google $GOOGL now has a $467.6 Billion revenue backlog up from $92.4B in the same quarter last year - Microsoft $MSFT now has a $633B revenue backlog up from $321B in the same quarter last year
Tesla says its cars crash less than humans. 3.2M are under federal probe. The investigation opened after the system kept missing glare, fog, and debris.
While intense El Nino conditions could hurt harvests in much of the world, the climate phenomenon is likely to boost agricultural production in Argentina in the second half of the year, climate specialists said.
FrontierMath: Tiers 1–4 (v2) is live. We concluded an audit that addressed errors in 42% of problems. Rankings are similar but scores are higher across the board. The current leaders are GPT-5.5 (xhigh) with 85% on Tiers 1–3 and Google's AI co-mathematician with 76% on Tier 4.
Lockheed Martin $LMT was just awarded a $2.3 Billion contract with the 🇺🇸 Navy "to provide initial non-recurring sustainment activities and services, including site activation, interim contractor support, fleet management, and reliability and maintainability improvement plan"
Breaking: An appeals court is keeping intact a federal judge's ruling requiring the Kennedy Center to remove President Donald Trump's name from its building by the end of Friday. -@CNN
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins watched sterile flies being released to fight the New World screwworm on Thursday and visited the Texas ranch where one of the first cases of the pest was detected. The screwworm could devastate the nation's cattle industry.
Americans lose hundreds of billions of dollars to fraud each year. At @USTreasury, we follow the money, and we know financial institutions are often the first to see suspicious activity in real time. They need the tools to act quickly and share information that can help stop
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent right now to construct massive facilities that will house and run the computers needed for the spiking demand for artificial intelligence But as those centers are being built, communities across the country are in open revolt,
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against GKN Aerospace after one of the company's tanks containing a highly flammable chemical overheated and threatened a catastrophic explosion last month, forcing the evacuation of about 50,000 residents in California's Orange
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Europe for the upcoming G7 summit, where he is expected to make a more muted criticism of U.S. President Trump at a crucial time for talks to potentially renew a free-trade agreement between the two countries and Mexico.
US consumer spending is losing momentum: The Chicago Fed projects retail and food services sales, excluding autos, fell -0.3% MoM in May. If confirmed, that would be the biggest decline since January 2025 and the 3rd-largest since March 2023. This decrease would follow a +0.7%
Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025. After years of bitcoin rewarding those who held through periods of volatility, the selloff is just the latest test of investors' mettle.
European Union countries agreed on Friday to restrict the circumstances in which the bloc can suspend its carbon emissions fee on imports, potentially helping to provide more certainty for low-carbon investments in the bloc.
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce
From the early pitch meetings — when banks jostled for a role — to the official filing in May, SpaceX underwent one of the biggest periods of transition in its history ahead of its $75 billion IPO
"We've been close to a deal many times, but close doesn't count," says Alan Eyre. "It does seem both sides want a deal. Both sides seem to realize that military escalation isn't really going to help either side."
JUST IN: Taiwan is reportedly planning a $200 million data center in Paraguay as it works to strengthen diplomatic ties with its lone South American ally.
metaplanet acquired a japanese securities firm for $13m and is building bitcoin yield products ahead of japan's tax reform that drops crypto gains from 55% to 20% flat. japan has ¥1,100T in bank deposits earning near zero. the reform passes 2027-2028. metaplanet is building the
phone cluster computing; ~hundreds of millions of old phones discarded/year; ~4-year replacement cycle; Google + UCSD collaboration
Jeff Dean指出手机约每4年更换一次,存量废旧设备规模极大,若能组成计算集群可直接降低数据中心对新原材料的需求。这一方向兼顾算力扩展与可持续性,但距工程化落地尚存距离。
People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable as computing devices. @Google in collaboration with @UCSD is exploring how to turn these old phones into cloud-computing 'phone clusters'.
"Our citizen is so good at his job that he has outcompeted the ENTIRE world and created endless jobs and tax money for us. Quick, lets villainize him and steal everything he has!" [QT @pronounced_kyle: They did it. SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity, combined, all time.]
Lithuania national crisis management centre issues alert to Vilnius residents as suspected military drone spotted in Lithuanian airspace, NATO jets deployed
This is actually how the intelligence explosion hits the top of the s curve btw Thermodynamics is the great regularizer There is no foom [QT @anabology: Google has an internal Fable- or GPT-5.6-level model and there's no reason to release it because it's negative margin]
Foosung (093370, ~$1.2B MC) looks like a massive beneficiary soon. Basically China export controlled Japan, causing their WF₆ supply chain to go down. Meaning 25% of the world's supply required for SK Hynix, Samsung, $TSM go bye
China's motorcycle industry trade body urged manufacturers to curb price wars and focus on higher-quality growth, warning that a flood of similar products is hurting the reputation of Chinese manufacturing
Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is set to become the biggest shareholder of West Ham United, after securing a deal to raise his stake in the scandal-hit English football club
Rheinmetall's CEO sees a risk that France will exit a joint tank project with Germany, following this week's collapse of a fighter jet program between the two countries, according to an interview with Welt am Sonntag
American Bitcoin was promoted as a way for stock market investors to gain crypto exposure. Outside investors lost more than $200 million on American Bitcoin shares, while Eric Trump's restricted stake is still worth more than $70 million
Malaysia's former parliamentary opposition leader Hamzah Zainudin unveiled a new political party on Saturday, as groups jockey for influence ahead of the next general election
Viktor Orban secured re-election as leader of Hungary's Fidesz party on Saturday despite growing internal dissatisfaction following a historic electoral defeat
Canada PM Carney: US officials won't change 'fundamental architecture' of NAFTA/USMCA to avoid triggering congressional vote; G7 Canada-US talks underway but 'no major progress expected'
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said US officials don't want to trigger a vote in Congress by changing the "fundamental architecture" of the North American free trade deal.
USO has already rolled to August WTI but yes the short in the ETF is positioning fuel overall. [QT @HE4DEYES: The Cushing / $USO Short Trap: Why the Friday oil crash is a textbook paper illusion. EIA data shows Cushing stocks at 21.64M barrels, dropping by ~800k a week. The absolute operational bottom is 20M. Below that, pipeline pressure fails.]
Nubank; false 'bank liquidated' alert sent to customers; programming error; Brazil; official apology issued
Brazil's Nubank apologized customers who received an app alert telling them the bank had been liquidated, saying it was sent by mistake in a programming error
Two things can be true at once…. AI investments will end in a big bubble, but we are not there yet. See the image below. Grant thinks we are near the "peak of inflated expectations." Recent Gartner analysis puts agentic AI right at that peak, but I still think we have more of
🎥WATCH: Weapons located in one of Hezbollah's underground terror tunnels. For this very reason, the IDF launched the operation in the Beaufort Ridge: to dismantle Hezbollah's threat, prevent them from using the ridge to target northern communities and dismantle the underground
Still thinking about this [QT @xenovacom: I gave Fable 5 one job: write custom WebGPU kernels for Gemma 4 inference. It climbed to 84 tok/s, then hit a wall, insisting further optimization was impossible. Hours later, Anthropic rolled back invisible LLM development safeguards, and it hit 255 tok/s. The next day,
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney continued his efforts to pivot away from the U.S. and align with Europe, meeting with the leader of Ireland on Saturday ahead of the upcoming G7 summit and saying middle-power countries shouldn't compete for favor with America.
$USELESS continues to rank among the top three most-traded memecoins on SOL more than a year after launch it trails only $TRUMP and $FARTCOIN it's also worth noting that USELESS has maintained this position longer than any other memecoin since its launch over a year ago
"We're one of very few companies that offer products in one store ranging from $150 to $250,000. So with us, most people can find something that they like and that is suitable to them," @swarovski CEO Alexis Nasard tells Bloomberg This Weekend as he talks about being a "pop luxury" brand.
lol. Senator from Massachusetts who created a self inflicted cost of care crisis wants to tax the people of Texas, who build electric cars and rockets, to subsidize the self inflicted cost of care crisis
beffjezos: 'Either AI safetyists get their sh*t together and solve this guardrail problem for Fable ASAP or their whole field will be confirmed to have been a grift all along'
Either AI safetyists get their sh*t together and solve this guardrail problem for Fable ASAP or their whole field will be confirmed to have been a grift all along. They literally had one job
the idea that Elon could loan against his entire $1t net worth is, yet again, nonsensical, so let's break it down firstly, regulatory single borrower limits mean no bank can lend more than 15% of its capital and surplus to one entity - so theoretically to get anywhere near
In The Lockdown Dissidents, a new documentary from Wall Street Journal Opinion, NIH Director, @DrJBhattacharya shares that he was blacklisted on Twitter because the government was pressuring social media about covid speech.
saturn credit hit $205m TVL in 10 weeks. 127% growth in 30 days. $100m deployed through pendle in under a month. impressive until you look at what's underneath. 45% of USDat backing is STRC, a perpetual preferred equity instrument collateralized by one company's BTC holdings.
"The idea that this is cheap marketing is itself cheap marketing." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joins The Circuit with @EmilyChangTV to push back against critics who accuse him of hyping artificial intelligence risks to benefit his company. Amodei also blasts Silicon Valley's
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured three in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, local officials said Saturday, as part of Kyiv's campaign of strikes on military and energy targets deep inside Russia.