How to fix all the bugs. [QT @clairevo: Before Fable got released (and pulled) @mozilla was quietly testing Claude Mythos against Firefox's 10M line codebase. The result? Over 400 security bugs fixes, including ones that had been hiding in the codebase for over a decade.]
Micron $100B fab; Syracuse, NY; halted within hours of groundbreaking; California nonprofit staffed by LA 'equity coordinators'; 3+ years of environmental reviews
Concerning. [QT @PirateWires: In February, we reported on the NIMBY war against Micron. After 3+ years of environmental reviews and public hearings, the company finally broke ground on its $100 billion site in Syracuse, NY — only to get halted literally within hours. A California nonprofit, staffed by Los Angeles 'equity coordinators,' is trying to kill a chip fab in new york state]
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorities say the number of confirmed Ebola cases is now more than 1,000, with at least 254 deaths. The virus has now spread to a third displacement camp in the east of the country, killing an 18-month-old girl.
There is still hope for the republic [QT @BitcoinNewsCom: 🚨 ILLINOIS MOVES TO REPEAL AGGRESSIVE BITCOIN TAX JUST DAYS AFTER PASSAGE Illinois lawmakers have introduced HB5798, a bill that would fully repeal the state's controversial Digital Asset Tax Act. The legislation, filed by Rep. John Cabello on June 22, would eliminate the tax]
Doomers ruin another life. [QT @LoganDobson: Also in these court docs (page 4): at least one of the co-conspirators was motivated by lies about "data centers taking up all the water"]
The latest attack — which now number at more than 60 — brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to more than 210 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in early September.
More than half of Australians now see their nation's relationship with China as more important than its ties to the US, a new poll showed, while confidence in President Donald Trump slumped to a record low.
Real yields continue to go vertical. Now at two-year highs. This is exactly how you break an economy drowning in debt. The next Fed Chair has a lot of work to do, and that doesn't start with hiking rates.
Moody's: "We're giving this loss-making, castle-in-the-air pile of shit an investment grade rating because based on history, there appears to be a long-term supply of bagholder monkeys willing to throw money at it." Cannot wait for credit derivatives to start trading on this
China has narrowed its cumulative fiscal deficit for the first time in more than two years, pressing ahead with austerity despite muted domestic demand and slowing economic growth
OpenAI for Samsung: [QT @Techmeme: Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it's one of its largest enterprise deployments (Kim Su-jeong / CHOSUNBIZ)]
Oracle's total workforce declined 13%, or about 21,000 employees, in fiscal 2026, as the cloud computing giant continued restructuring its business, partly driven by the adoption of AI across its operations.
British Prime Minister Starmer resigned Monday, setting in motion a process to replace him that will produce the country's seventh prime minister in 10 years.
A wave of staff reductions at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence began on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter, days after Bill Pulte, a staunch loyalist to President Donald Trump, became acting director
Japan's five-year government bond auction on Tuesday saw lower demand than the 12-month average, as yen weakness added to expectations that the Bank of Japan may need to raise rates faster
A US agency said it was investigating the June 19 crash of a Tesla Model 3 that was reportedly using an advanced driver assistance system when it struck a home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old woman.
China Resources New Energy Holdings drew strong demand from investors as it opened books for what is set to be the largest-ever IPO on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Kim Jong Un calls for North Korea to boost its nuclear capabilities "with increasing speed" and says the "bloody situation" in the Middle East makes his nuclear push the "most correct and unique way" to defend the country
The US says it provided four underwater vehicles to the Philippine military, as Washington boosts its longtime ally's capability to counter Beijing's actions in the South China Sea
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Iran FM Baghaei: no IAEA inspection plan for conflict-targeted nuclear sites; Iranian UN Geneva ambassador: 'some good progress' in US-Iran Switzerland talks
x402 settled $73m across 176m transactions since may. average size $0.41. stripe would charge $0.31 fixed fee per transaction, consuming 75% of each payment just on the flat component. ethereum mainnet gas at $2 would cost $352m to move $73m. traditional payment rails and L1s are
Meta's AI studied workers. Then it leaked their secrets. The tool logged keystrokes and clicks to train Meta's models. A permissions slip left that data open to the whole company.
9 companies, $2bn, and an ownership stake for the state. The US usually gives research money away with no strings. This time it wants equity in the firms it funds, with roughly $1bn going to IBM alone.
EUR falls to lowest since August 2025; ECB President Lagarde dovish; Chief Economist Lane: inflation above 2% 'for quite some time'; Escrivá: high oil prices feeding through to economy
European Central Bank officials are facing the risk that inflation will hover above their goal "for quite some time," according to Chief Economist Philip Lane
SpaceX shares slipped for a third straight day, shedding hundreds of billions of dollars in market value, after the Elon Musk-led company said it is selling investment-grade bonds for the first time, part of what's expected to be a massive borrowing spree to fund its
A selloff in technology stocks is dragging global equities lower, led by a retreat in chipmakers that have been at the forefront of an unprecedented AI-driven rally, as Neil Campling reports
JUST IN: RIPPLE $XRP RECEIVES PRELIMINARY EU MICA CASP LICENSE APPROVAL FROM LUXEMBOURG REGULATOR, ENABLING EXPANSION OF CRYPTO PAYMENTS SERVICES ACROSS EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA
Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50 billion from regional and global investors to accelerate spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and technology, sources say
Iran 'fully and completely agreed' to nuclear inspections; Hormuz open, no naval blockade; US Treasury escrow for food/medical (corn, wheat, soybeans); ships remain in place; Iran Fars News: vessel passage capped daily by conditions
🇺🇸 PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST POSTED THIS: "Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!)." "I have agreed to allow the Hormuz Strait to remain OPEN, with no further Naval Blockade."
Iran + Oman joint statement; 'sovereign rights in territorial waters'; joint committee on Hormuz costs/services; talks with coastal states; navigation management agreement
ESA satellite data; 441 large vessels stranded east of Hormuz; US: Oman route vs Iran: Iran route; conflicting routing instructions; shipping standstill persists post-deal
NVIDIA $NVDA JUST LAUNCHED BIONEMO AGENT TOOLKIT AND IT COULD CHANGE HOW DRUG DISCOVERY WORKS More than 50 companies are already using it including Anthropic, OpenAI, Eli Lilly $LLY, Databricks, Snowflake $SNOW, Dassault Systèmes, and Schrödinger.
Meta 'Model Capability Initiative' (MCI) suspended; keystroke/click/mouse tracking of US employees; company-wide sensitive data exposed; per Business Insider
Meta, $META, has suspended its "Model Capability Initiative" (MCI), an internal AI training program that tracked US employees' keystrokes, clicks, and mouse movements, after an internal security issue exposed sensitive employee data across the entire organization, per BI
Sen. John Boozman (R, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman); PLTR first-ever purchase; 23 days after USDA awarded Palantir $300M contract; committee oversees USDA; PLTR -11% since
Keep an eye on this one ✍️ Sen. John Boozman (R) is the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee He just bought Palantir $PLTR for the first time 23 days earlier, the USDA awarded Palantir a $300 million contract His committee oversees the USDA $PLTR is down 11% since
What is happening with the stock market? Let us explain. First, tomorrow's Micron earnings release, $MU, now feel a lot like Nvidia earnings days in 2023 and 2024. Speculation over Micron's earnings is a key factor driving this volatility. The stock is now worth over $1.2
Iranian ambassador to the UN in Geneva: If Israel violates the MOU in any format, including by attacking Lebanon and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran will respond
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll wants defense companies to develop cheaper air-defense interceptors within a year, part of a bid to upend decades of weapons-development inertia and fix shortcomings exposed by the wars in Ukraine and Iran.
"The survey signals that current output levels are consistent with the economy struggling to grow much faster than a 1% annualized rate in the second quarter."
Russia Deputy PM Novak: considering diesel export ban; using fuel reserves; delayed refinery maintenance; gasoline rationing in multiple regions following Ukrainian strikes on refineries
Russia's gasoline crunch is worsening, with more regions introducing fuel rationing or suffering supply disruptions following Ukrainian attacks on refineries
WHO: Congo Ebola outbreak highest first-month case total of any outbreak on record; 1,000+ confirmed cases; 254 deaths; spread to 3rd displacement camp
The International Maritime Organization said it will begin to implement an evacuation plan for more than 11,000 seafarers still stranded in the Middle East after the US and Iran agreed to an interim peace deal.
Specialized AI agents help enterprises turn AI into systems built for their own workflows. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit brings together open Nemotron models, tools, skills and secure runtime support to help teams build agents tuned for domain-specific work.
No it isn't. It's a normal issuance with every participant lying [$SPCX reportedly saw $89B of peak demand for its planned $20B debt offering making the deal more than 4x oversubscribed. Thats a major vote of confidence from credit markets as SpaceX raises long-dated capital for the next phase of the space economy buildout.]
US 2-Year Note Auction High Yield 4.189% [Stop-through 0.3 bps] Bid-to-cover 2.64 Sells $69 bln Awards 5.66% of bids at high Primary Dealers take 10.2% Direct 34.3% Indirect 55.5%
Stark Defence, a startup making kamikaze drones, has raised €500 million ($570 million) in a fundraising round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund as private capital pours into European military technology
We are seeing historic growth in tokenized stock trading volumes: Across all chains, monthly tokenized stock trading volume hit a record $5.3 billion last month, up 44% MoM. On Solana, total transfer volume of tokenized stocks is now officially above $10 billion for the first
BREAKING: Physical gold-backed ETFs attracted +5.1 tonnes in inflows last week, the largest weekly inflow since mid-April. In Dollar terms, investors bought +$1.1 billion, also the highest since mid-April. This follows 4 consecutive weekly outflows, totaling -58.2 tonnes, or
All these stocks hit new 52 WEEK LOWS at some point today Palantir $PLTR Stellantis $STLA Trade Desk $TTD Alibaba $BABA Primoris Services $PRIM Tencent Music $TME Xpeng $XPEV PDD Holdings $PDD Sony Group $SONY Li Auto $LI Bilibili $BILI Telus $TU Full Truck Alliance $YMM Zillow
Rubio: 'No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law. That's the way it is.' Context: Iran-Oman Hormuz joint statement on sovereign rights
"It's an international waterway," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law. That's the way it is."
$7b in bitcoin ETF outflows over 5 weeks. 44 consecutive days of negative coinbase premium. blackrock dumped 1,000 BTC on june 23 alone. meanwhile corporate treasuries bought 2,398 BTC that same week with zero companies selling. strategy holds 847,363 BTC, more than every
Hedge funds are aggressively betting on lower oil prices: Hedge fund net short bets on Brent crude oil are up to ~$18 billion, the highest in at least 10 years. This figure has more than TRIPLED over the last 3 months.
A $7 billion private credit fund run by Morgan Stanley is capping investor withdrawals at 5%, allowing less than half of the redemptions shareholders requested in the second quarter.
An AI startup using Anthropic models is suing the U.S. over a government order requiring the company to restrict its most advanced AI from foreign nationals.
Every equity bubble inevitably becomes a credit bubble before it bursts... AI hyperscalers (Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle) have issued 47% more debt in the first 5 months of this year ($159 billion) than all of last year ($108 billion). Their YTD debt issuance exceeds the combined issuance from 2020-2024.
🇺🇸 President Trump just said: "General Motors $GM is all excited about building weapons now. They have some plants that are gonna switch over and build weapons."
Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by the AP.
Bittensor; 41,000 TAO/day minted; ~$10.2M/day; 70-80% hits exchanges within 48h; 21-day unbonding; performance-based emission cuts for subnets without real API revenue
bittensor mints 41,000 TAO daily, roughly $10.2m. 70-80% of that hits exchanges within 48 hours. root governance redesign forces stakers to lock TAO into specific subnets with 21-day unbonding and performance-based emission cuts. subnets that don't generate real API revenue or
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I'm long $TSEM, the $TSM of photonics. My top two picks for CPO are $SOI and Tower Semi. Given the $NVDA GTC catalyst on new photonic related architecture next week: I expect Tower Semi to get a huge catalyst. Nvidia already directly collaborated with Tower to scale 1.6T
Wow, $TSEM up 10%+ today. Good times, should have made this one of my largest positions in hindsight back in March. Foundries like $GFS and $INTC have been going brrr lately.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked for public input on perpetual contracts and 24/7 trading for traditional energy derivatives, after industry heavyweights raised concerns about offshore platforms and excessive levels of risk
Japan retail FX traders reversed yen shorts; professional investors still bearish on JPY; Finance Minister Katayama × Bessent emergency online meeting; intervention alert
Japan's army of retail currency traders have heeded their government's warning and stopped betting on the yen to decline, putting them at odds with professional investors positioning for further weakness.
Brazil's largest pension fund will no longer seek to control selection of Vale's chairperson and wants the iron ore miner to be overseen by an independent board leader
I actually think OE Solutions ($138080.KQ) makes the most sense as an acquisition target by a large downstream player. Since it's now trading at a stupid ~$215M MC for scarce EML/CW laser IP. A Source Photonics / Suzhou Dongshan Precision type acquisition might add a lot more
I wonder how it feels to miss out on the AI supercycle run… With photonics, memory, and even Neoclouds like $NBIS. Because you're busy bagholding into the endless $6,000,000,000 active ATMs with $IREN.
Indian inflation remains anchored below the central bank's target despite the recent energy shock, as pass-through to domestic prices has been limited, the Reserve Bank said in a monthly bulletin
Australia's proposed crackdown on tax breaks for property investors is set to pass parliament this week after the minority Greens Party agreed to support the bill in the upper house of Parliament
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed down, dragged by declines in the megacap technology stocks including Alphabet, while investors assessed developments in US-Iran negotiations
KPMG Australia said chair Martin Sheppard and two other audit partners will leave as part of a broad restructuring, following whistleblower allegations the firm used confidential client information to help win business
A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of several immigrants who were separated from family members by the Trump administration in 2018 and later detained again by US officials
Trump's capitulation to Iran will have midterm consequences well beyond what he would have suffered from higher gas prices. Not surprising to see this: [QT @larryelder: "On Sunday, I attended a function where I had many conversations with people who voted for Trump in 2024. Many of them had switched sides to support him—some were Jewish, others were not. Every single one of them told me they will either vote Democrat or sit out the midterms, all"]
Newsom has lost a bunch of ground in these polls, there might be a newsletter on this tomorrow! [QT @PollTracker2024: VoteNexus poll | released 6/22 2028 Democratic presidential primary (Utah) 🟦Pete Buttigieg: 17% 🟦Gavin Newsom: 15% 🟦AOC: 15% 🟦Kamala Harris: 10% 🟦Mark Kelly: 9% 🟦Jon Ossoff: 5% 🟦Andy Beshear: 4% 🟦JB Pritzker: 2% 🟦Elizabeth Warren: 2% 🟦Jon Stewart: 2%]
Bank of America looks like the malicious equivalent of Bernstein/Jim Cramer to retail. - said $KOSPI / $EWY was an extreme bubble, compared it to Silver crash back in March, causing retail to sell positions. The index proceeded to close to double and hit ATHs since that call.
Hungary's central bank is likely to lower borrowing costs for the first time in months as slowing inflation and a stronger currency give policymakers room to diverge from global peers starting monetary tightening
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son said there's little merit to building data centers in space, as championed by Elon Musk, and that the AI race will be clinched by compute on Earth
Waymo never had fatalities yet And Tesla FSD is ~4x safer than the average car (in fatal odds per trip) 1,190,000 people die every year in traffic deaths 80% of those would be prevented with self [driving]
European car sales: 4th consecutive monthly gain; May 2026; affordable EV/hybrid uptick; Chinese EV rivals expand share; inflation demand headwind emerging
European car sales grew for a fourth straight month in May as consumers snapped up more affordable electric and hybrid models, though rising inflation is starting to take its toll on demand
Nissan Motor shareholders rejected the reappointment of Motoo Nagai to the board, ending the tenure of an influential outside director after he lost the support of key stakeholder Renault
India said it plans to share its technology involving the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, the country's most reliable rocket, to help speed up development of the local space industry.
Much talk recently about @mntruell and @cursor_ai customer service but I'm not seeing much of it. My wife's API key got stolen 2 weeks ago and >$3k of fraudulent charges run up in days. CC flags it as fraudulent. So far customer support @ Cursor is a black hole...
The baht falls to a one-year low on expectations of a wider interest rate gap between the US and Thailand as domestic demand comes under pressure from multiple headwinds
SNB: In Q1 2026, the current account balance was CHF 16 billion, down CHF 11 billion on the same quarter in 2025. It should, however, be noted that the surplus was relatively high in Q1 2025
Kadokawa, the Japanese firm behind the dark epic 'Elden Ring' video game franchise, is now facing a nightmare of its own: an activist shareholder who wants its CEO gone, wielding a big stake and proxy advisor support.
UK government choices for Chancellor: Ed Miliband: zero private sector economics or financial experience. Wes Streeting: zero private sector economics or financial experience. Shabana Mahmood: zero private sector economics or financial experience. America's equivalent....
bitcoin:native: rejected from weekly resistance two paths I see... which one we get likely depends whether this dollar break out is real or a bull trap
Russia housing; record volume built 2023; state-backed mortgage subsidies rolled back; high borrowing costs; Ukraine war drag; broader economic slowdown
Fueled by state-backed mortgages, a record volume of housing was built across Russia in 2023, but a rollback of subsidies and high borrowing costs have since hit builders in a broader economic slowdown as war with Ukraine drags on.
I mean, it's one RL step, Michael. What could it cost? [QT @dbreunig: "A fun fact is that an RL step on a model like Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra on Tinker costs $1K and a meaningful RL run would be hundreds of steps"]
Britain's competition regulator fined ticket resale platform StubHub UK $1.19 million and ordered it to refund more than 50,000 customers for illegally hiding mandatory fees from fans buying tickets for gigs and sports events.
Allianz Global Investors secured $744 Million in commitments for the first close of its latest private credit fund targeting investments in the Asia Pacific
Today's mission includes a demo of a new vehicle that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for scientific research and in-space manufacturing. After demonstrating controlled flight, the spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean
European Union lawmakers cleared the way for talks on the legal framework that will underpin the digital euro, a project deemed vital to the bloc's monetary independence.
Google is backing a new incubator for former employees building AI startups, deepening its ties with one of Silicon Valley's largest and most influential alumni groups
Tesla $TSLA and NatPower just announced a new $5 Billion battery storage initiative across Italy 🇮🇹 and the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Five initial projects in Italy and the United Kingdom with the total program target exceeding 100 GWh
Germany's fund industry welcomed plans by Chancellor Friedrich Merz for a reform of the retirement system that would require employees to invest part of their income in capital markets
🎯STRUCK: Armed terrorists who posed an immediate threat to IDF troops operating in the Security Zone in southern Lebanon. Following the identification, the soldiers struck the terrorists in order to remove the threat.
ThorChain: 50bps on privacy coin swaps (5x standard fee); Monero: $2.8B market cap; zero tier-1 exchange access since 2023; hash rate ATH 3.8 GH/s; price 80% below 2021 peaks
thorchain charging 50 bps on privacy coin swaps, 5x their standard fee. monero has $2.8b market cap with zero tier-1 exchange access since the 2023 delistings. hash rate at ATH (3.8 GH/s) while price sits 80% below 2021 peaks. committed mining base, no liquidity infrastructure.
$SIVE + Aeva likely coded from the new PR today and SIVE + Apple. For Sivers lasers powering robotics / physical AI. -> Sivers lasers powering Boston Dynamics Atlas via. LG Innotek for robotics -> Nvidia Hyperion ecosystem w/ Sivers lasers for physical AI. Are possible paths
$XFAB upgraded to outperform with a PT of €12.8 by Bernstein, up from €5. Okay I forgive you Bernstein for Kioxia and Intel. I still think that's just reactive PTs off automotive recovery, SiC/power semi ramp up. And undershooting potential a lot…
Poland stripped Zelensky of its highest honor after he named a special operations group after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army which slaughtered approximately 100k Poles in WW2
The Philadelphia Fed's non-manufacturing activity index slid 2.2pts to -25.8 in June; this is the lowest level since May 2025. We don't take much signal from the Philly Fed non-manufacturing survey, but the index has a 0.68 contemporaneous correlation with the ISM services PMI.
WhatsApp is set to have a new boss — Indian fintech startup founder Kunal Shah Shah founded Bangalore-based Cred in 2018 and it's a company Meta is investing $900 million into
Platinum Equity is the last remaining bidder for Nestle SA's water business after rival Clayton Dubilier & Rice dropped out of the race, according to people familiar with the matter.
Russia's oil exports hit the highest level for the year so far, but face competition in key markets from a surge in Iranian flows following an interim peace deal between Tehran and Washington
Nouriel Roubini, the economist known for predicting the 2008 financial crisis and later for his sharp criticism of crypto, is putting one of his investment products on the blockchain.
Dip looks like a clear buying opportunity for me personally from $MU, $INTC, to $TSM. Since we got a massive drop off BS narratives like 3 rate hikes off no newly material macroeconomic data (which comes out Thursday). If institutions really believed 3 rate hike sellside [BofA paid by PGIM to spread 3 rate hikes fear? Bloomberg released an article on 15th June, with PGIM expecting 3 rate hikes this year. Now BofA pushing the same narrative.]
Nothing is more stupid than Bloomberg copying BofA playbook with KOSPI back in March. And framing Taiwan's $TSM ~23.6x forward p/e and $NVDA upstream supply chain as a "bubble". Then using the words going into "debt" instead of "margin" + comparing Taiwan's market to the .com
My condolences to BofA and everyone else that thinks we're getting 2-3 rate hikes this year with oil back in the low $70s I think there's a chance we see some negative MoM headline CPI/PPI numbers in the next few months with oil down -40% from the highs
We're excited to lead Probook's $34M Series A. Every home services business runs on dispatch: which technician goes to which job, in what order, at what time. Almost every AI vendor building for the trades skipped dispatch, instead rushing to build voice agents and chat
Nobel laureate and CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna warns cuts to US science funding under the Trump administration are "dangerous" and could have lasting consequences. More on The Circuit with @EmilyChangTV
The Steakhouse Confidential Prime USDC Vault on @Morpho is now live. Deposit confidential USDC (cUSDC) into the @SteakhouseFi-curated vault to earn yield by lending against blue-chip collateral, while keeping individual positions confidential onchain.
BoE MPC Taylor: 'ready to act with rate cuts should a benign scenario on inflation play out'; baseline closer to 2011 wage pass-through than 2022; no significant 2nd round effects seen in UK
Israel is considering listing state-owned defense giants IAI and Rafael in the US to potentially avoid stricter disclosure obligations in the local market
Foreign investors are returning to Turkey, lured by high interest rates, resilient markets and fading geopolitical risks as the US and Iran move closer to a peace deal
Banco Master scandal: allegations against Lula ally Jaques Wagner; scrutiny of Flávio Bolsonaro ties to bank owner; cross-party political contamination
The Banco Master scandal is creating political risks across Brazil's spectrum, with allegations against Lula ally Jaques Wagner and renewed scrutiny over Flávio Bolsonaro's ties to the bank's owner
Bull market in diversification [YTD returns thru the close on Monday: Emerging markets +31% Small caps +22% Small cap value +21% Value stocks +15% Dividend stocks +12% Mid caps +11% S&P 500 +10% Mag 7 -3% Why is everything beating the S&P 500 this year?]
The FDA wants to accelerate the early stages of clinical trials and get action the country is losing to China and Australia back on U.S. shores. Former FDA Commissioner @ScottGottliebMD weighs in.
From 2020 to 2025, 248,875 people died in Europe due to heat-related deaths. During the same 2020 to 2025 timeframe, just 9,436 people died from heat-related deaths in the United States, or 26x less! The self-righteous Europeans who don't want to install AC are literally killing
AI in 2040 will not be built on the stack we are using today. It will be much closer to optimal. The current stack has 3-4 orders of magnitude of data inefficiency and 4-5 orders of magnitude of compute inefficiency. Near-optimal AI is what symbolic learning will deliver.
Adam Back's Bitcoin Standard is set to cross 50,000 Bitcoin and become the second largest treasury company on the planet. 'Bitcoin Standard already holds 30,021 Bitcoin. They have a $1.5 billion pipe sitting on the sidelines that could buy another 23,500 Bitcoin. That puts them...'
Generally speaking, June regional business surveys show that manufacturing activity is perking up while service sector is slowing down. Philadelphia Fed and Richmond Fed surveys show a similar phenomenon in June.
Anthropic owned Claude just posted this: "Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work."
All Mythos-level models are likely to invite similar risks. Those risks will only be greater with the release of open Mythos-class AI coming in the next 6-12ish months (assuming China allows it) The lack of clarity over what risks concern the government may be slowing preparation
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that ExxonMobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts over property on the island nation that was seized after Fidel Castro took power.
Colombia election; 99.997% match between election-night count and official judicial scrutiny; right-wing Abelardo wins; Petro fraud claim self-refuted by own government
After Colombian President Petro said the election was rigged and his socialist successor actually won, his own government just confirmed the election night count matches the official judicial scrutiny by 99.997%. Right-wing Abelardo won.
Scam centers in Southeast Asia steal billions of dollars from American victims each year. The Trump Administration is united in its efforts to dismantle these overseas criminal enterprises, and Treasury will continue using its tools to disrupt the networks behind this egregious
Pemex + Petrobras; cooperation agreement; oil exploration/production/refining/gas/petrochemicals; Latin America's two largest state-owned energy companies
Pemex and Petrobras have signed a cooperation agreement covering oil exploration, production, refining, gas and petrochemicals, bringing together Latin America's two largest state-owned energy companies
By being so circumspect around his own views and not submitting a forecast, one could argue that Warsh is attempting to absolve himself of future hikes by blaming the rest of the committee.
This looks like a cool startup working on continual fine-tuning of LLMs which are personalized to your data/context. Distilling tokens to weights makes a lot of sense for many reasons.
Linzumi is Codex but actually multiplayer. It's magical for teams. Also Sean Grove was on the team at OpenAI that greatly reduced sycophancy in ChatGPT before he left to start this YC startup!
Should the government be able to seize your home for unpaid taxes, sell it for more than the tax due, and leave you with the loss? The Supreme Court just said yes. @StepCarter couldn't disagree more
Joe Twyman, Co-founder and Director at DeltaPoll, says the economy and cost of living, not Epstein-related controversy, will likely be seen as the issue that brought Starmer down after the UK Prime Minister resigned
Protocol revenue-funded ethereum:0x5dd1a7a369e8273371d2dbf9d83356057088082c buybacks on @flyingtulip_ are increasing at an impressive pace. Just two months ago, the protocol was buying back around ~1,500 per day. One month ago, that number had climbed to ~3,000 tokens
a16z's Josh Elman says the Roblox generation will expect to remix all the software they use: "We have a generation of kids growing up that grew up on Minecraft and Roblox. And they were used to playing a game where they controlled the world." "They're going to expect more and
Keep an eye on Vistra Energy from here 👀 It's now below the price Nancy Pelosi originally bought up to $1M back on January 14th, 2025 Price of $VST when Pelosi bought: $170 Price of $VST today: $163
Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced Tuesday that it has brought back a type of S&P 500 contract after a hiatus of more than a decade, which in the meantime has become a popular mainstay of prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. won approval to offer monthly redemptions on a new interval fund investing in private and public credit, as the direct-lending industry grapples with another round of elevated requests to pull out cash.
A recently released Justice Department memo questions decades of protections for Americans with disabilities. The effort is the latest by the Trump administration to shift longstanding practices for the disability community.
Vitalik Buterin, the programmer who helped create underlying technology for Ether, the world's No. 2 cryptocurrency, said the nonprofit behind it is being forced to make some difficult decisions.
$MU reports tomorrow after the close and volatility is at 52 week highs. Let me break it down for you in long form: The implied move is ~±11%. IV rank is pinned at 100. The expiry that catches the report is pricing implied vol near 177%, the back months sit closer to 95%.
This was a disappointingly small inventory decline. Likely due to SPR draw and lower exports. It will be interesting to see if the EIA confirms this, and what happens next week.
Chad Jones gave us three AI futures: business as usual, abundance, apocalypse. He just joined the lab where the branch may get decided. It comes down to one gap: AI now produces more than we can verify. They hired a top verifier.
NVIDIA highlights vLLM as one of the open source frameworks available for serving Step 3.7 Flash, StepFun's 198B-parameter multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model. NVIDIA's developer blog covers deployment, inference, and fine-tuning workflows for the model, which supports image and
GameStop $GME CEO Ryan Cohen withdrew a bonus plan that could have paid him as much $35 billion so that his company can be "fully focused on GameStop's operating performance and its proposed eBay acquisition." (Via WSJ)
MSCI kept South Korea in its emerging-market index and refrained from starting a formal review process that could eventually elevate the $5 trillion stock market to developed-market status.
bitmine holds 5.67m ETH at $3,440 avg cost, sitting on roughly $10b in unrealized losses, and their response was to launch ethlabs with 5 former ethereum foundation researchers. staking 4.72m ETH generates $223m/year in yield funding both accumulation and R&D simultaneously.
Japanese equities, long seen as a value market, are increasingly drawing growth investors as AI-linked firms rise to the top of market-cap rankings, overtaking longtime manufacturing and telecom leaders.
The fourth China International Supply Chain Expo kicked off this week in Beijing and features its first-ever AI zone, bringing together companies such as Nvidia, Intel and Alibaba, alongside displays of robots, processors and AI-powered consumer products.
The FDA dropped its complaint against Whoop over its blood-pressure tracking tool, marking an about-face after the agency initially asked the company to disable it.
MSCI Inc. reclassified Bulgaria as a frontier market, while indicating no changes to Argentina's and Vietnam's status in its latest review of global stock indexes.
Over the last 2.5 years @saylor and $MSTR has more than doubled share count issuing 186MN shares and issued 15BN of preferred. Every single share sold and preferred share sold is underwater. Buyers have lost money on every purchase. Think about that.