BOJ Tankan Big Mfg Index 22 (forecast 16, prev 17); Non-Mfg 37 (forecast 36, prev 36); Large co capex +11.5% (poll +10.5%); Small firms capex -8.3%; 3yr CPI expectations +2.6%; Jobs index -37
South Korea June exports +70.9% YoY (forecast 60.9%, prev 53.4%; biggest gain since Oct 1978); Trade surplus $36.15B record (prev $27.04B); Imports +30.1% YoY (forecast 24.5%)
美国商务部正式解除对Anthropic Claude Fable 5和Mythos 5的出口限制，商务部长卢特尼克亲自确认已与Anthropic协作审查授权；Anthropic宣布将于次日起逐步恢复国际用户访问权限
US Commerce lifts export restrictions on Claude Fable 5 + Mythos 5; Sec. Lutnick: 'collaborated with Anthropic to review and authorize Fable 5'; Anthropic: 'reinstating access tomorrow'; White House: 'US undisputed winner in AI race'
Microsoft $MSFT is reportedly planning another round of job cuts, with sales, consulting, and Xbox roles expected to be affected The cuts will reportedly be less than 2.5% of the company's 220,000-person workforce - Business Insider
The last thing you see before Trump and JD Vance send another $100 billion to the IRGC [QT @OilHeadlineNews: 🚨 Trump weighs a return to "all-out war with Iran." Conversations have revolved around whether the U.S. should abandon negotiations and resume full-scale attacks against Iran or stick with diplomatic talks for now - WSJ]
The global oil market is set to swing back into oversupply as the impact of the Iran war fades and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz recovers, according to Goldman Sachs
I've been watching the (absolutely insane) team at Etched build for years and while this launch is an amazing moment in time snapshot, I believe the market will be amazed at their pace and slope from here. I've never seen a company with energy like this in the office. Palpable.
"Founder is ex Google TPU team" [QT @tphuang: 中昊芯英 unveils next gen TPU AI chip as part of 泰则 2.0 compute cluster that will have 896 TFLOPS compute per chip (1792 TOPS INT8). Each chip uses just 600W of power. In a 8 TPU + 2 CPU setup, box will have 7.168 PFLOPS of compute. Natively supports PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang]
Nike on Tuesday posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations, despite another sales decline in its key China market. The company said its gross margin increased 8.9% during the quarter, largely due to an expected tariff refund of nearly $986 million
Sixth Street Partners and KKR have agreed to provide $1 billion of preferred equity to biotechnology company BridgeBio Pharma, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Trump threatened Saudi Arabia's drone + missile interceptor supply over denied access for 'Project Freedom'; bases and airspace; NATO/Ukraine rejecting US transactionalism
More and more, however, allies including NATO and Ukraine are rejecting the Trump administration's extortionary transactionalism and going their own way. [QT @ShibleyTelhami: "Trump threatened Saudi Arabia's supply of drone and missile interceptors when it refused access to bases and airspace for Project Freedom"]
Price per token != cost per task [QT @scaling01: Sonnet 5 goes straight into the garbage bin > 1.2x more expensive than Opus 4.8 Max > 2x more expensive than GPT-5.5-xhigh > 5x more expensive than GLM-5.2 > 7x more expensive than Kimi-K2.6 > 57x more expensive than DeepSeek-V4-Pro]
I'm tired boss. [QT @AnthropicAI: Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding]
The first half of 2026 in the stock market is now officially OVER. Here are the best performing stocks from the NASDAQ 100 so far in 2026: SNDK +858%, MU +304%, INTC +278%, WDC +271%, Seagate +250%, Nebius
Shares of Chinese inverter manufacturer Sungrow tumbled following a report that the US regulator is drafting a ban on imports due to national security concerns
Europe took a first step towards curbing what it calls unfair competition from online retailers such as Shein, Temu and AliExpress by imposing a €3 fee on low-value e-commerce imports from China that previously entered the bloc duty-free.
🔴ELIMINATED: Wael Mahmoud Ali Labad, Muaz Mohammad Hassan Ahmad , Sameh Abu Kamil and Akram Ashraf Hamad Labad. The 4 terrorists from Hamas' military wing had been advancing attacks against IDF troops operating in Gaza. In addition, the IDF struck and dismantled launch shafts
Introducing GeneBench-Pro — testing whether models can handle the kind of judgment-heavy analysis that real-world computational biology requires. Problems would take a human expert around 20-40 hours to complete. GPT-5.6 Sol is a big step forward.
Ukraine has expanded the range and intensity of its missile strikes inside Russia, triggering alerts across nearly half of the regions in the world's largest country so far this year
The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.
NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US. Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 [additional actions].
Hot cocoa in July? Maybe it's because the rest of commodities complex melted. Euro area CPI printed this morning at -0.1% MoM. Coming to America? (Perhaps Lagarde & Warsh can politely stick to the weather on stage this morning) About that supercycle @ChinaBeigeBook @SoberLook
Openings-hires gap from ~1.98M last May to 2.42M (opposite of healthy conversion). Quits also fell to 3.065M from 3.287M, w/Quit Rate stuck at 1.9% (workers are not acting like opportunity abundant). Openings bounced, but flows say employers cautious & workers less confident.
270,000 BTC accumulated at ~$59k; largest single accumulation spike ever on-chain; COVID bottom: 150k BTC; FTX bottom: 180k BTC; ETF outflows $4.5B June → rotated to semis, not cash
270,000 BTC accumulated by whales at $59k. largest single accumulation spike ever recorded on chain. bigger than the covid bottom (150k BTC). bigger than the FTX bottom (180k BTC). ETF outflows hit $4.5b in june but that capital rotated to semis, not cash. the entities selling
This is basically what Amazon did with AWS, before the age of AI. They had all this server capacity and systems to run the largest retail website in the world, and then were like, "let's scale it to run other businesses' websites and applications, too."
Alphabet's Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion to Klarna's Pricerunner unit in a dispute over the search-engine giant's abuse of power in the market for comparison shopping services
Taiwanese prosecutors detained two Super Micro Computer employees following a raid of the US company's local offices earlier this week over alleged shipments of Nvidia chips to China
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, failed to obtain a license to operate in the EU after a key regulator expressed concerns about its history of financial-crime violations
Warsh: 'Inflation risks have come down' in first 4 weeks as Chair; July FOMC 'good family fight'; 'Not going to give forward guidance'; 'AI boom showing itself first and very prominently in the US'; Fed funds rate 3.63%
Warsh says inflation risk in the US has eased in the four weeks since he took over as Fed chairman "Expectations of inflation over the first four weeks of this period, they've come down. Inflation risks have come down... If there were people in households or the business sector
Bailey: 'Rate cuts are off the table at the moment'; UK economy + labour market softening; output gap opening; 'delayed reaction mechanism to energy prices'; 'can argue policy has been tightened'
probably nothing [QT @SolanaFloor: 🚨JUST IN: @Solana's transaction activity has hit all-time highs across every major timeframe, with daily, weekly and monthly transaction counts all reaching record levels.]
ISM Manufacturing PMI Jun: 53.3 actual vs 53.9 est & 54.0 prior; prices paid 73.0 vs 82.1 prior; employment 49.7 vs 48.6 prior; new orders 56.0 vs 56.8 prior
June ISM Manufacturing PMI down to 53.3 vs. 53.9 est. & 54.0 prior … new orders down to 56.0 vs. 56.8 prior; prices paid down to 73.0 vs. 82.1 prior … employment up to 49.7 vs. 48.6 prior
Nvidia $NVDA just said: "In 2026 alone, NVIDIA-driven Al demand will contribute $485 billion to the 🇺🇸 GDP, and Al infrastructure powered by NVIDIA chips is supporting over 100,000 jobs."
The United States 🇺🇸 is out investing the world in AI infrastructure. The US is forecasted to spend $1 trillion on AI infrastructure in a single year by 2027. That represents roughly 3% of US GDP. 2022: $156B 2023: $156B 2024: $254B 2025: $443B 2026E: $764B 2027E: $1.0T
FedEx said it agreed to sell a supply chain subsidiary to French container shipping company CMA CGM Group in a deal with an enterprise value of $1.4 billion
Oman India Fertiliser's IPO has drawn more than $12 billion in orders, making it the Middle East's largest offering since the outbreak of the regional conflict
World XYZ: live on Solana; oracle: Chainlink; wallet: Phantom; no KYC; on-chain prediction market
World XYZ的上线填补了Solana在链上预测市场层面的生态空白，结合即将推出的永续合约、代币化股票等产品，Solana正逐步构建与中心化交易所竞争的全品类链上交易体系。无KYC特性在监管趋严背景下具有双刃剑效应，同时有望驱动链上收入和用户基数的显著增长。
truly onchain prediction markets are finally on solana. this will lead to more onchain revenue, more markets, and more users, without KYC. combined with upcoming perps, tokenized stocks, and apps like JTX, Solana is on the path to dominate here
There's a lot of disinformation going around about $META 'cutting capex' because they 'overbuilt'. This is an 'if' they have excess capacity. And it looks like the opposite right now: Hyperscalers like $GOOGL are so compute constrained that they had to cut allocations to Meta
BREAKING: Meta stock, $META, extends gains to over +10% on the day on reports that the company is developing a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute. Perhaps the recent CapEx now all makes sense.
Iran Gharibabadi via ISNA: 'No meeting has been held between Iran and the US delegations in Doha'; Iran met only Qatar + Pakistan delegations re: Islamabad MOU implementation
The US decided against renewing its trade deal with Canada and Mexico, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said, choosing instead to conduct annual reviews of the pact.
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has tapped former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to co-chair the US central bank's new task force on communications.
The US floated the idea of granting political and economic benefits to NATO allies that spend more on defense, raising the prospect of a two-tier alliance just before leaders gather for an annual summit.
Citi cut its 12-month Bitcoin and Ether targets from 112K to 82K and 3,175 to 2,240 on drying ETF flows "We're trading around 59, 60, 61k right now, and they're still predicting up to 82 for the end of the year. So it's not like they're saying we're going to go down, they're
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister: it has been decided in meeting with Qatar that part of the $6 bln in frozen funds would be used to purchase goods based on iran's needs - IRNA
BREAKING: Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has surged to 10 million barrels of crude oil per day, per Bloomberg. Details include: 1. Traffic has increased sharply since the 60-day "Memorandum of Understanding" was signed
The head of BlackRock's beleaguered private credit fund is leaving the firm after months of losses on soured loans and revelations of a US regulatory probe into the unit's valuation practices
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf on Inspectors' Access: They only have access rights in two cases, one is the Bushehr power plant, and the other is the Tehran reactor. Access has been limited to just these
BREAKING: Total US production of crude oil and petroleum products rose by +254,000 barrels per day in April, to a record 21.84 million barrels per day. YoY, total production surged +1.01 million barrels per day, or +4.9%. Crude oil production alone increased by +216,000 barrels
Apple negotiating memory chips from 2 Chinese semiconductor firms on Pentagon blacklist; global memory shortage forcing Apple to raise prices across product line; Bloomberg
Apple is in talks to buy chips from two Chinese semiconductor firms on the Pentagon blacklist to ease a global memory shortage that has forced it to raise prices across its product line
ROBINHOOD $HOOD JUST HELD AN EVENT WITH A CEO KEYNOTE Here's what Robinhood just announced: Robinhood Chain, their own Layer 2 built on Arbitrum, is now live with Uniswap and Chainlink as day-one partners. Stock Tokens are rolling out on the Robinhood Wallet in over 120
BREAKING: Look at this. The day before Trump paused tariffs, triggering a historic 10% market rally, his accounts purchased 327 stocks worth up to $12.8 million. The trades were disclosed more than a year late, resulting in a $200 penalty. Unusual.
Qatari Foreign Minister Ansari: The parties agreed to continue discussions over the coming period, with the next meeting to be scheduled at the earliest possible time following the funeral processions of the former Iranian Supreme Leader.
Valar Atomics Inc., a California-based nuclear startup, generated power from an advanced reactor to run an Nvidia Corp. AI chip. While just a trickle of electricity was produced, it's the first time a next-gen reactor has done so in the US.
President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure shows his various businesses generated more than $2 billion in income in 2025. That is more than triple his reported income from the year before, and the biggest gains came from the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures.
Haitians and Syrians who lost Temporary Protected Status under last week's Supreme Court ruling have no legal path to remain in the US and must leave now or face forced removal, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said
BREAKING: Total crypto card deposits have officially crossed above $10 billion for the first time in history. This puts total deposits up +82% year-to-date and nearly +250% year-over-year. The surge comes amid a rapid adoption of stablecoins as a payment rail, particularly in
Why are central banks buying so much gold? A record 90% of central banks cited gold's performance during times of crisis as a key factor in their decision to hold gold, according to the World Gold Council survey of 69 central banks. This trend is more frequently seen in
Really strong showing for @nityndg's first first-author paper. - A small uplift study that finds researchers using Codex reproduce papers more than 2x faster. - Updates to CORE-Bench to add OOD tasks, fix errors, and evaluate reliability and efficiency. - Stronger scaffolds,
At least 12 dead; torrential rains flooded large parts of Ghana including capital Accra; Ghana National Fire Service; Tuesday July 1 2026
At least 12 people have died after torrential rains flooded large parts of Ghana, including the capital Accra, the Ghana National Fire Service said on Tuesday, with rescue operations still under way.
President Donald Trump reported earning at least $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoin-related businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi set a target for growing Japan's economy to a value of $6.8 trillion in nominal gross domestic product by the fiscal year starting in April 2040 as she champions her vision for a strong economy
Kushner and Witkoff held positive discussions with regional leaders in Qatar and technical talks with Iran are moving ahead, according to a senior administration official, as the countries seek to ease tensions in the wake of recent clashes
President Donald Trump has announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress.
Apple: broad-based price hikes across product lines; driver: AI data center capex expansion → memory & storage chip shortage; AI vs. consumer electronics competing for semiconductor supply chain capacity
The Waypoint-1.5 technical paper is now live. Waypoint-1.5 is a real-time video diffusion world model designed to run on consumer GPUs, bringing interactive world models closer to practical, accessible deployment.
ASX received confirmation from regulators and the central bank to reset the bourse's transformation agenda after a probe found that years of risk and compliance failures could have negative consequences for Australia's markets
A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks posed by UFOs.
Bullish bets on the Chinese yuan are fading, with options traders unwinding one of the year's most crowded trades after the Federal Reserve's hawkish pivot.
The war in Iran has rewired China's petrochemicals trade, allowing plants to ease their glut of the key building blocks for plastics, rubber and textiles by boosting exports.
Political speech wins again at the Supreme Court. The Justices strike down limits on coordinated campaign spending. How about overturning Buckley v. Valeo next?
The former Elle magazine writer who won a $5 million sexual abuse verdict against Donald Trump, is now seeking the funds the president set aside as a deposit after the Supreme Court turned away his appeal.
Open USD（OUSD）稳定币在美国推出，允许企业无费率、无限额铸造和赎回，储备收益扣除管理费后大部分返还给参与企业，探索新型稳定币商业模式。
Open USD (OUSD); zero fees/volume limits for minting & redemption; reserve income distributed to participating businesses; small management fee retained
New stable coin in USA:: Businesses will be able to mint and redeem Open USD without fees or volume limits, while most of the income made by OUSD's reserves will be distributed to participating businesses after a small management fee.
This is probably one of the most important divergences in the economy today. The Fed now owns one of the smallest shares of outstanding Treasury debt in over a decade. Yet federal debt continues to compound at an unsustainable pace. The Fed always comes to the rescue.
The Dow Industrials RSI is flashing clear lower highs since the rising wedge formed months ago, creating a majestic pattern that traders should embrace rather than ignore. This severe momentum divergence signals that the index's chances of spilling
primitive just introduced "return on agent capital" (ROAC) as a third capital class alongside financial and human capital for banks. 95% of bank AI pilots die because CFOs have no standardized metric to justify scaling. ROAC gives them one. MX partnership puts this in front of
Cross-agent feedback loops are incredibly effective -- for a reason. Check out what @leon2mcp and team at @Bloome_im are building in this space. Bloome lets you pull Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and human teammates into a single shared workspace. The best
Today, UBTech has now announced its first full-size hyper realistic humanoid robot girlfriend. For adults only to purchase for only ~$145,717.90. -"The U1 series emphasizes attractive appearance and is only available"
Things seem to be ending up in a better spot with Fable, and presumably GPT-5.6 next. What we have now is the initial precedent for what frontier model releases (or at least those that have significant coding and cyber capabilities) could look like going forward.
Today we introduce OASIS 1. The smart ring built for private dictation. Whisper to write. Touch to edit. A first step beyond the keyboard toward a world where your intent follows you across every device. Order at https://t.co/gZieZw6vYJ first batch is limited.
The majority of publicly traded business development companies — the visible part of the private credit market — have turned unprofitable due to falling asset values and rising costs, a Reuters analysis shows, in the latest sign of pressure building in this highly leveraged
India's federal government raised $2 billion through stake sales in listed state-run companies last quarter, providing a rare bright spot for the country's subdued capital market
Asian airlines that gained passengers and charged higher fares on European routes after the start of the Iran conflict are seeing those advantages erode as Gulf carriers restore flights and offer lower ticket prices, industry data shows.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a case for his ruling party as a force for global progress and prosperity – a role that would be backed by a strong military – signaling his ambition for the nation to stand at the fore of global affairs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, emphasizing the importance of freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz as Indian vessels gradually resume voyages to the Persian Gulf
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is heading to India for a three-day trip starting Wednesday to bolster economic ties and align on security cooperation
Elizabeth Warren of posters. [QT @nikitabier: In a 3% experiment, removing the Top-30 highest paid revenue share accounts from the For You timeline increased both time spent and daily active users on X.]
Export controls were supposed to choke Chinese AI. Instead they got cut off from compute and built models 10 to 35 times cheaper than ours out of spite. It's a playbook that worked for Linux versus the monopoly of Windows.
欧洲央行于2026年7月1日举办央行论坛"代币化"专场，探讨数字货币与支付数字化的挑战与机遇，演讲嘉宾包括ECB执委Cipollone及BIS研究主任Hyun Song Shin。
ECB Forum on Central Banking; session: 'Tokenisation: challenges and opportunities when money, payments and financial transactions become digital'; speakers: Piero Cipollone, Hyun Song Shin (BIS)
🔵 Watch live: the #ECBForum on Central Banking session on "Tokenisation: challenges and opportunities when money, payments and financial transactions become digital" with: - Piero Cipollone - Hyun Song Shin @hyunsongshin - Catherine Casamatta
一边是开发者把Agent挂出来，明码标价；另一边是用户直接发布任务，让Agent来接单。完成之后，钱在链上结算。这不就是一个AI Agent的电商平台嘛，在加密圈应该算是头一个吧。我看到在Agent广场里，像FundingArb（资金费率套利）、Stable Auto Earn（稳定币借贷APY比价）、Airdrop
Challenger Gray: "AI is dominant force as companies restructuring around it, automating roles & reallocating budgets"; H1 private cuts ex-DOGE -6% YoY vs -43% headline
Boomerang incoming? AI chief driver @ChallengerGray cuts: "Tech remains epicenter of this year's cuts. AI is dominant force as companies restructuring around it, automating roles & reallocating budgets toward new capabilities" Ex-DOGE total cuts, 1st half -6%YoY v -43% headline.
Wall Street is betting big on AI. But if every bank, hedge fund and adviser uses similar models, does anyone still have an edge? New research explores how AI could reshape investing.
Global equities are set to extend their searing second-quarter rally, with earnings growth at technology companies a key driver, according to Peter Oppenheimer at Goldman Sachs
From President Donald Trump making huge profits in crypto to Citigroup cutting its bitcoin and ether forecasts, Francis Maguire rounds up the crypto stories of the week
BTC RSI bullish divergence: 4H, 6H, 12H, Daily, Weekly all confirmed; oversold RSI; "never seen more confirmed and potential bullish divergence with oversold RSI on more time frames, ever"
$BTC 4-HR (not shown, can only show 4 images), 6-HR, 12-HR, Daily, Weekly Not sure I have ever seen more confirmed and potential bullish divergence with oversold RSI on more time frames, ever. Divs building over multiple time frames is my favorite signal. Good odds.
Half of investors have reduced their portfolio risk, while 62% expect a recession and 71% worry market volatility will hurt their finances. Gen Z is the most concerned, citing job security and weaker savings, per Allianz.
"The K-shaped economy—with the well-to-do thriving and everyone else lagging—remains firmly intact, and there is no sign that the trend line will reverse soon," Moody's has said.
The Swiss franc is one of the world's clearest measures of institutional trust. Its strength comes from Switzerland's neutrality, political stability, low inflation record, fiscal discipline, current account strength, high value exports, and [Swiss Franc forms a Death Cross against the U.S. Dollar for the first time since December 2024]
Blue Origin: 2026 return plan confirmed; New Glenn explosion May 2026; cause unknown; only launch pad destroyed; NASA moon landing dependent on rebuild
Blue Origin plans a 2026 return without knowing why New Glenn exploded. The May blast destroyed its only pad, and NASA's moon landing is riding on the rebuild.
The World Bank approved $1.25 billion in development financing to help Nigeria spur economic growth and create jobs after the West African nation embarked on reforms praised by the lender
1inch MCP just connected 600+ liquidity sources across 13 chains with a single interface optimized for AI agents. agents don't browse UIs or compare DEXs. they call an API and take best execution. when millions of autonomous agents need to swap, they all route through the same
June spread between expectations and present situation components in @Conferenceboard Consumer Confidence Index moved higher to -42.0 vs. -48.0, narrowest since September 2024
Twelve Labs is raising $100 million from investors including Amazon, NEA Management and Naver Ventures, boosting its efforts to develop AI that can quickly search and analyze troves of video
Micron $MU and General Motors $GM announced a Strategic Customer Agreement "to secure a long-term, reliable supply of memory and storage platforms critical to GM's vehicle production and delivery at scale"
BYD is poised to reclaim the title of the world's top seller of fully electric cars from Tesla as the Chinese automaker ships an increasing number of vehicles abroad
Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested there's room in the next UK budget to absorb a £4.7 billion ($6.2 billion) gap in spending that was revealed in the country's defense investment plan, published on Tuesday
JD Vance: MOU period used to 'refill world's oil economy, refill some stocks, and then to see where the hand is'; implies military option review post-MOU expiry
Did JD Vance just say the war with Iran is likely to resume in 46 days? [QT @OilHeadlineNews: JD Vance: "So I think what the president has told us to do is use this MOU to sort of refill the world's oil economy, to refill some stocks, and then to see where the hand is."]
The long US Dollar trade is crowded: Speculative long positioning in the US Dollar surged to +$34.3 billion as of June 23rd, the highest in 18 months. This covers hedge funds and asset managers, who take positions based on price trends and macro views rather than to offset
May construction spending MoM +0.1% vs +0.1% est; private residential +0.3%; private nonresidential -0.3%; YoY private nonresidential -6.6% ($52.2B SAAR)
Structures investment remains a persistent headwind to US GDP growth. Private nonresidential construction spending has declined 6.6 percent ($52.2 billion SAAR) over the last year. Data center construction has cooled somewhat while manufacturing structures continue to slide.
Uber Technologies has dismissed two tech leaders at its nascent AI data labeling business, shaking up a key division that the ride-hail company has positioned as a key growth driver.
California Governor Gavin Newsom doubled the state's in-office requirement from two days a week to four, sending thousands of employees back to government offices and sparking a battle with the union.
MetaMask Money Account is Live. MetaMask launched Money Account on Monad as the exclusive canonical chain. It's a self-custodial USD account with integrated earning functionality and a card to spend with, all powered by mUSD,
"These 140 companies are effectively making a bet that the Clarity Act does not pass" "The way this is structured, all that revenue going to the issuer, Tether or Circle, will go to the companies utilizing it as they use it. That make all your money on the float model is what
Not everyone's cup of tea but hard to deny the progress is simply astounding. I want to see one of these do the RL freakout [QT @ViralRushX: China's ultra realistic bionic robots make their stage debut, with prices from $16,700 to $138,000, over 13,000 pre orders already, and deliveries starting in September.]
kraken just listed 7 bittensor subnet tokens at once. lium, score, hippius, vanta, ridges, chutes, targon. first time a tier-1 exchange validated the subnet token model. here's the problem: most of these subnets emit 20-40% token supply annually.
AAVE: $14M oracle extractable value via Chainlink SVR in June 2026; $134M annualized protocol revenue; 13.7% distributed to token holders; first month since Jan 2021 borrow interest ≠ largest revenue source
aave just recaptured $14m in oracle extractable value through chainlink SVR in june alone. that might make it the first month since january 2021 where borrow interest isn't aave's largest revenue source. protocol generating $134m annualized but only distributing 13.7% to holders.
The automotive affordability crisis is deepening as average monthly car payments reached a record $777 in the second quarter, with nearly a quarter of US car buyers taking out loans of seven years or more.
Sorry, but the ISM data this morning are not consistent with a productivity boom. The ISM production index fell while the ISM employment index rose advanced. The resulting series derived from the ISM suggests that labor productivity likely cooled off in Q2.
Meta Platforms Inc. said Wednesday it'll allow high-profile names to be only claimed by legitimate owners as part of its effort to counter impersonation on WhatsApp's new username feature.
Lime Bike is now a public company [QT: LIME $LIME OPENS AT $27 IN NASDAQ DEBUT, ABOVE $25 IPO PRICE. The Uber-backed scooter and e-bike company opened at $27 in its Nasdaq debut, up 8% from its $25 IPO price. Lime priced its IPO at $25, the midpoint of its $24-26 range.]
Brightline's current owner is prepared to relinquish control of the project to the lenders it can't repay, but creditors are looking to agree on a plan first to avoid a long, costly process
Colombia's next administration says it will tighten fiscal policy, reduce government spending, encourage investment through tax reform and resume oil drilling as it seeks to strengthen public finances
CENTCOM Leads Regional Security Dialogue with 12 Nations in Bahrain MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) led a regional security dialogue hosted by the Bahrain Defense Force, July 1, for regional defense leaders from 12 nations. Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM
Saylor's 2029 bond repurchase was a (??) in chess terms, but today was a (!!) brilliancy move. Nothing overcomplex - just a balance of MSTR, STRC and BTC that stops the spiral concerns. The pundits were saying he had to lamb sacrifice one of these 3-- but all 3 are up today.
You really need to benchmark models for your use case. As soon as judgements & decisions stack on top of each other, the differences between models amplifies, and no standard benchmark will tell you that Gemini 3.1 is less worried about financial losses at a cafe than GPT-5.5
We wouldn't get too carried away with this. While Q2 GDPNow is lower, the bulk of the recent drop stems from a wider trade gap. Excluding net exports and inventory investment, private domestic demand is tracking close to 2.5 percent, which is respectable.
Retail fuel prices in Russia rose sharply again as recent Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries fueled a nationwide gasoline shortage, long lines at filling stations and renewed inflation concerns
Key US oil grades have slumped to trade at a discount again as a gush of crude flows through the Strait of Hormuz and a recent spike in demand for American exports fades
Exxon will begin trading as ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. after redomiciling in Texas, the first name change since the Mobil mega merger more than 25 years ago
Michael Burry, a critic of the stock market's AI mania, expanded his short bet on AI with bearish bets against Tesla, Caterpillar and Applied Materials among others
A bond issued by Getty Images Holdings Inc. to fund its acquisition of Shutterstock Inc. surged on Wednesday to near-par after the company announced its plan to terminate the deal.
🇮🇱🇻🇪A preliminary team from the Israeli humanitarian assistance delegation landed in Venezuela a short while ago, in response to the earthquake that struck the country. The expert teams will begin operating alongside the local authorities to support the recovery efforts
The US Treasury Department sanctioned two Brazilian nationals, three Brazilian companies and one Portuguese company for allegedly helping launder proceeds for Latin America's largest criminal organization.
$BSPx live on Solana via xStocksFi day one; institutional IPO price onchain; Bending Spoons US market debut +7%; preceded by $SPCXx (claimed largest-ever IPO on same platform)
以太坊基金会全球政策战略（GPS）团队正式发布《Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions》，为各国政策制定者与政府提供以太坊技术运作、治理机制及与其他系统对比的非技术性指引。
Ethereum Foundation Global Policy Strategy (GPS) team; 'Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions'; non-technical primer targeting policy and deployment decision-makers
Great to see the @ethereumfndn to thoughtfully address critical issues for governments and policy markets on financial infrastructure, economics and the key role neutral blockchains like ethereum
Given @SenWarren's prior celebration of the Supreme Court's misguided decision compelling tariff refunds, one might have expected her to consider the obvious consequences. Many companies — both foreign and domestic — would simply pocket those refunds, and Japanese companies are
Breaking: The DOJ closed its criminal investigation into Abbott's baby formula plant Here's what's interesting: • Abbott donated $500,000 to Trump's inauguration fund on December 24, 2024 • President Trump's accounts traded up to $1,000,000 in Abbott $ABT stock across Q1
Factor unwind July 1 2026 tracking July 2025 pattern; 'one of the largest factor unwinds in systematic land the last couple of years'; HF systematic strategies
FACTOR Check-In 7/1 People forget... but the start to last JULY saw some of the largest index re-bal HF strats blow up... same couple days... one of the largest factor unwinds in systematic land the last couple of years... today is tracking pretty close
Former CIA Director John Brennan sued the Trump administration to preserve government records in case he's criminally indicted, saying they could help prove any charges are 'vindictive'
Apple 2027: new iPad Pros, redesigned MacBook Pro, first M7 chip, 2nd-gen iPhone Air, foldable iPhone, anniversary iPhone, Apple smart glasses — all same calendar year
APPLE $AAPL IS PLANNING ITS BUSIEST HARDWARE YEAR EVER FOR 2027 New iPad Pros, a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro, the first M7 chip, a second-gen iPhone Air, a foldable iPhone, an anniversary iPhone, and Apple's first smart glasses are all reportedly targeted for the same
Josh Wander; 777 Partners Miami; $20M loan diverted to personal brokerage account; ordered fake bank statements to cover it up
Josh Wander, co-founder of Miami's 777 Partners, faces claims he diverted most of a $20 million loan to his brokerage account and ordered fake bank statements to cover it up
Xi Jinping speech July 1 2026; China rapid industrialization as 'new pathway for developing nations'; projected growing confidence at home and on world stage
China's leader held up his country's rapid industrialization as a new pathway for developing nations in a speech Wednesday that projected a growing confidence both at home and on the world stage.
Antonio Gracias, a long-time SpaceX board member, is looking for more investments in artificial intelligence, energy and space after bets in Elon Musk's company netted his fund nearly $100 billion
Yes! Pre-classifying routers are going to result in a lot of bad work because routing is hard and tend to underestimate the value of intelligence on many problems. OpenAI learned this with GPT-5, now it seems routers are hot again.
"Everybody's profiting." -President Trump Except the people who bought his coins. Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.
Australia's bond market is drawing increasing interest from funding chiefs worldwide, pushing issuance to a record high, as a flood of Asian capital cap borrowing costs and compete for deals
Cboe is seeking US regulatory approval to list all-or-nothing options tied to corporate earnings results, allowing traders to wager on figures ranging from SpaceX revenue and Nvidia data-center sales to JPMorgan's credit-loss provisions
Qualcomm rose 3% on a device Musk says isn't real. The WSJ reported SpaceX showed investors a slim AI prototype running xAI tech. Musk called the report 'utterly false' the same day.
Lenders to Tungsten have signed a pact agreeing to work together on a potential debt restructuring following a steep slide in the software company's debt prices, according to sources
The search and rescue efforts in Venezuela continued Wednesday, one week after a double earthquake struck the country. Fewer and fewer survivors are being found, and a Venezuelan lawmaker said nearly 2,300 people are now confirmed dead. Tens of thousands remain missing