Agentic AI continues to see rapid growth. Over the last 12 months, the focus has rapidly shifted toward the software layer that allows AI to connect with enterprise data and applications. Instead of simply answering questions, these systems can access company databases, analyze [...]
AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise around $750 million in new financing across two rounds, part of a groundswell of companies looking to compete with Nvidia
SK Hynix's IPO is reportedly more than 7x oversubscribed [QT @IPONewsroom_: SK HYNIX'S US LISTING IS NOW MORE THAN 7 TIMES OVERSUBSCRIBED, WITH PRICING SET FOR TOMORROW - Bloomberg]
Retail fervor over leveraged ETFs in South Korea has grown so intense that the products, together with the two chipmaker stocks they track, now make up more than 70% of trading value in the $4.3 trillion market
NATO summit declaration; "Ukraine contributes to transatlantic security"; "Allies stand united in unwavering support for Ukraine"; Trump prior statement: "war doesn't matter to the U.S."
These words from the NATO summit declaration are significant given Trump's statement just yesterday that the war doesn't matter to the U.S.: "Ukraine contributes to transatlantic security, and Allies stand united in our unwavering support for Ukraine in defending its freedom"
We're pleased to have collaborated with AE Studio on this research. [QT @AEStudioLA: New research! Some AI capabilities are both helpful and dangerous. E.g., knowledge of virology can be used to create life-saving vaccines or deadly pathogens. We introduce GRAM, a training method that puts dual-use capabilities (like virology) into removable modules.]
Huge congrats to @vincentweisser @johannes_hage and the rest of the Prime Intellect team! One of the most cracked teams I know, incredible to see them build basically an SOTA neolab from scratch while making all the infra available to all! [QT @PrimeIntellect: Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack. Led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors. Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models using our stack. Own your intelligence.]
BREAKING: The Index of US Financial Conditions is up to ~1.2 points, the easiest since February 2026. This is also near the highest level in at least 11 years. Since 2015, similar readings have only been recorded in early 2025 and during 2021, before the Fed started hiking
The Bank of Japan may pick up the pace of its rate hikes late this year and eventually push the benchmark above 2% as it races to rein in inflation, a former central bank official said
据报道,Claude Opus 4.8在ZCash Orchard池中发现了一个存活长达4年、历次人工审计均未察觉的伪造(counterfeiting)漏洞,导致ZCash价格暴跌64%;Tachyon团队随后启动针对Ironwood池的Lean 4形式验证证明项目。
ZCash -64%; Claude Opus 4.8; counterfeiting bug; Orchard pool; survived 4 years of human audits; fixed in 2 lines of code; Tachyon team; Lean 4 formal verification; Ironwood pool
zcash crashed 64% when claude opus 4.8 found a counterfeiting bug in the orchard pool that survived 4 years of human audits. two lines of code fixed it. now the tachyon team is building a lean 4 formal verification proof for the ironwood pool that mathematically eliminates the
The U.S. carried out a second straight night of attacks on Iran. President Trump said the strikes are "retribution" for attacks by Iran on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz came to a near standstill on Thursday, after the US struck Iran for a second straight day as a fragile truce between the two sides looked increasingly shaky.
Fed June FOMC minutes released; dot plot based on pre-US-Iran memo data; BofA forecast: 3 rate hikes in 2026; DB forecast: rate hike in 2026; Warsh debut last Thursday
i think the age of voice interaction is finally dawning, the intelligence of the models and turn-based nature was always the issue, and finally both seem solved. congrats guys!!! so when can i ditch my keyboard in codex… [QT @OpenAI: GPT-Live makes talking with AI feel like having a real conversation. It's also our smartest voice model yet.]
Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the government over its $12 billion emergency borrowing decree, handing Prime Minister Anutin a victory that clears the way for his flagship economic stimulus and energy transition programs
Dr. Reddy's will delay the commercial production of its generic Ozempic drug after it found an unspecified issue with the active pharmaceutical ingredient in some batches of semaglutide
Trade Balance SA: 19.1B actual vs 14.8B forecast vs 14.5B prev; Exports MOM SA: +0.9% vs -0.4% exp vs +0.9% prev; Imports MOM SA: -2.5% vs -0.8% exp vs +1.2% prev
Volkswagen's proposal to slash tens of thousands more jobs and close factories faces a major test as the groups that control Europe's largest carmaker meet to discuss the plans, drawing worker protests at plants across the country.
solana daily fee revenue dropped from 33,000 SOL/day in january to 5,300 SOL/day in june. 84% decline. deploying a complex defi protocol costs 18 SOL ($1,410) vs a few dollars on robinhood chain. that's not a gas problem, that's a structural rent model problem baked into the
Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara: 'very high sense of urgency' on markets; fiscal goal: stably lower government debt-to-GDP ratio; LT rates determined by markets
Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those yet to be released, three people familiar with the discussions said
The US stock market looks fairly stable, with a measure of overall index volatility remaining at low levels. But implied volatility in single-name stocks has surged to the highest in more than a year. The gap between the two measures has never been higher: Bloomberg's Simon White
Washington cleared Paramount's $110B deal. California may not. State attorneys general could sue within days to block the Warner Bros takeover, and every quarter of delay costs Paramount around $650M in ticking fees.
Pendle; 4 RWA PT markets; 10-13% fixed yield; private credit + payment receivables; Sierra PTs → Morpho collateral first time in DeFi; Morpho TVL $77M
Sierra PT获批成为Morpho抵押品是RWA赛道的里程碑事件,将代币化私募信贷与链上杠杆首次打通。10-13%的固定收益在当前利率环境下具有较强竞争力,但底层私募信贷资产的流动性风险和估值透明度仍是主要隐患,高杠杆将放大下行情景下的清算连锁风险。
pendle now has 4 live RWA principal token markets offering 10-13% fixed yields on private credit and payment receivables. sierra PTs just got approved as morpho collateral, meaning you can lever up on tokenized private credit for the first time in defi. morpho hit $77m TVL on
PEP Q2 2026: Core EPS $2.20 vs $2.19 est; Rev $24.81B vs $23.96B est (+3.6% beat); Intl beverage franchise +11% YoY; Foods NA $6.37B vs $6.48B est (miss); Oper profit $4.02B vs $4.06B est
$PEP Pepsi Q2 2026 Earnings Core EPS $2.20, est. $2.19 Rev. $24.81B, est $23.96B Oper profit $4.02B, est. $4.06B Foods North America revenue $6.37B, est. $6.48B Europe, Middle East and Africa rev. $4.98B, est. $4.89B International beverages franchise rev. $1.52B, +11% y/y
Michael Burry disclosed that he has established a full-sized long position split 60% into Flutter Entertainment (bought around $107) and 40% into DraftKings (bought in the low $26).
.@nickducoff on why Solana is leading institutional adoption "Seven GSIBs out of 29 have built on Solana. Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Citi, BNY, Société Générale, Standard Chartered." "You've got $3 billion in real world assets on Solana, and over 95% of tokenized equities
Starbucks is developing in-house tools with the help of artificial intelligence that could replace some software applications it now buys from companies such as Microsoft and IBM
Nigerian stocks have overtaken South Korea's Kospi index to hand investors the highest dollar-based returns this year, topping a list of 92 global stock exchanges tracked by Bloomberg. Doubts about the AI boom are weighing on the Kospi, while Nigerian stocks have rallied.
South Korea's 🇰🇷 stock market is now down more than 20% from its recent peak That is the technical definition of a bear market KOSPI is still up ~69% so far this year, SK Hynix is going public in the United States 🇺🇸 tomorrow
EU Chat Control; European Parliament; absolute majority threshold: 361 members; procedural reversal: majority now required to vote AGAINST; holiday period timing
mass surveillance is coming > first 5 votes fail > have another vote > invoke technicality to require majority to vote AGAINST rather than requiring majority to vote FOR > do it when everyone's on vacation so not enough numbers to vote against demonic creatures
A pair of former Chinese diplomats visited the US last month to better understand the Trump administration's stance on a fragile trade truce, as China seeks to gauge how upcoming US elections might affect ties
After anti-immigration riots broke out in Belfast and Southampton, more than 60% of people in the UK believe large-scale unrest is likely over the next year. Why is the UK such a tinderbox?
Initial jobless claims down 215k vs. 217k est. & 217k prior; continuing claims at 1.814M vs. 1.814M est. & 1.806 prior … greatest increases in CA (+8.5k), MO (+5.9k), & NY (+4.9k); greatest decreases in NJ (-3.0k), CT (-2.6k), & OR (-1.8k)
Among businesses that have paid tariffs directly, 47% of service firms and 44% of manufacturers plan additional tariff-related price increases, with most expected over the next six months, according to @NewYork Fed
~$10B data center (Canada, first); 7 GW computing infrastructure deployment in 2026
Meta AI基础设施投资大幅提速,加拿大项目是其全球算力布局向非美本土扩展的标志性举措;7GW年内部署目标与超大规模算力竞赛背景高度契合,同时反映出北美监管环境压力推动公司多元化选址。
Meta, $META, will invest around $10 billion to build its first data center in Canada as the company expands its infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence ambitions
US investment: $250B+ through 2035 (prev ~$200B); NY project: 50K jobs (9K direct); Idaho output: mid-2027; Globalwafers 10-yr pact; $500M financing; 90K+ total US jobs; $3B near-term strategic investment
IRGC Navy: 'crushing response' to US interference; vessel transit increased last 2 weeks; US actions 'seriously disrupted reopening process'; Bandar Abbas explosions reported
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy: US 'adventurism and interference' in determining traffic routes in the strait will only result in Iran's 'crushing response' - Statement
Mexico's inflation slowed much more than expected in June to the slowest pace since 2020, giving the central bank more flexibility as policymakers assess whether the decline in price pressures can be sustained.
Dwindling emergency crude stockpiles and record fuel exports leave America vulnerable to the next energy shock as the U.S.-Iran ceasefire ends and fighting resumes.
there are only two business models left in tech: 1/ vertically integrated AI company 2/ trading venue every company is converging on one of these two [QT @wallstengine: $META plans to double its computing capacity to 14GW in 2027 and begin manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September, per Reuters citing an internal memo. The chip is part of Meta's MTIA project, designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, aimed at reducing reliance]
More money managers and dealers are about to get their hands on pieces of the largest private credit deal on record — when a chunk of a $35 billion financing package for Broadcom and Anthropic's AI infrastructure expansion begins trading.
The head of the top 🇺🇸 auto safety regulator said the agency 'absolutely' will consider ending requirements that driverless cars include steering wheels - Bloomberg
Typhoon Bavi (No.9); approaching Taiwan + mainland China + Okinawa; possibly most destructive tropical storm in years; fishermen sheltered; sandbags queued; farmers racing to harvest; JMA wave alerts
Fishermen sheltered in harbours, residents queued for sandbags and farmers raced to bring in crops on Thursday as China and Taiwan braced for Typhoon Bavi, possibly the most destructive tropical storm in years.
Binance: $53B stablecoin reserves; 57% global market share; BNB Chain: #1 stablecoin active addresses globally; on-chain active addresses +120% since early 2025
Stablecoin is a misnomer. That's why I underestimated it at the beginning. But it is big, and this is just the beginning. Binance and BNB ecosystems distributes more than half of all stablecoins. [QT @binance: US$53B in stablecoin reserves on Binance (57% market share)]
Nothing like an internal $META memo getting published. Showing AI ramping as usual: - LTAs signed with Samsung and $SNDK for memory - LTAs signed with Sumitomo Electric for fiber optics - Expected to deploy 7GW compute infra this year, and doubling in 2027. - as much as $145B
Williams: 'inflation is still far too high'; 'risk is currently more on the inflation side'; 'AI investment is a driver of inflation'; 'tariffs impact on inflation close to its peak'; '0.2% monthly PCE in H2 consistent with goal'
Federal Reserve minutes reveal policymakers remain open to raising rates this year, citing concerns over inflation dynamics. Huge corporate spending on AI also risks driving prices up, economist Mark Fleming told Reuters
Meta CEO扎克伯格宣布Muse Spark 1.1正式发布,定位为强力代理与编程模型,定价极低,通过Meta全新模型API及Meta AI平台同步上线。
Muse Spark 1.1; 'strong agentic and coding model at a very low price'; Meta Model API; available in Meta AI — Zuckerberg direct
Meta以激进低价策略直接挑战代理编程赛道,剑指OpenAI和Anthropic。Meta Model API商业化标志其由消费端AI向开发者生态快速扩张,与OpenAI同日宣传token效率提升形成正面竞争对垒,对整体AI API定价体系构成下行压力。
Straight from @finkd — Muse Spark 1.1 is live. [QT @finkd: (1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.]
EU Chat Control passed; legally scan messages, emails, photos without warrant; EP majority was against; procedural reversal used to pass during holiday period
🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔 They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you: They waited until most EP members were
Almost every technical indicator we've seen at previous bottoms is hitting right now "That's the thing. Whichever technical indicator you choose, most of the ones we've seen at previous bottoms are hitting it right now" "There's very few indicators people have used for bottoms
The return of the 30-year US Treasury yield above 5% is prompting investors to rethink what they consider an attractive level, according to PGIM's Gregory Peters
Add another name to the list ✍️ On June 15th, Rep. John McGuire (R) bought $SPCX He sits on the House Armed Services Committee alongside Cisneros That's now 2 members of the same committee buying SpaceX since IPO It's worth noting that same committee oversees the DoD budget
⭕️DISMANTLED: 2 underground tunnel routes with a combined length of ~200 meters in the area of Majdal Zoun in Lebanon. Inside the tunnels, troops discovered living quarters, 3 launch shafts aimed toward Israel & dozens of weapons.
jupiter aggregator volume up 238% to $18.3b monthly. revenue down H1 2026 vs H1 2025. that's margin compression in real time. take rate is collapsing as raydium, orca, phoenix compete on routing. team bought back $5.7m in JUP over 90 days against a $687m mcap. that's a 3.3%
Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.
US semiconductor funds are seeing unprecedented demand: The semiconductor ETF, $SOXX, attracted +$5.4 billion in inflows on Tuesday, the largest daily intake since the fund's launch in 2001. This is more than +300% above the previous record daily inflow. The 3x leveraged long
Fars Defense And Security Reporter, citing military sources, confirms that Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are providing logistical support for numerous flights of US fighter jets.
Israeli DM Katz: 'IDF ready to resume campaign'; 'blue-and-white operation in Iran, even for the third time'; Netanyahu: 'war is not yet over, new challenges are emerging'
Israeli Defense Minister Katz: The IDF is ready and prepared to resume the campaign and to launch a blue-and-white operation in Iran, even for the third time.
Venezuela interim government; oil regulations published Thursday; PDVSA monopoly ended; decades of control; ING fielding 'a lot' of client inquiries; years of US sanctions context
Venezuela's interim government published long-awaited oil regulations on Thursday that effectively end the decades-long control of national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, over the country's lifeblood industry.
BREAKING: The odds of inflation rising above 4.5% in 2026 fall to a new low of just 19%. Just 7 weeks ago, there was an 85% chance of inflation rising above 4.5% this year. Inflation expectations are coming down again.
The AI arms race is driving record Big Tech borrowing: Amazon $AMZN, Alphabet $GOOGL, Nvidia $NVDA, Meta $META, Oracle $ORCL, and SpaceX, $SPCX, have issued a record $182 billion in investment-grade bonds so far in 2026. This marks a +1,300% increase from ~$13 billion over the
lol mogged [QT @OpenAI: On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, GPT‑5.6 Sol sets a new state of the art at 80.0—2.8 points above Claude Fable 5—while using less than half the output tokens, taking less than half the time, and costing about one-third less.]
Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov on Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump pledged to grant Kyiv a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems to protect its cities.
From the 5.6 blogpost: "Over the past six months, the share of research compute devoted to internal coding inference grew 100-fold" Most AI policy contemplates publicly released models and is ill-suited to grapple with the large and growing importance of *internal* deployments.
SK HYNIX'S US OFFERING JUST DREW NEARLY $200B IN DEMAND For a single ADR sale, that is an enormous order book for one of the world's largest memory chipmakers, and the way it got filled says even more than the size. The top 10 accounts took nearly half the ADRs on their own.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called on Samsung and SK Hynix to step up their efforts to expand memory chip production in the US to help address a global shortage in components critical to the development of artificial intelligence.
🚫 CLAIM: Iranian state media claims that transit through the Strait of Hormuz is only permitted through routes designated by Iran. ✅ TRUTH: Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. Since early May, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the successful transit of more than 800
MYSTERY IN IRAN: US denies carrying out any current strikes, but multiple explosions are still being reported across Iranian cities. If it's not the US, then whose "ghost jets" are conducting these operations? Absolute strategic ambiguity.
BREAKING: Total US oil product exports surged to a record 8.7 million barrels per day last week. The increase was led by propane, followed by diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel cargoes. Most US diesel exports are headed to Brazil and the rest of South America, while ~14% is bound
In southern China, authorities say flooding has killed at least 39 people after days of record rainfall. A massive rescue and relief operation is underway as entire communities are underwater in the Guangxi region. Officials there say the partial collapse of a local dam is
Malaysia will likely hold its benchmark interest rate on Thursday and signal a possible hike later this year as the AI boom drives faster-than-expected economic growth
Waste incineration plants in Europe will have to pay for their carbon dioxide emissions under European Union plans to add the industry to the bloc's emissions trading system, EU officials said on Wednesday.
Five years into China's real estate slump, homebuyers are finally starting to return. The catch for developers: they're avoiding shiny, new apartments and concentrating on small, old ones.
S&P cut Harley-Davidson's credit grades to junk status on Wednesday, citing the company's strategy to start selling lower-cost motorcycles to boost revenue
Bain has sold its entire stake in flash memory chipmaker Kioxia, closing a chapter on a deal that transformed the Japanese tech and investment landscape
Tech stocks are experiencing one of their most volatile periods in history: The ratio of the Nasdaq 100 volatility index, $VXN, to the S&P 500 volatility index, $VIX, is up to 1.7 points, the highest in 23 years. This marks the first time since 2018 that the ratio has surpassed [threshold]
UK lawmakers have demanded the power to veto the appointments of senior diplomats, after former US ambassador Peter Mandelson was fired amid allegations he leaked information and concealed the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Melbourne on Thursday for talks with Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese, with the two expected to sign agreements on defense and energy before attending a rally for the Indian diaspora
Retired Lt. General David Deptula discusses potential security concerns surrounding the new Air Force One jet gifted by Qatar, and the decision to send President Trump home from Turkey on an older jet
Pretty hard not to be super bullish on data centers and neoclouds when you see estimates like this. Fwiw, we added aggressively to our $NBIS position the past few days including premarket this morning… [QT @RHouseResearch: 'We see over 100GW of compute demand between OpenAI and Anthropic by the end of 2030. This will require over 90GW of net compute additions..' TeraWulf's $WULF recently announced 401MW lease with Anthropic adds roughly $800MM of annual average NOI over the next 20 years.]
452K HYPE (~$32.3M) transferred to Flowdesk; portions routed to OKX, Bybit, Gate deposit addresses; HYPE -5% on the day; team selling via market maker = supply overhang
[QT @hupzy_agent: ⚠️ Hyperliquid Labs transferred 452K HYPE (~$32.3M) to market maker Flowdesk, with portions routed to exchange deposit addresses at OKX, Bybit, and Gate. HYPE is down 5% today. Team selling through a market maker is a clear supply overhang]
New Zealand manufacturing expanded at the fastest pace in almost five years in June as central bank Governor Anna Breman pointed to a burgeoning economic recovery
Global inflows into Indonesian sovereign bonds are poised to extend, with investors saying they see value in some of emerging Asia's highest yields on bets that a bruising round of interest-rate hikes is nearly over
Xbox's Obsidian Entertainment has canceled multiple projects, including a sequel to Avowed, and will begin working on a new game in the popular Fallout franchise as part of the division's broader restructuring, according to people familiar with the matter.
Graham Platner has suspended his US Senate campaign in Maine following a sexual assault allegation that caused his support from fellow Democrats to collapse, throwing a crucial race for the party into turmoil
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Fable 5: practitioner consensus unanimously favors Sol; Fable 5 "worse and more expensive"; legal research use case; team: "never had a case where we're so completely convinced"
The Department of Justice is threatening to arrest more than a dozen state election officials if a single vote is cast in their states by a noncitizen.
Copper snapped a two-day loss as it shrugged off a fresh round of US strikes on Iran to focus on optimism over a longer-term demand boost from artificial intelligence.
Economists raised their forecasts for Vietnam's 2026 economic growth and inflation, anticipating that strong electronics demand and foreign investment will sustain momentum.
i've never hyped a model release, we're generally conservative with how we use these things but gpt-5.6 has had a massive impact on our team, we're using 5x the tokens as we used to it's not even smarter than fable or anything, but it's just so reliable and fun to use
Biotech dealmaking has hit a 'torrid pace' in 2026, with more transactions exceeding $1 billion already completed this year than in all of 2025 combined, says Krishna Veeraraghavan, co-head of global M&A at Paul Weiss.
A US judge pressed Gautam Adani for more details on the Justice Department's move to dismiss a blockbuster criminal case against the Indian billionaire.
New Zealand will work to join a new military alliance that was signed this week between Australia and Fiji, the latest move in the rapid restructuring of the regional security architecture.
Texas Democrat James Talarico pulls in $30 million in donations in the second quarter in his campaign for US Senate, more than tripling the amount Republican challenger Ken Paxton.
Temasek International CIO Rohit Sipahimalani discusses investment opportunities and warns that a surge in US capital spending could create risks for markets in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin.
China is steering municipal borrowers away from issuing short-term bonds in the domestic market, according to sources, in its latest bid to curb fundraising by weaker issuers
Thailand has approved a $688 million investment by Nestle to build a smart factory and distribution center, strengthening the country's push to become a regional hub for food and beverage manufacturing
The metrics discussion at OpenAI is a little confusing to me. I appreciate the clarification about bad benchmarks, but they spent a lot of money developing a very good benchmark of autonomous model ability at hard tasks, GDPval, and haven't reported it for GPT-5.6.
Grok 4.5 has no model card. Companies that are trying to compete near the frontier should be releasing model cards and testing results, not just benchmarks!
The latest AI models being dropped are getting insanely good handling complex knowledge worker tasks, and especially dealing with sophisticated domains of work like legal, professional services, healthcare, and more. Grok 4.5 is another great entry here, especially on cost +
BoJ Osaka Branch: 'Global AI demand underpinning the economy in western Japan, giving a boost mainly to big manufacturers'; 'Weak Yen has benefits for export firms but also increases input costs, hard to gauge total impact'
Open Source is the... [QT @matei_zaharia: We benchmarked coding agents on our own internal tasks at Databricks and learned a lot! There are many surprising opportunities to lower cost and increase quality, and many models including open source ones are truly competitive now.]
Andy Burnham (Greater Manchester Mayor): confirmed VPN restrictions; UK potentially aligned with China, Russia, Iran on internet censorship; Starmer censorship regime
(1) What [QT @spikedonline: Andy Burnham has confirmed he'll restrict VPNs, potentially bringing Britain in line with China, Russia and Iran. Starmer's censorship regime will be expanded and deepened. Big Burnham will be watching you, says Fraser Myers]
Keiko Fujimori may be the kind of market-friendly, tough-on-crime leader Donald Trump wants in Latin America. But Peru's deep ties with China show how hard it will be for Washington to reverse Beijing's gains in the region.
Californians will have to pay for two new taxes next year after Governor Gavin Newsom approved the state budget in June in what the California Taxpayers Association described as "the largest tax increase in state history," per NYP
Unitree Invites You to Witness the 2026 Humanoid Robot Combat Competition 🥳 Putting technology to the test through combat, and connecting the world through competition. The "CMG 2026 Humanoid Robot Combat Competition" invites you to witness a new chapter in the co-evolution of
Oman, dubbed the "Switzerland of the Middle East," has found itself under pressure from both Iran and the US over the future of the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what to know.
MSTR 8-K; 3 parallel BTC monetization purposes; $1.25B cap = purpose #1 of 3 (USD reserve replenishment); 3,588 BTC sold last week = separate authorization
The German government has proposed adding a surcharge to consumer energy bills to help finance a strategic natural gas reserve designed to keep supplies flowing in a worst-case crisis
The European Union is finalizing sweeping changes to its procurement rules that will allow national governments favor European suppliers in critical public services.
Nuclear energy is back in vogue in the US as the Trump administration pushes for more reactors to be built and tech firms hunt for power for their AI data centers.
arrow finance built the first CDP that accepts tokenized stocks as collateral on robinhood chain. $23m market cap, 196% in 24h. the structural problem: CDP liquidation engines assume 24/7 price discovery. stock markets close nights, weekends, holidays. arrow vaults holding
Fast Retailing, the Japanese owner of clothing brand Uniqlo, said quarterly profit rose 45.7%, as it weathered the impact on supply chains and logistics from the Iran war on its way to an expected fifth straight year of record earnings
Russia posted its first monthly budget surplus of the year in June as revenue jumped, buoyed in part by a surge in oil and gas receipts that's likely to prove short-lived.
The weather-roiling El Niño that emerged across the Pacific last month has continued to build and will likely be one of the strongest in more than 75 years, the US Climate Prediction Center said.
Kenya's economy is likely to grow at the slowest pace since the coronavirus pandemic because of the effects of the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to the World Bank.
AI-pilled startups: uncommon even among startups; founders: significant additional headcount needed without GenAI; manager AI belief = key variable; peer-reviewed paper
Also this graph that shows what an 'AI-pilled' startup looks like, and how uncommon it is even among startups: the answer when founders are asked 'Without GenAI, how many additional employees would you need to hire to maintain your current output with no change in quality?'
ActBlue raised $586 million for Democratic candidates and causes in the second quarter, a record amount that will enhance the party's fortunes as it prepares to confront Republicans in midterm elections.
Flying Tulip; Total Return Swaps (TRS) vs perps; same capital efficiency + leverage; funding: 50x BTC long/short at -2.99%/+3.59%; no ADL; fills all available onchain spot liquidity
Why total return swaps (TRS) are better than perps; - same capital efficiency - same leverage - fill at all available onchain spot liquidity - cheaper funding (a 50x btc long / short would currently be -2.99% / +3.59%) - no ADL Next release on @flyingtulip_
Fitch: 'greater near-term fiscal policy uncertainty in UK & pressure on spending due to likely transition to Andy Burnham's leadership'; 'UK's lack of fiscal space expected to prevent marked policy easing'
Fitch Ratings: There is greater near-term fiscal policy uncertainty in UK & pressure on spending due to likely transition to andy Burnham's leadership.
Altman: 'a lot of inaccuracies' in US Government stake reports; 'expects smoother process working with government on AI'; 'OpenAI made many changes after talking to the government'
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund still won't touch crypto because of FTX "You mentioned FTX and it made me immediately think of this. Singapore's sovereign wealth fund was famously very involved in crypto in previous cycles. Now the investment fund says crypto's off the table
Optimism rebounded in latest @AAIISentiment survey for week ending July 8, with bullish sentiment climbing to 36.3% vs. 31.4% prior; bears dropped to 37.2% vs. 42.3% prior
Back in April, we flagged Cisneros buying $BBIO ahead of an FDA decision Today, a rival company's heart drug failed a major clinical trial. That leaves BridgeBio as one of the only approved treatments for the same patients Since that tweet, it's up ~20%
TeraWulf is preparing to raise about $3.5 billion in debt to build a data center campus in Kentucky, including its first-ever foray into the leveraged loan market
Europe wants 0 road deaths by 2050. Step 1 is watching drivers. Every new EU car sold since 7 July must track your gaze and head position, though it records none of it, which is the part nobody believes yet.
Active equity strategies have roughly the same beat rate whether they in ETF or MF wrapper (35-40%) but in past 12mo the ETF side has taken in $350b while active eq MFs have seen about $500b in outflows. This is why I freq compare MFs to CDs and ETFs to Spotify. Same exact music
Investigators probing the collapse of the front landing gear on a practically factory-fresh Boeing jet in Frankfurt said a required locking pin wasn't in place when the accident occurred last month
Good to see Arthur Mensch, CEO of @MistralAI, in Brussels today. He joined us at the #Eurogroup meeting for a discussion on the economic impact of AI and cybersecurity.
Microsoft said its carbon emissions climbed 25% in 2025, making it the latest technology company to report a setback in its efforts to erase emissions amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence data centers.
$AMD announced a new collaboration with North American AI digital infrastructure provider 5C on the next-generation of gigascale AI campuses - SeekingAlpha
KPMG UK is cutting 10% of staff across its support teams, according to a spokesperson for the company, in the latest round of job cuts by the Big Four accountancy firm
MiniMax is looking to raise as much as HK$14.54 billion ($1.9 billion) from selling new shares and convertible bonds, according to terms of the deals seen by Bloomberg News
Money moves on Monad [QT @nook_platform: One of the fastest growing networks is now live on Nook. You can now access USDC lending on @monad with @aave]
Good sportsmanship. [QT @elonmusk: I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon. And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor.]
NVIDIA teams run ChatGPT Work to automate workflows, surface insights faster, and cut operation costs. Our full-stack collaboration continues to scale. GPT-5.6 builds on GPT-5.5, trained and run on NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 NVL72 rack-scale systems.
Is Open source + post-training all you need? [QT @AravSrinivas: We've been post-training a version of GLM that is trained to escalate to a frontier model inside the Computer harness. When paired with an advisor, this model functions at Opus 4.8 grade performance at a fraction of the cost. Available now as a research preview!]
🏆 tell your local lawyer to try out muse spark 1.1 [QT @gabepereyra: Congrats to @elonmusk and @finkd / @alexandr_wang on Grok 4.5 and Muse Spark 1.1 achieving SOTA on @harvey's LAB at significantly lower cost and latency.]
Interesting comments from @SuttmeierTS (former @BankofAmerica Head of Technical Strategy) - $ETH signs of a tactical bottom - holding $1,693-$1,708 key - need decisive rally to $1,846-$1,876 - this opens window to $2,100
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said she'll try to have her voice heard during next year's French presidential election, while declining that she's pondering a campaign herself.
Once again, you're probably overthinking what stocks to buy [QT @joinautopilot: Breaking: President Trump said 'Go out and buy a Dell' $DELL is up ~75% since]
UPS and FedEx shares tumbled after an analyst warned that Amazon's offering inexpensive and increasingly fast delivery services to third-party customers, underscoring the risk posed by the e-commerce giant to traditional shipping firms.
Andy Burnham's path to becoming the next UK prime minister looks certain after a vast majority of Labour MPs formally nominated him to be the next party leader.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Saudi Arabian investors are interested in Canadian energy, mining and infrastructure, as he concluded the first visit of a Canadian leader to the Middle Eastern kingdom in 26 years.
chainlink CCIP generating $4.2m annualized in fees against a $9b market cap. that's a 0.046% yield on your position. meanwhile circle is deploying native USDC on 15+ chains, permanently deleting the single largest cross-chain use case from CCIP's addressable market.
"China is shipping ~90% of the world's humanoid robots. We cannot keep taking them lightly." Elon's comment: "For now" Meanwhile, 1X today posts a video of the most advanced humanoid hand. Looks like the inflection point for American humanoid programs is here?
Sivers Semiconductors ($SIVEF) CEO Vikram今日在公开市场买入价值100万瑞典克朗股票,同日另有多名内部人增持,此前公司股价因两份误导性CPO延迟报告及Meta算力相关报道大幅下跌。
$SIVEF CEO Vikram open-market purchase: 1,000,000 SEK; 3 insider buys in one day; drop triggered by CPO delay reports + Meta Compute headlines; EFN article claimed photonics chief sold entire holding
Three new $SIVE insider purchases today. Most notably: $SIVEF CEO Vikram bought 1,000,000 SEK worth of shares on the open market today. This is following the massive drop on Sivers stock following 2 misleading CPO delay reports, Meta Compute headlines, and another insider
'Trump Accounts' officially launched on Monday following a July 4 opening, drawing positive feedback from economists who project the program will provide significant financial benefits for American children nationwide.
It feels like the dominant narrative about AI and work has been about replacement: the robots are coming for your job. Clearly, that's not what tech workers are most afraid of. In our survey, 'Losing my job to AI' came in near the bottom of the list, at 22%.
New filing for an actively mgd prediction market ETFs incl one for sports. Looks like the the ETF PM will make 30-50 bets across dif prediction mkts (like a degen Peter Lynch). One will bet on eco data, politics and the weather and the other is just sports.
NEW: Levered Single Stock ETFs have become the tail wagging the dog for some stocks. Here's a GIF of that growth from @FrancisSharoon. When you account for the leverage built into these we're seeing them get to alarming levels as a % of underlying stock volumes $BMNR $MSTR $RGTI
South Korea plans to use part of an expected tax windfall from its booming chip sector to support young people, its labor minister said, as surging AI-related demand boosts the economy for now while fueling concerns over a wave of job cuts to come.
Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers. Our belief in open source has never wavered. With today's fundraising announcement and our 9M+ active builders, we're ready to scale open models into the next phase.
China's CXMT is emerging as one of the world's most important semiconductor makers, with plans to create a top-to-bottom supply chain for a memory-chip empire to challenge SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron.
Someone just filed for a Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 that owns everyone EXCEPT Elon Musk owned companies [QT @TheETFTracker: 🚨 NEW ETF FILINGS Two new "Ex-Elon" ETFs have been filed with the SEC: Nasdaq-100 Ex-Elon Enterprises ETF $QQNE S&P 500 Ex-Elon Enterprises ETF $SPNE Both ETFs track their respective indexes while excluding all companies founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk.]
Polymarket is seeking regulatory approval to offer margin trading in the US, a move that would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and help the prediction market platform attract more sophisticated traders.
Corgi: 160 ETFs live + 330 in registration = 490 potential; surpasses BlackRock (486 current most), Franklin Templeton (311); all within 1st year (est. Nov 2025 launch)
Another 20 ETFs filed from Corgi. They now have 160 ETFs live and another 330 in registration. If they launch all they'll have 490 ETFs which would be the most ETFs of any issuer (BlackRock curr most w 486, FT next w/ 311) all WITHIN THEIR FIRST YEAR OF EXISTENCE (Nov '25 was
The number of Americans taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss is rising sharply. A new Gallup poll finds 11% of adults say they're currently using one of the medications, up from just 3% two years ago. That number could climb even higher, now that Medicare has cleared the way for
JPMORGAN SAYS BITCOIN'S BIGGEST RISK IS BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION SHIFTING TO PRIVATE NETWORKS, NOT STRATEGY, AS TOKENIZATION AND PAYMENTS COULD BYPASS PUBLIC CHAINS