Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S.
Welcome to July 18, 2026. The Singularity's frontier is now standing room only. Kimi K3 ranked #1 on SpreadsheetBench 2, surpassing Claude Fable 5 to become the first open-weight model to beat every closed rival.
South Korea laid out a detailed plan to make the won freely tradable among foreigners, its boldest step yet to liberalize the forex market and bring the currency closer to full convertibility
BTC at $64k finished flat on the week as brent gained 16% to $88, an anomaly showing crypto leverage has not priced the oil shock's route into borrowing costs. hormuz crossings collapsed to 14 a day from over 34 and daily shipping capacity fell 68%.
8th consecutive night of US strikes; targets: coastal surveillance, air defense, maritime assets, missile & drone storage; IRGC attacked US troops in Jordan July 17
U.S. Completes 8th Consecutive Night of Strikes Against Iran TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed another round of strikes against Iran on July 18 at 11:30 p.m. ET, at the Commander in Chief's direction. During the eighth consecutive night of
Andy Burnham will ditch plans for a government-issued digital ID for all British adults in a "reset of priorities" when he becomes prime minister on Monday
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is turning to a technocratic energy executive with no cabinet experience or political ties as his prime minister to prepare Ukraine to survive another winter of war
The US and Iran engaged in another wave of tit-for-tat attacks, signaling no let-up after strikes by the Islamic Republic killed two American service members in Jordan on Friday
Moonshot the company behind the popular Chinese 🇨🇳 AI model Kimi model is planning to go public in China later this year [QT @IPONewsroom_: THE CHINESE AI COMPANY THAT JUST CRASHED GLOBAL TECH STOCKS IS NOW RACING TO GO PUBLIC WITHIN SIX MONTHS — Moonshot AI told investors it's preparing to list in Hong Kong as early as six months from now. The company is reportedly also closing a funding round...]
29 countries signed a treaty in Shanghai to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization. The body is meant to coordinate international AI governance and standards. It was announced at the World AI Conference this week.
Kimi K3 coding #1, beat OpenAI & Anthropic, 24hrs; Washington: regulation + immigration + AI strategy debate triggered
Kimi K3基准表现已超出技术竞争范畴，迅速升级为美国国内政策议题；政策辩论同时出现出口管制收紧与开放移民吸引AI人才两个方向相互矛盾的声音，显示华盛顿内部尚未形成共识应对策略。
Kimi K3 topped coding in 24 hours. Washington reacted. A Chinese open-source model jumped ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic. The benchmark immediately sparked a debate over regulation, immigration, and America's AI strategy.
Global oil markets have been spared an extreme squeeze during the first phase of the Iran war, but renewed fighting is bringing with it greater risk of a price spike in a world where supply buffers have been worn perilously thin
Alibaba launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable to leading frontier AI models and second only to Anthropic PBC's Fable 5
BTC is nearing BIP-110's enforcement window with 12% of reachable nodes advertising enforcement and just 0.8% of current-cycle blocks signaling support. that gap concentrates event risk in a stalled enforcing side or a low-hash minority chain. only 9 signals appeared across 1.1k
the metamask north korea employee had previously worked at FIVE exploited cryptocurrency protocols [QT @bax1337: Here's a partial list of companies this guy worked at prior to MetaMask: Ankr Blueberry Protocol DEPO Pickle Finance Harmony Glad they were somehow able to detect him because lightning keeps striking the ground where he walked.]
Will Iran invade Kuwait? They are reportedly considering it. [QT @HormuzReport: BREAKING: Iran is seriously considering a ground incursion into Kuwait to seize U.S. military bases, including Camp Buehring and either Camp Arifjan or Ali Al Salem Air Base, if Washington continues its military campaign against Tehran, according to Prominent Iranian journalist]
⭕️The IDF identified the launch of missiles from Iran toward the city of Aqaba in Jordan, adjacent to Israel. Several interceptors were launched toward missile debris in order to prevent debris impact within Israel. No damage or injuries were reported. No sirens were sounded in
BREAKING: The US saw 372 large-company bankruptcies in the first 6 months of the 2026, the highest first half total in 16 years. This marks the 4th consecutive YoY increase for this period of the year. This also surpassed the full-year total for 2022, when 317 firms went
US Inflation has now been above the Fed's target level for 64 consecutive months, averaging 4% per year since 2019. So why is the Fed expanding its balance sheet again (QE)? They should be doing the exact opposite - hiking rates and shrinking their balance sheet. #EndtheFed
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at its lowest level since April 1983. Over the past 5 years we've seen a drawdown of 305 million barrels (49% decline).
The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called "alien terrorists" from the United States.
[QT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency. What happened… An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure.]
CENTCOM Update on Recently Fallen U.S. Service Members — Yesterday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the passing of two U.S. service members and the missing status of one in Jordan following an Iranian attack on July 17. After a thorough search, U.S.
The cost of financing US debt is rapidly rising: On Tuesday, the US sold 30-year Treasury bonds at a 5.06% yield, the highest auction result since 2007. At the same time, the 30-year Treasury yield jumped back above 5.00%, though it remains below the May 20th peak of 5.20%
U.S. Navy Sailors remain focused and vigilant aboard guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113), as American forces continue implementing the naval blockade against Iran. As of July 19, CENTCOM has redirected 6 commercial vessels and disabled 1 to ensure full compliance.
From 60 days to 10 days… can I get 3 days? Do I hear 2 days?? Anybody for just 1 day?? Like a trinket auction at an old folks home [QT @ncitayim: "...it calls for an end to the war and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian control for a 10 day period."]
Costco $COST standalone gas stations; within 2 miles of warehouse locations; WSJ
Costco $COST is planning to test opening a couple stand-alone gas stations Each standalone gas station will be within 2 miles of Costco warehouse locations - WSJ
Interestingly, when I made a request in Chinese for Kimi K3 to pick two non-cliched poems that apply to LLMs, 95.5% of the characters (88% of the words) in the chain-of-thought were in English, even when it was explicitly considering Chinese poems for a Chinese reader.
Dean Ball joined OpenAI <2 weeks ago; erred in original Kimi post; 'sheer volume of hostility' from outside; no internal censorship
Dean Ball的公开纠错发生在加入OpenAI后，使其此前关于开放权重AI的立场可信度受到质疑，直接影响Kimi相关分析的参考价值。他坦承外部敌意（而非内部压力）压制其自由表达，折射出AI领域公共讨论空间因利益相关方身份转变而被严重收窄的现实。
I'm afraid to tell you that it is effectively impossible to do the kind of writing I used to do on this website, not because anyone at OpenAI censors me but because of the sheer volume of hostility I get for sharing my analysis as a frontier lab employee. I enjoyed writing quick
BTC 30-day implied volatility sits near recent lows at $64k even as hormuz shipping capacity falls 68%, leaving options too cheap for a supply shock measured in months. crossings are 14 a day versus 34+ in early july, and gulf exports are 16m barrels a day against 24m before the
India's top private banks are betting on a sustained pick up in lending after reporting healthy numbers in the first quarter of the fiscal year, as more companies shift away from pricier bond market borrowings to cheaper loans
JIMOTHY at a $15m market cap has a 44% exit-liquidity anomaly: selling just 1% of supply into its main pool would turn $155k on screen into roughly $86k, so the quoted valuation cannot absorb a modest holder exit. the pool held only $394k total liquidity and $193k of SOL against
Kimi K3单任务完成成本为94美分，较Opus 4.8低48%，但运行仍需64加速器规模工业集群，广域能力评分57分，低于sol（59分）及另一未披露模型（60分）。
94c/task, 48% below Opus 4.8, 64-accelerator cluster required, capability score 57 vs 59 (sol) vs 60
Kimi K3呈现出成本优势与算力门槛并存的"边际悖论"：低价格侵蚀高端模型利润，但高运行算力需求又抑制规模化部署红利。分析认为此模式将先压缩闭源模型收入、再传导至芯片需求端，对AI产业链利润分配具有重新排序意义。
kimi K3 has a 64-accelerator margin anomaly: its 94c completed-task cost is 48% below opus 4.8, yet serving it still requires an industrial cluster. cheaper intelligence hits premium model margins before chip demand. K3 scores 57 on broad capability against 59 for sol and 60 for
Today I am making one of the biggest announcements since I sold the top in September 2025. I am taking profit on every single crypto short. The Bitcoin short built between $115,000 and $125,000 is closed now with a gigantic gain. The $80,500 short [is also closed].
Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon!🌐 With a massive 2.4T parameters, this model is continuously evolving. We believe it's one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models, second only to Fable 5.
Former President Joe Biden will publish a memoir, "Promise Me, America," which he says will touch upon everything from the economy to his decision to drop his bid for reelection. It's scheduled to come out Nov. 17.
Institutional investors are trying to figure out what it would mean for their portfolios if continually rising temperatures trigger what JPMorgan is calling 'climate black swan risks'
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the departure of the conservative bloc's parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn has opened up the possibility of a broader government reshuffle
Veterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners. As prices rise, attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up veterinary practices across the country.
setting aside the China connection, why are my taxpayer dollars going to fund civil servants doomscrolling? [QT @ReutersChina: The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that federal employees can now download the short-video app TikTok on government devices.]
Emerging-market currency volatility has dropped to the lowest since the start of year and that's re-energizing carry trades, particularly those involving Latin America that are seen to offer the juiciest returns
After last week's wipeout, pressure is building for the biggest AI spenders to justify their expenditures to traders with increasingly itchy fingers over their sell buttons.
Moonshot AI CEO杨植麟公开表示，AI奇点的核心难点在于底层模型而非智能体层，并指出当众多竞争者专注推理能力竞赛时，Claude选择了一条不同的押注路径。
Moonshot AI CEO Zhilin Yang; 'hard part was never the agent, it was the model underneath it'; Claude 'quietly bet' differently while others raced on reasoning
Welcome to July 19, 2026 The Singularity's hard part, it turns out, was never the agent, it was the model underneath it. So argues Moonshot AI CEO Zhilin Yang, noting that while everyone raced on reasoning, Claude quietly bet
With the swings in prices reaching extreme levels, bets that the S&P 500 and individual stocks will start moving more in unison is gaining traction among some investors.
Tesla is ramping up production at its factory in Gruenheide, Germany, with plans to expand into new markets, as it affirmed expectations for stronger demand there this year
Dozens have been rescued but many people remain missing after a ferry carrying 116 passengers and 17 crew sank off the northern coast of Guyana late on Saturday
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Peru's central Junín region late Saturday killed at least four people, injured more than 20 and affected about 300 more.
South Africa is sticking with a plan to add more nuclear power to the grid after several minor incidents tested safety procedures at its four-decade old atomic station.
Competition between US and Chinese AI models is heating up: The proportion of tokens used by US firms that run through Chinese AI models on OpenRouter is up to a record ~58%. OpenRouter is a platform that allows developers and companies to access and compare AI models from
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar: 'distillation attacks'; 'stolen American IP from frontier labs'; Jeffries rebuttal: requires RL, data cleaning, scaled training harness
I've really appreciated Palantir's push for sovereign and open AI recently. But this distillation nonsense has got to stop. I mean who knew that distillation also hires engineering talent, does RL, builds a scaled training harness and RL environments, does data cleaning, tunes
The World Cup has been a BIG WIN for the Prediction markets. Prediction-market activity was around 27% of all legal US sports-betting volume during the World Cup, up from 9% at the beginning of the year according to H2 Gambling Capital estimates
Terry Smith told investors he's 'taking more account of momentum' after 3 years of underperformance and 50%+ portfolio turnover. The 'English Warren Buffett' capitulating to momentum after refusing it his entire career. Incredible timing, considering momentum is in the middle
President Trump is calling on Congress to add Iran into its bipartisan Russia sanctions bill, saying it's 'what Lindsey [Graham] wanted to do.' But @SenatorShaheen (D-NH) tells @EenaRuffini and @davidgura 'Sen. Graham never raised the concerns about putting Iranian sanctions'
Christopher Nolan's new movie "The Odyssey" which was released by Comcas $CMCSA was the #1 movie in the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 over the weekend The movie brought in $124.5 Million in ticket sales in its first weekend - Bloomberg
AerCap Holdings NV is in discussions to buy Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner aircraft, people familiar with the matter said, potentially adding to a slate of leasing-company deals.
Cathie Wood and Ark Invest bought 115,827 shares of CoreWeave $CRWV on Friday Cathie Wood and Ark Invest bought 147,805 shares of SpaceX $SPCX on Friday
Boeing Co. lifted production of PAC-3 seekers by 30% last year and plans a similar increase in 2026 as the US tries to replenish its stockpile of the air-defense interceptors.
"Of the $1.85B tokenized stocks on the market, @AlpacaHQ is responsible for providing the clearings, connectivity and custody services for $1.5B or 81% of the entire market."
The ripples from the oil shock have been felt in the prices of gasoline, diesel and air tickets, but now they are spreading to apparel, writes @davidfickling (via @opinion)
Tech returns are nearing 2000 Dot-com levels: The information technology sector has returned an average of +9% per year over the last 10 years, the best performance of any US sector. This annualized return has doubled since the 2020 pandemic. This also matches the peak
one of the best features of ChatGPT Work is that it runs in the cloud, meaning that it works from mobile, with your laptop closed. kinda crazy how long the main way to get the magic of agents has been while leaving your laptop cracked open!
Baseline power infra, politically friendly regions, Kimi K3 GPU near capacity limits, new subscriptions paused
Kimi K3 48小时内算力告急事件再度验证电力供给的结构性瓶颈。资深投资人的逻辑是：无论最终哪家模型胜出，数据中心用电需求都是刚性的，已付诸实际配置行动。
Baseline power infra (especially in politically friendly regions) arguably best place in the stack to be. Regardless of the models used, we need more power. Without mentioning individual names, I recently allocated accordingly.
Hungary PM Peter Magyar; Judit Polgar presidential nomination; opposition coalition signal
Prime Minister Peter Magyar proposed chess legend Judit Polgar as Hungary's next president, saying the country needs a head of state "every Hungarian can be proud of."