Kevin Warsh's nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors clears the first in a series of Senate votes to install him as chair of the US central bank
The new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, detailed in a 16-page memo, identifies three main terror threats facing the nation: 'narco-terrorists and transnational gangs,' 'legacy Islamist terrorists' and 'violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists.'
The Housing Market Is Already Flashing Recession This chart is showing a transaction market frozen near Great Financial Crisis levels before the labor market has fully broken. Existing home sales are hovering around the 4 million annualized zone. March sales fell 3.6% month
Global central banks' use of the People's Bank of China's swap lines reached a two‑year high in the first quarter, underscoring rising international demand for the Chinese currency
$SOX: record 23% of S&P 500 market cap; doubled in 2 years; +146% vs S&P 500 over same period — @kobeissiletter (vs separately-reported 17.4% Schwab sector figure)
Kobeissi的23%数字与Schwab此前报告的17.4%均为历史高位,差异源于指数构成口径不同(SOX vs GICS半导体板块)。两组数据共同印证半导体板块在大盘中的集中度已达极端水平,与AI资本开支超级周期直接相关。与此同时,技术分析者同步发出周线RSI警告,多头与空头信号罕见并存。
Semiconductor stocks have never been bigger: The Semiconductor Index, $SOX, now accounts for a record 23% of the S&P 500's market cap. This percentage has DOUBLED over the last 2 years. This comes as the index has rallied +146% over this period, outperforming the S&P 500's
All these stocks hit new 52 WEEK LOWS at some point today McDonald's $MCD Home Depot $HD MercadoLibre $MELI Lululemon $LULU Abbott $ABT Albertsons $ACI Accenture $ACN Alcon $ALC Aerovironment $AVAV Broadridge $BR Brown & Brown $BRO Boston Scientific $BSX $CDW Celsius $CELH
US President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet Thursday morning in Beijing, according to the White House, for a high-stakes summit that will be dominated by discussions on trade and the war in Iran
President Trump said he backs reducing the 18.4-cent federal gasoline tax as US fuel prices shoot higher due to the Iran war and have sparked anger among US motorists.
Copper steadied near its highest close on record after US President Donald Trump dismissed Iran's proposals for a peace deal and said the ceasefire with Tehran was on "life support"
Risk appetite is returning to China's tech sector, with margin lending, trading volumes and benchmarks all climbing back to highs thanks to growing bets that a recent rally will continue
Copper steadied near its highest close on record after US President Donald Trump dismissed Iran's proposals for a peace deal and said the ceasefire with Tehran was on "life support"
US consumer prices likely rose at a solid pace for a second straight month in April, which would result in the largest annual increase in inflation in more than 2-1/2 years and further bolster expectations the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unchanged for a while
🚨 UPDATE: Mini Shai-Hulud has crossed from @npmjs into @pypi and is still spreading. Newly confirmed compromised artifacts: opensearch-project/opensearch: 3.5.3, 3.6.2, 3.7.0, 3.8.0 (1.3M weekly downloads) mistralai: 2.4.6 on PyPI guardrails-ai: 0.10.1 on PyPI
AI for helping you build apps powered by AI: [QT @OpenAIDevs: Codex can now help you build AI apps and agents faster with OpenAI APIs using the OpenAI Developers plugin.]
The "Liz Truss moment" of 2022 has turned into the UK's political reality, with 30-year yields soaring to their highest levels since 1998 and the pound weakening. "No matter who is in power, no matter their political leaning, there does not appear to be a credible plan to restore
What a great night of conversation w/the Midland Wildcat Committee The mood here is understandably more effusive than the rest of the country w/$WTI north of $100/barrel The Q: At what level of prices does enough demand get destroyed to temp the mood even in the #Patch?
Australia's government conducted scenario analysis in its annual budget under which the war in Iran intensifies, driving oil to $200 a barrel and throwing the global economy into chaos
UK PM Starmer; asked cabinet members to come individually; Defence Secretary Healey: 'more instability not in Britain's interest'; long-dated UK borrowing costs jump to multiyear high
OpenAI reportedly renegotiated its $MSFT deal to cap total revenue-share payments at $38B, down from a potential ~$135B under the old structure. The trade-off is OpenAI may pay more near term but it could save ~$97B through 2030 while cleaning up its long-term investor story
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) continues operations in the Arabian Sea, including enforcement of the U.S. blockade against Iran. CENTCOM forces have redirected 65 commercial vessels and disabled 4.
US CPI Inflation Rate moved up to 3.8% in April, its highest level since May 2023. The Inflation Rate is now back above the Fed Funds Rate and CPI is likely headed above 4%. The Fed is once again behind the curve and should be hiking interest rates.
BREAKING: Iran has warned it could enrich uranium to 90% purity if attacked again by the US or Israel. 90% enrichment is widely considered weapons-grade uranium.
BREAKING: The odds of the Fed HIKING interest rates in 2026 surge to a new high of 31% after US CPI inflation hits a 3-year high. Just months ago, markets were pricing in 3+ interest rate CUTS this year. Rate cuts have been entirely priced-out.
The US consumer price index jumped 3.8% on a year-on-year basis, outstripping workers' earnings for the first time in three years and marking the highest inflation print since May 2023.
Jamie Dimon warned the UK that any move to hike taxes on banks in the event Keir Starmer is replaced as the UK's prime minister would see JPMorgan Chase scrap plans to invest billions in a new London headquarters in Canary Wharf.
The United Arab Emirates retaliated against Iranian attacks on its territory earlier in the war in the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, coordinating with Israel as the two countries deepen security ties.
*SPACEX, GOOGLE IN TALKS TO EXPLORE DATA CENTERS IN ORBIT: WSJ
This might be the most important part of the new Anthropic deal with SpaceXAI… Elon is now building a neocloud in a market that he dominates almost entirely. I expect we'll see more deals like this in the near future.
The sharp reversal in who is helping whom is one of the most remarkable stories of the Ukraine war: [A memo between US and Ukraine outlines the terms of a defense deal between the two countries. It would allow Ukraine to export its military tech to the US and manufacture drones in joint ventures with American companies]
Iran Parliament: permanent cessation of enrichment + handing over enriched uranium to US = 'matter of honor', cannot accept; two red lines named explicitly
Iran Parliament's National Security Commission Ghalroo: The United States has two demands that are a matter of honor for the Islamic Republic, and it cannot accept them: first, the permanent cessation of enrichment, and second, handing over enriched uranium to the United States
EIA: If the Strait of Hormuz is shut through late June, crude oil prices would be $20/bbl higher than the current forecast that assumes reopening in late May.
UK to contribute drones, jets, and a warship to a multinational mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz, the UK's defensive mission is backed by £115 million of new funding for mine-hunting drones and counter-drone systems - Statement.
An informed source familiar with the negotiations between Iran and the US confirmed the directives to the Iranian negotiating team included a condition to achieve five points before starting negotiations on the nuclear file - Al Jazeera reporter, citing an Informed Source
The European Union is working to join a US-led initiative aimed at securing supply chains for artificial intelligence and semiconductors as competition with China intensifies.
A blast at a crowded market killed 10 and injured dozens in in Sarai Naurang, northwestern Pakistan, raising concerns of renewed tensions with Afghanistan
BREAKING: Copper prices have surged to a record $6.58 per pound, now up +75% since October 2023 and over +40% in 12 months. The surge comes amid tight supply, declining inventories in China, and surging demand for data center construction.
Oil shipments from Iran's main export terminal appear to have come to a standstill over the past several days, according to satellite images, the first sign of a prolonged halt since the start of the war
The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and other allies of President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile-defense shield will cost as much as $1.2 trillion to deploy and operate, six times above current forecasts, according to a new estimate — and would still likely fail to stop an all-out attack
A Russian cargo ship believed to be carrying two nuclear reactors, possibly bound for North Korea, sank under unexplained circumstances off the coast of Spain, according to a CNN investigation.
Anthropic is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, setting the stage for what could be its largest funding round yet
At #BloombergTech @business' @shiringhaffary speaks with @AnthropicAI President & Co-Founder @DanielaAmodei for a discussion surrounding their new model Mythos and more. Live 6/4 at 9:50 AM PT!
Went live on NewsNation to talk about the DOJ is investigating $2.6B of shady trades made before Trump oil announcements. They arrested that Polymarket trade after just a couple weeks. Let's see how long it takes to make an arrest here.
China appears to have ramped up missile production last year by the most since Xi Jinping became president, according to a Bloomberg analysis that mapped out the sector's finances for the first time.
Live from Colorado Statehouse [QT @CharlieBull0ck: Looks like Polis succeeded in killing the Colorado AI Act (or rather, replacing it with something that looks mostly inoffensive). RIP to a truly terrible AI law. The optimist in me hopes that the discourse will improve now that preemption hawks have been deprived of the one]
Cerebras is guiding prospective investors that it expects to price its IPO above the top of its marketed range, according to sources, as demand soars for the chipmaker's stock
Crypto markets continue to attract massive inflows: Crypto funds posted +$858 million in inflows last week, the 6th consecutive weekly intake. Over this period, investors poured a total of +$4.7 billion into these funds. Crypto funds have now seen inflows in 10 of the last 11
We are so far from having the productivity boom that the AI doomers and luddites worry about so much. [QT @elidourado: Q1 numbers are in, and utilization-adjusted TFP is down 2.18% annualized. I regret to report that the 20s are still not roaring.]
BREAKING: President Trump asks US Congress to pass the '21st Century ROAD to Housing Act' which would 'ensure that homes are for people, not corporations.'
A spell of patchy and below-average rainfall that continued last week is raising fears of a smaller and lower-quality mid-crop in Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions as the harvest enters its final stage, farmers said on Monday.
Market breadth is deteriorating: Only 22% of stocks in the S&P 500 have outperformed the index over the last 30 days, the 3rd-lowest reading since 1996. This is down from 65% recorded in February, the highest percentage in 8 months and less than half of the long-term average
Starbucks; jobs move Washington state → Tennessee; Howard Schultz WSJ op-ed; 'Seattle turns hostile to the great businesses it made'; not alone in looking elsewhere
Seattle turns hostile to the great businesses it made. Starbucks is moving jobs from Washington state to Tennessee, and it isn't alone in looking elsewhere, writes @HowardSchultz
Eileen Wang, former mayor of an affluent Los Angeles suburb, has agreed to plead guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China in the US.
Japan's stealthy and highly automated Mogami warship is set for a showdown with the simpler and less expensive Type 31 frigate from the UK as the two nations compete to supply vessels to the Royal New Zealand Navy
The 🇺🇸 Senate took another procedural step toward confirming Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chair, advancing his nomination to a final vote to join the Fed's board - WSJ
Nothing says 'we let the AI write our policy memos' like citing an academic paper that argues the opposite of your position. @bankpolicy filed evidence against itself and called it advocacy. 🍿
Goldman's Risk Appetite Indicator (RAI) The fastest RAI increases from negative levels to 1 since 2000 – the current reversal is one of the sharpest on record.
这标志着Rocket Lab从发射服务商向太空系统集成商加速转型;Motiv Space Systems曾为NASA火星任务提供关键机械臂系统,其技术储备为RKLB构筑差异化竞争护城河,但机器人业务商业化路径及营收贡献时间表仍待市场验证。
Rocket Lab $RKLB posted this today: 'Rocket Lab Robotics is coming' 'That's what we're doing with Motiv Space Systems, adding Mars-proven robotics heritage to our rapidly expanding capabilities'
New Zealand's government said on Tuesday it would change climate legislation to prevent courts from finding companies liable in private cases for climate change-related harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said her team is working well with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the area of foreign exchange policy, after the two met in Tokyo
Japan's foreign currency reserves at the end of April were largely unchanged from the previous month, likely an indication that currency intervention came too close to the end of the month to be reflected in the data
South Korea should pay all citizens a share of AI profits, a top policymaker has urged, as a labor dispute threatens to disrupt production at Samsung's chip division
DroneShield's stock tumbled to the lowest in about three months after the Australian counter-drone firm said Australia's financial regulator was reviewing disclosures and share trades from November
Shares of Japanese metals refiner JX Advanced Metals slid after the company unveiled a plan to issue $1.6 billion of bonds that can be converted into stocks to fund share buybacks
A tribal nation is likely to succeed in blocking Kalshi from offering sports contracts on its land, a federal judge said in what appears to be the first ruling of its kind against the prediction market operator
Robert Kagan; Iran controlling Strait of Hormuz; 'even more power than they would have if they were able to develop a nuclear weapon'; Gulf power balance transformation
"If Iran ends this conflict, as it currently is, in control of the strait, it really completely changes the situation in the Gulf," Robert Kagan says. "It's even more power than they would have if they were able to develop a nuclear weapon."
Australia is expected to deliver a narrower than forecast budget deficit on May 12 as it banks commodity-driven revenue windfalls, while also unveiling the most significant property tax reforms the country has seen in decades.
Anthropic has said: "Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, that has not been approved by our Board of Directors is void and will not be recognized on our books and records."
Diet Coke parties are on the rise in India after a can shortage linked to the Iran war has disrupted shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Venues are hosting ticketed events and raffles with cans as prizes
Private credit has exploded into a $1 trillion market. Yet its resilience is increasingly being tested. Bloomberg Originals examines whether this massive boom is built to last and what comes next for one of finance's fastest-growing sectors
Australia's financial crimes watchdog warned of a heightened threat of money laundering linked to AI that has been used by crooks to scale up activities, automate processes and create fake documents
A firm controlled by Dubai's ruler has emerged as the top shareholder in the city's biggest developer after buying a $6.5 billion stake from the emirate's main investment vehicle
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is seeking to reverse his beleaguered government's fortunes by getting an ambitious reform agenda back on track amid plummeting public support
Alpenglow is going to have a subtle but important impact to mev. Delaying a slot past the timeout will cause the leader to lose all the subsequent slots. So the cost of delay games is highest in the first slot and lowest in the last.
hyperliquid's HIP-4 unified margin lets $50k collateral back $400k+ notional across perps, spot, and prediction markets simultaneously. zero opening fees means you arbitrage the 2-5bps spread against every CEX on every single entry. the tradeoff nobody's modeling: a BTC flash
China and the United States may reach a farm deal at their summit this week that expands Beijing's purchases of grains and meat, but market watchers said they did not expect major new soybean purchases beyond what was agreed in a deal last October
Having an agent in your meeting is such a futuristic experience: [QT @OpenAIDevs: What if your team gave standup updates, and GPT-Realtime-2 moved the tickets?]
I've been trying to tell people for twenty years that fixtures and avoiding rspec was where it was at. But no argument delivers this insight like letting AI do the conversion for you, and seeing the incredible performance improvements possible. NINE TIMES FASTER!
The main natural gas plant that supplies fuel in the UAE will only return to full capacity next year, highlighting the long recovery times for some of the region's most critical infrastructure
In Russia's tightening digital landscape, even the smallest businesses are struggling with the Kremlin's growing internet restrictions. Limits on apps like Telegram, tighter VPN controls, and internet shutdowns have created serious problems for firms
The Bitcoin Society, a start-up backed by French NBA star Tony Parker and entrepreneur Éric Larchevêque, has ditched plans to build a crypto treasury, months after announcing the strategy
Crabbox 0.12.0 is live 🪟 Azure Windows desktop + WSL2 🏠 Proxmox + Tensorlake providers 🧰 preflight, failure bundles, phase timing 🚑 keep failed boxes around for SSH debugging Remote test boxes got much less slippery.
An Australian court ordered miner Fortescue to pay $108 million in compensation to an Indigenous group for cultural loss caused by iron ore mining on their land without their permission.
Lufthansa is under scrutiny from investors questioning the carrier's financial trajectory as labor strikes and surging fuel prices threaten to derail its recovery
Diplomatic talks with the US over Greenland have been complicated by Denmark's lack of a fully formed government, according to the island's prime minister
Brazil's central bank has seen its workforce shrink by 42% over the past decade, while the amount of regulated financial institutions has swelled by 50%. Now, the crunch is expected to worsen.
x402 is being framed as 'the internet's missing payment layer' and slowly yet surely gaining recognition, 28 years dormant in HTTP spec, now shipping via Coinbase/Base with institutional backing from AWS, Google Cloud, and Stripe. The organic narrative is real: builders are
World food prices rose for a third consecutive month in April to 130.7 (highest level since February 2023), driven by increases in vegetable oil, meat, and cereal prices
NFIB Small Business Optimism April: 95.9 (vs 96.1 est, 95.8 prior); owners expecting better business conditions: 4% (4th consecutive decline, lowest since October 2024); top problems: labor quality, taxes
April @NFIB Small Business Optimism ticked up slightly to 95.9 vs. 96.1 est. & 95.8 prior ... share of owners expecting better business conditions fell to 4%, fourth consecutive decline and lowest since October 2024
With LVMH's stock suffering their worst start to a year on record, Barclays analysts see a buying opportunity for shares in the maker of Louis Vuitton handbags and Christian Dior perfume
Sea reported quarterly earnings that topped analysts' estimates after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia's competitive e-commerce market rattled by economic and political challenges
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte just became the first official there to be impeached twice but the messy process has arguably only solidified her clout
Bittensor subnet registration: 230 TAO → 1,500 TAO ($470k); 128 → 256 active subnets; each new launch removes $470k liquid supply; 73% TAO staked; chutes: $22k/day real inference revenue at $123M market cap
bittensor subnet registration cost went from 230 TAO to 1,500 TAO ($470k). 128 active subnets scaling to 256. each new launch removes $470k of liquid supply from a float where 73% is already staked. chutes doing $22k/day in real inference revenue at $123m market cap, targon at
Phoenix Trade maker fee: 0.005% vs Hyperliquid 0.03% (6x cheaper); crude oil + gold perpetuals on Solana 24/7; $60M volume in private beta; founded by former CME pit traders
phoenix trade charging 0.005% maker fees on solana perps. hyperliquid charges 0.03%. that's 6x cheaper. built by former CME pit traders who decided chicago hours were too short so they put crude oil and gold perpetuals on solana running 24/7. $60m volume in private beta. still
30% of car buyers trading in vehicles in early 2026 are "underwater," owing more on their loans than the car is worth, with an average gap of over $7,000, per WSJ
The European Commission is looking at extending its carbon market to cover international flights, seeking to put a price on more of the sector's emissions and ensure fair treatment across airlines, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Higher-income after-tax wage growth: +6% YoY; Lower-income wage growth: +1.5% YoY (barely offsets avg gas spending increase) — Bank of America Institute, April 2026
Wage growth is increasingly concentrated among wealthier households. In April, higher-income households' after-tax wage growth rose to 6% YoY, while lower-income households' wage growth was 1.5% YoY, barely offsetting average increases in gas spending: Bank of America Institute
Global money supply surged by $17T in the last 2 years. War is not the only driver of inflation. Policymakers have been pouring liquidity into the system the entire time.
CME, the largest US derivatives exchange, and Silicon Data are teaming up to create a futures market for computing power, a key factor needed to help power the AI boom
SAP is investing in workflow automation platform n8n, doubling the startup's valuation to $5.2 billion, as the German software giant builds out its artificial intelligence offering
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic has raised $120 million in a new funding round backed by Deutsche Bank and Nasdaq's venture arm, as large financial institutions expand their digital-asset offerings
This from Jess Phillips's resignation letter is devastating for the prime minister "Over a year ago I presented solutions, long worked on by brilliant civil servants that would end the ability for children in the UK to take naked images of themselves. 91% of online child sex
Saylor promotes CLARITY Act markup; simultaneously selling 'hundreds of millions' in registered MSTR securities on same day — @dampedspring observation
Today he will sell hundreds of millions of registered securities [QT @saylor: Last night's CLARITY Act markup would unlock the next wave of Digital Capital, Digital Credit, and Digital Equity in the U.S. and globally — institutional validation for $BTC, a framework for $STRC -powered digital yield markets, and broader adoption of $MSTR.]
California has shed 107,900 jobs in the tech sectors since August 2022, an 11% decline, with the state's share of national tech employment falling since 2020, per Bloomberg.
The median home sale price in the United States 🇺🇸 increased by 2.4% YoY in April its fastest growth since March 2025 - Redfin. The median home sale price in the US in April 2026 was $396,173
US CPI Inflation Rate moved up to 3.8% in April, its highest level since May 2023. The Inflation Rate is now back above the Fed Funds Rate and CPI is likely headed above 4%. The Fed is once again behind the curve and should be hiking interest rates.
when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure [QT @TheStalwart: The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more]
This is how much advertisers are paying on Streaming Platforms and Traditional TV via WSJ. For 2026: - Traditional TV: ~$26B and falling - Streaming: ~$18B and rising
EDF is working with an adviser to sell its renewable energy assets in China as the French state-owned utility refocuses on European nuclear power projects, people familiar with the matter said
Enterprise AI adoption shouldn't require rebuilding your data center. AMD's Suresh Andani shares how the new AMD Instinct MI350P PCIe cards enable enterprises to deploy and scale generative and agentic AI using existing air-cooled infrastructure, while delivering strong AI performance.
Wispr AI Inc., the developer behind the popular voice dictation tool Wispr Flow, is in talks to raise a new round of funding that could more than double its valuation to $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
An expected point-of-sale technology rollout from DoorDash is poised to deal a blow to payments firms such as Toast, according to Rothschild & Co Redburn's Dominic Ball.
GMR, an air and ground emergency medical services company that counts KKR among its backers, revised the terms of its IPO and is seeking to raise $479 million, down from an earlier target of as much as $798 million.
Dr Reddy's plans to launch its version of generic Ozempic this month, filling a void in the Canadian market months after a key patent expiry and paving the way for cheaper access to the GLP-1 drugs.
Millions of borrowers are defaulting on their student loans, and they are nearly 40 years old on average, nearly 2½ years older than the profile of a student-loan defaulter before the pandemic.
Vietnam's state oil company urged the US to let a supertanker pass through an American naval blockade outside of the Persian Gulf, saying the shipment is critical to the Asian country's economy.
Eight US solar manufacturing firms filed a request with the Department of Commerce on Tuesday to investigate alleged unfair trade practices by companies assembling solar cells and panels in Ethiopia with components from China.
Energy will dominate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United Arab Emirates on Friday as India moves to shore up stable supplies amid rising geopolitical tensions in West Asia.
The @FalconXGlobal Credit Vault on @paretocredit is now available on Monad. AA_FalconXUSDC can be bridged to Monad and used as collateral on the @morpho @steakhousefi market to borrow USDC. This brings institutional private credit deeper into onchain capital markets.
2.6M student loan borrowers in default early 2026; avg age ~40, ~2.5 years older than pre-pandemic
违约者年龄结构的老龄化折射疫情延期还款政策终止后的系统性冲击,与K形经济分化(高收入工资+6% vs 低收入+1.5%)相互印证,消费侧信用压力正向中高年龄段蔓延。
Millions of borrowers are defaulting on their student loans, and they are nearly 40 years old on average, nearly 2½ years older than the profile of a student-loan defaulter before the pandemic
US 10-Year Note Auction High Yield 4.468% [Tail +0.4 bps] Bid-to-cover 2.40 Sells $42 bln Awards 22.00% of bids at high Primary Dealers take 12.0% Direct 24.1% Indirect 64.0%
Googlebook laptops will run Android and prominently showcase Gemini AI. Hardware partners including Dell, HP and Lenovo all plan to release models in the coming months.
Goldman Sachs's use of artificial intelligence is helping the bank scale up without requiring much more hiring, according to President and Chief Operating Officer John Waldron.
Venture Global shares shot up on Tuesday after the liquefied natural gas exporter announced two new supply deals and detailed expansion plans for export projects in Louisiana.
Alphabet has begun marketing its first-ever bond sale in yen, further broadening its funding channels as the Google parent sharply increases capital spending to finance artificial intelligence efforts.
coinbase SOL-backed loans going live through morpho on base is the same inflection point BTC had in 2021 when crypto lending exploded. $100k limit is the floor. morpho hit $7.5b in deposits with 24% DeFi lending share and now it's the plumbing behind a publicly traded company's
Russia expects its oil production to remain flat in 2026 and grow modestly in the coming two years as its energy infrastructure comes under intense drone attacks from Ukraine
US LBM Q1: sharply weaker earnings; operating expenses ramped up; demand continued to soften; 'starkest examples yet of the pain engulfing the industry'
Building materials and products distributor US LBM reported sharply weaker first-quarter earnings as operating expenses ramped up and demand continued to soften in one of the starkest examples yet of the pain engulfing the industry
Trump meets Mamdani twice at Oval Office; "you can't tax people out of New York — you never get them back... it's a very dangerous thing that's happening right now"
Trump: Mayor Mamdani "came down to the Oval Office twice. He's a nice person. I really like him, he's a nice guy—but you can't tax people out of New York. When you tax people out of New York you never get them back...it's a very dangerous thing that's happening right now."
TON: 400 validators across 6 continents; Telegram = largest validator; enables major exchanges + custodians to stake without increasing centralization risk
With 400 validators across 6 continents, TON is one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet. Telegram becoming the largest validator opened the door for major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without increasing centralization risk.
collectibles on solana 🔥 [QT @phygitals: phygitals just crossed $250,000,000 USD on @solana a quarter of a billion, and it all belongs to the community grateful to be building alongside you all and in this ecosystem - it's time to bring the next billion users on chain]
France's economy is showing signs of faltering as the fallout from the Middle East conflict hits growth and ratchets up inflation pressure, according to the central bank's monthly survey of companies
India, the world's top buyer of diammonium phosphate, has contracted the crop nutrient at prices almost 40% higher than pre-war levels as the Middle East conflict disrupts supplies and pushes global benchmarks higher
OpenAI's Sam Altman testified that he was "extremely uncomfortable" with Elon Musk's insistence that he have complete control over a proposed for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI back in 2017
dripstack processed 42,000 agent payments on tempo in 30 days. $393k volume. average transaction $0.07. AI agents autonomously paying writers per article via x402 micropayments settled in sub-second finality at $0.001 flat fees. stripe built the protocol, visa and paradigm
Blackstone has begun preparing to raise money for the third iteration of its private equity fund that holds assets for longer than its typical investments
BREAKING: Reporter: "To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]" Trump: "Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans' financial situation"
ARK is excited to participate in @Kalshi's latest funding round. We believe prediction markets are emerging as a powerful new layer of financial infrastructure, enabling real-time price discovery around events, probabilities, and the evolving state of the world.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s asset management arm is deepening its push into blockchain-based finance with plans to launch its second tokenized money market fund.
PyTorch 2.12; compilation, distributed systems, export, graph capture, accelerator support; live session May 20 10am PT
PyTorch 2.12 introduces updates across compilation, distributed systems, export, graph capture, and accelerator support. Join Andrey Talman (@Meta), @albanDesmaison (@Meta), and @joespeez (@reflection_ai), moderated by @Chris_AI_HPC (@Meta), on May 20 at 10:00 AM PT for a live
Sorry SPV bros... Counsel picked option C... Shut it all down [QT @JaredKubin: There is a ~$100m block of ANTHROPIC going around... single layer SPV with 20% +/- upfront fees... Do you lift the offer?!]
Iran's Foreign Ministry: The four Iranians, arrested by Kuwait, were engaged in a routine naval patrol mission and entered Kuwait's territorial waters due to a disruption in their navigation.
The European Commission is looking at extending its carbon market to cover international flights, seeking to put a price on more of the sector's emissions and ensure fair treatment across airlines, a senior official said on Tuesday.
American Electric Power Co., one of the biggest utilities in the US, is seeking to raise $2.6 billion in a share sale as artificial intelligence technology drives booming demand for electricity.
It's no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot, targeting thousands of flights per year. That cadence will require the ability to launch from many different locations, so we are constantly exploring to find viable sites to expand Starship operations in the future, both domestically and internationally.
The ship at the epicenter of the hantavirus outbreak has been evacuated on Spain's Canary Islands. Sixteen Americans have now been transported to a specialized quarantine unit in Omaha, Nebraska. Two are at a similar unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
The U.S. Supreme Court is extending access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone until at least Thursday. The pause gives the justices more time to consider an emergency request to halt a lower court ruling that would restrict access to the drug. Justice Samuel Alito
In my discussions with Minister @moteging, I commended Japan on its economic resilience. Economic security is national security, and the United States is grateful for Japan's support as a strong, stable ally. During our talks, I raised issues pertaining to critical minerals and
US API Crude Oil Stock Change Actual -2.188M (Forecast -, Previous -8.14M) US API Distillate Stock Change Actual -0.319M (Forecast -, Previous -4.6M) US API Gasoline Stock Change Actual 0.502M (Forecast -, Previous -6.1M)
The US SPR release is working to partially mitigate the impact of the Strait of Hormuz being closed. However, it is finite, and it will likely be refilled after the Strait reopens.
Elizabeth Warren has said: A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you, not to the trillion-dollar tech giants.
This is interesting. It *appears* Roundhill is close to launching a 2x $DRAM ETF despite not filing for one. They may be changing the name/ticker of a never-launched but effective 2x Meme ETF (YEET- great ticker btw). That's IF the below screen shot is real. We couldn't find it
CommScope Holding Co. was sued by a group of lenders who allege the telecommunications provider breached a debt agreement by failing to pay a prescribed premium of at least $150 million following a key asset sale.
Japanese trading house Sojitz Corp. is looking to Southeast Asia and other regions as new potential sources of rare earths outside Australia, as it aims to boost output and diversify its supply chain of the highly sought-after materials.
South Carolina's Republican-led Senate rejected pressure from President Donald Trump to redraw the state's congressional districts, a move that would have targeted one of the most senior Black Democrats on Capitol Hill.
The dollar strength will build further over the near term as the energy-price shock will keep yields elevated as economic growth remains relatively resilient, according to Goldman
Finally, a little progress! [QT @ArchieHall: A PRODUCTIVITY MIRACLE? Rich-world productivity growth was pronounced dead in the 2010s (or at least sleeping). But in America it seems to have been resurrected, I write in this week's @TheEconomist. Elsewhere in the world, rather less so.]
Interesting. [QT @saltzman_jason: The businesses getting the most out of AI right now aren't tech companies. They're plumbers, agency owners, dentists, Etsy sellers. New data from @OpenAI makes the pattern clear: tech startups account for about 5% of ~active~ U.S. users doing]
Perplexity should keep publishing like this. Good move. [QT @perplexity_ai: We published new research on how we serve post-trained Qwen3 235B models on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Blackwell racks. GB200 is a major step up over Hopper for high-throughput inference on large MoE models, not just a training platform.]
Interesting. [QT @ryaneshea: Today I'm launching AI IQ — frontier AI models, scored on the human IQ scale. Instead of endless leaderboard tables, AI IQ shows: • Where models land on the IQ bell curve • How frontier IQ is changing over time • How models compare on IQ and EQ • What intelligence costs in]
[QT @kevinhartz: Today, we're announcing A* III, a $450 million early-stage fund. We started @A_StarVC with the simple idea to be a founder's first believer. We are generalists by sector, but specialists in the stage and craft of seed investing. We partner with founders before there is]
Metis TechBio, a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence to deliver and formulate drugs, is set to begin trading in Hong Kong after raising $270 million in an IPO
Jho Low, the fugitive Malaysian financier accused by the US of being the mastermind of one of the largest financial frauds in history, has asked President Donald Trump for a pardon
King Charles III is set to announce a set of bills for the next parliamentary session just as Keir Starmer finds his premiership in the greatest peril yet
strategy bought 535 BTC last week. smallest purchase since december. same week, $440m in STRC volume processed across pendle, morpho, strata, curve, and royco. the saylor playbook is shifting. less accumulation, more monetization. 576,230 BTC sitting on the balance sheet at