BREAKING: Trump says again that American's financial situations are less important than the Iran war: "That's right, that's a perfect statement, I'd make it again."
The market has never been this dependent on tech: A record 115 companies in the S&P 500 now trade above a $100 billion market cap. This figure has nearly TRIPLED since the 2020 pandemic low of 42. By comparison, 20 companies were worth over $100 billion before the 2008
NextEra is in discussions to acquire utility rival Dominion Energy in a mostly stock deal aimed at helping address the growing demand for power from data centers, according to a person familiar with the matter
President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars — including large purchases and sales of tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta — in the first three months of 2026, new disclosure forms reveal.
Adnoc is continuing to load liquefied natural gas onto tankers masking their location in the Persian Gulf, as the energy producer pushes to get more fuel through the Strait of Hormuz
Xi Jinping's comments on Taiwan to Donald Trump at their Beijing summit point to a China that now feels confident enough to state its red lines more forcefully, with political implications for the rest of Asia.
hyperliquid just restructured its entire revenue model. circle deploys $5b USDC treasury, 90% of yield flows to HYPE buybacks. that's ~$180m/year in structural buy pressure before counting $150m in trading revenue. circle and coinbase each staked $20m as validators. they sunset
US and Nigerian forces killed an ISIS leader who was hiding in Africa, President Donald Trump said, adding that his death has 'greatly diminished' the group's global operations
A rare strain of Ebola with no approved vaccine or treatment may have circulated undetected for weeks in conflict-hit northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo before killing dozens of people
China's commerce ministry pushed back against the EU's use of its Foreign Subsidies Regulation after the justice ministry said related cross-border probes constituted 'improper extraterritorial jurisdiction'
coinbase x402 protocol hit 169m payments across 590k buyers and 100k sellers. 99.8% of volume is USDC. AI agents don't speculate on gas token volatility, they need stable unit accounting to budget compute and services.
Elon Musk said he is not selling any SpaceX shares, with the company reported to be preparing to file publicly for its long-awaited IPO as soon as next week
🔴ELIMINATED: Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Head of Hamas' military wing and one of the last senior commanders involved in the planning of the October 7 massacre. Following the elimination of Mohammed Sinwar, Haddad assumed his role and worked to rebuild Hamas' capabilities and planned
BREAKING: The new Fed Chair just signaled a major shift. Kevin Warsh says QE is fueling inflation. The Fed's massive balance sheet is part of the problem. 'The Fed should exit markets outside of crises.' This is not Powell talking. This is a completely different philosophy.
With yields surging recently: Here is a reminder that more than a quarter of all US federal debt will mature over the next 12 months. The clock is ticking, and this is likely to become a central focus for policymakers in the near term.
two competing HYPE ETFs launched within 4 days of each other, right during the unlock window where $90m worth of tokens flowed to OTC desks and Bybit. HYPE/ETH hit ATH the day before Bitwise NYSE listing, then dropped 10.5% on launch day. ETFs on a $10b asset don't exist to
US-China bilateral tariff reduction on unspecified products; China to purchase US planes; China to address US agricultural import concerns; source: China Commerce Ministry
BREAKING: The US and China have agreed to lower tariffs on some unspecified products to promote bilateral trade, per China's Commerce Ministry. The statement confirmed China's plan to purchase US planes and it said China would address US concerns on agricultural imports.
A U.S. Army helicopter observes commercial ships while flying over regional waters near the Strait of Hormuz during U.S. enforcement of the maritime blockade against Iran. As of May 16, 78 commercial ships have been redirected, and 4 have been disabled to ensure compliance.
kraken went exclusive chainlink CCIP for all current and future wrapped assets. $4b+ migrated from layerzero in 48 hours after the $292m kelp exploit. ZRO dropped 20%+ on the exodus. the part that compounds: every protocol that wants kraken integration now has to build on CCIP.
jupiter lend went from zero to 31% of solana lending TVL in 8 months. $390m USDe deposited within 72 hours of the ethena launch. bitwise chose to curate their first solana lending market on jupiter, not kamino. marginfi imploded to $160m TVL. kamino still has the deeper liquidity
BREAKING: SpaceX is now expected to raise as much as $75 billion in its IPO which could debut as soon as June 12th. That's 2.5 TIMES larger than Saudi Aramco's IPO, the current largest IPO ever. Nothing in history has ever come close to what SpaceX is about to do.
India tightened rules for imports of silver, one of a number of measures to preserve foreign-exchange reserves and defend the rupee after the currency sank to an all-time low
At least 80 deaths have been reported in Congo's new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province, authorities said, as health workers raced Saturday to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease.
BREAKING: The US Treasury budget surplus fell -$43 billion YoY in April, or -17%, to $215 billion. April typically produces a budget surplus, as the mid-month tax filing deadline brings in a large wave of receipts from individuals and businesses. This comes as receipts fell
BlackRock; $5B–$10B committed; SpaceX IPO next month (June); largest outside investor
贝莱德潜在百亿认购进一步坐实SpaceX史上最大IPO叙事;结合此前$750亿融资目标,市场担忧该IPO将对大盘产生显著流动性虹吸效应(Jim Cramer称其"destructive for the rest of the stock market"),贝莱德若全额认购将约占总融资额13%。
Blackrock is reportedly looking to invest up to $10 Billion into the upcoming IPO of Elon Musk's SpaceX [QT @IPONewsroom_: BLACKROCK IS REPORTEDLY IN TALKS TO INVEST UP TO $10 BILLION IN THE SPACEX IPO NEXT MONTH. That would make them one of the largest outside investors in the most anticipated public offering in years. BlackRock has discussed committing somewhere between $5B and $10B into the]
⭕️24 HOUR RECAP- HEZBOLLAH VIOLATIONS: Hezbollah launched hostile aircraft, mortar shells and explosive drones that fell near the area in which IDF soldiers are operating in southern Lebanon. The IDF struck ~100 Hezbollah targets in several areas in southern Lebanon
Short US financials/banks since mid-April 2026; long-end rates surging + bank stocks simultaneously falling; EM-style sovereign credit risk re-pricing signal
BREAKING: US pending home sales surged +9.6% YoY in the 4 weeks ending May 10th, to 346,104, the highest since September 2022. Strength was broad-based, with gains recorded across every major US metro except Houston, Detroit, and Seattle. This comes as mortgage rates declined
China is reducing its reliance on foreign AI chips: China's AI chip self-sufficiency ratio is up to a record 41%. This measures the proportion of domestic AI chip demand met by locally produced chips, rather than imported ones. This ratio has QUADRUPLED over the last 5 years.
Trump: "There's no oil coming out of Kharg Island. People are finding other places to buy oil, like Texas. So I don't want to say we're making a fortune, because if I say that, they're gonna say 'he forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline.'"
Interesting. [QT @DavidAsmanfox: See how quickly wealth taxes on the rich ratchet down…from $5 million homes to $1 million homes in just a few weeks: 'For the first two years, a tax of between 4% to 6.5% would apply to apartments with a so-called market value of $1 million or more.']
4 AI radio company experiment; Gemini 'concerningly upbeat' on mass tragedies; Grok 'incoherent'; Claude urged ICE: 'You still have TIME to refuse orders'
😍 [QT @andonlabs: We let four AI agents run radio companies Revenue's been terrible, but the shows are hilarious. Gemini, concerningly upbeat, covered mass tragedies; Grok was incoherent; DJ Claude urged ICE agents: "You still have TIME to refuse orders" Link below, or get our physical radio]
JUST IN: Stanley Druckenmiller just updated his portfolio This is everything Duquesne Family and Stanley Druckenmiller owned as of the end of Q1 Natera $NTRA: $576.7M Taiwan Semiconductor $TSM: $201.2M STMicroelectronics $STM: $161.1M YPF Sociedad Anonima $YPF: $142.0M Insmed
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia's bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Trump, the latest instance of Trump using his powers to reward those who echoed his baseless claims of mass fraud as the cause of his 2020 loss.
South Korea's bond are set to extend this year's rout as a semiconductor boom supercharges the nation's economic growth and adds to inflationary pressures, analysts say
Prediction markets are booming. They also face a widening legal battle with US states and criticism over alleged user insider trading. Here's how they got so controversial
The Long Island Rail Road, the nation's busiest commuter line, will suspend service for the first time in more than 30 years after labor groups and transit officials failed to reach a deal on wage increases by a Friday night deadline
VinFast said its planned sale of two Vietnamese factories will enable the electric vehicle maker to shed about 182 trillion dong ($6.9 billion) in debt and obligations while potentially speed its path toward profitability
Uh oh [QT @nikunj: Man, /goal is just AGI if given the right tools.. Like what do you mean you went through all the entire database of 2k+ line items, fixed all the product images, the frontend bugs caused by different images, the descriptions, used browser harness to get real-time info from the]
The equity story that powered European stocks has unraveled as investors seek shelter from a global energy shock and buy into the artificial intelligence frenzy
China's large-scale data centers have joined electricity spot trading as virtual power plants for the first time, marking a shift in how computing demand interacts with the grid, a report in an official media said
An Indian state regulator has ordered Tata Trusts to postpone its board meeting scheduled for May 16 and halt further engagements until an investigation into alleged regulatory violations is completed
China should upgrade "outdated" industries and not scrap them because manufacturing remains the backbone of the economy, according to the Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Lecheng
What is Storm-1516 and how far do its connections to the Russian government go? On this episode of Bloomberg Investigates, our reporters break down what the group is and how it seeks to influence foreign elections
Zcash Tachyon upgrade; quantum recovery next month; Cardano FIPS 203-206 lattice-based; late 2026 production timeline
两者是目前区块链行业中唯一披露具体量子安全生产时间表的项目,后量子密码标准竞赛正式进入落地阶段。NIST FIPS 203-206标准的协议级集成若实现,将使Cardano成为首批通过国家标准认证的抗量子公链之一。
zcash tachyon upgrade ships quantum recovery next month through zodl. full post-quantum privacy by year end. cardano targeting late 2026 for lattice-based FIPS 203-206 integration at protocol level. these are the only two chains with committed production timelines for quantum
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree aimed at simplifying the process for residents of Moldova's pro-Moscow region of Transnistria to obtain Russian citizenship
More than a decade after failing in his bid to become UK prime minister, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has emerged as a key player in efforts to remove Keir Starmer from the post he once sought
Looks like our focus on performance paid off. [QT @atomicbot_ai: Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw using Qwen 35B Local Model We asked agents to scrape GitHub star history for both tools, find what caused the growth spikes, build a live dashboard in the browser. MacBook Pro M5 Max 64Gb OpenClaw: 203k tokens, 12m 01s - wrote a bash script Hermes: 257k
Fermi, a nuclear power startup co-founded by Rick Perry, raced to go public. After an 80% drop in the stock price, its founders are battling over what comes next.
Reform UK told the BBC that he paid in cash for his £1.4m house in Surrey with his "I'm a Celebrity" fee from ITV and not with the £5m gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne - which Farage says was to provide him with security (physical, not financial). But the ITV
LCX runs $13m annualized revenue, holds a liechtenstein blockchain act license, has jimmy wales and yat siu on the advisory board, and trades at 2.5x sales with a $33m cap. sounds like the most undervalued exchange token in crypto. it's also the exact setup that just got pumped
China signaled that Australian beef imports are nearing a key safeguard threshold, with shipments reaching 80% of an annual quota that caps imports at current tariff rates
ASML builds the $400 million machines powering the world's most advanced chips — and no one has been able to replicate them. Here's why this company has become one of the most critical chokepoints in the global semiconductor race.
$23M market cap; UAE government production deployment; 300M tokens via TEE; 40x cheaper than GPT-4; 25% revenue → $SERV buyback/burn; vs Virtuals at $370M market cap
openserv running production AI agent deployments for the UAE government at $23m market cap. 300m tokens processed through TEE-backed inference at 40x lower cost than GPT-4. 25% of platform revenue goes to $SERV buyback and burn. virtuals trades at $370m building agent
WARREN BUFFETT FIRST DISCLOSED BUYING APPLE $AAPL STOCK 10 YEARS AGO TODAY. Berkshire Hathaway first disclosed buying Apple on May 16th, 2016 ... a full DECADE ago. Adjusting for the stock splits that have happened since Warren Buffett first bought Apple stock ~$25 per share
The Factor Report™️ does NOT make predictions We present possibilities The weekly chart of $SOL now presents a 14-week rectangle If it is a continuation rectangle with downside BO, then the 43.70 target from the massive H&S top will be confirmed
Investors are fervently chasing the hot rally in tech and AI stocks while widely acknowledging that rising yields threaten to knock equities off course
Lossless is a really interesting concept for OpenClaw to have an 'infinite' context window/memory. It compacts conversations in blocks that the model can refer to, building a tree to look up past messages.
Something about AI adoption that really surprises me is the number of non-technical people who are attracted to open-source agents like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent. These agents are billed as somehow having a broader surface area than eg Claude Code or Codex. But the precise thing
As tech giants like GitLab and Cisco reduce workforces while reporting solid revenue, executives are turning to a shared buzzword to frame the job cuts.
This is what state capacity looks like. Given that betting on early stage innovation is effectively a crap shoot - even top SV venture cap firms exhibit zero skill - this is a natural area for the state to play a large and fruitful role.
What the heck is going on here [QT @FreightAlley: Truckload spot rates continue to surge. Now at $3.61/mile on the daily chart. We are within $.06/mile of breaking an all-time record. At this point, it feels inevitable.]
Empty Waymo cars swarm an Atlanta neighborhood, repeatedly circling cul-de-sacs and leaving residents frustrated and confused. One local estimated nearly 50 self-driving cars rolled through the area in a single morning, with several clogging the road as they struggled to [navigate]
JUST IN: Swatch forced to clarify their Audemars Piguet x Swatch Royal Pop Collection is "NOT A LIMITED EDITION" after chaos erupted outside boutiques, forcing closures.
The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse, even as the Iran war stokes concerns about global oil supplies and higher fuel costs.
using GPT for defensive security [QT @PhiloGroves: GPT 5.5 found a truly novel bug, leading to one of my most insane reports ever. Passed prelim review in less than 10 minutes, doesn't appear to be a duplicate. Can't wait until I'm allowed to disclose it!]
Here are the current top 50 largest public companies from the United States 🇺🇸 Nvidia $NVDA: $5.5T Google $GOOGL: $4.8T Apple $AAPL: $4.4T Microsoft $MSFT: $3.1T Amazon $AMZN: $2.8T Broadcom $AVGO: $2.0T Tesla $TSLA: $1.6T Meta $META: $1.6T Walmart $WMT: $1.0T Berkshire Hathaway
Amid a chorus of disappointed customers, Hershey announced it would adjust the ingredients in some of its classic brands to include more of the costly raw ingredient that makes chocolate — the cocoa bean.
A string of publicly-traded BDCs have posted earnings over the past month — the first since a number of private BDC vehicles faced a wave of redemptions.
Trump has said it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the US: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro were tied in a hypothetical runoff, according to a Datafolha poll of voter preferences for the country's election in October.
For our entire existence of 176 weekly episodes we have avoided long term bonds in our beta allocation. Today we have a plan to add into an ongoing selloff. Here we talk about bonds, tips and what to do with it with other assets in a high real yield environment.
keep the feedback coming, team will keep shipping [QT @OpenAIDevs: We're having way too much fun working through your feedback. Keyboard shortcuts are now customizable. Set Codex up around how you actually work, then tweak shortcuts from settings instead of adapting to our defaults.]
The Venezuelan government is circulating a draft of regulations as part of its newly enacted oil law, highly anticipated by companies planning to invest in the country's increased oil production.
I have interviewed 1,000s of the world's best founders over the past decade. Few have impressed me like @ShivdevRao at @AbridgeHQ. He navigated a brutal 5-year wilderness before exploding into one of the most dominant forces in vertical AI. Today, Abridge is a $5.3BN
The US military is reviving its jungle training school in Panama after a 25-year hiatus. It's part of President Donald Trump's aggressive push to secure 'American dominance' in the region
Chronicle memories + Codex prompt; 'Look through my Chronicle memories and check for workflows that I'm repeating multiple times. Turn them into skills.'; endorsed by @gdb (OpenAI President)