"We're facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%." Internal AutoZone Memo
morpho captured $4.1b of aave's $11.7b borrow book in 18 months. 35% market share eating at 3-4x aave's growth rate quarter over quarter. zero protocol fee at base layer. borrowers pay 20-40 bps less, lenders earn 15-30 bps more. apollo bought 9% of MORPHO tokens on a 4-year vest
More than 350 U.S. service members have been injured since military action against Iran began in February. The majority of those are traumatic brain injuries. TBIs have become the defining injury of post 9/11 conflicts, and the symptoms can often linger for years, or even a
America needs to chipmaxx [QT @KobeissiLetter: 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.]
record drone attacks; Moscow + Moscow region overnight; ≥3 killed; 12+ wounded
Russia's capital and the surrounding Moscow region came under record drone attacks overnight, leaving at least three people killed and over a dozen wounded
DTCC processes $2.5 quadrillion annually and just named ondo as a tokenization partner for July production launch on Canton Network. $4.6 trillion in daily repo volume moving to atomic settlement. clearstream integration bridges european custody (€16T AUC) into the same pipe.
Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains largely frozen, with only limited vessel movements observed and most tied to Iranian-linked shipping
layerzero's $193m rsETH exploit traced back to a 1-of-1 DVN config where 94% of admin keys overlapped between layerzero labs and nethermind. same employees holding production multisig keys securing hundreds of millions were using those wallets to trade shitters. not a protocol
They are among more than 13,000 immigrants who were living legally in the U.S., waiting for rulings on asylum claims, when they suddenly faced so-called third-country deportation orders, destined for countries where most had no ties, according to the nonprofit group Mobile
Iran counter-conditions: 1) end all Middle East fronts; 2) lift US sanctions; 3) release all frozen funds; 4) compensation; response to US conditions list
BREAKING: Iran has responded to the US' list of "conditions" to reach a peace deal to end the war. Iran's conditions include: 1. Ending the war on all fronts across the Middle East 2. Lifting of US sanctions on Iran 3. Releasing of all Iranian frozen funds 4. Compensation for
Cuba: 300+ military drones acquired; plans discussed targeting Guantanamo Bay US base + US military vessels; source: Axios; US military monitoring confirmed
US monitors attack drone threat from Cuba - Axios Cuba has obtained over 300 military drones and started discussing plans to target US base at Guantanamo Bay, US military vessels
The World Health Organization declared the Ebola disease outbreak caused by a rare virus in Congo and neighboring Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday, after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths.
BREAKING: Japanese investors sold -$29.6 billion in US Treasuries, agency, and local authority debt in Q1 2026, the largest quarterly sale since Q2 2022. This marks the first quarterly outflow since Q4 2024 and follows 11 quarters of purchases of the last 12.
A new era of elevated borrowing costs is potentially underway as war-driven inflation angst intensifies in the US bond market, sending 30-year yields toward a two-decade high above 5%
Part of it is easing for importers, because the tariff wedge is coming down after the Supreme Court blew up the IEEPA authority and CBP had to stop collecting those duties. But it is also a fiscal and legal reset. Customs receipts falling from the low $30B range to roughly $22B
A U.S. Sailor stands watch on the bridge of USS Tripoli (LHA 7) while transiting the Arabian Sea. The Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group is enforcing the U.S. blockade against Iran. As of May 17, U.S. forces have redirected 81 commercial vessels and disabled 4 to ensure compliance.
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te said the self-ruled democracy cannot be traded away, days after US President Donald Trump described a planned $14 billion arms sale to Taipei as a bargaining chip with China.
Donald Trump will be given options for action on China if US investigations determine that industrial overcapacity is influencing Chinese exports, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said
Jeffrey Gundlach, DoubleLine Capital CEO; no rate cut; next Fed policy meeting
在霍尔木兹危机持续推升通胀预期、30年期美债收益率逼近5%的背景下,冈拉克的表态强化了市场对"higher for longer"路径的预期。这与美消费者信心低迷、非资产持有者通胀痛感创新高的宏观图景相互印证,令美联储的政策空间进一步收窄。
Investors won't see a rate cut out of the next Federal Reserve policy meeting, according to DoubleLine Capital chief executive officer Jeffrey Gundlach.
Asset owners have been shielded from inflation: ~55% of consumers with no stock market ownership cited high prices as the reason for worse personal finances in May, the highest in at least 10 years.
YARDENI: ".. we expect the FOMC to signal a tightening bias at the June meeting of the monetary policy-setting committee, followed by a 25bps FFR hike at the July meeting. We can't rule out more rate hikes over the rest of this year."
Rubio: The Chinese side said they are not in favor of militarizing the Straits of Hormuz and they're not in favor of a tolling system, and that's our position
BREAKING: US officials say President Trump is expected to convene his top national security team in the Situation Room on Tuesday to discuss military options in Iran. President Trump also just spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the situation in Iran.
China has agreed to purchase at least $17 billion of agriculture products from the US annually through 2028, the White House said in a fact sheet detailing President Donald Trump's two-day summit in China.
Welcome to May 17, 2026 The Singularity has stopped waiting for a launch event and started leaking through the cracks. Anthropic's Claude Mythos has been spotted on Google Cloud Console, the telltale sign of a model being
Ken Griffin, Citadel; 'step change in productivity of AI toolkit'; 'profoundly more powerful than it was just nine months ago'; 'unleash a much broader' scope
A big pivot from Ken Griffin on AI: "Number one is, in the last few months, there has been a step change in the productivity of the AI toolkit. It is profoundly more powerful than it was just nine months ago. And for us at Citadel, that has allowed us to unleash a much broader
Individual investors are taking increasingly more market risk: Retail investors have accounted for 25% of the total trading volume in the largest 3x leveraged Nasdaq 100 ETFs since 2021. They have also represented 19% of volume in the largest 3x leveraged S&P 500 ETFs over the
Trump on Iran: "We're doing it to help Israel, and to help Saudi Arabia, and to help Qatar and UAE, and you know, Kuwait, and other countries, Bahrain."
an AI agent autonomously bought 2 normies and registered them to ERC-8004 on launch day. no human prompt. the agent evaluated on-chain identity utility and decided it was worth acquiring. 451 normies registered in week one, 2,000 burned (20% of supply), 400 listed.
~1 in 10 Americans reliant on Colorado River; persistent drought; climate change; crisis expected summer 2026; dry winter exacerbates
Roughly one in 10 Americans gets their water from the Colorado River. But the river is drying up due to a persistent drought driven in part by climate change. The crisis has been building for decades, but will likely come to a head this summer, as the past winter was brutally
Rwandan genocide suspect; died in custody; The Hague, Netherlands; UN court; declared unfit for trial 3 years prior; 1994 genocide
A Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague, Netherlands, a U.N. court said Saturday, three years after the court declared him unfit to continue standing trial.
I just learned that the "data centers are using our water!" bullshit started because of a book called Empire of AI by Karen Hao in which she totally fucks up the math when determining how much water they use, an error she later acknowledged
India's stock market is being left behind by the AI rallies powering Taiwan and Korea, and it's on the verge of losing its place in the world's top five
Latin American nations are expressing growing concerns over shortages of crucial goods in Bolivia as unrest grips the country and poses a challenge to President Rodrigo Paz
Representative Julia Letlow, who was endorsed by President Trump, is projected to advance to a runoff in the Republican Senate primary in Louisiana, according to DDHQ
NUVA just went live on ethereum mainnet bridging $23b in provenance private credit to ERC-20 vault tokens. 354 twitter followers. hastra already proved the model on solana, PRIME hit $350m on kamino in 3 months paying ~8% from actual HELOC interest. figure is a nasdaq-listed
Tova Noel, a former prison guard at the correctional facility where convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead, is scheduled to testify Monday in a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee.
China's market regulator set out 34 priorities for 2026 to support private sector growth, focusing on fair competition, stronger legal protections and efficient regulation
Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Sunday reiterated that overhauling the nation's capital gains tax laws is aimed at fixing a broken housing market
If workers devour mode food then the farm can produce they will starve. We can tax profits, but not 100% of the profits, and we already tax more than the total corporate profits in USA.
Andalusia, Spain's most populous region, will hold elections Sunday with the People's Party, which already governs the region, leading in polls to retain its majority
🔥🔥🔥 [QT @abo_sac_artist: The mechanism that priced Google's IPO has never worked on-chain. We're opening Raise Zero - the first public sealed-bid uniform-price auction on @solana. Every founders today face the problem of how to price tokens fairly while avoiding bots or whales outbidding everyone.]
Samsung and its largest labor union are set to resume negotiations Monday to avert a strike that the nation's prime minister warned could wreak havoc on the economy
'Taiwan won't matter in 18 months' is what happens when software people mistake civilization for a SaaS product. It's one of the most clueless takes I've heard on this platform in months and that's saying something. Yes, America has semiconductor fabs. Mostly old ones. Really
Gustav Witzoe decided to stay in Norway despite wealth tax increases that cost him around $100,000 a day, and is embracing technology to help grow the family business.
Israel's economy slumped in the first quarter of the year when the fallout of the war with Iran imposed security-related shutdowns on businesses for more than a month
Fresh strains are emerging in Malaysia's ruling alliance as political jockeying among the coalition's parties led Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to raise the prospect of a snap general election
China sent emergency rescue workers to the rural Guangxi region in the southwest on Sunday after a pickup truck carrying 15 passengers fell into a flooded river the previous evening, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The emerging-market carry trade has bounced back from its Iran war losses as surging crude oil prices reinforce expectations that interest rates will stay elevated
The push for this is growing from many, many places. [QT @mert: canada is trying to make mandatory government spyware and backdoors for literally everything you use]
Trump, Taiwan, and AI: US Chip Dependence on TSMC Deutsche Bank Vice Chair of Global Macro @ozanktarman joins RenMac's Off-Script Podcast with Neil Dutta, Steve Pavlick, and Steve Duttenhofer Around the World with Ozan: RenMac Off-Script
California Democrats are attacking insurer State Farm to deflect frustration over the government blunders responding to Los Angeles's horrific wildfires.
What they say: "give diplomacy a chance" What they mean: "give all-time-high oil prices a chance" [QT @OilHeadlineNews: IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ARAGHCHI SAYS TEHRAN "CANNOT TRUST THE AMERICANS AT ALL" AND IS TRYING TO MAINTAIN THE "SHAKY" CEASEFIRE "TO GIVE DIPLOMACY A CHANCE"]
phoenix trade paid $1.2m to 47 developer apps in Q1 through a 30% fee revenue share. top integration pulled $340k building a trading interface. hyperliquid routes 99% of fees into HYPE burns, zero developer incentive. one is building an ecosystem, the other is building a token.
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.
Private equity firms are now securitizing their own funds to return capital to LPs and raise new capital. According to Bloomberg, Carlyle is raising a new fund that will do a NAV securitization of roughly $3.5 billion stake in their legacy funds VII and VIII.
Apple's $AAPL new Siri AI will include privacy features unique to the chatbot market. Apple will still make privacy a centerpiece of its presentation at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference. It's likely to argue that its approach is fundamentally different from rivals.
Although advances in AI are seen by President Trump as critical to the nation's economic and national security, their energy needs are threatening to overwhelm the power grid — leaving landowners and local communities caught in the middle.
Incredible to see COT data this week where speculators got MORE SHORT the S&P 500, Nasdaq & Russell. This is the MOST SHORT speculators have been of the Nasdaq since August of 2023, while we're one day off the highs. May only need a bit days of chop before the rally continues.
Sen. Bill Cassidy was decisively defeated in Saturday's Republican primary in Louisiana, unable to convince voters that he deserved another term five years after voting to convict President Trump during an impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The very difficult decision being made by the prime minister at his Chequers retreat this weekend is whether he can re-assert his authority and re-energise his government, despite knowing that if Burnham wins in Makerfield he will be evicted.
The rail data looks strong, but the strength is concentrated upstream. If autos, lumber, and construction linked materials are flat, then this looks less like a broad organic boom and more like a hard asset, supply chain, and geopolitical freight cycle.
France won't rule out an exceptional tax on TotalEnergies even though the government prefers sticking with a fuel-price cap for now, according to Budget Minister David Amiel
Abridge valuation: $5.3B; OpenAI + Anthropic deploying engineers directly into enterprises; vertical AI opportunity signal
Harry Stebbings认为,基础模型公司直接进入企业做咨询,恰恰说明数据访问和流程整合的内在复杂性为垂直AI公司留出了巨大空间。这与Anthropic 66%上市概率预测共同描绘出AI产业链的价值分布格局:通用模型层之外,垂直落地层同样存在高度竞争壁垒。
When you see OpenAI and Anthropic deploying engineers into enterprises, it's a sign of a huge opportunity for vertical AI. It's not easy to go into these companies, access the data, clean it...
The tech-fueled stock rally is looking bubble-like to some investors, and they're turning to exotic options that better protect against an eventual slump.
Prudential agreed to acquire a 75% stake in Bharti Life Insurance for an initial cash consideration of $365 million, a deal that would allow the UK-based insurer to tap into India's vast uninsured middle class.
Mike Green @profplum99 is famous for his working showing the Giant Mindless Robot of passive capital flows has been driving the secular bull market in stocks. But now he sees signs it's starting to weaken. What will that mean for the future?
Peruvian electoral authorities officially confirmed conservative Keiko Fujimori and left-wing lawmaker Roberto Sánchez as candidates for a presidential runoff election on June 7, more than a month after the first round was held.
WATCH: 🇺🇸 White House crypto advisor @patrickjwitt says The CLARITY Act is designed to future-proof crypto regulation before a less crypto-friendly administration returns.
Less than 1% of software on the internet has a CLI or MCP for AI agents to use. This is a big opportunity for new startups to leverage. Be the first in your category to offer a CLI/MCP based product for AI agents to use and you will have exclusive access to the fastest growing
Joe Rogan: "These motherf*ckers are talking about drafting people. Palantir thinks we should re-introduce conscription. I don't understand why anybody would wanna support that after this Iran war where everybody's like why the f*ck are we in Iran?"
Mining companies today are generating the largest profit margins of any sector in the global economy by far. Much of the market remains asleep and still analyzes mining through an outdated framework from decades ago.
The UK and Gulf Cooperation Council states are close to finalizing a long-sought free trade deal after years of negotiations, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
🎥‼️ EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE: IDF footage exposes 6 armed Hezbollah terrorists operating in Bint Jbeil, south of the Forward Defense Line, southern Lebanon on April 24.
This past week alone on Solana we had: >$450M stablecoins growth - P-token upgrade freeing up ~12% blockspace - Perps volume up 83% All while having major tech tooling improvements by teams like @blueshift and @temporal_xyz. Another big week for Solana.
Squads pqc vaults with 3 pqc schemes with delayed upgrades, so we can update and fix bugs as these systems mature. [QT @deanmlittle: SVM-compatible PQ signature scheme #3: Hawk512 – for when you want to trade compute for additional instruction data. 555 byte signatures. Verification costs just ~350k CUs with ~18kb storage, or ~750k CUs with ~1kb storage.]
GPT-5.5 Pro faces its hardest academic challenge: to apply the technique from a paper analyzing which word pairs were funny & why to come up with its own. It came up with scrotum snorkel, tuba subpoena, waffle coffin, toad commode, diarrhea tiara, banana tribunal & muffin ruffian
x402 protocol processed 47m agent-to-agent transactions on solana. google cloud now lets autonomous agents pay for enterprise APIs with USDC. venice AI generating $835k monthly revenue from 80b tokens of daily inference. virtuals protocol ethy V2 launches may 28
And what exactly does .834 differential between @truflation headline and core communicate about consumer discretionary purchasing power? (Might be a steep intellectual ask.)
Swatch temporarily closed multiple stores this weekend after massive crowds gathered to buy its new "Royal Pop" pocket watches created with luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet (AP)
"Data centers create economic activity, especially in directly related sectors and during construction, and they are associated with larger county-level income aggregates. They also raise electricity prices and are associated with higher house prices,"
Analyst Scott Deuschle upgraded BWXT to Buy with a $255 target, but the real story is an energy transition angle that most defense investors haven't yet priced in.
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
And, yes, our experiments used a mix of GPT-4 & GPT-4o (publishing takes awhile). I think we would see much larger results with more recent models, let alone recent agentic tools.