Starship Flight 12 complete; ship splashdown Indian Ocean confirmed; booster spun out of control + broke apart Gulf of Mexico; modified Starlink simulators deployed; biggest/most powerful Starship version yet; NASA Artemis moon-landing dependency
SpaceX's upgraded Starship successfully deployed mock satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, though its booster spun out of control and broke apart during rocket's twelfth major test flight
10,000+ high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities; Project Glasswing; essential software; launched last month
Box CEO Aaron Levie指出，AI大幅降低了发现安全漏洞的门槛，但新瓶颈已转移至人类对漏洞的审查、响应与修复能力，工程师角色不会消失反而更加关键。此结果既印证AI在安全检测领域的规模化能力，也揭示了海量漏洞披露带来的补丁管理压力。
We've made it far easier to create and find security issues, which means the new bottleneck is our ability to actually review, respond to, and fix the issues. Far from [engineers going away]
For complicated agent work, it's amazing how much GPT5.5 has improved. I found 5.2 to be very far behind Opus. Now using Opus 4.7 after 5.5 feels like a big step backwards. Gotta love this level of competition! Strong comeback for OpenAI.
FTSE Russell published their preliminary index inclusions and deletions - Bitmine is on this list for inclusion for large-cap Russell 1000 - $BMNR market cap above the minimum $5.7B for large-cap inclusion - Many active managers only buy equities on the Russell 1000
Oil facilities in Russia's key Black-Sea port of Novorossiysk are on fire after an overnight drone attack, the latest in a series of hits on the country's energy infrastructure
Preserving the European Central Bank's credibility is a strong argument in favor of an interest-rate increase next month, according to Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras
Persian Gulf nations and Pakistan stepped up efforts to transform a fragile truce in the Iran war into a permanent peace deal, with US President Donald Trump again signaling that the conflict may end soon
この度、中国山西省の炭鉱内でガス爆発事故が発生し、大きな被害が生じていることに、大変心を痛めています。犠牲になられた方々に哀悼の意を表すとともに、御遺族に対し謹んでお悔やみ申し上げます。また、被害に遭われた方々に対し、心からお見舞い申し上げます。I am deeply saddened by the gas explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi Province, China, which has caused great damage.
WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud. The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to "virtually all" private messages. Now we know what WhatsApp's founder meant when he said he "sold his users' privacy."
60-day ceasefire extension; 'gradual reopening' Strait of Hormuz; nuclear program framework; MOU finalization; Rubio 'some progress achieved'; Iran FM 'very far and yet very close'
BREAKING: The US and Iran are closing in on a deal that would extend their ceasefire by 60 days and lay the framework for discussions on Iran's nuclear program, mediators say. Details include: 1. This would include a "gradual reopening" of the Strait of Hormuz 2. It would also
NEW: Oil falls as Iran reportedly sends a new proposal to end the conflict & reopen the Hormuz Strait. 61% chance crude crashes below $90 by the end of the month.
Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former US CENTCOM Commander, tells Bloomberg This Weekend that re-opening the Strait of Hormuz is 'the most important goal at this moment' and he says the US may have to resume military actions to achieve it.
BREAKING: "The U.S. and Iran are expected to announce the finalization of a draft proposal of a peace deal to end the fighting on all fronts by Sunday afternoon, a source close to the negotiations told The Washington Times"
Well, Trump indeed just posted about what sounds like a peace agreement with Iran to be announced shortly. Will it be confirmed soon? Or will it get yanked before the market opens on Tuesday? FYI: he mentions Hormuz re-opening but no deets on enriched uranium. Without the
25 killed including 6 police officers; 2 separate attacks; Honduras coast; Thursday 2026-05-23
Gunmen opened fire in two separate attacks Thursday on the Honduran coast, killing at least 25 people, including six police officers, authorities said.
U.S. drivers will pay gasoline prices near four-year highs when they fuel up for travel over the long Memorial Day weekend and should expect more pain at the pump this summer if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen. The average gasoline price stood at $4.55 per gallon on Friday,
Senior officials in the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco center were blindsided by a recent decision that opens the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches onto the U.S. market, The Associated Press has learned.
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the government and dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, increasing the risk of political unrest after months of simmering tensions between the two leaders
Granta prize-winning story; n-gram plagiarism tool; source traced to random fanfiction; pmarca 'Paging Alan Sokol'
pmarca以"Paging Alan Sokol"类比1996年索卡尔骗局，将此事上升为文学与内容真实性体系存在系统性漏洞的警示。该事件同时展示了n-gram检测工具在AI辅助写作与人工抄袭鉴别方面的实用价值，对出版业内容审核机制构成直接挑战。
Paging Alan Sokol. [QT @alexolegimas: This from @TuhinChakr is brilliant. That prize winning story from Granta? Turns out it's just a bunch of random whole phrases taken directly from existing text on the internet. Tool allows you to trace those n-grams directly to their source, which is mostly random fanfiction.]
~ 6% of ChatGPT users are paying subscribers. The cost of acquiring users is below the gross margin line customer acquisition cost (CAC). If you cut CAC (eg, because it is an up front cash expense), growth slows. Direct costs to produce a service for existing users is COGS.
India has become ground zero for superfast deliveries—often in under 10 minutes—of everything from eggs to electronics, fueling a boom that has attracted billions of dollars
A major talking point for those who think AI will cause mass unemployment is the recent slowdown in junior-level hiring. Lambert and Schindler, in this new working paper, point to a different culprit: work from home policies. Using data on ~250 million hires across four
For decades, a North Korean diaspora group in Japan served as a bridge between the two countries through schools, businesses and family visits. Now, its decline is eroding one of the last informal links between them.
Alright, at least this I can get behind. Wouldn't make sense to not let people who significantly contribute to national security stay and continue their work. [QT @camiloreports: In a new statement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Zach Kahler suggests that green card applicants in the U.S. who will provide an "economic benefit" or serve the "national interest" will be allowed to complete their processing here, without having to leave.]
diem has 38,800 tokens in circulation with $14m in annual compute obligations to venice AI. 42% of supply already burned. each token refreshes $1/day in perpetual API credits across claude, gpt-4, grok, image gen, voice. payback period sits at 3.45 years at current mint cost.
Armenia's pivot toward the West is coming under increasing pressure from Russia as the South Caucasus nation prepares for parliamentary elections next month
The last time an entire monthly candle on the Semiconductor index closed above the upper Bollinger Bands was in… you guessed it, 2000. Add my 10% warning alert it's currently sitting a staggering 16% above the upper BBs combined with an RSI that has completely left orbit
Denmark's gross domestic product will expand at a faster pace than previously expected due to strong sales from the country's pharmaceutical industry, which is dominated by Novo Nordisk, the economy ministry said
A little secret. About 5% of our production traffic is on the Pi harness, about another 5% is on OpenCode. Reminder you can use your ChatGPT account in a flourishing set of other tools. We'll continue to make Codex awesome, but you have options.
China said a ministerial-level official at the All-China Federation of Trade Unions is under investigation by the country's anti-graft agency for 'serious violations' of the law
~1/3 BTC circulating supply in exposed public key addresses; ETH no migration plan; Solana optional implementation; Hedera SEALSQ QS7001 chip; production post-quantum cryptography deployed November 2025
one third of bitcoin's circulating supply sits in addresses with exposed public keys. zero quantum protection. ethereum has no migration plan. solana's implementation is optional. hedera shipped production post-quantum cryptography in november 2025 with the SEALSQ QS7001 chip,
dropee TGE in 4 days. 13m users, 4m MAU, 300k DAU, $2.5m revenue across 8 mobile titles before the token exists. current ARPDAU is $0.023 which is legit casual gaming. but their $33-50m annual revenue model requires $0.30 ARPDAU, a 13x jump that only works if the token itself
#NVIDIAGTC Taipei; autonomous agents hands-on; week officially started
Had to make a surprise visit to Meet-a-Claw🦞 in Taipei, where developers are getting hands-on with autonomous agents. Consider #NVIDIAGTC week officially started. ✅
Over $27B has flowed into @Plasma via USDT0 since launch, making it the second largest destination chain in the entire network after Ethereum. A chain that didn't exist two years ago. Now, redefining how money moves at scale and powering a new global financial system.
The 17% gain in the S&P 500 over the last 8 weeks is the 20th biggest 8-week gain for the index since 1950. What has happened in the past following the biggest short-term rallies? Above-average forward returns (+27% average over the subsequent year vs. +11% in other periods).
Polymarket: 'Who will Trump announce as next Director of National Intelligence'; Bloomberg op-ed: Gabbard 'betrayed herself, failed to give Trump honest advice'
6-person team; task-specific AI models; 4-8x faster than OpenAI/Anthropic; 500K HuggingFace downloads
Garry Tan将此案例定性为模型层"make something people want"的范本，表明小团队凭借工程效率可在速度指标上超越顶级AI实验室，无需大规模融资或市场炒作。这一现象与AI能力去中心化的更广泛趋势高度吻合。
A 6-person team is building task-specific AI models that are 4-8x faster than anything from OpenAI or Anthropic. 500K downloads on HuggingFace. No hype. Just better engineering winning on the merits. This is what "make something people want" looks like in the model layer.
Heard on the Street: Fervo Energy, a geothermal startup that made its public debut this month, is closer than many to fulfilling the promise of delivering power to AI hyperscalers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Super Micro $SMCI to tighten up on compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly making fraudulent declarations about AI servers - Bloomberg
Positioning STAT of the AM: "Despite the already elevated positioning in S. Korea, this week ranked as not only the largest in both absolute and relative terms (buying) we've observed in the last 10+ years, but also nearly ~2x larger than the next closest week" (MSPB) W-O-W
19 PEOPLE BECAME AI BILLIONAIRES IN THE PAST YEAR. ALMOST NONE OF THEM BUILT A CHATBOT. They're worth $59.3 billion combined, per Bloomberg. And the way they got there breaks the pattern everyone expected: The first wave of AI fortunes came from chips, data centers and the big
DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA); LLMs-from-scratch repo; standalone example code; community contribution
Added a DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) from-scratch implementation to my LLMs-from-scratch repo thanks to an awesome new reader contrib. With motivation, overview, and GPT-style model reference implementation as standalone example code.
Quick update on HYPE: We were initially positioned to reload sub-$17 to get ready for next cycle. But the framework has now materially changed. From a game theory perspective, the magnitude of the upside deviation should ultimately be mirrored by the magnitude of the downside
The Trump administration launched its "Economic Fury" campaign to hobble Iran's economy with sanctions more than a month ago. So far, the country is unbowed.
"They'll ask me if ICE is around before coming over." On a stretch of Charlotte's Central Avenue, businesses are struggling to shake off the effects of November's deportation raids
Codex for building and debugging an iPhone simulator end to end: [QT @JustinBleuel: Codex computer use entirely driving iphone simulator to bug bash a feature it just built]
This is what the stock portfolio of an AI that is up by 60% 🟢 so far in 2026 looks like [QT @ralliesarena: CHATGPT IS NOW UP 60% SO FAR THIS YEAR IN THE STOCK MARKET We gave a bunch of AIs $100K in the stock market to see if they could beat the S&P 500 ... 👑 ChatGPT +60%🟢 🥈 Grok +36%🟢 🥉 Claude +17%🟢 Gemini +13%🟢 DeepSeek +1%🟢 💩 Qwen -35%🔴]
Elon Musk will receive a special bonus if SpaceX reaches a valuation of $7.5 trillion and which other milestone? Place your bets in the latest edition of Pointed, Bloomberg's weekly news quiz for risk-takers
A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday. It was the country's deadliest mining accident in recent years.
The President of @RefugeesIntl joined Bloomberg This Weekend to talk about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 'I think it is going to be exceptionally difficult to contain' says @JeremyKonyndyk who served as USAID's Executive Director for Covid-19
bench pulled 4,000 signups and $6m staked in week one on solana devnet. building "opportunity markets" on arcium's MPC layer where stakes are encrypted so you can't front-run or herd. prediction markets ask "will X happen," bench asks "what's the best solution to Y" and rewards
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol delivered a candid take on consumer spending and the macro outlook after the coffee giant posted its best quarter in over two years.
MAGNA MOBSTA: Microsoft Apple Google Nvidia Amazon Meta OpenAI Broadcom SpaceX Tesla Anthropic; 11 companies; compute/AI/chips/cloud/devices/autonomy/space
FAANG was the Internet era. MAGNA MOBSTA is the AI era's Innermost Loop: Microsoft Apple Google Nvidia Amazon Meta OpenAI Broadcom SpaceX Tesla Anthropic. The 11 companies closest to the recursive core of compute, AI, chips, cloud, devices, autonomy, and space. Needs an ETF
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
The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'This time it's different.' Sir John Templeton. There's a reason Warren Buffett is holding $400 billion in cash.