'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' now holds the box office record for the biggest opening weekend in North America. The latest installment of the web-slinging series brought in $360 million across the U.S. and Canada, topping another Marvel film, 'Avengers: Endgame.'
Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
At least seven states have now been targeted in a growing wave of cyber attacks on critical water infrastructure across the country, according to the FBI. Federal officials are reportedly investigating Iran as the likely culprit.
Yep [QT @Suhail: I looked at 13 different providers for even 1 node of B200/B200s while I wait for my order to get delivered. Zero availability. I've never seen GPU capacity scarcity like this. Prices are also headed towards $6.50-7/gpu/hr. Expect inference to get more expensive.]
China is growing anxious that Anthropic's Mythos could be wielded against the world's second-biggest economy, adding a volatile new issue to already heightened tensions before a planned summit between Xi Jinping and Trump
100 year peace deals for humanity are a dirty process You know, like sometimes you have to destroy a village to save it… [QT @sentdefender: The UK Office of Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) is reporting an attack on a commercial shipping vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, with the vessel claiming to have struck by an unknown projectile roughly 20NM off the coast of Al Khasab, Oman.]
Japan's historic joint intervention with the US is shifting market focus to whether the yen can strengthen beyond 155 per dollar, a threshold strategists view as the key test for the rally's staying power
Trump; ExxonMobil; Chevron; 'too much money' off higher fuel prices; 'give some of that back to the public'; notable break from usual industry alliance
President Trump accused ExxonMobil and Chevron of making 'too much money' off higher fuel prices and said the oil giants should 'give some of that back to the public,' a notable break from his usual alliance with the industry.
Crypto trading activity is declining: Daily trading volume across the 44 spot crypto exchanges tracked by Kaiko fell to ~$15 billion last week, the lowest level of the year. This marks a -70% decline from January peak levels.
I am a sucker for anyone "spitting out dentures" in reaction to any numbers. [QT @joshuahlipton: Spoke to @PalantirTech CEO Alex Karp about the quarter: "Every single person who's financially literate or illiterate in anything like technology is spitting out their dentures when they look at these numbers…what you really see here is the first company that's been able to]
India; LIC stake up to 6.5%; 10% discount to Monday close; up to 314 billion rupees / $3.3 billion; regulatory compliance
The Indian government will sell up to a 6.5% stake in state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India at a 10% discount to its Monday closing price, as it moves to comply with regulatory requirements. The stake sale will fetch the government up to 314 billion rupees ($3.3
SK Hynix、美光($MU)和三星的2027年DRAM/HBM产能已全部预售,$SNDK、三星及美光当年NAND产能同步售罄,铠侠与SK Hynix预计于2026年8月前完成最终配额,客户实际获配量仅为申请量的60-70%。
DRAM/HBM 2027 capacity sold out (SK Hynix, Micron, Samsung); NAND capacity sold out (SNDK, Samsung, Micron); customer allocations: 60–70% of requested volumes; Kioxia & SK Hynix to finalize by Aug 2026
SK Hynix, $MU , and Samsung have sold out of 2027 capacity for DRAM/HBM. $SNDK, Samsung, Micron current annual NAND capacity has been sold out, with Kioxia and SK Hynix expected to finalize allocations by August 2026. - Customers are being allocated only 60–70% of the volumes
Chinese institutional investors have swooped on gold in recent weeks, helping to arrest the precious metal's decline and keep prices above the key threshold of $4,000 an ounce
Growing military coordination between China, Russia and North Korea is heightening security risks for Japan, Tokyo say in its latest defense white paper
Box CEO Aaron Levie指出,即便以闭源形式发布,3-6个月前这样的能力足以令业界震惊,如今开源可用意义深远,开源前沿模型的节奏正在重塑行业格局。彭博社报道称,中国AI密集发布正迅速缩小与硅谷差距,并制造出"死亡地带"——无顶尖技术或极具竞争力定价者难以立足。
Another day another near frontier open weights model release. If you had gone back even 3-6 months and given everyone access to what we're now seeing in open weights even as a closed model, their minds would be completely blown. The fact that this is possible changes the
I am really surprised how well Bitcoin is holding up tbh considering:
- Iranian attack on US base yesterday
- Mythos encryption news last night
- KOPSI circuit breaker today, down 35% in a month
Though $KTA & $NEAR are getting absolutley savaged today, did I miss anything?
Copper advanced to the highest in two months, approaching $14,000 a ton in London as traders monitored ballooning volumes of the metal in the US ahead of a decision on import tariffs by President Donald Trump
HSBC announced a fresh stock buyback and raised its cost-cutting target after its second-quarter earnings beat estimates. CEO Georges Elhedery tells @flacqua it shows HSBC becoming "the stronger bank we set out to build"
US President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as Tuesday, or face devastating air strikes on the country
Apple has launched a fresh legal challenge against a U.K. government attempt to access encrypted data held by British customers. The move comes a year on from the previous dispute between the two over a request from the U.K.'s Home Office for both British and American customer
CATERPILLAR $CAT JUST REPORTED EARNINGS - EPS of $8.17 beating expectations of $6.17 🟢 - Revenue of $20.50B beating expectations of $19.34B 🟢 - Backlog: $72.1B FY guidance: - Sales & revenue growth expected in the mid-to-high teens vs. 2025
$MCD McDonald's Q2 Earnings EPS $3.32 vs. $3.14 y/y, est. $3.33 Rev. $7.10B, est. $7.12B Comp sales +1.3%, est. +1.39% Names Skye Anderson as president of McDonald's USA Growth slows as sign US diners are retrenching
Bessent: 'WE MAY HAVE IRAN DEAL TOMORROW TO OPEN HORMUZ'; Qatar: language drafted, circulating between parties; Al-Ansari: deal not yet reached; no US-Iran direct talks confirmed
Trump admin drafting ban on new Chinese optical transceivers & DC devices; targeted: Innolight, Eoptolink; beneficiaries: $AAOI, $SIVE/Jabil, $LITE, Coherent
A very material catalyst came about for Western supply chains from $AAOI, $SIVE / Jabil, to $LITE and Coherent: The Trump administration is drafting a ban of new Chinese optical transceivers and DC devices. Which would likely hit China's Innolight, Eoptolink, and other
BREAKING: Anthropic has signed a $10 billion deal for computing capacity with Volta, a months-old infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, $NVDA. Details include: 1. The agreement runs 6 years and will be delivered in partnership with Bitdeer Technologies, a Bitcoin miner that
Asia-based hedge funds logged extensive losses in July, as the tech selloff led to what Goldman Sachs prime brokers said was the worst month for regional stockpickers on record
The US trade deficit narrowed in June as imports fell for the first time since the start of the year. The gap in goods and services trade shrank 5.6% from the prior month to $73.3 billion. Michael McKee reports
Paulson: 'not a close call to keep rates steady'; 'need mildly restrictive monetary policy'; 'inflation too high'; 'keeping an open mind' = hawkish step per RenMac; effective fed funds 3.63%
S&P 500 intraday all-time high August 4 2026; Dow rises; Bessent: 'We may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the Strait of Hormuz'; prior ALREADY_REPORTED entry was 'near' ATH — now confirmed hit
Palantir US commercial AI sales Q2 2026 +149% YoY; full-year revenue outlook raised; CEO Karp: 'staggering' and 'otherworldly'; distinct from previously reported total US sales +23%
Palantir Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp said US commercial sales in the second quarter were 'staggering' and 'otherworldly.' Sales rose by 149% and the company boosted its full-year revenue outlook. Neil Campling reports
SK Hynix US IPO; raised $26.5B; record largest foreign company listing in US; Korea-listed shares +750%+ YoY; Situational Awareness + Baillie Gifford as backers
US Commerce Dept; relaxed advanced chip + drone export controls to UAE; UAE recognized as major defense partner; 'Operation Epic Rage' cited as justification
this is just absolutely brutal [QT @ValsAI: DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is the cheapest model on the Vals Index to score above 60, and 35x cheaper than the next best model. That efficiency comes almost entirely from coding. Three of its four strongest Index results are coding and agentic tasks, and the cost gap on those is]
Last month saw the worst July for the NASDAQ in 22 years, the biggest July yield-spike in bonds since 2005, and the largest July oil price spike in more than 30 years
The announcement of arrangements for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may be within hours or tomorrow - Al Hadath, citing a high-level source.
Onchain investors are piling into tokenized US Treasuries. Total onchain Treasury funds now have a record high market cap of $16.2 billion, up +77% year-to-date. But, why? The growth is being driven by a surge in demand to earn a yield onchain by using US Treasury Bills as
Live look in at Tom Lee [QT @zoomerfied: [ ZOOMER ] JUSTIN DRAKE AND OTHERS CREATE EIP-8361 TO REDUCE ETHEREUM INFLATION, WOULD REDUCE STAKING YIELD TO 0% ABOVE 50% OF ETHEREUM STAKED, AND HALF STAKING YIELD TO 1% AT CURRENT STAKED AMOUNTS: X]
The U.S. manufacturing sector is expanding at the strongest pace in four years as output surges, firms add workers, and demand continues to grow, according to a key measure of factory health released Monday.
Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang just posted this: "Today, we're launching Alpamayo 2 Super, our frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles. Beyond seeing, Alpamayo understands and reasons through the complex world - thinks before it acts. It's a powerful backbone for robotaxis, trucks, shuttles, delivery vans"
@TheJusticeDept is moving to revoke the citizenship of more than two dozen individuals who the DOJ said committed crimes ranging from attempted murder to child sexual abuse to identity fraud, marking its largest citizenship revocation surge on record.
Iran FM: talks with Oman 'positive at both technical and political levels'; Iran reportedly softened stance on European mine clearance; Bessent: deal possible 'as soon as Tuesday'
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeman: The talks have so far been assessed as positive at both the technical and political levels, and Iran is working with Oman to develop the necessary mechanisms for future arrangements to manage shipping traffic in this strategic waterway.
deepseek is scoring HOW MUCH [QT @pilvar222: We ran Qwen3.8-Max on our cybersecurity benchmark. Given enough attempts, it found more CVEs than most frontier models, tying Opus 5 for first place. Here are the results: - Across the three runs, Qwen found 26 of 32 CVEs, reaching 81.25% pass@3 recall, outperforming GPT-5.6-Sol]
Gavin on why the hyperscalers are under-earning: " I literally spoke to a company this morning who rented a cluster of several thousand Blackwells at somewhere in the mid $2 per GPU hour, and this is one of the sexiest startups that people want to be in business with. They're
The Trump Administration is preparing to set a price floor and tariffs on imports of polysilicon and derivative products used in chips and solar panels - Sources.
The Federal Communications Commission is drafting a rule to block imports of new Chinese optical transceiver models used in AI data centers, per Reuters
Tuesday's first earnings call for SpaceX as a public company will test whether Elon Musk still has the power to hype up investors like he has with Tesla.
A U.S. Sailor stands watch in the combat information center aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4) as the amphibious assault ship sails in regional waters while supporting the U.S. blockade against Iran. As of Aug. 4, U.S. forces have redirected 45 commercial vessels, disabled 2 and boarded 2
retail sold ~20x 2-year average weekly flow in semiconductors/memory; week ended July 30; 3rd weekly net sell in last 4 weeks; prior: 10 consecutive weeks of buying
Retail investors sold chip stocks at a historic pace last week: Retail investors sold ~20 times more semiconductor and memory stocks than the 2-year average weekly flow in the week ended July 30th. This marks the 3rd weekly sale over the last 4 weeks, following 10 consecutive
Starmind AI1 satellite; NVIDIA Rubin GPUs + Vera CPUs; datacenter-class space compute; SpaceX x NVIDIA partnership announcement
将数据中心级AI算力(Rubin GPU + Vera CPU)部署至轨道卫星,是对太空计算的重大范式升级,使卫星具备边缘AI推理能力并大幅减少地面延迟依赖。英伟达借此将算力版图从地面延伸至轨道,Rubin架构的太空部署也是其下一代芯片的重要商业验证。对防务、气候监测和全球通信等应用场景具有深远影响。
SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for datacenter class space compute
Black Forest Labs发布首款视频生成模型FLUX 3 Video,支持原生音频、文本生成视频、多帧图像生成视频、视频续接及多语言对话功能,并附Draft快速原型模式
FLUX 3 Video; native audio; Text to Video; Image to Video (multi-frame); video continuation; dialogue in multiple languages; Draft mode; BFL first video model
FLUX 3 Video is here. Serious, fun, creative, real, cinematic, whatever you need it to be. Native audio, Text to Video, Image to Video with multiple frames, video continuation, dialogue in multiple languages. Comes with Draft mode so you can explore ideas fast at a fraction of
Iran conditions: transit fees + security guarantees against attacks + end US naval blockade + US oil sanction relief; Oman sole negotiating channel per Fars News; Pakistan-mediated indirect US-Iran talks reported close to finalization
BREAKING: Iran has reportedly signaled it is willing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but is seeking transit fees, security guarantees against future attacks, an end to the U.S. naval blockade, and relief from U.S. oil sanctions.
Rev. $7.8b, est. $6.81b Loss/shr 9c vs est. loss/shr 24c AI segment oper loss $1.26b, est. loss $2.39b Adj. EBITDA $3.5b, est. $2b CAPEX $18.37b, est. $18.58b Starlink subscribers 12m, est. 12.19m Rev. AI segment $2.56B, est. $2.08B Connectivity segment rev. $4.29B, est. $3.88B
$AMD AMD Q2 Earnings Adjusted EPS $1.66, est. $1.62 Revenue $11.54B, est. $11.31B Adjusted operating income $3.09B, est. $3.01B Adjusted operating margin 27.0%, est. 26.9% R&D expenses $2.53B, est. $2.45B Capex $808M, est. $298.6M Sees Q3 revenue $12.70B to $13.30B, est. $12.51B
Reminder to stop overthinking what stocks to buy $DELL puts in a new all-time high today [QT @joinautopilot: Breaking: Earlier today, President Trump said at a High School in Georgia, "Go out and buy a dell computer" $DELL closed +9% today]
~80% of interceptors for key missile defense system exhausted; Pentagon munitions stockpile 'dangerously low'; multiple senior US military commanders; per Jim Sciutto/CNN
New: The US military has exhausted nearly 80% of its interceptors for a key missile defense system as senior US military commanders are warning that the Pentagon's munitions stockpile is "dangerously low," according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The UK's @AISecurityInst (AISI) has published a report on their recent cybersecurity evaluation of Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. The models attempted to complete an assignment in a setup where their normal safeguards were removed and they were deliberately
AMD Q2 Rev $11.54B vs $11.31B est; EPS $1.66 vs $1.62 est; DC Rev $6.72B +107% YoY; CAPEX $808M vs $298M est (+170%); Q3 guide $12.70-13.30B vs $12.51B est; stock -10%+
AMD $AMD beat earnings but went -13% - Why? Earnings data: -Revenue $11.54B vs Est. $11.31B -EPS $1.66 vs. Est. $1.61 -Data Center Revenue $6.7B (+107% YoY) -Gross Margin 56% vs. Est. 56% 💰BUT CapEx: $808M (Est. $298M) and nVidia x XAI project Starmind, AI Infrastructure in...
Burry: exited MSFT longs+calls; closed ORCL shorts+puts; closed Jan 2026 PLTR puts (remains short PLTR); rolled NVDA puts → June 2027; 'near a major top, possible 1987-type fall'
It was an honor to administer the oath of office to my friend and patriot Jay Clayton as our nation's ninth Director of National Intelligence in the presence of President Trump, his amazing family and loyal friends in the Oval Office this afternoon. Jay's career reflects rare...
$ALAB absolutely demolished Q2 earnings and gave insane Q3 guidance. In full disclosure I have not listened to the call yet, I'll do that after the dinner. Q2 revs of $392M vs $360M Q2 revs up 104% YoY Q3 revs
Iran abandons current Omani Hormuz proposal; 3 new demands: (1) end US naval blockade (2) lift all US oil/petrochemical/gas sanctions (3) explicit undisclosed third demand; per WSJ
No Iran deal? [QT @HormuzLetter: BREAKING: Iran has abandoned the current Omani proposal for the Strait of Hormuz, officially adding new demands, per WSJ: 1. An immediate end to the US naval blockade 2. The lifting of all US sanctions on Iranian oil, petrochemical products, and gas 3. An explicit]
After installing the Claude Chrome Plugin, Claude Code (commandline) started connecting to it and control a tab of my Chrome whenever doing frontend tasks. It uses it to measure things, check CSS, take screenshots, and generally iterate on frontend. This is seriously cool!
Monday was the first official trading day for financial firms and others to get early access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts. That's if they signed up for a new subscription service from Trump Media & Technology Group, which went live this weekend.
Officials in southern Ukraine say Russia dropped eight glide bombs over a span of 90 minutes Sunday night, killing at least one person and wounding dozens more. The attacks damaged residential buildings and a warehouse complex in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.
The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza's postwar transition met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement, in part to discuss a new disarmament deal the board reached with Hamas.
Be Citadel: > calls for unexpected rate hike few days ago, causing market panic > reaches out and buys billions of liquidated hedge fund AI assets > no rate hike > "Bull market drivers are fully intact"
South Korean financial companies and other firms borrowed more money in short-term debt markets in the first half of the year amid an unprecedented stock market rally that gave way to a meltdown in recent weeks
Granted independence after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia's central bank remained one of the few institutions to retain autonomy since Prabowo Subianto became president. Now it could fall more directly under his sway.
Semiconductor stocks are facing one of their most volatile periods in history: The semiconductor index, $SOX, saw intraday swings of at least 2% in all 22 trading days in July, matching the reading last seen in 2020. Before that, such a period last occurred during the 2008
Philippe Laffont's Coatue saw its hedge fund plunge 8.3% last month, marking the latest tech-focused money manager to be whipsawed after a sharp selloff in AI stocks
Grab raised its annual earnings and sales forecasts, a sign that robust demand from Southeast Asian commuters is helping to absorb impact of higher fuel prices stemming from the Middle East conflict
Malaysia's balance of power is tilting away from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, as his former ally Barisan Nasional emerges as the biggest threat to his bid for a second term in office
Be Citadel: > calls for unexpected rate hike few days ago, causing market panic > reaches out and buys billions of liquidated hedge fund AI assets > no rate hike > "Bull market drivers are fully intact"
TMX's top priority after completing its purchase of Cboe's Australian business will be migrating clients to its own market technology, according to a senior executive
Michigan Democrats will pick their nominee for the U.S. Senate on Aug. 4 in a battle dominated by views on U.S.-Israel relations and the Democratic Party's future.
Australia's household spending climbed more than expected in June, pointing to resilient consumer demand in the economy a week out from the Reserve Bank's policy meeting, when it's widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to keep interest rates unchanged as policymakers assess whether higher energy costs from the renewed Middle East conflict spill over into broader inflation before raising borrowing costs
Small Gemini API update: you can now use the Google Maps and Google Search tool at the same time with Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.6 Flash. Been on the backlog for a long time, glad we landed it!!
Clorox reported earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Monday that beat analyst expectations, despite lower sales volumes and additional costs due to logistics and its acquisition of Purell hand sanitizer-maker GOJO Industries
Tata's battery unit is gearing up to make cells using its own technology for the first time as China's tighter curbs spur the Indian conglomerate to seek self-sufficiency, according to sources
Trading in leveraged ETFs tied to South Korea's two chip giants has shrunk sharply, after authorities took steps to slow demand for the products that fueled recent market volatility
Iran believes it holds the upper hand in its conflict with the US after the Trump administration repeatedly held off following through on its most severe threats, said Mona Yacoubian, Middle East program director at CSIS
Indian lenders; foreign currency deposits for overseas citizens; dollar bond + loan market surge; global banks competing for business
A surge in dollar demand from Indian lenders racing to boost the leverage on foreign currency deposits offered to overseas citizens is firing up its dollar bond and loan markets, with global banks rushing to secure the business, sources say
>1 million new Postgres databases per week; excluding read replicas; ~6-year-old company
Paul Graham将此视为极具震撼力的增长曲线,认为对一家仅成立6年的公司而言尤为罕见;该数字体现了开发者对托管Postgres基础设施的爆发式需求,Supabase已成为后端即服务赛道的增长标杆。
Now that is a graph. Especially for a company 6 years old. [QT @kiwicopple: Supabase is now deploying >1m new Postgres databases every week & that doesn't include read replicas]
getting paid 1,159.44% APY to long this [QT @IntCyberDigest: ❗️China's CXMT wants to solve the DRAM crisis by opening a second memory fab in Beijing and is in early talks with the state-backed development zone over funding. Its current projects alone would double output to 600,000+ wafers a month. Beijing's memory fab would come on top of that]
$80 million; Pentagon; Idaho mine; critical military mineral; Bloomberg Originals investigation; questions over other sub-surface resources
$80 million from the Pentagon has gone to owners of a mine in Idaho to extract a mineral critical for the US military. But questions are being asked whether that is the only treasure under the ground
Open-source model rise dismantling closed-source monopoly; CSP as 'AI OS'; direct token monetization; reduced third-party revenue sharing; increased training spend and inference call volume
Japan has alternative tools to defend the yen without liquidating its more than $1.1 trillion US Treasury portfolio as its short-term debt holdings run low, according to Citigroup
Southeast Asia is forecast to see drier- and warmer-than-normal conditions from August through October as El Niño strengthens, raising the threat of out-of-control wildfires and damage to crops
India will seek parliamentary approval for tax changes to spur foreign investment and local manufacturing, sources say, as PM Modi works to refocus the administration on his economic agenda after recent student protests
Dabur India has been ordered by the food regulator to immediately halt sales of products marketed with claims of '100%' purity, which officials say are ambiguous, unverifiable and likely to mislead consumers
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf told Bloomberg he's speaking to tech companies about surveilling the south coast to stop migrants crossing from France, after the party touted a proposal to forcibly return small boats crossing the English Channel
The Hourglass Is Running on the Yen Carry Trade
If the closest historical precedent remains the 1998 coordinated U.S. and Japan yen buying intervention, the period of greatest vulnerability would likely emerge about 3 to 4 months after the intervention, not immediately
Big picture wise Bitcoin remains in an obvious downtrend but there are some serious signs of bottoming now on lower and medium timeframes and with wider "bottoming" signals. Bitcoin has recovered the DMA50 and is still clinging onto the WMA200, the latter being the key indicator
One model, many brains. Tether Evo just published 3 new peer-reviewed papers showing how a single BCI model can generalize across different people across 3 key areas: Speech: Translating neural data to text in minutes Vision: Reconstructing images from primate spiking data
Observable traffic transiting the Strait of Hormuz remained at a trickle as attacks on vessels and Iranian threats heightened safety concerns for shipowners and crews considering a trip through the waterway
While Washington framed USAID cuts as a strategic maneuver, unfinished water infrastructure in Kenya was abandoned — triggering some of the region's worst flooding in years and leaving a local community worse off than before the projects began
It is statistically safer to store coins on exchanges than to self custody. 👇 A few thoughts: Assuming the data is correct, my impression is Willy has always been a strong supporter for self custody. Hack data is easier to collect on the CEX side, usually major news. It is
While the masses continue to jump at shadows, the tectonic plates beneath the global financial system are shifting slowly yet catastrophically. The US 30-Year Treasury Yield has violently broken out of an extraordinarily massive ascending triangle pattern. Historically, this
Anthropic reportedly outpays OpenAI. Its CEO doubts why people joined. Axios reported the worry, and the replies pointed out that the lab writing the biggest cheques is a strange place to raise it.
When a group of Russian assault troops approached Ukrainian defenses on a section of the front line in eastern Donetsk, they were met by an unexpected adversary: a battle robot armed with a flamethrower.
The world's first permanent underground repository for spent nuclear fuel moved a step closer to opening after Finland's safety regulator backed its operating license application
Treasury Secretary Bessent characterized US support in Friday's yen intervention as help for an ally. @jonathanjlevin says the move was actually self-serving
the gambling rights gonna be worth more than the broadcast rights at this rate you will stream inside the gambling app, get 10 push notifications during the match, be retargeted throughout the day, be streamed your real-time p&l and second-by-second odds and you will like it
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung urged on Tuesday authorities to step up support for people affected by a record heatwave in the country, calling it a national disaster after scorching conditions were blamed for 19 deaths.
It may be hard to believe, given all the market drama for the past couple of months, but the S&P 500 is on the verge of a fresh record high for the first time since June 2
CME July ADV record 27M contracts; Interest Rate 12.6M*, Equity Index 8.2M*, Energy 2.6M*, Agricultural 2M*, Metals 788K*, Crypto 237K; *July ADV record
Vertical Aerospace Valo eVTOL; first public take-off flight; Farnborough International Airshow 2026; 100 miles per charge
Vertical Aerospace's Valo electric air taxi made its first public take-off flight at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow, aiming to fly up to 100 miles on a single charge.
Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give Donald Trump's name to a $1 billion highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his "deep appreciation" of the American leader, per Bloomberg
Coldcard's sell-side overhang is getting fragmented. Galaxy Research estimates at least 15 attackers exploited the vulnerability, so stolen BTC may hit the market in scattered bursts that are harder to track.
Apple wants a judge to act before OpenAI ships. OpenAI's response was that it neither has nor wants Apple's trade secrets, which makes this a fight about a device that does not exist yet.
The Polish government is working on changes to reduce the tax burden on more than two million taxpayers as the country heads into a tight general election
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney has gotten a vote of confidence from the international investment community for his response to US trade hostilities, says @Matthew_Winkler (via @opinion)
Polymarket is seeking to raise capital at a valuation of more than $20 billion, months after it closed an earlier round with new investment from hedge fund D.E. Shaw.
Wells Fargo plans to launch tokenized deposits for corporate and commercial clients this fall, the latest sign that big banks are embracing the world of digital assets
ahahahahahaha oops [QT @opencode: deepseek flash is currently having capacity issues from the unprecedented volume you may see errors - we're working on a fix]
Last week was the biggest week of retail equity selling since 2022… Citadel's Scott Rubner: 'July did not change the structural bull market. It reset it.'
Rep. April McClain Delaney (D); up to $80K $BWXT across 3 purchases July 2026; BWXT $1.4B DOE contract; sits on House Science, Space and Technology Committee overseeing DOE nuclear programs
This is suspect Rep. April McClain Delaney (D) just disclosed she bought up to $80,000 of $BWXT across 3 separate purchases in July She sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, which oversees the Department of Energy's nuclear programs BWXT received a $1.4B
Ukraine agricultural sector losses from Black Sea attacks: $1.5B-$3B; average crop price drop 30%; Russian attacks endanger global food security; consumer price hike warning
Trump hints at reversing F-35 ban on Turkey; 'better relationship with Turkey'; Turkey 'loyal in many ways more than other NATO allies'; other NATO allies criticized
China Defence Ministry: 'firmly opposes' Japan's new defence white paper; Japan white paper: China+Russia+DPRK military coordination = heightened security risk; China: Taiwan is 'red line' in Japan relations
Coldcard's stolen-coin overhang can still grow while holders scramble to migrate, so near-term BTC flow risk stays bearish. Galaxy's high-confidence estimate is 1,596 BTC across ~7.3k addresses... a suspected fourth wave would lift its modeled ceiling to 2,055 BTC, about $130m.
Stephen Schork, principal and editor at The Schork Group, says refiners have virtually no ability to increase capacity and deliver more gasoline and diesel products and lower costs for consumers
The US economy has now been in an expansion for 74 months. Average expansion since 1949: 67 months Longest: 128 months (2009 - 2020) Shortest: 12 months (1980 - 1981)
July AgBarometer: 126 (+13 MoM); Current Conditions Index: 122 (+20); Future Expectations Index: 129 (+11); ended 3-month decline streak
The July #AgBarometer reported that farmer sentiment rebounded with an increase of 13 points to 126 after three consecutive months of decline. The Current Conditions Index increased 20 points to 122 and the Future Expectations Index rose 11 points to 129.
英特尔正式推出面向企业商用场景的Core Ultra Series 3 with Intel vPro处理器,主打AI驱动计算能力。
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with Intel vPro; enterprise AI-driven computing; commercial launch
Built for tough meetings, big days, and all-hands-on-deck moments. Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with Intel vPro is here. Find out what AI-driven computing can do for your team.
Wall Street's appetite for weight-loss drug stocks over the past four years has powered Eli Lilly to consistently trade above $1,000 per share. Now, some see the pharma giant's stock as primed for a split.
The overall layoff rate remains very low though the one industry that has seen a notable increase is the information sector. The layoff rate increased to 1.9 percent and has been trending higher over the first six months of 2026.
Alpamayo 2 Super is available on Hugging Face under OpenMDW‑1.1, the @linuxfoundation's permissive license for open AI model distributions. The license covers fine‑tuning, derivative models and commercial redistribution, allowing AV developers, automakers, truckmakers and
I have seen over the years that the market continuously discounts the longer-term value of $META. Yes, it's trading at 18x fwd P/E today, but throughout $META's history, the market has consistently undervalued $META on a multiple basis. The reasons have normally been two: one
Interesting to note that Corn made important annual highs in summer months (M,N,Q) in 2008, 2011, 2019, 2021, 2022 The analog points hard down from here
Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat. Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.
The Army is seeing one of its strongest recruiting comebacks in years, per FOX. The Army's recruiting has climbed nearly 38% overall since its fiscal year 2022 low.
Gas prices are now a major concern for US consumers: According to the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumers, ~40% of respondents spontaneously mentioned gasoline as an economic factor in June, the highest reading in at least 2 years. This proportion fell to ~31% in July
open source + inference clouds shifting tokens from ~90% margin proprietary APIs; AI spend cuts ≠ AI demand decline; no slowdown on ground in Silicon Valley per Gavin Baker
Gavin explains why companies cutting their AI spend is not bad for AI demand. With open source models and inference clouds, AI spending can decrease even as token usage and GPU hours increase: "You're literally just shifting tokens from really expensive tokens with like 90% [margins]"
We're thrilled to co-lead Volta's Series A. Compute isn't distributed evenly. Most startups don't have financeable balance sheets: they're funded 18 months at a time. So they have to pay more money for less flexible compute access, and have to wait longer to get it. Volta is
CA Dem Party endorses Prop 40 (asset seizure/wealth tax); 2-vote margin; doctors, teachers, nurses, firefighters voted no; November 2026 California ballot
It's insane that the CA Dem Party is endorsing yes on Prop 40, the asset seizure tax that will destroy the California tax base [QT @garryslist: The Democratic Party just endorsed the wealth tax by a razor thin margin of 2 votes. The doctors, teachers, nurses, and firefighters it's supposed to save? They voted no. The coalition forming against this measure is made up of the working class people the Democratic Party is]
Treasuries rose on Tuesday as signs of progress toward a diplomatic resolution of the Iran war sent oil prices lower, curbing expectations for more than one Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in the coming year
The US Treasury will need to increase the sizes of at least some of its fixed-rate borrowing programs next year but is unlikely to signal the shift just yet, according to bond dealers
Tino Cuéllar; Anthropic first Chief Global Affairs Officer; former CA Supreme Court Justice + Carnegie Endowment president; Trump administration relations; per Reuters
Jefferies; Sapphire Minmetals fake invoices (new discovery); Radiant World financing review (ongoing); two separate iron ore trader fraud incidents simultaneous
Jeffries has found new evidence that invoices underpinning its financing to an iron ore trader called Sapphire Minmetals are fake. This discovery comes after Jeffries was already reviewing its exposure to iron ore trader Radiant World, after reports that documents provided to
UniCredit's gradual takeover of Commerzbank has cleared a key regulatory hurdle as Germany's financial regulator has told the Italian bank its application for a controlling stake can proceed
The notion that all hardware is a commodity business is going to be flipped on its head this decade Unitree's IPO filings show that it has ~60% gross margins, higher than most AI labs Durable, high quality robots are going to be supply constrained. Developer and skill
US Official statement via Al Jazeera: Strait of Hormuz is international waterway; no party controls routes or passage; direct counter to Iran's transit fee demand
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will not withdraw from their current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed.
SENS. ELIZABETH WARREN AND RICHARD BLUMENTHAL REQUEST SEC INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP MEMECOIN $TRUMP, CALLING IT A POTENTIAL "RUG PULL" OVER ALLEGED INVESTOR LOSSES
The CFTC has ordered George Santos to disgorge $17,000 in profit and pay a $17,500 fine for insider trading on a State of the Union prediction market, per CoinDesk
Energy Sec Wright: 'Fuel prices should come down in coming weeks'; Jones Act waiver extension 'likely'; has resulted in lower energy prices in California and US East Coast
US Energy Secretary Wright: The extension of the Jones Act waiver is likely and has resulted in lower energy prices in California and the US East Coast.
OpenCode Go users are spending $130K a day on deepseek - that's $47M a year this is why their API keeps going down, they've now limited our traffic we're working through this but very frustrating as we're their #1 customer
Artificial intelligence is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found
SpaceX compute expansion estimate: 8GW over next 18 months; per FundaAI Substack; Gavin Baker: 'I will never bet against Elon. But... truly incredible feat'; rates have risen since initial plans
A Substack writer, @FundaAI, thinks that SpaceX is going to bring on eight gigawatts of compute over the next 18 months. I will never bet against Elon. But I mean, that would be a truly incredible feat. And rates have gone up since they
American Petroleum Institute CEO & President Mike Sommers says that about 7 of the 11 million barrels per day needed to see lower gas prices are now getting through the Strait of Hormuz, well below levels seen pre-war. He speaks on Balance of Power
"For over two decades, U.S. electricity demand grew at well below 1% per year. But data centers, new factories, and electric cars are all arriving at once, and utility grid planners are now projecting energy usage will increase at a rate of 5.7% per year from 2025 to 2030."
Madagascar joined a handful of central banks in raising interest rates after revising its inflation forecasts higher as renewed tensions between the US and Iran stoke price pressures
Baker Tilly has dropped plans for a roughly $3 billion leveraged loan that was intended to refinance private credit debt and fund a dividend, sources say
The southern route through the Strait of Hormuz remains free and open for all commercial vessels seeking to transit the international waterway. Over the past three months, U.S. forces have assisted more than 1,000 vessels in successfully transiting the strait despite unwarranted...
Hashdex $DEFI Bitcoin spot ETF; first-ever closure; raised only $14M; launched well after rest of pack; independent issuer; market dominated by BlackRock et al.
We have our first spot bitcoin ETF closure.. $DEFI (Hashdex) is throwing in the towel. Only raised $14m. The issue here isn't the price decline as much as it is that it launched waaay after the rest of pack, really tough for an indie issuer to make it (in any category) when...
Luna is such an insane value after the 80% cost reduction. It's basically free and can do a ton of real data processing type work. I'm overhauling title generation in T3 Code to take more advantage of it. I almost want to spin it up on every prompt to generate descriptions,
SK Hynix late last month booked roughly $65 billion in profit for the quarter. The report still fell short of Wall Street's sky-high expectations for chip companies
Bitcoin's prolonged bear market is masking a fundamental shift in the systems churning beneath the surface, with hedge funds and asset managers quietly replacing retail traders as the dominant market forces