great move by Stripe acquiring OpenRouter — from a revenue point of view, it's a payments aggregator for inference — so being part of Stripe makes a ton of sense
Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked his ally U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that killed at least 289 people.
The French 10-year yield technically hits 18-year highs. Whilst the 2011 bailout zombie Euro countries lag its enthusiasm, they are coiling for a major breakout in yields. France is just leading the way. The yield dragon has awoken, and the reign of fire is upon us.
Japan's economy grew slower than expected in April-June, government data showed, as private consumption softened due to headwinds from higher raw material costs and supply disruptions linked to the Middle East war.
Japan's bonds fell on fiscal concerns and growing speculation that the Bank of Japan may raise interest rates in the coming months, pushing the 10-year yield to the highest since 1996
Ebola deaths were recorded at a rate of one every 28 minutes in Democratic Republic of Congo last week, making the outbreak the country's deadliest on record as authorities struggle to contain the rapidly spreading disease
So you're telling me AI could erase hundreds of billions of dollars in recurring treatment revenue, threaten entire pharmaceutical and healthcare business models, and render huge portions of today's medical industrial infrastructure economically obsolete within a decade…
Market bets on Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes are still too aggressive given that inflation in the world's biggest economy is cooling, according to Goldman
He's entirely correct. [QT @TrendingBitcoin: ELON MUSK: "FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS AMERICA IS LIKELY TO WIN THE RACE IN AI. THEN IT WILL BE A FUNCTION OF WHO CONTROLS THE AI CHIP FABRICATION. IF MORE OF THE FACTORIES ARE OWNED BY CHINA THEN CHINA WILL WIN." "RIGHT NOW ALL THE CHIP FABS ARE IN TAIWAN. 100%."]
Shares of First Gen, one of the Philippines' largest renewable energy companies, fell by a record on Monday after its parent turned down an offer from KKR to buy additional shares and take it private
President Donald Trump's new attempt to restrict birthright citizenship even after a Supreme Court loss highlights the administration's drive to limit who can become an American.
Unitree New Robot Preview: "Superman" Breaking the Limits of Humanity🥳 Standing high jump 2 m, top speed 12.66 m/s (0.85 m leg length) Surpassing the standing high jump and running speed records of all humans around the world This new machine has only been in development for a
President Donald Trump has told the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea, indicating his shift was driven by frustration the longtime US ally hadn't provided more support for his war with Iran
Anthropic's run rate is $47bn. The forecast says $200bn. Reuters reports bankers are pricing the listing off 2028 revenue, two years before anyone can check it.
The rise of AI has driven a blistering rally in the tech sector, bringing stock market valuations to levels last seen during the [dot-com] bubble. Do today's high valuations bear the risk of an abrupt and painful setback in the euro area?
Tourists are flocking to Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, days after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed 54 and forced at least 5,000 to evacuate, as authorities declared a provincial emergency and warned of aftershocks
RTX won a contract valued at $22.9 billion from the US navy to accelerate production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, at a time when weapon systems stockpiles come under strain given the ongoing war with Iran
L3Harris Technologies; CEO Christopher Kubasik fired; conduct 'not consistent with the values of the company'; immediate; CFO Ann-Kristin Erkens succeeds
🚨 ISRAEL'S LARGEST REGULATED CRYPTO BROKER 'BITS OF GOLD' FACES POTENTIAL DATA LEAK AFFECTING ~200,000 CUSTOMERS 'BITS OF GOLD' IS THE FIRST VASP LICENSE HOLDER IN ISRAEL
OpenAI has signed a 10-gigawatt data-center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy that's partly backed by Nvidia, a project expected to become one of the largest artificial-intelligence hubs to date
❗️HAMAS CEASEFIRE VIOLATION: A Hamas explosive device exploded in the Yellow Line area in northern Gaza and terrorists fired toward the same area. No IDF injuries were reported. In response, the IDF struck in the Yellow Line area. We will continue operating in accordance with
从卖芯片/系统到帮助建AI工厂,7月底传出来的这场AI热潮中雄心勃勃的交易终于落定:1)英伟达宣布向SB Energy投资15亿美元(与SoftBank、OpenAI并列股东);2)SB Energy负责建设、拥有并运营数据中心,与OpenAI签20年租约;3)英伟达提供LPS(Land, power and...);此前报道Nvidia正与OpenAI商谈提供约2500亿美元背书担保,支持俄亥俄州南部一个10GW超大型数据中心项目
It's official, Unitree the 8000x+ retail oversubscribed humanoid company in China. Is expected to go public in 2 days! So the 19th. Opening is implied to be around ~$41.66B MC per derivatives, around +363.3% above its ~$9B IPO valuation. Fun times for humanoids this week.
The surge in new AI debt is potentially crowding out long-end Treasury demand and has played a major role in the rise of bond yields, with some estimates suggesting it has pushed up 10-year rates by about 0.3 percentage point this year.
We are now scaling to provide Uber Eats more than 1 million autonomous deliveries a day. Uber is becoming an investor in Zipline. We've entered the scaling era for robotics and physical AI.
Jane Street posted roughly $15 billion of losses in July, its first monthly loss in about a decade, due to its investment in Situational Awareness and wrong-way bets in Asian equity markets.
The deal that U.S. President Donald Trump signed at Versailles in June set an ambitious 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran and reaching an accord on its nuclear program. The deadline was Monday, and the two sides are further apart than they were then.
A Greek-run oil tanker was attacked in the Black Sea after loading a Russian-origin cargo, the latest example of how the nation's war with Ukraine is disrupting petroleum flows.
by proposing limits on which stablecoins US platforms can offer US-located users from July 18, 2028, Treasury pushes CRCL and COIN higher over the medium term. in first-quarter 2026, Circle generated 94.0% of total revenue and reserve income from reserves, and Coinbase received
2026 is currently on track to become the only calendar year in at least 30 years with zero 80%+ NYSE downside-volume days. These are days when at least 80% of NYSE trading volume comes from declining stocks, signaling unusually broad-based selling.
Berkshire bought 48.1M Google shares; position $16.63B → $37.76B (+127%); Google 3rd largest holding behind Apple; Tiger Global sold 4.8M shares same quarter
BERKSHIRE BOUGHT 48.1 MILLION SHARES OF GOOGLE LAST QUARTER. TIGER GLOBAL SOLD 4.8 MILLION IN THE SAME 13 WEEKS. Berkshire's combined Class A and Class C position went from $16.63B to $37.76B, up 127%, which makes Google $GOOGL its third-largest holding behind Apple and American.
BREAKING: Nike stock, $NKE, collapses to its lowest level since September 2014, now down -78% from its all time high seen in 2021. The stock has now officially erased over -$200 billion in market cap since its record high.
Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything" Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: agents wrote 30% of code in a week, global tax filing shipped in 1/3 the time the US version took, and after AI made sellers 20% more
With the S&P breaking past 7,800, @FundstratDirect's @MarkNewtonCMT says the rally continues - but expect a choppy path higher rather than a straight shot
A U.S. Navy MH-60 Sea Hawk hovers over the flight deck of USS Mason (DDG 87) as the ship enforces America's 🇺🇸steel wall blockade against Iran. As of Aug. 17, CENTCOM forces have redirected 64 commercial vessels, disabled 3, and boarded 2 to ensure compliance.
Ukraine's drones have pummeled the giant depots belonging to Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer, burning billions of dollars' worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public.
Paul Tudor Jones 13F: increased BTC position; simultaneously hedging; PTJ credited with 'firing the starting gun' for 2020 BTC institutional adoption cycle
Paul Tudor Jones is buying Bitcoin and hedging it at the same time "The story from the 13Fs was Paul Tudor Jones, Mr Fastest Horse in the Race, who set the 2020 Bitcoin bull market ablaze and is really considered the guy who fired the starting gun for that" "He has increased
BREAKING: China's net new loans dropped -$50.4 billion in July, marking only the 3rd monthly decline this century. This is a broad measure of new bank lending in China and a key gauge of overall economic activity. The decline was also more than 3x larger than expected.
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump: 'not seeking extension of Iran MOU'; Kushner: 'we are not there yet on an understanding'; Al Arabiya had reported extension approved; Kushner: 'positive and active conversations'
Kushner: 'breakthrough in roadmap to demilitarized Gaza'; 'conversations between US and different areas of Iranian government more robust than ever'; 'Israelis are going to give this a chance'
In my opinion, the most likely sequence is that the energy shock eventually forces the yen carry trade to unwind and that becomes the catalyst exposing the deeper vulnerability in the Treasury market. Japan is already caught between weak domestic demand, imported energy
Economists be like yeah the neutral rate is somewhere between -0.25% and 4% idk [QT @NickTimiraos: A new estimate of the medium-run neutral rate by an economist at the SF Fed suggests it is around 1.5% (with a wide uncertainty band). If you assume underlying inflation of at least 2.5%, this suggests current monetary policy is accommodative.]
JUST IN: Department of War orders 30 U.S. universities to audit foreign research ties over concerns about technology transfer & intellectual property theft.
The NASDAQ is planning to implement a new trading session from 9PM ET to 4AM ET So the only time the market would be closed during the week would be between 8 PM ET - 9 PM ET [QT @StockMKTNewz: NASDAQ $NDAQ SAYS THAT ON DECEMBER 6TH, 2026, IT WILL INTRODUCE A NEW TRADING SESSION FROM 9 PM TO 4 AM ET, NASDAQ SAYS IT IS ENGAGING WITH REGULATORS TO OFFER NEARLY CONTINUOUS TRADING 23 HOURS A DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK, ON THE NASDAQ STOCK MARKET]
THE RACE FOR THE LARGEST IPO OF 2026 Anthropic is looking to go public within the next 2 months ... expect to hear a lot more headlines from them There is currently a 44% chance that Anthropic ends up being the largest IPO by market cap in 2026
Russia FM Lavrov; North Korea KCNA statement; 'new and righteous world order'; NK troops in Kursk; 'expel Ukrainian Nazi clique and foreign mercenaries'
2026: median premium increase across all "Affordable" Care Act health insurance plans was 20%. 2027: insurance companies have requested a median premium increase of 14%. US Government: health insurance prices are down 33% over the last 4 years.
Welcome to August 17, 2026. The Singularity has gone local. The frontier now fits in a 17GB file, as Alibaba's Apache-licensed Qwen3.8-27B becomes the first local model to score frontier capability on the Artificial Analysis
特朗普支持的World Liberty Financial正与一家香港机构合作,该机构提供由因国家安全原因被美国政府列管的中国企业开发的AI模型。
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial; Hong Kong-based venture; AI models from Chinese companies flagged by US administration for national security concerns
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering AI models developed by Chinese companies flagged by the US administration over national security concerns
The Pentagon's designation of WuXi AppTec as a Chinese military company may have prompted some US clients to pull back, but investors are still piling into the stock.
Analysts are less bullish on BHP Group ahead of Tuesday's full-year results, with buy recommendations for its Sydney-listed stock falling to a record low.
Incompetence in grid modeling is causing US ratepayers to pay $12B more than necessary. The auction system of PJM is damaging to building more capacity. The US needs market based reforms.
i am incresingly excited about the mission of Energy the market is wide open. every knowledge worker will be using AI as much as programmers, but no one using the models right getting the world onto these capabilities that already exist is trillions of dollars worth
Autocompaction in Codex is really good. @OpenAI recognized early on that it would be important and invested in research efforts to make it near-seamless. But if you want 1M-token context, it's an option.
CXMT's ascent to the pinnacle of Chinese markets heralds a potentially consequential shift away from private-sector giants toward a new generation of hardware companies more closely aligned with Beijing's strategic ambitions
'This is a substantial move for Ford as it faces pretty hefty tariffs under the Trump administration.' @NoraEckert joins the Reuters World News podcast to talk about Ford's plans to move some production from China to the US
A Japanese company known for a game app based around virtual teen idols filed for bankruptcy. It's the latest in a wave of corporate failures that has climbed to the most in 12 years, as inflation and worker shortages hit weaker firms.
Stripe reportedly buys OpenRouter for $7 Billion. I think their orchestration is easy to replicate and switch from. And there's very little moat. But atm, OpenRouter has the userbase, valuable dataset, + momentum.
my god what fucked up RL systems did they have to setup to allow multi-architecture agent delegation if this was trained end-to-end. god bless noam's infra guys if so lmao
ICE raids in Charlotte, North Carolina set off a chain reaction: damaging local businesses and potentially causing long-term economic harm that reaches far beyond the areas targeted
I think we're seeing AI server MLCC demand cause an interesting effect... with tightening capacity for consumer/general-purpose MLCCs. If you get Vietnam flashbacks like I do to $MU / Samsung / SK Hynix -> Legacy DRAM: My thesis is we'll see the same thing here maybe late H2,
InP substrate: 'largest price hike ever'; rising since Q4 2025; $AXTI (AXT Inc.); suppliers: 'even if you have the money, you still may not be able to get the material'
"Severe InP Shortage Triggers Largest Price Hike Ever" - $AXTI. Suppliers have bluntly stated that "even if you have the money, you still may not be able to get the material" (lol). - Industry sources revealed that InP substrate prices began rising in Q4 last year
Export-Import Bank of Korea will lend $1 billion to commodities giant Glencore in exchange for copper supply to South Korean companies, as the country seeks to secure raw materials needed for the AI boom
Beijing is moving to clarify new tax rules on offshore trusts that have sowed confusion among wealthy Chinese citizens and their advisers. China's State Taxation Administration is conducting large-scale training for local tax officers to align on how the levy on offshore trusts
Less than two years later, this is the quality of the video of an otter using a laptop on an airplane that I get (with sound) from an open weights AI video generator, MiniMax H3, running entirely on my local computer. It took about 3 minutes to generate. Rapid progress, indeed.
chatgpt for browser use: chatgpt browser use is goated 🐐 preparing a whole immigration package in minutes by scraping the last 7 years of taxes, bank statements, and immigration documents
A unit of China's state-backed SDIC Commodities was ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court, adding to the financial troubles for the metals trader as Beijing increases scrutiny on the sector
Chinese President Xi Jinping upheld former leader Jiang Zemin's legacy of combining economic development with firm Communist Party rule, using the centenary of his predecessor's birth to reinforce the political foundations of his own agenda
GDP per capita can't explain everything in life, but it can probably explain most of *this* (including things strongly correlated with GDP per capita, like income, and that drive GDP per capita, like agglomeration effects). [QT: 517 american companies started by canadians. $414 billion raised. almost 9 in 10 of them went to school in canada. 216 of these founders went to waterloo… and half of these companies were started in the US]
Australia; slowing 'working holiday' visa issuance; government migration reduction policy
Australia is slowing the issuance of new "working holiday" visas popular with backpackers as the government looks at policies to cut migration to the country
Distressed Indonesian property firm Modernland is seeking to restructure a dollar bond for a second time, highlighting liquidity challenges facing the builder of residential and industrial townships
Why Washington Is Reducing Pressure On North Korea Now. The decision to substantially reduce joint military exercises with South Korea is best understood as strategic triage, not simply cost cutting or personal diplomacy with Kim Jong Un. The United States is trying to reduce
Bitcoin was a way to turn local energy anywhere on Earth into value through computation. AI chips are far more efficient transducers of energy into value, and will replace crypto in this purpose.
Singapore new home sales: July rebound after >2-year low in prior month
Singapore home sales picked up in July after hitting a more than two-year low in the previous month, as fresh projects attracted buyers and the school holiday period came to an end
Abu Dhabi wealth fund L'imad is offering to buy out minority shareholders in the city's port operator valuing the firm at $8.66 billion, a move that could reverse the emirate's recent push to bring more strategic holdings to public markets
新加坡胜科工业旗下印度子公司Sembcorp Green Infra准备提交IPO申请,计划筹资最多5亿美元
Sembcorp Green Infra; India IPO filing; up to $500M raise
Singapore-based Sembcorp is preparing to file for an IPO of its Indian unit, Sembcorp Green Infra, that could raise as much as $500 million, according to sources
ETH, SOL, DOGE — all failed to break prior cycle ATH in current cycle; ETH $7,000–$7,200 next-cycle target questioned; cited reason: unlimited/uncapped supply
South Africa's financial regulators plan to finalize new rules requiring over-the-counter derivatives to be centrally cleared in the next two years to improve transparency and reduce risk
Steel production lowest annual total this decade; mills adjusting to much weaker demand
Chinese steel production tumbled last month, putting the industry on track for the lowest annual total this decade as mills adjust to much weaker demand
NT$10,000 ($314) per eligible resident; citing AI-driven economic growth
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te announced plans to distribute NT$10,000 ($314) in cash to eligible residents next year, citing the economy's blistering pace of growth thanks to booming global demand for AI
This is clearly true, but the sad update from the recent incidents is that the companies who should be excellent at this (monitoring, sandboxing, etc) aren't. The degree of incompetence demonstrated by OAI in the HuggingFace incident is proof enough of this claim.
Senior government officials are open to discussing a potential sale of Germany's 12.7% stake in Commerzbank to UniCredit if the two lenders can agree on a joint strategy
Steyr Motors; revenue and profit outlook cut; military order delays; shares slumped
Steyr Motors, a specialist maker of engines used in tanks and military boats, cut its revenue and profit outlook due to delays in orders. Shares slumped.
Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use AI-powered cameras to scan billions of vehicles each month, often without drivers ever realizing. Supporters say the technology is a tool for solving crimes. But critics warn it's creating a nationwide surveillance network.
Canva's own valuer cut more. $38.9bn became $31bn. Demand for the AI features exceeded expectations, and that was the problem. Every generated design arrives with a compute bill.
Yes Bank; dollar bond issuance; first since 2020 write-off of risky local note; arrangers hired
Yes Bank is returning to the bond market for the first time since the Indian private lender wrote off a risky local note in 2020, and has hired arrangers for a dollar issuance
Canada's durum, spring wheat, canola and pulse crops have been fighting an intense and expensive battle with widespread crop diseases provoked by the first wet year this decade.
"There will be no exceptions." David Reger, Neura Robotics CEO, tells Tom Mackenzie why he believes physical AI and robotics will take on "every physical task" within the next two to five years
Big Short investor Steve Eisman has said that the artificial intelligence boom has become increasingly dependent on the fortunes of just two companies: OpenAI and Anthropic, per CNBC
"The more I look at the AI cycle, the more I'm convinced it's less of a tech cycle and more of a real estate cycle," says J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Bill Eigen.
Antipathy to science is proving to be a hidden tax on the citizens of Texas, where the bond market is demanding a premium to buy the state's debt, says @Matthew_Winkler (via @opinion)
Alibaba launched the beta version of an artificial intelligence music-generation model that can turn a single text prompt into a fully produced song, expanding the Chinese technology giant's push into generative AI
AI diffusion in political campaigns is quite high (and it looks like Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon may have been good for its uptake among politicians, through it is impossible to establish a definitive cause for its rapid rise)
Widespread job displacement from AI-powered robots are 'still quite far away,' Dexory co-founder Oana Jinga says, telling @TomMackenzieTV and Guy Johnson the technology is not yet adaptable enough to switch easily between different types of work
Finland's President Alexander Stubb rejected the notion that the US is strong-arming NATO allies with a questionnaire gauging their support for President Donald Trump's policies
By making a government agency the arbiter of the truth, Claudia Sheinbaum's effort greenlights censorship. Journalists, writers, intellectuals and entrepreneurs are alarmed, writes @MaryAnastasiaOG
TETHER CEO PAOLO ARDOINO SAYS FIRM WILL BUILD BASIC AI APPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD THAT RUN ON CELL PHONES AIMS TO PREVENT WEALTH GAP FROM BECOMING AN INTELLIGENCE GAP
I look at this chart very differently than simply concluding Americans are having more fun. A record share of goods spending going toward hobbies could be telling us something deeper about how people are beginning to value their time. It does not necessarily mean households
A Venezuelan mogul who minted a fortune selling power turbines and pumping oil has emerged as the Trump administration's fixer for promoting "America First" deals for favored US companies
Sold $MSTR at NAV Increased fiat reserve which now is exactly half of notional $STRC That means 4.8BN of fiat cash earning 3.5% fiat cash is defeasing 4.8BN of $STRC preferred paying 12.63% fiat yield for a negative carry of 9.13% or 438MN negative carry per year
Onchain coverage lands on Solana. @NexusMutual opened protocol cover for @kamino, @JupiterExchange, @Raydium and @orca_so as their first listings outside EVM.
Pump's buyback position is finally back in profit. It moved above acquisition cost last week and now sits on a small unrealized gain. Before last week, it hadn't been profitable since October 2025. Overall, it has been underwater on 87% of days since the program began.
Canadian oil producers, burned by their hedging strategies as prices soared to multiyear highs, are following in the footsteps of US shale firms and steering clear of the practice.
The details emerging from the latest mortgage meltdown are full of warnings for what's ahead for the industry while July sales disappoint forecasts. We may be hunkered down, but importantly we must look ahead.
AI video creation platform @higgsfield has reached a valuation of $5.4B after its latest funding round. CEO @alexmashrabov discusses the business & its growth trajectory.
Serve Robotics announced a new partnership with Grubhub and an expansion of its collaboration with DoorDash, its latest moves following a fallout with former investor Uber.
Belmont University tapped Goldman Sachs for a margin loan this summer to raise cash, in a sign that even larger universities are facing budget strains.
The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
The tailwind for $ETH in the next few years is larger than those prior cycles of ICOs, NFTs - expect this ratio $ETH/$BTC to make a sizable move higher.
BitMine provided its latest holdings update for August 17, 2026: $11.4 billion in total crypto + "moonshots": 5,815,164 ETH at $1,893 per $ETH (per @coinbase); 209 Bitcoin (BTC); $180 million stake in Beast Industries @MrBeast; $73 million stake in Eightco.
Possible drivers of flow into BTC in next year or two: - Repricing of Saylor risk being pushed out - Quantum-proof push - General reflexivity off of low vol period - Deficit expansion/quasi YCC from vol stifling in fx - HNWI buying amidst rise of socialism.
'Why not do it now,' says Fmr. St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard of the central bank hiking interest rates. 'You don't want to wait until the economy is suffering.'
We've launched the first-ever marketplace of AI Agents for your portfolio. Deploy them immediately or customize them. Share agents you create—with anyone—to run or modify in their account. Also, no more waitlist. Agents are now available to all.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: 'Compute is really becoming the new oil, the new limited resource of the AI age'; CFTC: public comment on computing capacity derivatives
An insanely under-reported story. Wait until they find out private equity and credit firms have been buying insurance companies to feed their own products with policyholder cash.
Energy Sec. Wright: 'not fully back to full oil flow in Middle East'; 'continue to get better at escorting Hormuz traffic'; 'playing the long game' on Iran
Iran Parliament VP: Caspian Sea 'not open for negotiation'; strategic importance equals Strait of Hormuz + Persian Gulf + Sea of Oman; Caspian Convention sent to National Security Commission for review
Kushner-Netanyahu meeting: 'lengthy, in-depth, and very productive'; 'agreed on path forward'; 'Israelis are going to give this a chance'; Board of Peace Official
US' Kushner's meeting with Netanyahu was lengthy, in-depth, and very productive - Board of Peace Official. Board of Peace Official: We agreed with Netanyahu on a path forward. Israelis are going to give this a chance.
YouTube: views count from moment video begins playing; no minimum watch time; effective 8/24/2026; all formats (VOD, Shorts, Live); 'biggest change to partner program in a decade'
Too aggressive re Anthropic. Base case of $250 B '27 exit run rate (same size as MSFT & Meta) seems wild but achievable. $450 B (size of Apple & Google) seems too aggressive given compute & regulatory constraints. Margins also likely lumpy as big compute comes online.
Markets are bracing for a more volatile period ahead: S&P 500 options are pricing a daily implied move of ~0.75% on August 27th, the day after Nvidia, $NVDA, reports its quarterly earnings. The following day, August 28th, carries a ~0.70% implied move in the index
GOOG corpdev harvesting data from bankruptcy dustheaps [QT @BLaw: Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records from collapsed low-cost carrier Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., saying it plans to use the assets to improve its artificial intelligence.]
Here are the current top 5 best and worst performing stocks in the S&P 500 so far in 2026. Best: 🥇 Sandisk $SNDK +653% 🥈 $DELL +281% 🥉 Seagate $STX +262% 4 Micron $MU +257% 5 Western Digital $WDC +208%. Worst: 💩 Trade Desk $TTD -65% 2 Applovin $APP -54%
Disney $1.74B profit → $0 federal tax; CVS $1.38B; Tesla $1.19B; United Airlines $901M; Coinbase $340M; Palantir — all paid $0 federal income tax in fiscal 2025
Another win for corporations, another loss for Americans. Companies that paid $0 in federal income tax despite profiting billions in 2025: • Disney $DIS: $1.74B • CVS $CVS: $1.38B • Tesla $TSLA: $1.19B • United Airlines $UAL: $901M • Coinbase $COIN: $340M • Palantir $PLTR:
Three Wall Street giants used capital from the insurance industry to finance a large chunk of a $16 billion pipeline deal in Kuwait, a rare move for a Middle Eastern infrastructure transaction
Barclays is tapping new leaders for its investment bank, promoting global markets chief Adeel Khan and hiring Mike Joo, a dealmaker formerly at Bank of America
Over $2B traded on weekends since launching 24/7 crypto access on May 29. From retail to institutional investors, market participants are choosing our regulated marketplace to manage cryptocurrency risk around-the-clock.
Today we're announcing $280M in Series B funding at a $2B valuation, led by our long-time investor and partner, Menlo Ventures. When we announced our Series A last May, most conversations I had about voice began with someone explaining why they doubted it. I don't have those
No driver required. Bedrock Robotics CEO Boris Sofman shows how the startup can turn existing excavators and other heavy machinery into fully autonomous equipment, with the retrofit taking just a few hours on a construction site
About a dozen billionaire family offices have disclosed roughly $3.8B in SpaceX holdings. Bloomberg's Devon Pendleton explains why some of the world's wealthiest investors are making concentrated bets on SpaceX
Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies and a former national security aide to President George W. Bush, said Iranians feel they have "a lot of new leverage" they didn't have before the US and Israel launched strikes
The Trump Effect: "DHS and CBP announced 15 consecutive months of zero releases at the border, continuing the unprecedented trend of historically low border crossings."
Good lord [QT @Dr_AnnaLusardi: @Betterment's 2026 Retail Investor Survey: 26% of Gen Z investors treat sports betting as part of their long-term financial strategy. Our research shows bettors lose 7.5 cents per dollar wagered while expecting to break even. The line between investing and gambling deserves more]
On today's Big Take podcast, reporters @spencersoper and @josheidelson join @sarahsholder to discuss why New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is challenging the subcontractor model Amazon relies on for last-mile deliveries — and how the move could challenge corporate America's
The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 monitors to watch voting during the midterm elections in November, a historic figure for a Republican administration, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said
More than 113,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Hawaii on Monday after Storm Lala extensively damaged the state's electrical grid, with some customers potentially facing months without service
Rails AI代理基准新增Grok 4.6、GLM 5.3(3天前发布)、Gemini 3.7 Flash(4天前发布)、Claude Opus 4.8四款模型,四者均未能进入排行榜前列;Grok 4.6已追平GPT-Sol,Meta Muse接近Luna。
Grok 4.6, GLM 5.3 (released 3 days ago), Gemini 3.7 Flash (released 4 days ago), Claude Opus 4.8; none reached top of Rails benchmark; Grok 4.6 caught up to GPT-Sol
grounded tanker; Russian crude oil; protected marine area off Oman coast; salvage hampered by weather and operational challenges; Oman state news agency
Weather conditions and operational challenges were hampering salvage efforts for a grounded tanker that was leaking Russian crude oil in a protected marine area off Oman's coast, the sultanate's state news agency reported on Monday.
Bitcoin did not sell off because today was not a genuine dollar liquidity shock. The dollar weakened and markets reduced near term Fed tightening expectations, while the Treasury selloff was concentrated at the long end and reflected fiscal risk, heavy issuance and higher term