Delivery day at our Microsoft DCs as the first production Vera Rubins arrive. A huge thank you to our partners at @nvidia and our Azure hardware and datacenter teams for all the incredible work that brought us to this milestone!
Tesla and eight other automakers will recall about 4.3 million vehicles in China over concerns that doors may be difficult to open in an emergency, marking the country's largest automotive recall
China's economy is struggling: China's industrial production rose +4.5% YoY in July, but posted its first monthly slowdown in 3 months. At the same time, retail sales grew just +0.6% YoY, the 3rd-lowest reading in at least 18 months.
The Pentagon on Friday fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes and a top reporter for insubordination after they spoke publicly against any interference by the Defense Department in the military news outlet that has a long history of editorial independence.
America's military uses the world's most advanced and sought-after weapons. But months of war with Iran have diminished the stockpile, limiting the U.S.' options and ability to defend global allies. The Pentagon's budget this year is more than $800 billion.
The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. hit a roadblock after California's attorney general sued to stop it. That move was followed by Paramount CEO David Ellison threatening to take his operations out of California.
The Israeli military bombed an airbase in Syria, far from the Israeli border, sparking condemnation not only from Syria, but also from Turkey and the Trump administration.
Massive candle [QT @coinbureau: 🚨BULLISH: Ethereum crosses $2,500 for the first time since March after surging 30% in five days. $ETH is up another 9% today. It spent most of August stuck below $2,000. The Aug 19 move was a 20% single-day surge, its largest since May 2025. Spot ETH ETFs pulled in over $500
BREAKING: Trade talks between the US and Canada have collapsed and the US has imposed new 50% tariffs on billions of dollars of Canadian goods. Details include: 1. Canada's Prime Minister Carney vows to retaliate with "dollar for dollar" tariffs on the US 2. The tariffs will
ChatGPT has 1 billion weekly users. Ads reach the free ones. OpenAI spent 6 months adding 8 markets after February, and is adding 31 European countries in a single step next week.
Vingroup is among over 100 Vietnamese companies added to FTSE Russell's Global Equity Indexes late Friday, marking a key step in the country's long-awaited transition from frontier to secondary emerging market status
During four decades in Italian finance, Luigi Lovaglio has seen it all. But his latest pitch is bold even by the standards of this veteran banker: a twin takeover worth about €34 billion ($40 billion).
Niger granted a large-scale uranium-mining permit previously held by French nuclear company Orano SA to a state-controlled entity, cementing the military junta's takeover of the Somaïr mine
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson canceled a campaign speech for next month's general election after a sword attack at a school left a 17-year-old girl dead and three others injured
We created the Chinese GPU business overnight with our own stupidity. I'd say some basic game theory understanding would help our hawks but nothing can help our hawks. They think they know something, organize their entire belief structures around it and then create their own
Donald Trump is betting new sanctions, a naval blockade and ramped-up economic pressure can accomplish what thousands of bombs and missiles could not: force Tehran to accept a deal to end the war on US terms.
The crypto market situation is strange. Between May 1st and August 19th, for 110-straight days, the crypto market was effectively frozen. This week, on the same day of President Trump's "Crypto Summit," that completely changed. Beginning at 8:30 AM on August 19th, crypto began
This has arguably been one of the most consequential 20-day periods of America's history. Two interventions to save the Treasury market. Both failed. We may look back on this as America's emerging-market moment. None of us own enough hard assets.
A successful trial of an mRNA-based melanoma vaccine signals a second act for a technology that encountered widespread skepticism during the Covid pandemic. Here's what the findings might mean for cancer treatment
Residents blocked 75 projects. $130bn stopped in 3 months. Michigan residents organised against one site before the developer was even named, and Microsoft then revealed it was theirs.
Canada counter-tariffs effective Sept. 8; sectors: steel, dairy, autos; US sought to cap Canada's 3rd-party trade deal capacity; Canada offered to drop counter-tariffs on steel/aluminum/autos
Q: Was Howard Lutnick's involvement in the last days an impediment to getting a deal? Carney: It's a question for the US administration. But I will say this, the Canadian team, unified, everyone knows what our objectives are. You cannot say that about the US administration.
BREAKING: Bitcoin ETFs attracted +$507 million in inflows on Thursday, the largest daily intake since the first week of May. This also marks the 3rd consecutive daily inflow. The largest Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, led Thursday's demand, attracting +$285 million, or 56% of the total.
New sectors: appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp & paper, electronics; Howard Lutnick named as impediment; Canada had offered to drop counter-tariffs on steel/aluminum/autos before collapse
Q: Was Howard Lutnick's involvement in the last days an impediment to getting a deal? Carney: It's a question for the US administration. But I will say this, the Canadian team, unified, everyone knows what our objectives are. You cannot say that about the US administration.
This week, the largest joint US–South Korean military exercises on the peninsula ended nearly a week early, after Pres. Trump said they sent the wrong message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, is hiking prices of many servers containing its AI chips by more than 15% as memory costs soar, per Bloomberg. The price hikes will go into effect on systems shipped early next year and will include those with the flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell
Breaking: President Trump has disclosed more than 1,000 trades in June totaling up to $263M Recent purchases include: • Visa, $V, Berkshire Hathaway, $BRK.B, Mastercard, $MA, and Cintas, $CTAS
Global appetite for risk is through the roof: The investor sentiment gauge rose +0.8 points in August, to 8.0, the 3rd-highest reading since 2022, according to a BofA survey of 180 participants overseeing $525 billion in assets. The index tracks global fund manager growth
Orange man when answering about intervention in the bond market suggested the ultimate intervention is the military. Can the armed forces save the long end?
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva maintained his lead over right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Brazil's October election, a new poll found
The Trump administration this week proposed opening nearly 45 million acres of national forest land to roads and logging as part of its broader push to boost timber production. The announcement comes as a yearlong investigation reveals how California forests are already being
Zcash now over $700. Those of you in the old school who believe this is a bubble simply have not understood the new mathematics of the Blockchain, or you did not cared enough to try. Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm. So are corrections and all else.
This is a great real-world example of AI-assisted coding: Linus Torvalds just fixed a nasty Linux kernel GPU bug with substantial help from AI. The bug caused part of Intel Xe GPU compression metadata storage to be incorrectly exposed as usable VRAM, resulting in corrupted page
President Trump was ahead of the curve requiring AI companies to build their own power generation so new data centers don't raise electricity prices for residential ratepayers. Done right, data centers actually lower prices by producing excess power and funding grid upgrades.
JUST IN: U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to step down by end of the year after "months of tension" with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. — WSJ
Singapore vs Hong Kong; race to cut taxes impacting professional investors; fund manager talent retention
How low can Singapore and Hong Kong go? The rival finance hubs are in a race to cut taxes that impact professional investors, as they fight to retain the brightest minds in money management.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs; no criminal charges filed; pay-to-play allegation; $100,000 inaugural donation; group home rate increase
State prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs over allegations that she took part in a pay-to-play scheme with a group home company that received a rate increase from the state after contributing $100,000 to her inaugural celebration.
JUST IN: YC startup Meteoric launches drones designed to disperse clouds over solar farms, claiming they can boost annual power output by up to 30% without chemicals.
Do government unions have a vested interest in saddling students with more debt? So they argue in a new and revealing lawsuit against new graduate loan limits.
A confidential prospectus does not lock Anthropic into a specific timeframe, but the official prospectus must land with investors at least 15 days before the roadshow begins.
from here, higher TradeXYZ fees do not create an automatic HYPE bid. under HIP-3, TradeXYZ keeps part of its market fees and chose to move $3.25m into spot for a 59k HYPE target. the Assistance Fund handles Hyperliquid's automatic buys and burns, and HIP-3 does not require
Sugar futures in New York were headed for the biggest weekly gain since May 2025 amid tight supplies in India and volatility fueled by demand uncertainty, physical supplies and the prospect of Brazilian mills directing more cane to produce the sweetener
India's biggest utilities plan to rely on locally-designed large nuclear reactors to fast-track projects in a sector plagued by delays and cost overruns.
160,000+ students signed up; Ditto AI dating startup; auto-match + fully planned date itinerary
JUST IN: AI dating startup Ditto reveals 160,000+ students have signed up for its app that automatically picks their match & sends them a fully planned date itinerary.
Rising youth unemployment in India has sparked the student-led "cockroach" movement, which has managed to oust a cabinet minister while presenting a growing challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
If usage of stealth models is free, then returning (true) token count seems unnecessary. They must be aware that it can be used to deanon with reasonable confidence, so I put this behavior in the same bucket as reckless driving => i dislike OR folks.
A bilateral defense pact signed early this year allowing Japan and the Philippines to exchange supplies and services for joint exercises or crises has come into force, as tensions with China rise
crypto will hit a local top at some point maybe even now but imo, looking forward, what's important is the nature of the move high volume, extremely aggressive buying, extraordinary breadth after being dead for so long, this is a clear signal of a regime shift dips are for
Most of the cattle tend to forget that back in 2022 the US10YR benchmark yield formed a symmetrical triangle similar to today's...only 10 times smaller. The breakout came early that year, and what we witnessed was a near vertical rise in the 10-year.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un has seen a $22 billion windfall that's enriching his regime despite sweeping global sanctions. So how did he do it and why is a richer North Korea a concern for the world?
Joby Aviation posted this last week: "N541JX logged 1 hour and 58 minutes, a new single-day record for our electric air taxi. Add N542JX and it was the most flight time in a single day for our all-electric fleet."
Trump isn't just saying he will reduce tariffs on beef imports, he's setting the price (25% below market), specifying the product (ground beef) and controlling the quantity (300 tons). It's central planning, but it won't incentivize US ranchers to expand.
Treasury announced a bigger "debt buyback" this week. What happened next? Bitcoin +19%. Gold +6%. Dollar -1%. What this means: More deficits. More debt. More money printing. Washington won't get its fiscal house in order, so investors are buying alternatives to the Dollar.
Russia is currently seeing gasoline supply issues while stocks of diesel and jet fuel to the domestic market are sufficient, Interfax reported, citing Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak
The fallout from artificial intelligence in terms of employment is "insignificant," though the effect is showing up in weaker wage growth, according to Apollo's Torsten Slok
South Korea Shinhan Bank + Solana Foundation + Etherfuse + Orca tokenized fund issuance; Securitize + Neuberger Berman new tokenized fixed income fund; both announced week of 8/14–8/21
THIS WEEK IN MEDIA - 8/14-8/21 Read Securitize and Neuberger Launch New Tokenized Fixed Income Fund The Block: South Korea's Shinhan Partners With Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, Orca for Tokenized Fund Issuance CryptoNews: Solana
Russia's government is planning a series of measures to support grain producers, include crop procurement, preferential loan extensions and sales subsidies, Interfax reported, citing Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut.
"You know, they gave us the worst inflation in 48 years, in history as far as I'm concerned. And I've already solved that." - President Trump (August 21, 2026)
Frontier labs argue distillation threatens R&D and US national security. Open-weights proponents counter that diffusion is essential to competition and innovation. Both believe theirs is the only safe path. Luckily, the economics is loyal to neither.
"Gov. Gavin Newsom heaped praise on President Donald Trump's popular 'Trump Accounts' that give free money to American kids — calling the policy one of the 'best things' the President has ever done."
🔴ELIMINATED: Sharif al-Hasanat, a company commander in Hamas. Throughout the war, he took part in leading efforts to restore Hamas' underground infrastructure & recently continued to advance terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians. He posed an immediate threat
"Fentanyl-linked deaths plunged 22% in a single year as the Trump White House credits its border crackdown, campaign against drug cartels and arrests of convicted fentanyl traffickers for helping drive down the deadly toll."
Hungary will restart the first of three nuclear reactors it was forced to shut down due to the record low level of the Danube river, as the country looks to recover from an unprecedented energy crisis.
FreeToken could be a HUGE deal for local AI. Instead of requiring enough VRAM to hold an entire model, FreeToken intelligently uses your GPU, CPU and system RAM together, dynamically moving MoE experts where they're needed. The result: an ordinary laptop with an 8GB RTX 4060
Gigasat Factory will expand the existing Starlink operation in Bastrop County. AI1 data center in space satellites. Starlink is on track to make 300k terminals a week by year end. That rate must go far higher for Starlink to meet its revenue numbers. Go big or go home.
Carney: 'You're at war when you're attacked, and we got attacked'; Ottawa press conference; 50% US tariffs on ~$20B Canadian goods; Canada counter-tariffs effective Sept. 8
President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said.
"I'm told the CIA does have a recruiting problem at the moment, but that may be because there has recently- I think, rather shockingly- been a purge of senior officers on the basis of their degree of loyalty to MAGA republicanism," Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6
Lower birth rates translates to fewer kids going to college down the line, and now schools are grappling with the demographic changes. "it's one percent decline one year and another 0.7% decline the next year, but it adds up," says @CarletonCollege Economics Professor Nathan
WWW token; Eric Trump disavowal; affiliation claims called 'fraudulent'; Robinhood Chain open third-party deployment; official TRUMP site contract listing
from here, Eric Trump's account disavowed WWW and called affiliation claims fraudulent, so the token should lose any premium tied to Trump-family backing. third parties can deploy on Robinhood Chain without Robinhood approval, and the official TRUMP site lists contracts only on
A Republican lawmaker questioned President Donald Trump's decision to cut short a joint military exercise with South Korea, saying the US should show more allegiance to a longtime Asian ally.
JUST IN: 1 y/o migrant appears in AZ immigration court without a lawyer & is reportedly told to file an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.
President Donald Trump said he has presided over "the essential denuclearization of Iran." But Iran likely still has materials and machinery that can be used to make nuclear weapons, undercutting Trump's claim. (via @PolitiFact)