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The U.S. Treasury Is Buying Back Its Own Debt at a Pace It Has Not Tried Before
Washington is executing a $6 billion buyback of its own debt tomorrow, pushing total repurchases to nearly $10 billion in a single week. F...
An 18-Year-Old Built a Claude Agent and Sold It to Anthropic for $3.2 Million
One of the quietst signs that AI's talent curve has broken is that an 18-year-old developer used Claude's Opus-class model to buil...
OpenAI Unleashed GPT-6's 'Intelligent UI,' and ChatGPT Just Became an App Factory
OpenAI rolled out a new generation of answers that stop being text and start being products: movable charts, buttons, calculators and even...
Pudgy Penguins' Chain Will Go Dark With $48 Million Still Bridged In
Abstract, the Ethereum layer 2 that Igloo Inc. built to put Pudgy Penguins' mass-market playbook onchain, will shut down December 15. ...
The CFTC Wrote a Crypto Rule That Platforms Can Ignore and Spot Still Escapes
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on October 5 floated its first crypto-specific market framework. It is an advanced notice, not a ...
Google Is Paying to Squeeze 890 Megawatts Out of Reactors Already Running
Alphabet will buy 890 megawatts of new nuclear capacity that will not come from a new plant. It will come from turbines, steam generators,...
The S&P Set a Record With Oil at $100 and the Fed Still Hiking
The S&P 500 closed at 7,818.95 on Tuesday, its first record since August. Brent was still near $100. The 10-year yield was still near ...
Google Is Pulling Gemini Pro Off the Free Plan — and Off the $5 Plan Too
Starting October 9, unpaid Gemini users will get only Flash-Lite. The $4.99 Google AI Plus plan keeps Flash but loses Pro. The model that ...
Mistral's Trillion-Parameter Model Is Built for the Work Claude Refuses
Mistral put a 1-trillion-parameter model into public preview on October 6 and nicknamed it Le Chonk. The selling point is not the count. I...
The IMF Sent El Salvador $138 Million After Waiving the Bitcoin Rule
The International Monetary Fund’s board completed the second and third reviews of El Salvador’s $1.4 billion loan and released about $138 ...
The SEC Cleared 3x Bitcoin Funds to List. It Did Not Clear Them to Trade.
On October 2 the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a Cboe BZX rule change that lets a suite of triple-leveraged commodity funds ...
Nike Beat on Profit. The Guidance Still Cut the Year Nearly in Half.
Nike reported $0.48 a share for the quarter ended August 31, four cents above Wall Street, and still sent the stock down 3.6 percent on Fr...