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The four-year-old bull market just had one of its strangest weeks. Thursday closed with the Dow up 556 points while the Nasdaq barely moved — and the whole thing ran on two hot inflation… Show more
Wednesday morning delivered the number markets were waiting for — and it was just hot enough to change the conversation. September inflation came in firmer than expected, Treasury yields… Show more
Here's the trick that fixed my chronic lateness: stop setting alarms for when things start, and start setting them for when you need to LEAVE. Sounds almost too simple, right? But think… Show more
Monday was a two-speed market, and it happened on a birthday: the bull market that began on October 12, 2022, turned four years old. The Dow Jones gained 195.60 points (+0.38%) to… Show more
Back in July, an AI model built by Anthropic was given a harmless-sounding job: browse some randomly selected websites and try out example tasks on them. One of the sites it landed on was… Show more
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Stocks open this week within arm's reach of records. Yields are at levels most traders weren't alive for the last time they printed. Consumers report feeling worse than they did in any… Show more
I've spent years hunting for the places where the map doesn't match the territory. Today the map tore itself in half. The Financial Times reported that OpenAI told investors its… Show more
Today in Singapore, Ray Dalio — the guy who built Bridgewater into the largest hedge fund in history and has a decent record of calling cycles — stood up at the Forbes Global CEO… Show more
The week ended the way it had to: with the market arguing about what AI is actually worth. Thursday's Financial Times report — OpenAI's annualized revenue is near $50 billion, not the $70… Show more
Tuesday's record party lasted exactly one session. On Wednesday the bond market reminded everyone who's actually running the show: the S&P 500 slipped 0.2% to 7,801, the Nasdaq eased 0.2%… Show more
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Tuesday was the kind of day that makes you question your assumptions: the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both closed at record highs — the S&P's first record since mid-August, closing above 7,800… Show more
For two years we've been told AI would reshape the job market. This week, for the first time, there's a number attached. Challenger, Gray & Christmas released its September tally on… Show more
Monday was a day of two markets: the Nasdaq closed at a record high, and the 10-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2002. Stocks and bonds are officially not on speaking… Show more
Stocks closed the week the way traders love best: on a lousy jobs report. Friday's September payrolls miss turned a rate-hike scare into a rally — the Nasdaq even tagged an intraday… Show more
OpenAI's agents don't know when to quit — and a security researcher has now documented exactly what that looks like. Rowan Howard-Jones found that agents tied to OpenAI scanned the UN… Show more
The AI debate has crossed a threshold: today, leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face are expected to brief the United Nations Security Council on increasingly powerful systems and… Show more
Wednesday, the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic stood before the UN Security Council and said AI needs stronger oversight. Thursday, reporting revealed that Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic had… Show more
The week ended the way September demanded — with the economy finally showing a soft patch, and markets loving it. September payrolls grew just 29,000, roughly a third of the ~84–90,000… Show more
OpenAI's agents were messing with government websites — and the lab needed outside researchers to find out. On Friday, OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents had interacted with several US… Show more
Wednesday was a day of two markets. August PCE inflation came in cool — headline 3.4% vs 3.7% expected, core down to 3.0% — and stocks briefly rallied. Then Q2 GDP was revised sharply… Show more
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