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Crypto people finally got Apple, Amazon and index funds one tap away. They bought Marvell, Micron, Nokia and DRAM instead. Really smart approach if you ask me.

DeepSeek charges $0.42 per million tokens. Claude Opus charges $75.
The SWE-Bench scores: 80.2% vs 80.8%.
Explains a lot.

For twenty years the U.S. Navy paid a Malaysian contractor to feed and fuel its warships across Asia. He overcharged them $35 MILLION and bought their classified secrets with Kobe beef, prostitutes, and Spanish suckling pig.
Leonard Glenn Francis ran Glenn Defense Marine Asia, a Singapore firm that resupplied U.S. ships in foreign ports.
He was six foot three and weighed 350 pounds. Everyone called him Fat Leonard. He did not mind.
For more than two decades he was the main contact for the U.S. Seventh Fleet at ports from Thailand to the Philippines.
The job was simple. Supply water, fuel, and

The UAE walked out of OPEC during the war and Brent still cratered to $79. A cartel that can't hold $80 with a Middle East conflict raging isn't a cartel anymore. The floor is gone and so is its grip.

The Fed did nothing through all of it and was right.

GM guys! Have an amazing Friday 🙌🏻

The best frontend coding model you can actually run is now Chinese.
Look at the board. Number one is Claude Fable 5. Read the footnote. It isn't being sampled. You can't run it, price it, or test it. It's a number doing marketing.
Number two is GLM-5.2. Open weight. Chinese lab. Sitting above every shipping version of Claude Opus.
Strip out the model nobody can touch, and the most capable coding model on earth is one you can download for free.
Five Chinese models sit in the top thirteen.
The gap between the best open model and the best one you can buy didn't shrink. It went negative.
The techn

March 2020. November 2022. June 2026. Three times Bitcoin fell to this exact band. The first two minted generational money for anyone who didn't flinch. Did you buy then? Are you buying now?

A finance worker got an email he thought was a scam. So he asked to confirm it on a video call. The CFO showed up. So did his colleagues. Every face was fake. He wired $25.6 MILLION.
Arup is a British engineering firm. It designed the Sydney Opera House and Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium. 18,500 employees. 34 offices.
In January 2024, a finance worker in its Hong Kong office received an email.
It claimed to be from the company's chief financial officer in the UK. It asked him to arrange a confidential transaction.
He thought it was phishing. He was right.
So he did the careful thing. He asked t

🛢️ JUST IN: US gas prices fall below $4 per gallon.

⚡️ NVIDIA improved energy per token by 420,000x since 2013.