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Hiring Israeli corporate spooks was all in a day’s work for a Microsoft-backed AI firm
QTful ones
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Finally, news you can use (in Brazil)
Kicking the tyres of buy-now-pay-later
Could the GENIUS Act succeed where regulators failed?
An AI darling faces its dusky interregnum
The City gets road rage
Rolling in the deep
Every day we stray further from God’s light
Dedicated to their X
Cowboy Charter
China; centrism; tacoism; financial exchange archaeology; hard sums; slaughterhouses; and newts
Section 899; Nimbyism; Doge; demographics; housing; ketamine; medicine men; and AI guys
AI; overnight returns; basic capital; basis trades; Japanese debt; feudalism; anarchist property development; and AI
Shares in a traditional Chinese medicine company pop, uh, 15,000 per cent
SOFR? I hardly knew her
AA XXX; rule of law; private credit; home bias; AI and copyright; immigration; and animal cloning
Call of QT: Bank ops
Please, just stop chasing trophy IPOs
Teed up
Pretend work; bad lawyers; OpenAI; automated war; memories; and otters
NatWest is no longer a ward of the state, but the UK’s GFC-era moral crusade has had enduring effects
He Would Have Graphed
If you want to be the boss, it helps to have mild cognitive impairment from prenatal exposure to toxic waste
Longer lives; stablecoins; investor types; computers; Fake My Run; trading; the US dollar; and shorter lives
Be the boss; pay no costs
Acróstica? We hardly even…
Defence tech; Waffle House; AI movies; Tories; GEO; corporate speech; Anthropic; English majors; and OpenAI
‘This is a sensitive trade-off that has not always been well managed in the banking industry’
The lawful good to chaotic evil of assets vs liabilities
Ground zero for the global duration dump
Well, kinda, maybe, maybe not
Rubbish; Uno; schools; birthdays; US Marines x Skynet; hobby computers; and cod
Good regulation 🤝 free caffeination
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