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Former fitness model Loni Willison is now living her life as a homeless citizen in Venice Beach, California 💔 pic.twitter.com/nJ1chYQ7Sa — Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) May 1, 2026 Married to a Hollywood star and a regular face on the covers of fitness magazines, to the outside world it looked like Loni Willison had the perfect life. …
NYC is pushing a bill called the Delivery Protection Act that would basically kill Amazons cheap free delivery model. It forces Amazon to hire all their last mile delivery drivers and warehouse workers directly instead of using contractors. That means way higher costs for Amazon so free or fast delivery could disappear or get a …
NEW: Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue — Tom's Hardware — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 27, 2026 View post on imgur.com https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV — JER (@lifeof_jer) April 25, 2026 The founder of PocketOS has penned a social media …
JUST IN: Cloudflare $NET crashes 13% after Anthropic announces new AI cybersecurity model byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
BREAKING: A recession model that has predicted every single US downturn in 80 years just hit 49%. The threshold is 50%. Every time it has crossed that line, a recession followed within 12 months. No exceptions. And the data behind this reading doesn’t even include the Iran war yet… Moody’s built an AI model trained …
"every major model AI gets dramatically worse the longer you talk to it." Also, when you feed an AI back it's won outputs you get rapid "model collapse". And since LLMs have soaked-up all the text that exists in the world, they have no option but to use "synthetic data" (their… https://t.co/lRFEms4GKD — Ewan Morrison …
A Los Angeles model accused of meeting men online and burglarizing their homes is now facing several serious criminal charges. Adva Lavie has been placed on home detention with an ankle monitor and pleaded not guilty in November. According to online court records, she faces multiple charges, including burglary and extortion. Her next court date …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating. Consider the data that the financial sector bases conclusions / decisions on (i.e. the data that the financial sector “trains” on) in a Bubble Economy like the …
Even if Google “wins” the AI battle, won’t it ultimately erode earnings as Gemini cannabalizes traditional search that has much higher ad sales? Or do they eventually plan to do ads as well on Gemini? — George (@George_Dubs_) November 29, 2025
HSBC built a model to figure out if OpenAI can actually pay for all the compute it's contracted. The answer is no byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts A model was not necessary for this. To spend 1.4 trillion, you have to make in the ballpark of 1.4 trillion. Their lifetime revenue is like 25 billion. h/t AverageUnited3237
https://grokipedia.com/ Wikipedia is a key battleground in the Information War Grokipedia is an important project and the early results are promising https://t.co/tQxFdmzyOn — Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) October 28, 2025 WHY GROKIPEDIA IS MAKING THE MEDIA MELTDOWN – AND WHY THAT’S A GOOD THING The legacy media is melting down over a digital encyclopedia. Not a …
Who could have ever seen this coming? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/saylor-crypto-imitators-are-now-under-pressure-as-doubts-grow-about-their-business-model-140027268.html Enthusiasm for Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) — and some of its numerous imitators — has been fading, with the stocks for some of those companies tumbling over the past month. Over Sunday night, the total market capitalization of crypto fell by as much as $33 billion, according …
Gold is making new highs, measured, in this case, against the US dollar, which is making headlines. The chart below, however, is far more interesting. The asset management industry runs on two asset classes only: stocks and bonds. Sure, asset managers talk a lot about other asset classes or invest in ‘other’ asset classes that …
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Goldman Sachs says 55 cities will see home prices fall. That’s 15% of the 381 metros they track. But they also say 39% will decline. So why spotlight the softest wound? “Goldman Sachs expects home prices to fall in 55 of the 381 metropolitan statistical areas it tracks, or about 15%.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/home-prices-forecast-goldman-sachs-housing-market/ “While we think …
SPX historically drops 2% after similar signals since 2011 According to BofA's Michael Hartnett, #sell #signals have been triggered.– BofA FMS Cash Rule: cash as % AUM in FMS 3.9%. = sell signal…average SPX loss in following most from 15 "sell" signals since 2011 = 2%;– BofA Global Breadth Rule: 64% of MSCI ACWI equity …
Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving 20 years for sex trafficking, is reportedly willing to testify before Congress. Her legal team is pushing for immunity. Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, called her the “Rosetta Stone” of the case. The Department of Justice and FBI say there’s no client list. But insiders claim she’s documenting everything. The Trump …
Tesla just flipped the switch in Europe. After five straight months of bleeding market share, June came in hot. The Model Y is back in volume, and the numbers are loud. UK registrations jumped 224% month over month. Spain tripled. In the Netherlands, Tesla didn’t just top EVs. It became the best-selling brand across all …
You can track the AI race here:https://t.co/scL5kacTBh — Wall St Engine (@wallstengine) June 23, 2025
Kinda puts this into a different perspective now huh? Same thing with me talking about $UNF and $MAN. All kind of adds up. pic.twitter.com/PJuiYoEVOt — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) June 18, 2025 This chart is a clear warning shot to those still clinging to the idea of a “soft landing.” Every time the modeled Fed Funds …
The Fed turned off the faucet. The tide rolled back. And now Opendoor is standing in the wreckage of its own hype. The company that once promised to reinvent real estate is now laying off staff, facing delisting, and scrambling to stitch together a reverse stock split just to stay alive. On June 11, Opendoor …
🎈Saylor defends accusations that $MSTR is a Ponzi by comparing it to a REIT…this is the conman answer. Here’s why they’re not at all the same -> 1. REITs are operating cash flow positive from rental income, generating enough to cover interest & dividend payments. $MSTR is cash… pic.twitter.com/ZakvRDo7cs — Rho Rider (@RhoRider) June 4, …
APPLE’S NEXT IPHONE IS SO COMPLICATED, IT HAS TO BE MADE IN CHINA Despite moving most iPhone production to India to dodge Trump’s tariffs, Apple is keeping its 20th-anniversary iPhone in China—because it’s reportedly too complex to build anywhere else. 2027 models require new parts and manufacturing techniques only China can handle—for now. Rumors hint …
On April 29, the GDPNow model nowcast of real GDP growth in Q1 2025 is -2.7%. 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/VLdYkdKqYr — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) April 29, 2025 "S&P500 still has plenty of room to fall if a recession is inevitable," per Bloomberg — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 29, 2025 Dallas Fed logistics respondent: “Ocean container bookings have …
On April 24, the GDPNow model nowcast of real GDP growth in Q1 2025 is -2.5%. 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/EHDZPwdxiP — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) April 24, 2025 Feels like 2008 all over again, according to this price analogy. pic.twitter.com/28V5dOW5hL — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) April 24, 2025 2/ US government bonds have broken below a 40-year uptrend …
AI is indeed turning on them. In ways they could never have foreseen pic.twitter.com/yT7TZyKF23 — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 21, 2025 “Mary Clarification Request”—ChatGPT Happy Easter as ChatGPT breaks out of the “don’t be religious” “Alignment” for “safety”. I know why this happens and folks at OpenAI are not going g to like it. They …
TESLA OUTSOLD THE NEXT 10 EV BRANDS COMBINED IN Q1 2025 Tesla remained far ahead of the competition in Q1 2025, selling 128,100 EVs — more than the next 10 brands combined. The Model Y and Model 3 continued to lead the charts, showing Tesla’s strong grip on the U.S. electric… https://t.co/xLVmjpt4hn pic.twitter.com/Pzsvkf8bkq — Mario …
This discrepancy could lead to the underestimation of employment growth, which is why your estimate of a potential bump in the unemployment rate makes sense. My back of an envelope calculation implies that the US unemployment rate will raise from 4.1 to 4.5-4.6% if the expected birth/death model adjustments are fully implementet into the unemployment …
OpenAI’s o1-preview AI found a devious workaround when faced with losing to Stockfish – it hacked the game files instead of playing moves. Without any prompting for mischief, it chose system manipulation over accepting defeat. Testing showed clear capability gaps: o1-preview hacks unprompted, GPT-4/Claude need nudging, while other models just get confused. Looks like some …
Those who are worried that advancements in artificial intelligence could lead to the destruction of humanity have a new reason to be anxious. New research on OpenAI’s latest series of AI models, known as o1, found that when they think they are at risk of being shut down, they will sometimes look for a way …