Confused about Nvidia's deal with OpenAI? Let Alphaville help you out. www.ft.com/content/7f14...

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

Also worth noting that it's not taken a sudden drop in the value of Bitcoin to get here. BTC down just 3% in last 2 months.

Raising capital to buy shares, selling themselves. Bitcoin treasury CEOs realise the game is up and the air fast leaking out of this balloon. www.ft.com/content/573b...

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Where will OpenAI find the cash to buy Nvidia chips" (it doesn't have $100m?) Oh yeah Nvidia will invest it. First data centre by H2 2026. And where does Open AI get the money to pay Oracle? Silicon Valley getting desperate to keep the gigabet going. www.ft.com/content/d3ca...

Two weeks ago...and today. Like Kenny Loggins, Semler was on the highway to the Danger Zone.

Liberal use of the word 'exclusive' here; you may have read a fair number of the details in the FT 11 days ago www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

@costasmourselas.bsky.social finds a way to get everyone at the FT to read his story. www.ft.com/content/4e56...

@jemima.bsky.social delivers a wicked column. Donald Trump's adventures in Windsorland on.ft.com/4nbU45u

Shortly to be the His and Hers Party

'Arguably' doing a fair amount of work here

In an interview with the FT, Eric Trump played down the financial benefits to the family from its crypto interests and defended the launch of the $MELANIA and $TRUMP memecoins earlier this year as a bit of 'fun' on.ft.com/46JWYbK

Shares up 28% pre market - any shorts are going to be toast www.ft.com/content/be8d...

100x leverage - sure, why not. It's not like any regulator is going to seriously query it at the moment. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very comprehensive post and thread about the implications of the leadership vacuum at the regulator. Plus a reminder of the big difference between SEC and CFTC definitions of insider trading.

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

And we take another step down the road that will lead to one inevitable result www.theblock.co/post/370929/...

US: "We would like you to align with our rules and exempt our companies from your rules" UK: "Sure, we're in alignment"

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

"We probably don’t need to remind anyone that OpenAI doesn’t have $300bn" www.ft.com/content/8689...

"..things can go down as well [as tumble]"

I do not think for one that the problem was that the band was down www.ft.com/content/1211...

The joy of private equity: Tankers take water from a hosepipe ban area to fill up a US billionaire's lake www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It seems pretty clear what they were after. www.ft.com/content/e3fa...

🚨 New: "Eric Trump Removed From Board Role After Firm Consults Nasdaq" me, for @forbes.com 1/

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

They don't ring a bell at the top of the market but here's a corrugated packaging company whose shares are up 5,000% on a plan to buy Sam Altman-backed eyeball-scanning crypto tokens and appoint Dan Ives as its chair - on.ft.com/47AHtE4

What you won't read on the BBC's fawning write up of Reform conference - who was spending money to sponsor it. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...

Useful to know

Nasdaq to tighten rules on small stocks after suspected ‘pump and dump’ scams on.ft.com/4njn5vL

Indeed: the college boys are smart enough not to get involved in the bottomless money pit that is bitcoin mining. New crypto venture backed by Trump sons surges in market debut www.ft.com/content/9b44...

If you're interested in following the Farage speech, it's streaming live on the front of FT.com

Very nice piece on why memory chips, the unglamorous corner of the chip market, are having a moment in the sun. www.ft.com/content/f3ee...

I'll bet they're not. A cracking tale on a failed trip aimed at insufferable people. Crypto scandal sinks Russian elite’s $8.5mn polar party cruise www.ft.com/content/2ec3...

* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com

Aside from the dubiousness of giving a black box AI access to all sorts of personal data, this sounds like another way to further degrade the consumer experience on the internet. www.ft.com/content/6d95...

Awful story, again ChatGPT at the centre of it. The cost of a 'growth at any cost' SV culture. A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Great @dsquareddigest.bsky.social piece here, neatly articulating why Too Big To Fail may always be with us. www.ft.com/content/748a...

“Unfortunately, these emails indicate an exit date for some of our colleagues before we’ve been able to share their outcome with them," www.ft.com/content/590e...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

The more I think about this, the more my head hurts.

Sigh. Data subject to frequent revisions, meet immutable record. www.theblock.co/post/368383/...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time theonion.com/sam-alt...

Oh my god

"New offer: A free Telegraph and half-price giant Dairy Milk with every share purchase" www.ft.com/content/00a4...