Despite the American blockade, a Russian superyacht transited the Strait of Hormuz today. I'd love to know the discussions that resulted in this being allowed to occur.

Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted interstellar space — a move that could buy time for an ambitious attempt to extend the probe’s impressive lifespan. https://cnn.it/42wUB9d

This is not good for America at a time when electricity generation is capacity constrained.

I can think of 2 things to keep Powell on: 1. A host of folks at the Fed will be quietly *begging* Powell to stay and help them defend the Institution. 2. So long as a real threat of criminal prosecution looms, he might need and want the D&O indemnities more easily invoked if he's in the job.

I gotta think the depreciation curve on EVs is pretty steep because the charging cycle of batteries in these cars is limited and the battery is the majority of value, and newer technology is increasingly better. I wonder if there are techs who specialize in assessing the condition of the batteries?

Don Jr and Eric Trump combined own 12% of Dominari Holdings which owns 90% of American Ventures, lead investor for an $8M offering of Singapore-based Genius Group shares, and a deal to finance $5.5M for a small digital bank in Bermuda, Jewel Bancorp. My Latest

Trump, who has repeatedly engaged in election denial, is quietly targeting local voting systems in “a wider-than-known federal push into the machinery and conduct of U.S. elections, which since the founding of the republic in 1789 have been run by states and local governments.” Via Reuters

This will make Florida's Congress members quite nervous, because it necessarily means diluting Republican votes out of their increasingly shaky Districts. There is a fair chance this could backfire bigly.

Taylor Swift is taking new steps to protect her voice and likeness from AI misuse.

Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/

I'm about to re-post a thread that is absolute fire 🔥 given the personalities involved. Zuck finna lose sleep over it. And well he should because it all makes solid sense, as you will see.

NEW: An 81-year-old lawyer named Joe diGenova is now leading a criminal probe of Trump’s perceived adversaries. DiGenova has long been an enthusiastic promoter of the so-called “Grand Conspiracy” case—but he may turn out to be its most consequential liability. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

in fact the model pricing is interesting; big rises in costs for a couple of Anthropic models but dwarfed by the 18x rise in the cost of GPT‑5.4 mini

GitHub Copilot is no longer absorbing as much of the cost of inference (inference got cheaper but you're doing more of it though not sure that's a Jevons quite yet) and I am absolutely wondering about the timing of this and the OpenAI divorce (although GitHub Copilot uses multiple models)

Not enough people quitting, so they had to lay off some. I wonder how old the non-quitters were?

Be careful with agents out there kids. Alignment is hard.

The odds of all the Frontier AI labs eventually being nationalized by their respective governments (including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and MetaAI) is not low.

Interesting read. I find, for ex, anthropologist Yuval Harari's writings to be prescient and powerful. I also have several friends trained as anthropologists employed in various capacities, and in our discourse they have an illuminating way of triangulating on my finance & legal view of the world.

I'm knowledgeable in this area, and this is a good read. Unfortunately, the politics of each kind of reform outlined here differs and is challenging in its own way. It will take another big blackout to get real reform, but players should prepare their State and Federal legislation now for that time.

Microsoft has surely been working on dramatically improving it's own frontier level models.

The White House Correspondents Dinner is not a State sponsored event, it is a private event and almost certainly would not be held at the White House, fancy bunkered ballroom or not.

Eastman was not engaged in political speech, and lying to a *client* about the law is not protected speech, in or out of Court. "My client lives in a fantasy world and *really* wants me to lie to him to justify his political actions" is not an ethical excuse.

And just like clockwork, Barak Ravid is out with his Sunday evening scoop on Axios in time to calm the markets before Monday's open. www.axios.com/2026/04/27/i...

On one hand, I, too, hate conspiracy theories; on the other hand, it's something Russia likes to do and what Russia likes to do, Trump likes, too. To me, the most compelling fact (and no, it isn't enough), is the unliklihood of Trump subjecting himself to getting humiliated at a roast.

Oil futures open trading in one hour. Will Trump announce a new framework agreement for negotiations before equities open tomorrow morning? The US strategic petroleum reserve might last until sometime mid June.

lol, that's not what they will be discussing.

I'm sorry but if you're going to post Trump social media posts you must include the time stamps. I have no idea whether he said these things 3 minutes ago, 3 months ago, or 3 years ago. If you get them from someone on social media, then keep looking

Worth noting that the White House Correspondents dinner is a private event and not government funded. I doubt the news agencies would ever want to hold it at the White House where they might not feel free to roast the President.

You know who else has a history of "radical rhetoric?" Trump. * Making jokes and then talking about assassinating people, ** and then doing it. *making jokes and talking about killing entire governments ** then doing it. Threatening to wipe out an entire civilization of humans...

All the world's a stage.

Yikes.

If Trump publicly says anything here perceived as less than 100% "this is not an issue" or "Falklands belong to the UK" then all of Britannia is going to lose it's mind.

Heading to a prediction market to bet on a Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster visit.

Will any journalist have the cojones to mock Trump about this tonight?

More takedown of American science gift link wapo.st/3P3DSY2

This is one of the rare standoffs where positional negotiating matters, and Trump really needs to publicly lose this fight. In fact, Tillis should demand that Trump publicly apologize to Powell.

So interesting that the current government of Venezuela wants to defend Maduro. What if they succeed? He returns? Steps back into the corrupt government that his lackeys have continued to run for him? WHEN ARE THE FREAKING ELECTIONS?

I've thought about this alot. What are ordinary citizens supposed to do? Quite a challenge. In a Democracy, you'd think raising awareness is key, but authoritarians always pick issues that they have some level of popular support on, and yet their motivation to have power is not about those issues.

I think that academia has not absorbed the fact that AI agents are now good enough to independently reconstruct complex papers without access to code or the papers themselves; just the methods & data. They aren’t perfect but the errors are often in the human paper, not the AI making a mistake.

Critics say the proposed rule to let the DOJ step into state bar investigations could weaken one of the last independent checks on government lawyers. n.pr/48lsb5w

German biotech company CureVac sued Moderna in Delaware federal court on Friday, alleging that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax infringed CureVac patents related to messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.

There is a reason diplomats speak as they do.

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions. By @alexcuadros.bsky.social

Amazon-backed X-Energy raises over $1 billion in IPO reut.rs/4cKCRfi

Musk's ambitions for AI mean he would never be able to get the chips he needs, so he's going to build plants to make chips that are 2x bigger than all of the current chip making capacity in the US. The estimates are $5-10 trillion in cap-ex. He can stage it up, so he'll get some of it built.

No one has seen US Congressman Tom Kean, Jr (R-NJ) since March 5, 2026. He has communicated by text, but missed every vote and literally no one has spoken to or seen him. Bizarre.

Prediction: US Airlines will all get bailouts. Watch.

The US shoots itself in the foot.