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Payrolls beat expectations at 162k vs 53k consensus, pushing MRMI to -0.17 but still in CAUTION mode.→
Market momentum improved to +0.08 but remains fragile ahead of Thursday's CPI release; a hot print could reverse gains.→
Robinhood analysts debate buy/hold/sell, while Lyn Alden says fiscal dominance era will last decades.→
OpenAI released its new Astra model and hit $1bn annualized ad revenue, but its AGI claims are called bubble thinking.→
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9bn to reinforce its de facto monopoly in the AI stack.→
Google won the remedies stage in its antitrust case, rejecting all proposed break-up measures.→
Anthropic and Meta released new human-centric ads to counter AI skepticism and build consumer trust.→
FX promoted *Adults* Season 2 with a bodega-style pop-up in NYC and a Whatnot stoop-sale activation in LA.→
Amelia Dimoldenberg's *Chicken Shop Date* is ending after 12 years as a celebrity promo stop.→
Roman Ugarte of SpaceXAI discusses how Grok Bot was built from scratch in a month and launched successfully.→
The team personally onboarded nearly 300 first users, and two early product decisions drove success.→
Roman shares advice on moats and how Cursor keeps winning in the most competitive market.→
Meta AIRA3 placed 8th out of ~4,000 teams in an NVIDIA Kaggle challenge, winning Gold by improving a 30B model's reasoning without human hand-holding.→
A Minecraft mod runs the complete fruit fly connectome — 176,422 neurons and 125M synaptic connections — in real time as a fly mob.→
SuperAstra uses GPT-6 Astra to let anyone mod Super Nintendo games live with plain English prompts.→
Hunter Biden confirms $LAPTOP memecoin launch on Sept. 9 with airdrops to TRUMP holders and Substack subscribers.→
Liquid attacker returns 3,400 BTC ($268M) after Blockstream sends PGP-signed OP_RETURN messages.→
Router Protocol shuts down Sept. 30, burning 303M ROUTE tokens as TVL drops to ~$10K.→