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The level of audience, attention, and prediction market volume validates our core thesis that trading has meaningful demand as financial media.
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Clarity Act Advances Through Senate Banking Committee, Moves to Full Senate Vote in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, with Democratic senators Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks voting in favor. The bill will next proceed to a full Senate vote.
#crypto #stocks #clarityact #trump
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair in a 54-45 vote, the narrowest confirmation margin ever for a Fed chair.
Markets are closely watching whether Warsh will support Donald Trump’s push for lower interest rates. Warsh stated during his confirmation hearing that the Fed’s monetary policy would remain “strictly independent.” Let’s see…
#equities #crypto #stocks #fedreserve #trump
Sam Altman is the most strategically positioned person in tech. He runs OpenAI, the company defining the modern AI moment, but his real empire is what surrounds it.
Altman has a stake in every layer of the post-AGI economy, in personal investments and companies he founded. Intelligence (OpenAI, $500B) Power (Helion, $15B and Oklo, ~$10B). Identity (World, 33M users) Biology (Retro Biosciences, $180 million of his own money). Brain-computer interface (Merge Labs, launched Jan 2026 with OpenAI’s largest check).
The strategy is simple, own the infrastructure that rebuilds the economy AGI breaks.
#samaltman #openai #venturecapital #llm #deeptech
Leopold Aschenbrenner was 22 when OpenAI fired him in April 2024 for allegedly “leaking.” 2 months later, he published a 165-page manifesto called Situational Awareness - a viral essay arguing that AGI was arriving by 2027 and that markets hadn’t priced in any of it. By September, he had turned that thesis into a hedge fund.
18 months later, Situational Awareness LP’s disclosed equity exposure grew from $225M to $5.5B. His top bets weren’t OpenAI or Nvidia - they were the bottlenecks: Bloom Energy (fuel cells, up 176%), CoreWeave (GPU cloud), Intel (US fabs), and ex-Bitcoin miners pivoting to AI compute.
The strategy is simple: don’t buy the labs, buy what the labs can’t scale without.
#openai #investing #hedgefund #wallstreetbets
Peter Thiel turned $500K into $1.1B with a single bet on Facebook in 2004 - and that wasn’t even his best return. As co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and the first institutional check into SpaceX, Thiel has compounded the PayPal Mafia playbook into a $28B fortune and one of the most consequential VC track records of the last two decades.
His latest moves through Founders Fund signal a clear thesis shift: $1B into defense-tech leader Anduril (FF’s largest check ever), $140M leading wave-powered AI data center startup Panthalassa, and continued backing of OpenAI and the Enhanced Games.
The bets are getting weirder, the checks are getting bigger, and the through-line is contrarian by design.
#fintech #wallstreetbets #stocks #peterthiel
The Pentagon has begun rolling out 162 declassified UFO files under Trump’s PURSUE program, marking the first public batch in what officials say will be a broader disclosure effort. The release includes FBI records, photos, video, and transcripts tied to unresolved UAP cases, and more files are expected to follow on a rolling basis.
Supporters are calling it a transparency moment, while skeptics say the documents may still leave more questions than answers. Unresolved cases do not automatically mean extraterrestrial activity, but they do keep the debate alive.
#aliens #ufo #spacex #trending
Prediction market platform @kalshi raised $1 billion in a new funding round, valuing the company at $22 billion post-money.
Founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara have built Kalshi into the leading regulated event-contracts exchange in the U.S., with trading volume accelerating across political, economic, and sports markets following favorable CFTC rulings.
The raise comes amid surging volumes across event contracts tied to elections, economic data, and sports outcomes, with Kalshi increasingly viewed as core financial infrastructure rather than a niche betting venue.
#kashi #fintech #trading #predictionmarket
