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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
The story truly begins in April 2024, but the background goes much further back. At the age of 23, Leopold Aschenbrenner was employed by OpenAI’s Superalignment team, which was entrusted with one of the most challenging issues in contemporary technology: how to manage an artificial intelligence system that might one…
There is a specific type of market moment that only makes sense in hindsight: when several smaller signals that everyone saw but no one really connected suddenly come together to form a clear picture. One of those times is currently occurring in the luxury market. Following a weaker-than-expected first-quarter sales…
Something that didn’t fit was discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope early on July 2, 2025. Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Scutum, close to the crowded, dusty central plane of the Milky Way, a gamma-ray burst—the most powerful class of explosion in the known universe—had erupted. That…