Feature not a bug
JUST IN: Tether freezes $971 million $USDT linked to suspected Binance hack.
No official statement from Binance yet.
Good time to go to market, but yeah still probably early innings here considering the models just became reliable in June
New: spending on Anthropic models on OpenRouter hit a new peak last week, up 47% from the summer high during the week of June 8.
Opus 5.5 was the top model by spend over the last 7 days across 20 of the 29 task categories we currently track.
openrouter.ai/rankings#task-…
You could land this in a yard. Sign me up
An airplane just landed at a heliport. In lower Manhattan. That is the @ElectraAero EL-2, the ultra-short takeoff and landing prototype aircraft. CEO Marc Allen said Monday it was the first time the manufacturer has shown the EL2’s capabilities publicly in such an environment.
Story ➡️ vist.ly/5q45c
#eVTOL #airplane #newyorkcity #heliport #aviation
The NBA feels good about viewership trends (gambling apps) but the on-court product has never been worse for regular season viewing. You can leave early and beat traffic for 25% of the games
There is a very specific reason Tesla isn't attempting the robotaxi sham in CA
Waymo is adding nearly 250 square miles to its driverless ride-hailing service across 5 existing U.S. markets over the next week.
Los Angeles: Expanding along the coast into the South Bay, including Torrance.
San Diego: Extending north to La Jolla, adding destinations including UC San Diego, the VA, and University Town Center.
Nashville: Expanding farther south, including access to Nashville Zoo.
Orlando: Nearly doubling its coverage in the east, alongside improved downtown service.
San Francisco Bay Area: Adding coverage farther south, including a new connection to Berryessa BART Station.
The rollout expands where existing riders can travel, rather than launching in five new cities.
In the last few months, I've noticed an uptick in Uber drivers telling me how much they are earning on the ride.. seems like an effort to generate extra tip $$ they've all picked up on
i’m deleting @Uber and moving to @Waymo absolutely
today, my uber driver told me he has four children living in a garage, and that of the $30 i paid for the ride, he was only getting $7.
it’s the 5th time an uber driver has confronted me about tipping him in cash. this time, he pointed to my diamond earrings and trench coat as evidence that i could obviously afford to pay him more.
it’s an astonishing masterclass in incentive design! make the worker desperate enough to go outside their boundaries, make the customer guilty enough to give in, and the company gets off scot-free.
these are deeply uncomfortable situations for customers to be put in. i empathize with the drivers, but being put on the spot and made to feel personally responsible for someone else’s livelihood is a difficult position to be in.
While brutal data for a normal city, this is a genuine success for city leadership and their voters. It takes years of dedicated effort to get here, and they did it
Around half of Seattle businesses report that are considering moving or shrinking, blaming a business environment that they say is getting worse and don’t believe it looks like it will get better, according to a survey from the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. kiro7.com/news/local/survey-…
Guy had members of his congregation empty retirement funds, college funds, etc. Money never coming back, altering the outcome of many families and even generations. We need to start giving financial criminals like this the chair.
Pastor of Kirkland, Washington, church indicted on ten counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering in $13 million fraud scheme. ow.ly/Ujcg5100IGt
ALT SAC Herrington: “These charges allege that a religious leader abused the trust of his fellow believers to steal millions of dollars for his own personal benefit. Cristian Popescu defrauded dozens of his own church members through a series of elaborate lies, including promises of a future stock exchange listing and claims that the profits would benefit the community. The FBI and our partners will continue to follow the money to unravel these schemes and hold fraudsters accountable.”
In WA, Kalshi got banned so people have moved to the last remaining sports betting loophole: Coinbase
$HOOD Kalshi is taking market share from Robinhood
Consumer usage share:
Robinhood: 51.8%
Kalshi: 43.0%
Polymarket: 5.2%
If you bought the BABA IPO based on the "Amazon of China" thesis, you've experienced 15x revenue growth in the biz and were rewarded with a 13% return on your investment
Pretty crazy dispersion here nitter.gq/FairweatherPhD/status/…
So ~30% of everyone's budget is going to healthcare costs
Not wasting any time nitter.gq/negligible_cap/status/…
Impressive but probably not good for those on the AI psychosis spectrum
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