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The Russell 2000 currently sees earnings per share rising 40% this year (a sharp decline from Q1) and 38% next year $IWM GS pic.twitter.com/vp238EkMmS
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) May 16, 2026
A big milestone about artificial intelligence from Ken Griffin:
“First, there has been a step change in the productivity of the AI toolset in the last few months. It is much more powerful than it was just nine months ago.
And for us at Citadel, this allowed us to uncover a much larger area… pic.twitter.com/IJBbPAntop
— Brett Caughran (@FundamentEdge) May 16, 2026
That’s incredible. The AI will be booed out of the stadium during any keynote speech mentioned. Maybe telling college students that AI is taking their jobs wasn’t the best strategy. Be sure to watch —> pic.twitter.com/35UMSz5T5a
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) May 17, 2026
Details of what’s going on:
> Our main goal was an 8-hour run; We wanted to run uninterrupted and completely autonomously. From that day on, we decided to continue the party. We now achieve more than 48 hours of continuous autonomous operation without failure to realize the use case. This…
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 15, 2026
The vibes in SF feel pretty crazy right now. The split in results is the worst I’ve ever seen.
Over the last 5 years, a group of approximately 10 thousand people (Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD employees and founders) have achieved retirement wealth of well over $20 million (behind the fact…)
— Deedy (@deedydas) May 16, 2026
Digital gold?
Monetary hedge?
Decentralization?
Global liquidity?
Resistance against censorship?
Portfolio diversification?Turns out Bitcoin is just a software stock pic.twitter.com/uR6dF93OJO
— Julian Klymochko (@JulianKlymochko) May 15, 2026
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