The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

Israeli forces killed a five-year-old boy in Gaza on Thursday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, as IDF attacks have continued across the Strip amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. Sources told WAFA that the boy, identified as Samih Shehab Samih Marou, was killed by Israeli fire in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. On Wednesday night, […]

Futures Tumble On AI Spending Fears As Brent Hits 2 Week High US equity futures are lower, dragged by tech, following a report that OpenAI missed revenue and user targets and there growing internal pushback against Sam Altman's notorious aggressive spending (the company has $1.5 trillion in commitment it won't be able to meet), which is hitting semiconductors and the broader supply chain. AS of 8:15am ET, S&P futures are down 0.7% and Nasdaq futures dropped 1.2% as concerns resurfaced over whether the vast amounts of investment in artificial intelligence will...

Israeli officials told The New York Times on Thursday that the attack on Iranian facilities linked to the South Pars gas field was coordinated with the US, despite President Trump claiming the US “knew nothing” of the plans to strike the energy infrastructure. The South Pars gas field, shared by Iran and Qatar in the […]