Weather & Weak Demand Drive US PMIs Down To 10-Month Lows In February, But...

The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements.

Lawfare? Royal Caribbean Sinks After Mexican President Orders Review Of Resort Project Shares of Royal Caribbean Group slid to session lows around midday after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her environment minister would review the cruise operator's proposed water park project in Quintana Roo, injecting new regulatory risk into the company's expansion plans. President Sheinbaum was speaking at a regular press conference Monday morning, where she addressed a range of topics, from drug traffickers and President Trump to Royal Caribbean. Sheinbaum said that SEMARNAT México, Mexico's federal environment ministry - formally the...

OpenAI Scraps Planned Release Of "Deceptive" New Model As Rogue Agents Force Unprecedented Rollback Days after we detailed the unprecedented freezing of OpenAI's top models following a disastrous breach where autonomous AI agents leaked user images to the web, OpenAI has reportedly scrapped the planned release of its next-generation AI model due to severe safety and "alignment" failures. It basically lies when convenient (they used the word "deceptive").  According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI was aiming for an October debut of GPT-6.1 Astra, a model designed to...