Report: US Proposes Talks Between Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker With Turkey as Mediator

The AI Transition: Even Dinosaurs Weren't Stupid Enough To Create Their Own Extinction Event By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities A Bridge Too Far? The AI TRANSITioN? Last weekend we discussed Molotov Cocktails, Volatility, Stability, & Faux Liquidity. In a nutshell, it was about: The transition from one steady state to another steady state can be volatile. A rules-based world, dependent on trade, to a ProSec-based world where each country operates more independently. The transition from a pre-AI world to an AI world. Faux liquidity – or our assessment that market structure is set up to...

Enablers Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There’s an obvious growing failure at the center of modern markets that, as a former short seller, has become beyond obvious to me over the years. It isn’t just fraud or aggressive accounting. It’s the ecosystem that allows both to thrive: financial media that won’t press, and a sell side that won’t risk upsetting management teams they depend on for access. We’ve seen this movie before. Enron did not implode because there were no warning signs. It imploded because the warning signs were inconvenient. There were whistleblowers. There...

Watch: McDonald's Restaurant Rolls Out Robots To Greet, Serve Customers A McDonald’s restaurant in Shanghai is trialling a team of humanoid robots as staff, offering a glimpse into what is likely to be the future of fast-food, Digitaltrends reports. The robots, developed by Keenon Robotics, were spotted at a McDonald’s in the Shanghai Pudong New Area, where they picked up orders from customers at the front counter using a touchscreen. The video also shows children in the restaurant playfulling chasing after the animal-like robots that were greeting customers. McDonald’s has yet to...