3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (131+ words) A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream. The SceneExistential AI fears broke containment this week after an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that frontier labs are…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (492+ words) View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand Semafor View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (154+ words) US long-term bond yields jumped to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress markets. US long-term bond yields spiked to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (140+ words) The Treasury Department will buy back up to three times its usual amount of long-term debt tomorrow as the Trump administration continues trying to bring borrowing costs down. Markets barely registered the announcement, with yields dropping before climbing back up....

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (208+ words) Robinhood is among 18 banks working on smart-ring maker Oura’s IPO. Robinhood landed its first IPO underwriting assignment, a sign that retail investors — long an afterthought for companies going public — are a fan base worth courting Robinhood, which launched…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (456+ words) View / Oil executives are anxious about Venezuela Semafor View / Oil executives are anxious about Venezuela Big Oil companies have always moonlighted as geopolitical risk assessment firms. That capability faces a big test now. It takes guts to thrive in the…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (133+ words) semafor.com Beijing to inject $45 billion into banks and insurers China will inject $45 billion into its largest banks and insurers, its biggest recapitalization push in decades as Beijing looks to boost the country’s faltering economy. China’s growth target is already…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (94+ words) Revisiting the late American activist’s 2015 memoir. My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. The trailblazing American feminist, Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday, lived a life defined by movement in every sense of the word. In her 2015 memoir, Steinem recounts…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (185+ words) As the kingdom plans for life after oil, crude has become a muse, with art spanning the eras before, during, and after it. For most of a century, oil in Saudi Arabia was like water or weather: everywhere and nobodyâ…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (147+ words) The EU endorsed Washington’s sanctions push against Tehran, while efforts to block Iran’s oil exports and financial transactions appear to be bearing fruit. The US made inroads in its economic pressure campaign on Iran, though concerns over a return to…...