"In the end, 26,067 ballots were validated by AAA and counted. That means nearly 46 percent
of the 56,782 eligible voters — or almost 1 out of every 2 eligible members — voted. Of those
who voted, 88% supported the agreement."
Hello my Harmon Kardon onyx 8 speaker has air pushing through the aux import creating a rattle / buzzing sound. A fix I found was simply to put a dummy jack into the port but an wondering if this is a bigger issue long term..? Should I be returning it for it being defective? Is this a fix I can do myself permanently?
I got this a few hours ago but the points have not showed up. Also, crazy experience today but that's for a later story.
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness seeks to raise capital after AI rout
+439% through June 2026, then got hit hard in July sell-off. It's now been talking to existing investors and lenders about fresh capital, and has offered some LPs the chance to buy assets out of the portfolio.
One source called the outreach ad hoc rather than a coordinated raise. The fund used leverage (multiple bulge-bracket prime brokers) to amplify the AI trade, which is what turns a drawdown into a scramble.
Aschenbrenner's July 24th investor letter conceded the fund wasn't immune — Asia especially — but pitched the selloff as the best entry since early 2025, with an August 1 window to add cash and a potential Anthropic IPO as a second-half catalyst. Named damage: Oracle and AMD each ~-20% on the month, with Nebius, Sharon AI, Bloom Energy and Sandisk worse. Nasdaq 100 -10% in July, Kospi down about a third.
One of us
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced plans to raise $80 billion through equity offerings to fund investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and compute capacity.
The Mountain View, California-based company said the offerings will consist of $30 billion in concurrent underwritten public offerings and a $40 billion at-the-market offering program for Class A Common Stock and Class C Capital Stock expected to begin in the third quarter of 2026.
The underwritten offerings include $15 billion in depositary shares representing mandatory convertible preferred stock and $15 billion in Class A Common Stock and Class C Capital Stock.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to invest $10 billion in Alphabet through a private placement, comprised of $5 billion in Class A Common Stock at $351.81 per share and $5 billion in Class C Capital Stock at $348.20 per share. This adds to Berkshire Hathaway's position built since the third quarter of 2025.
Alphabet said it intends to use proceeds from the concurrent offerings and private placement for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute. The company expects to use approximately $30 billion of the at-the-market program proceeds to meet 2026 calendar year tax obligations related to employee equity award vesting.
The company reported 2026 capital expenditures are expected to be $180-$190 billion, with 2027 capital expenditures expected to significantly increase. Alphabet generated $174 billion of operating cash flow over the 12 months ended March 31, 2026.
Alphabet reported first quarter 2026 revenue of $110 billion, representing 22% year-over-year growth. Google Cloud revenue grew 63% year-over-year with backlog nearly doubling quarter-over-quarter to more than $460 billion.
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced plans to raise $80 billion through equity offerings to fund investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and compute capacity.
The Mountain View, California-based company said the offerings will consist of $30 billion in concurrent underwritten public offerings and a $40 billion at-the-market offering program for Class A Common Stock and Class C Capital Stock expected to begin in the third quarter of 2026.
The underwritten offerings include $15 billion in depositary shares representing mandatory convertible preferred stock and $15 billion in Class A Common Stock and Class C Capital Stock.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to invest $10 billion in Alphabet through a private placement, comprised of $5 billion in Class A Common Stock at $351.81 per share and $5 billion in Class C Capital Stock at $348.20 per share. This adds to Berkshire Hathaway's position built since the third quarter of 2025.
Alphabet said it intends to use proceeds from the concurrent offerings and private placement for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute. The company expects to use approximately $30 billion of the at-the-market program proceeds to meet 2026 calendar year tax obligations related to employee equity award vesting.
The company reported 2026 capital expenditures are expected to be $180-$190 billion, with 2027 capital expenditures expected to significantly increase. Alphabet generated $174 billion of operating cash flow over the 12 months ended March 31, 2026.
Alphabet reported first quarter 2026 revenue of $110 billion, representing 22% year-over-year growth. Google Cloud revenue grew 63% year-over-year with backlog nearly doubling quarter-over-quarter to more than $460 billion.
Dell soars 30% on ER. It was one of Trump's largest personal holding.
We have officially achieved a state of complete financial and geopolitical nihilism. The stock market has successfully weaponized quantum mechanics to explain why index funds are melting up to fresh all-time highs while the world is simultaneously on the brink of total escalation and a historic peace treaty.
The market no longer reacts to the reality of the war. The conflict is now just a variable inside a broken simulation run by market-maker high-frequency algorithms. We are trapped in a permanent Bullish Superposition.
Here is how the system is processing the exact same geopolitical data out of the Middle East to ensure that the line only goes up:
| Event | The Bullish Interpretation | The Market Reaction |
|---|---|---|
| A "Largely Negotiated" Peace Deal Appears Imminent | Peace is achieved. The blockaded Strait of Hormuz is finally going to reopen, global oil supply chains are healed, and inflation is dead. | S&P 500 Pumps +2% |
| Ceasefire Fails / "Self-Defense" Strikes Launched | A dynamic tactical escalation. Central Command just took out missile launch sites in southern Iran. Defense contractors get fresh revenue, oil margins stabilize, and the Fed will be forced to cut rates to counteract global instability. | S&P 500 Pumps +2.5% |
| Simultaneous Diplomatic Talks & Active Drone salvos | The ultimate hedge. Total geopolitical neutrality. Volatility is crushed. | The entire options chain gets incinerated by theta decay while the index grindingly edges its way to a historic record high. |
If a Tomahawk cruise missile launches in the desert while diplomats are literally drafting a memorandum of understanding in Islamabad, does it make a sound? Only if you're holding short-dated calls.
To a high-frequency trading algorithm, a mushroom cloud is a highly localized, high-energy Bullish Breakout Pattern. The system looks at a missile strike and sees an automated excuse to trigger a short squeeze on the bears.
We are at a point where a tactical EMP could wipe out the entire electrical grid of the Eastern Seaboard, and the remaining backup servers in Chicago would immediately interpret the sudden drop in trading volume as exhaustion of selling pressure, instantly gapping the Nasdaq up 500 points in pre-market.
You cannot short the end of the world because the apocalypse has already been heavily priced into the tech sector since last Tuesday. If the fabric of reality rips open tomorrow, the algorithms will just price the collapse of the space-time continuum as a temporary supply-side shock and pump Apple another 4%.
I was looking through https://www.seethroughny.net/
How are they earning this much? I saw some close to 350k, which is like the avg salary of a Meta Eng.
