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ROUNDUP: A $5,000 Bribe, a Folding iPhone, and AI Solving Math We Couldn't (opens the original)
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If the GOP wins the midterms, Donald Trump proposes a $5,000 adult stimulus totaling $1.35 trillion, arriving as the US adds 162,000 jobs in August with 4.1% unemployment. Trump told a Republican convention in Dallas that every American adult would get a $5,000 "dividend" if Republicans hold both chambers of Congress in November. Nobody's calling it what it is out loud, but the condition attached makes it hard to read as anything other than a bribe. Apple held its first product event under new C
ROUNDUP: America Is Alienating Everyone, and Canada Is Next (opens the original)
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The U.S. is entering a new economic war, and the fallout is reshaping global markets. Trade relations between the U.S. and Canada collapsed with 50% tariffs slapped on $20B of Canadian goods.Nvidia delivered a staggering $96.2B in quarterly revenue (+106% YoY), with $89B coming strictly from data centers.While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled government long-bond buybacks to $4B to artificially inject liquidity into stressed debt markets, capital moved aggressively into hard/digital asse
ROUNDUP: Is the US AI Ultimatum Changing Everything? (opens the original)
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The United States drafted a letter to 35 countries telling them they may have to choose between the American AI ecosystem and China's, and not both.The initiative is called Pax Silica, built around cooperation on AI models, semiconductors, and critical minerals. Roughly two dozen countries have already signed on, including Japan, Australia, and South Korea. China has stood up its own competing organization, and when Kazakhstan quietly joined both, it set off alarms in Washington. The draft State
INTERVIEW: Designing Trust: Thomas Malone On Building The Brand Behind USDC (opens the original)
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Thomas Malone joined Circle as employee number 60. The company had a logo and a landing page. Six years later he'd co-founded the brand behind USDC and watched it through an IPO.He's now brand and design lead at Veda, building the identity for a company doing for vaults what Circle did for stablecoins. He came on The BOOM ROOM to explain how brands actually get made: the first principles work that happens before anyone sees a logo, why Circle's primary color was chosen for a reason nobody outsid
ROUNDUP: Musk Is Building a $119 Billion Chip Fortress in Texas (opens the original)
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Tesla and SpaceX are building a $119 billion semiconductor complex in Texas so Musk never has to depend on Nvidia again, Nvidia is building its own trillion-parameter model to compete with its own customers, and China's Unitree robot IPO got oversubscribed 8,000 times over. Carmelo and Sasha get into the race to own the whole stack, plus a weak jobs report, OpenAI's comeback and its Astra safety pause, Anthropic watermarking AI text, and the Clarity Act falling apart. Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro 0
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