STOCKTWITS CHART ARTThe Stocktwits Summary 📝 Thursday 📉: Earnings season swallowed the market whole Thursday as the S&P 500 hit an intraday record then reversed, with software stocks getting obliterated after ServiceNow’s clean beat still got...

Presented by CLOSING BELLBack-and-Forth Blockade The market fell Thursday, despite hitting an intraday record high for the S&P 500. Prices are cooling off after a record-setting run on war ceasefire news. The outlook was worse Thursday, and reactions...

Two big model releases inside a single week — OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 (”Spud”) and Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 + Mythos preview — shipping into a market where both companies have mega-AI IPOs on the horizon. IPO prep is the new throttle. When you’re writing the S-1...

OVERVIEW Altcoins Saw Green And Immediately Made It Weird 😐️ Here’s What’s Happening 👇️ The only thing in the top 50 market cap for crypto making anything resembling activity is $ZEC ( ▲ 8.54% ) , and that’s because… well you’ll have to read about it...

Good morning everyone… Our seed investing firm Social Leverage has been using AI to automate as much of our day to day lives running the business – deal sourcing, diligence, investing and reporting. We take pride in being a lean operation. We want...

Also hedge-fund reneging, Polymarket vs. Kalshi and Onion Futures Act protests.

ETFs The Roundhill Memory ETF ($DRAM) has quickly garnered more than $1 billion in AUM. (wsj.com) Eric Balchunas and Joel Weber talk with Bloomberg Intelligence semiconductor analyst Jake Silverman about the growth in $DRAM. (bloomberg.com) Prediction...

Books Ezra Klein talks with Ray Madoff, author of “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.” (podcasts.apple.com) An excerpt from Megan Garber’s new book, “Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State...

Google is pressing ahead on its core vertical stack advantage with its TPU (Tensor Processing Units), AI chips. It’s an advantage vs peers, including Nvidia. As I’ve discussed at length in earlier posts. Now Google is advancing its TPU chip architecture...

We are heartbroken to share that my father, Norman Merz, passed on April 20. He was 99. Dad was born in Newark, grew up in South Orange during the Depression, served in the Navy during World War II, and then married Patricia Powell and raised a family...