A bit more context e.g. from Simon simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/mo… just wow

🇨🇦 Every Canadian should read this twice: 🇨🇦 Canada ranks : 🥇 1st in uranium 🥇 1st in potash 🥈 2nd in nickel 🥉 3rd in oil 🏅 5th in gold 💧 1st in freshwater Countries start wars for LESS than this. And somehow we are told we’re too poor to cut taxes, too broke to build

New: Fidelity Fidelity Digital Assets launches FIDD stablecoin, pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, marking entry into the stablecoin market.

Perplexity just became the the first Al company to truly go head-to-head with the Bloomberg Terminal... Using Perplexity Computer (with no local setup or single LLM limitation), it was able to build me a terminal with real-time data to analyze $NVDA using Perplexity Finance:

$NVDA just posted record earnings. What’s wild is I can prompt Perplexity Computer to retrieve the earnings transcript and 10-Q and generate a concise analysis in seconds. The edge no longer belongs to the institutions. It belongs to the people who know how to use AI…

Look out Bloomberg. Why didn’t you buy Perplexity a year ago?

Wow, they really going all the way. Don't forget they also have spot btc and eth ETFs in registration too. Esp notable IMO given they have 16k advisors that manage $7T for 18 million people. It's like a massive network of Boomer money.

Iran. China is 👀. Russia is 👀.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 THE FEDERAL RESERVE JUST OFFICIALLY APPROVED A BITCOIN AND CRYPTO EXCHANGE TO ACCESS THEIR PAYMENTS SYSTEM THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WILD IT CHANGES EVERYTHING HERE WE GO 🚀

LATEST: Morgan Stanley has filed for a Bitcoin ETF, tapping @Coinbase for crypto custody and BNY Mellon as administrator, with daily valuations set using the CoinDesk Bitcoin Benchmark 4PM New York Settlement Rate.

JUST IN: Bitcoin exchange Kraken becomes first crypto bank to receive a Federal Reserve master account 🤯 This makes Kraken the first digital asset bank in U.S. history to gain direct access to the Federal Reserve’s payment infrastructure 🚀

Scotia Bank has launched an active crypto picking ETF in Canada today. Notable bc first bank up there to get in game and the fee is only 25bps, very low for active and Canada. Will hold the big cryptos but have 10% eq sleeve as well.

I don't think people understand how insane this actually is... Nasdaq just partnered with Kraken to enable 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks. The craziest part is it'll run on Kraken - not through traditional brokers like Schwab or TD. Last week the Fed, FDIC, and OCC confirmed

This is heading to the last round of personal computing hardware. SLM+Cloud AGI + MCP + Skills via folding tri-panel mobile devices.

Thought experiment: Dubai is at risk of losing population. The value of real estate would plummet. Banks that lent against these buildings will have bank runs and may fail. Banks start calling in loans from everyone. Everyone sells everything. Vicious spiral credit is.

The only check on Israel will be US troops on Kharg Island. Kharg Island is the lynchpin of this conflict. Iran does not want it destroyed. A "Trumpian deal" requires something of value. This is 'existential' for Israel but not Iran nor the US. The generals that take over from