‼️ 🧠 🇨🇳 China rebuked calls by prominent U.S. tech executives to slow AI development and tighten restrictions on Chinese model makers, warning that “fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition” would undermine global AI governance and benefit no one.
‼️ 🧠 BREAKING: President Trump says tech executives calling for an AI slowdown are “working for other people and do not have the best interests of the US in mind. “These people are revolutionaries for a bad and evil cause,” Trump says.
‼️ 🧠 Apple has launched a revamped, AI-powered Siri with more natural conversations and enhanced cross-app capabilities. The English beta rolls out today, while French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish support is expected in October, following its unveiling at Apple’s fall product event last week.
‼️ BREAKING: Jet fuel prices in the US surge to $4.35/gallon, now up +61% over the last 10 weeks. Over the last week alone, jet fuel prices have risen by +10% as US oil prices continue to push above $100/barrel.
‼️ 🧠 BREAKING: AI leaders’ warnings about frontier-model risks have renewed focus on AI-enabled cyber threats—from automated phishing to faster vulnerability exploitation. CrowdStrike is a high-beta way to play this theme, given Falcon’s cloud-native endpoint, identity, SIEM, and AI-security capabilities. We began accumulating CRWD in July.
‼️ 🇬🇧 Goldman Sachs changed its forecast for the Bank of England on Monday, now expecting a 25-basis-point rate increase in November 2026 as inflation continues and economic growth remains solid.
‼️ 🧠 Trump: The only reason the AI/Data Center outburst is happening is because the United States is leading, by a lot, every other country. Don’t kill the Golden Goose! President DONALD J. TRUMP