Wow, gainers vs decliners paints a pretty grim picture right now... https://www.nzx.com/markets/NZSX Relieved I don't have much exposure to the market. I gather the picture is even more bleak in the bigger markets.
Nine years ago, predicting the rise of “self-driving news”. Now, major publishers are seeing 90 % drop-offs in traffic from search engines as LLMs generate synthesized versions of news stories instead of sending readers to read original media articles. https://anildash.com/2017/03/01/tech-a
Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z at a $320M valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
Mayor Mamdani's First 100 Days, April 2026 (Marist Poll)
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/mayor-mamdanis-first-100-days-april-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p37#a260408p37
A report on local flexibility markets commissioned by the European Commission and carried out by the Belgian energy research centre VITO has outlined the key features of success: standardisation, automation, aggregation, transparency, markets
https://op.europa.eu/e…
Not sure I agree w/this whole article, but interesting perspective. “…any systemically important market can be shut down not by force but by…withdrawal of…institutional trust layer that enables…function…mechanism is substrate-agnostic…operated in…repo market in 2008…is operating in…Strait of Hormuz in 2026…will operate again, in…different domain…next time verification costs invert transaction economics in…concentrated market structure w/o adequate government backstop.”
MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.8B, vs. $8.4B est., and net income down 16% to $417M, vs. $433M est.; MELI drops 5% after hours (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/mercadolibre-re…