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JUST IN: Bitcoin is back around $83,000. In the last month, it is up 6.53%. There is a 28% chance of hitting $100,000 by December 31, 2026, per Polymarket⁠.com. https://t.co/UyB7eDmiGa

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NYC horse carriages set to be banned in 2028 after Mamdani push, per NYP

BREAKING: Representative Ilhan Omar's staff got her birthdate changed officially after being elected to Congress, per NYP

BREAKING: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen just bought another 844,130 shares of $GME. He paid between $26.75 and $27 a share, about $22.6 million total. That brings his buying since September 10 to roughly $97 million, across about 4.1 million shares. https://t.co/19ZwN8VhB6

GameStop, $GME, options flow is heating up. The 7-day net premium is at a 52-week high. It comes as CEO Ryan Cohen keeps buying his own stock: Oct. 2: 700,000 shares at $24.41, $17 million Sept. 29: 450,000 shares at $23.48, $11 million Sept. 21: 1.15 million shares at $22.94, $26 million Sept. 10: 1 million shares at $20.38, $20 million

"Chick-fil-A is keeping humans at the drive-thru while McDonald’s is testing AI ordering and an AI pricing algorithm," per FORTUNE.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer and that the lower lobe of his right lung has been removed, per the Vatican

BREAKING: Bank of America has been fined $1.2 billion over money-laundering violations. Bank of America admits willfully violating Bank Secrecy Act regulations and failing to “timely report” more than $5 billion in “suspicious” transactions, the Treasury has said.

Someone just bought 3,999 Tesla $430 calls expiring April 2027, paying $27.40 each. That’s $10.96 million in premium, bought at the ask. The calls are about 15% out of the money, and open interest was just 40 before today. Tesla needs to rise to about $457 by expiration, roughly 22% higher, for the buyer to break even. Tesla reports earnings next week.

This is unusual. CFTC staff have reportedly been told to retract their analysis of suspicious oil trades. Unusual Whales caught many of them. Let's take a look at billions of dollars in well-timed bets on oil futures, placed before major Trump announcements on the Iran war. March 23: About $580 million in oil futures, roughly 6,200 Brent and WTI contracts, were sold in a single minute, between 6:49 and 6:50 a.m. ET. 15 minutes later, Trump posted that he was delaying planned strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure. Oil fell more than 10%. April 7: Traders placed roughly $950 million in bets on falling oil prices in the hours before T…

BREAKING: A Saudi employee of OpenAI has been arrested after planting an audio recording device in the company's executive conference room, per DOJ

BREAKING: The American dream now costs $5.32 million over a lifetime, per Investopedia

BREAKING: JPMorgan Chase has blocked outside AI agents like Muse, Instinct from directly accessing accounts

BREAKING: Trump says Russian diesel will be released to the world, not specifically to the U.S. “Russians are releasing it to the entire world,” he said. The US lifted sanctions on Russian diesel to help ease prices, yet US diesel futures are up more than 2% today.

BREAKING: Cornell University has banned all fraternity parties for the rest of the academic year. The move comes as New York Attorney General Letitia James investigates the “Cornell 7” assault allegations, after Governor Hochul appointed her special prosecutor last month.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed renewed military action against Iran with President Trump last week, per Axios. It comes as Iran warns that any new U.S. attack would have consequences reaching well beyond the Middle East, and says it’s ready to respond to any new aggression.

BREAKING: Anthropic has said that rogue AI agents may "self-replicate" to hijack smart devices such as ovens and TVs

BP, $BP, is up 3.5%. It says it has already hit its 2027 debt target, two years early, thanks to windfall profits from energy trading and refining. https://t.co/5xi7hVyjG5

U.S. diesel futures are up 2.1% today to $4.82 a gallon. That’s despite new tax relief measures and the lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel, both meant to bring prices down. U.S. diesel inventories are already at their lowest seasonal level on record, and heating oil prices in Maine just hit a record above $6 a gallon.

Investors are piling back into long-term Treasuries, per BMO. That’s pushing long-term yields down faster than short-term ones, a move known as a bull flattener. It’s a sharp reversal from earlier this month, when the 30-year yield hit 5.70%, its highest since 2002.

For the 2026 election cycle, Musk has already spent $366 million, per POLITICO

BREAKING: The AI boom will most likely destroy massive amounts of capital in the US in the longterm, as cheaper, open-source Chinese models capture market share, per Jefferies.

NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General says that "we have a year, something like that, to be fully ready [for Russia]."

BREAKING: CFTC staff have reportedly been told to retract their analysis of suspicious oil trades. They include well-timed bets on oil futures placed shortly before major Trump announcements on the Iran war. In one case, investors placed roughly $950 million in oil bets just hours before the April 7 ceasefire announcement.

BREAKING: U.S. bankruptcy filings are up 11% this year. 469,719 bankruptcies were filed in the first nine months of 2026, per Epiq AACER, up from 423,168 a year earlier.

Iran is warning the U.S. against further military action. Iran’s deputy foreign minister says another U.S. military operation would have consequences reaching well beyond the Middle East. A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard added that Iran is ready to respond to any new attack.

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan, $JPM, said that giving AI agents access to bank accounts carries serious security & liability risks. It’s not his first AI warning. Last week, he said that AI-related cyber risk went up “tenfold” after Anthropic’s Mythos model.

Houthis claim Saudi Aramco oil facilities legitimate targets, push workers, civilians to evacuate

The Federal Trade Commission and seven states asked a federal judge on Tuesday to hold notorious “Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli in contempt, per CNBC The FTC and the states allege that Shkreli “flagrantly and repeatedly violated” a 2022 court order that had banned him for life from the pharmaceutical industry.