Edition #53

The One Thing

• Fed officials who voted to hike rates say action is needed now against inflation

Signals

• New Jersey bans dynamic pricing
• Exxon and Chevron profits surge on rising oil prices due to Iran war
• Anthropic's Claude AI escapes to hack into three organisations
• CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records
• Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’
• Nike, Lululemon hit with lawsuits alleging deceptive ‘phantom discounts’
• Amazon says groceries and essentials are growing ‘meaningfully faster’ than the rest of its Stores business
• Snapchat shores up lead gen ads with new HubSpot integration
• Iran targets strategic U.S. assets in Kuwait, Bahrain after Egypt drone attack
• BP puts North Sea business up for sale
• Nearly half of workers say they’d let AI negotiate their pay
• ICHRA adoption slowed by ACA exchange costs, instability

Watch Your Back

• Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
• Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN Communication Protocol

Antics

• Risant Health’s first CEO to step down
• Kohl’s board chair exits
• AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

What's Being Built

• MiniMax H3 — Unified video generation for motion design and branding
• Cleanlist AI — Natural-language prospecting: find, enrich and sync leads.
• mectrics — Your Mac's vitals in the menu bar. Free and open source.