Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 17th, 2025

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• America’s New No. 1 Song is by a Group that Doesn’t Exist. (Slate)
• Adam Grant Says this Myth is Killing Your Emotional Intelligence. (Inc)
• Sam Altman to Invest in Neuralink Rival; Elon Musk's Reaction Humors X. (Reuters)
• New Research Finds that ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias. (Futurism)
• This CEO Laid Off Nearly 80% of His Staff Because They Refused to Adopt AI Fast Enough. 2 Years Later, He Says He’d Do It Again. (Fortune)

 

Trading Links:

• The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups. (Wall Street Journal)
• How Prediction Markets are Accelerating the Move to 24/7 Trading. (TradersMagazine)
• Prime Day Fizzle – Is American Consumer Confidence Hanging by a Thread? (TalkMarkets)
• We're in a Massive Financial Bubble, And It's Popping. It's Not the End of the World. It Can Be the Beginning of a Better One. (DougAldlamont)
• The Stock Market Just Did Something for the 9th Time Since 1957. History Says It Signals a Big Move in the S&P 500 Within the Next Year. (MotleyFool)