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A screen showing a flat price chart for Palantir with an all-time high marker near $207.52, with revenue bars rising in the foreground.

Palantir's growth vs. its multiple: a reckoning

Palantir is growing commercial revenue 149% YoY yet trades flat since August, at $183–190 vs a $207.52 high. 📉 A 93% growth engine carries a >160x earnings multiple—and management guidance implies the pace decelerates. Procurement now funds nearly half the top line, and EU institutions are withdrawing.

Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI trading board screen showing red market decline below the 7,000-point level

KOSPI slides below 7,000 as U.S. yields hit chips

KOSPI broke below 7,000 as U.S. yields crossed 5.5% and WTI pushed past $93. 🇰🇷 The trigger isn't Korean—Samsung and SK hynix shed ~5% as foreign funds unloaded 12.24T won this month. Retail investors absorbed 2.2T won in a day, capping the slide.

The Eiffel Tower at dusk, its gates closed with a worker strike notice posted outside, crowds reflecting in the plaza.

Eiffel Tower CEO steps down after gender-exclusion order

SETE CEO steps down after a gender-exclusion order sidelined female staff during a religious delegation visit 🗼⚖️ The September 5 protocol triggered a strike, a day of lost revenue, two investigations, and a Charter breach finding. Protocol won over workplace equality—until it collapsed: staff were told to be "

Apple CEO Bets on Startup Speed, Services Slip

$30.7B — that's Apple's Services revenue for the June quarter, its first consecutive decline since 2022. ⚙️ New CEO John Ternus is betting that coordination costs, not engineering talent, are Apple's binding constraint — flattening management to ship faster. But the runway is thinner than the

Empty seats in a Geneva conference room facing a UN flag, with documents left on tables suggesting an abandoned negotiation.

US, Russia strip human review from UN AI weapons treaty

100+ children died in Minab after an AI strike. Now, in Geneva, the US and Russia deleted the human-review, predictability, and reliability requirements from the draft treaty on autonomous weapons — leaving "check and fire" as just "fire." One person now oversees the machine for the

US Capitol dome in shadow beside documents labeled rescission, conveying the executive-legislative funding clash.

Trump's pocket rescission sparks spending power battle

$810 million in congressionally approved spending was just canceled in a move so rare it's happened only twice in 50 years — both times under Trump. 💰⚖️ Filed as the fiscal year hit its deadline, the maneuver freezes the money while the 45-day review window expires, letting it evaporate

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$370K Bitcoin Ransom Didn't Stop AT&T Leak

$370,000 in Bitcoin. That's what AT&T reportedly paid an alleged hacker — and the data still leaked. A 22-year-old Army private, Cameron Wagenius, was sentenced to 70 months for stealing call metadata on 100M+ AT&T customers. His 'SSH Brute' tool