Somtom

Cycling up Drumcondra Rd.
/*Caveat Lector!*/

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai earns ₹250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework.

She wears a phone on her head and records herself making coffee, cutting fruit, folding laundry.

These first-person videos get sent to AI companies training humanoid robots to handle real-world tasks. She shoots 90+ clips a day.

Her quote: "Who else will pay you ₹250/hour ($3) an hour just for doing housework?"

She's part of a growing gig economy in India where thousands are doing the same thing, filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.

[Somtom @somstweet]

@oHanaTrading808 @Bigchiefboston @DrJStrategy My guess would be 'some banks...' and depends on other effects of the macro regime. https://t.co/pXsGUq55ac

[oHana Trading @oHanaTrading808]

@Bigchiefboston @DrJStrategy lower...

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[European Central Bank @ecb]

We raised our key interest rates by 0.25 percentage points.

Read today’s decisions https://t.co/U5EJrk1UNJ

[MoneyGram @MoneyGram]

Introducing MGUSD.
MoneyGram's native U.S. dollar stablecoin.

Natively issued on @StellarOrg.
Built with @Stablecoin, @M0 and @FireblocksHQ.
Live in the U.S. today.

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

Who is the greatest scientist of all time (in terms of Google Scholar citations)? Is it Einstein? Or Bengio or Hinton?
No.
It is a humble servant of knowledge, Mr. Rachmad of Indonesia, who has had a rather productive publishing period after the launch of ChatGPT

[Simon Lejeune @lejeunesimon]

New Wealthsimple ad just dropped 🔥

it’s over it’s over it’s ooooooverrrr 🎶🇨🇦

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

Robinhood has officially arrived in Canada. 🇨🇦

We’ve closed our acquisition of WonderFi, marking our entry into Canada through one of the most well-respected crypto platforms in the country.

With 1 million international funded customers, Robinhood’s mission is going global.

[Somtom @somstweet]

Tencent ( $0700.HK ) at 52 week lows. 12.4 Forward P/E

[Somtom @somstweet]

Macro regimes and transitions. https://t.co/zSaYweOCpV

[Somtom @somstweet]

I know IBKR for this

[Sugabelly 🌕 @sugabelly]

It will never be well with Tinubu and APC supporters.

I know banks and financial services have to do their due diligence but waking up to this email is still somehow.

[China4Tech🌏 @China4Tech]

By @TheDailyCPEC
🇨🇳✋🏦 “Chinese tech giant Tencent
unveils PalmPayment” | Simply hovers
your hand above a palm reader linked
to WeChat Pay, let your biometrics do
all the talking - Future of convenience
#PalmPayment #ai #Tencent #china

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Debt Servicing, Borrowing, and Nigeria’s Fiscal Priorities

During his recent foreign tour, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stated that Nigeria will spend about $11.6 billion on debt servicing, a figure that should concern anyone interested in the country’s economic future and long-term development.

There is nothing inherently wrong with borrowing when it is guided by prudence and directed toward productive investment. Countries such as Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and Indonesia are all heavily indebted, yet their borrowings are largely channelled into education, healthcare, infrastructure, and innovation - sectors that generate long-term economic returns and sustain repayment capacity. As a result, despite high debt levels, their obligations remain more manageable because they are tied to measurable productivity.

Nigeria’s situation, however, is markedly different. A huge proportion of past borrowing has been directed toward consumption, with limited visible or sustainable developmental outcomes to justify the scale of indebtedness.

It is also important to note that a huge portion of the debt currently being serviced was accumulated under the Tinubu administration itself, while borrowing has continued at a significant pace. The administration’s recent external borrowing alone includes about $6 billion (from First Abu Dhabi Bank in the UAE—$5 billion, and UK Export Finance via Citibank London—$1 billion), a further $1.25 billion under consideration from the World Bank, and an additional $516 million arranged through Deutsche Bank, bringing the latest known external loan commitments to roughly $7.8 billion. In addition, domestic borrowing through monthly bond issuances continues to add to the overall debt stock.

Against this backdrop, Nigeria’s 2026 budget shows that health is ₦2.46 trillion, education is ₦2.56 trillion, and poverty alleviation is ₦865 billion, giving a combined total of about ₦5.885 trillion for these three critical sectors. By comparison, debt servicing at about $11.6 billion (approximately ₦17–₦18 trillion, depending on exchange rate assumptions) is almost three times higher than the total allocation to health, education, and social protection combined. This imbalance highlights a troubling fiscal reality in which debt obligations increasingly crowd out investment in human capital and poverty reduction. Moreover, even within the limited allocations to these sectors, funds may not be fully released, and a significant portion of what is eventually released could be misappropriated.

Ultimately, the central issue is not borrowing itself, but whether borrowed funds are being converted into measurable productivity, inclusive growth, and improved living standards. Without this, debt servicing shifts from being a temporary fiscal obligation to a long-term structural burden that constrains development and deepens economic vulnerability.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Cerebras @cerebras]

Live from New York, it's...$CBRS

@Nasdaq thank you for the welcome!

[Fundraising Digest @CryptoRank_VCs]

Augustus $40M Funding Round⚡️

📑 About:
@augustus_bank is a bank for global financial institutions that require instant, round-the-clock, and programmable clearing operations.

🤝 Investors:
Valar Ventures and @creandum

[Somtom @somstweet]

$FINN.NE yet to speed up, suprisingly

[Brandon Wealth 🇨🇦 @BrandonWealth]

📈 Canada’s Top 10 Most-Owned ETFs by AUM right now:

1. $VFV.TO – Vanguard S&P 500
2. $XIC.TO – iShares Core TSX Composite
3. $ZSP.TO – BMO S&P 500
4. $XIU.TO - iShares TSX 60
5. $XEF.TO – iShares Developed Markets ex-NA
6. $VUN.TO – Vanguard U.S. Total Market
7. $XEQT.TO – iShares Core All-Equity
8. $ZCN.TO – BMO TSX Composite
9. $VCN.TO – Vanguard FTSE Canada All Cap
10. $XSP.TO – iShares S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged)

Which ones do​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ you own?

[Somtom @somstweet]

@General_Oluchi Sounds like content fingerprinting. Don't know how dissimilar it is to YouTube's contentid. https://t.co/BucnKUCOSa

[Lord Commander of Qin Dynasty Archers @General_Oluchi]

The X new update is that, if you are a video creator, you need to post your content on X first to get credit when someone else copies your video elsewhere to repost. Any money made on that video will be credited to you! If they post it first (because you shared it elsewhere first), you’ll lose from the royalty.

[Great Oracle Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary. @AbdulMahmud01]

Today marks 35 years since my arrest and detention at Kirikiri Prison by General Ibrahim Babangida.

I honour, with solemn remembrance, the memory of my comrades who were taken with me in that early morning raid by the SSS and who have since gone ahead:

[Irish Independent @Independent_ie]

Mortgage lender Núa Money will let first-time buyers borrow up to five times their income https://t.co/lm7pgjTJ6M