https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/amazon-mechanical-turk-shutdown-ai-labeling.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Amazon is closing the human workforce that trained the machines. It has until September 30. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/core-pce-3-3-gdp-1-5-nvidia-night.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Inflation is running at 3.7%. The economy grew 1.5%. The Fed’s next move might still be a hike. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/meta-16-7-billion-states-social-media-settlement.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Meta is paying about $16.7 billion to settle with 29 states. The teen usage limits are the expensive part. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/nfl-cutdown-day-sunday-1184-players.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 1,184 NFL players lose their jobs on Sunday. The league quietly deleted two days of evidence. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/nvidia-279-billion-supply-commitments-vera-rubin.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Nvidia guided to $108 billion. The number that matters is $279 billion. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/openai-jalapeno-benchmarks-nvidia-blackwell.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 OpenAI benchmarked its own chip against Nvidia’s. It published the numbers the day before Nvidia’s earnings. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/salesforce-2-6-billion-anthropic-gain-earnings-night.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Nvidia grew 106% and slipped. Salesforce grew 11% and jumped 14%. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/vanguard-altruist-4-6-billion-advisor-custody.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Vanguard is paying $4.6 billion for a company it seeded six years ago https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/xrp-ledger-3-3-0-amendment-vote-institutional-features.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-26 Ripple’s pitch to banks is stuck in a validator vote. Two of the features already failed one. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/bitcoin-80000-debasement-trade.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 Bitcoin clears $80,000 for the first time since May. The real story is the dollar. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/consumer-confidence-seven-month-low-stocks-rose.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 Consumer confidence fell to a seven-month low. The market bought Nvidia anyway. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/dicks-foot-locker-guidance-cut.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 DICK’S own stores grew 4.9%. Foot Locker sank the quarter anyway — and the stock dropped 20%. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/nvidia-vera-cpu-hot-chips-olympus.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 Nvidia detailed its first homegrown CPU core the day before earnings. It’s aimed at Intel and AMD. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/openai-sb53-reversal-strengthen-ai-law.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 OpenAI spent last year fighting California’s AI law. Now it wants the law toughened. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/serena-alcaraz-us-open-mixed-doubles-return.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 Serena is back at the US Open today. Her partner is the defending champion. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/spacex-starbase-louisiana-100-billion.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 SpaceX is building a $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana. Musk wants 30 Starship flights a day from it. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/taiwan-nvidia-b300-smuggling-indictments.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 Taiwan charged nine people with smuggling AI servers to China. One worked at Nvidia. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/xrp-etf-record-inflows-flash-crash.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-25 XRP’s flash crash wiped out the leverage. The ETF money never stopped. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/alibaba-10-billion-placement-burry-exit.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Alibaba sold $10.2 billion of new shares for AI — the biggest follow-on in Hong Kong history. Michael Burry sold too. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/alibaba-qwen-ui-agent-screen-agents.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Alibaba trained an AI on 100 real phones. It says the result outclicks GPT‑5.6 and Claude. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/cftc-clarity-act-september-15-deadline.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Crypto’s rulebook now has a hard date: September 15 — or the CFTC writes it alone https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/chips-to-banks-rotation-nvidia-week.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Chips down, banks up: Wall Street spent Monday getting out of Nvidia’s way https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/hugging-face-13-billion-sale-exploration.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Hugging Face is testing a $13 billion sale. The buyer list is the problem. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/nvidia-perplexity-30-billion-stake-talks.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Nvidia tried to rent Perplexity. Now it wants to own a piece — at $30 billion. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/shein-hong-kong-ipo-27-billion-valuation.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 Shein opens its Hong Kong IPO at $27 billion — roughly a quarter of its 2022 peak https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/ups-2-billion-global-buildout-30000-cuts.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 UPS is cutting 30,000 jobs at home — and spending $2 billion building everywhere else https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/vuelta-stage-3-hailstorm-cancelled-font-romeu.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 The Vuelta reached its first mountain. The sky cancelled the exam. https://getsharpbrief.com/articles/xpeng-robotics-900-million-humanoid-raise.html The Sharp Brief en 2026-08-24 XPeng’s robot arm raised $900 million — and promised mass production in four months