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Last year witnessed a peculiar enthusiasm for crypto perpetual futures – “perps,” as the cognoscenti murmur – and within this bubbling cauldron of speculation, Hyperliquid has risen, rather swiftly, to prominence. It has become a favored haunt for those who treat financial markets as a species of high-stakes lepidoptery, a place to pin down volatility with maximal leverage. The appeal, naturally, rests with the risk-seeking investor, the one who finds a peculiar thrill in the dance with potential ruin. It allows for a most elegant form of wagering on the future, unburdened by the tiresome limitations of fixed expiration dates.

Anyway, I stumbled across this whole “ten dollars a day” thing. Ten dollars. It’s…insulting, frankly. Like they think we’re all so financially destitute that ten dollars is a significant sum. But fine, let’s play along. Apparently, if you manage to scrape together ten bucks a day – and that’s a big if, let’s be honest – for…thirty-five years? You might end up with a million dollars. Thirty-five years! I’ll be dust. And for what? So some fund manager can take a cut and buy a bigger yacht?

This Bitcoin, it’s been twitchy lately, fallen off its high horse by a good forty percent. The so-called experts, they chatter about reasons, wave their charts and graphs, but it feels like trying to hold smoke. The wind shifts, and the reasons change. It’s a wild thing, this market, and pretending you’ve got it figured out is a fool’s errand.

The pursuit of quantum supremacy, as it is grandly termed, is a peculiar spectacle. It resembles nothing so much as a flock of pigeons attempting to construct a cathedral. Ambitious, certainly, but prone to chaotic flapping and the inevitable accumulation of…well, you understand. IonQ, a name that suggests both a scientific endeavour and a particularly potent brand of tonic water, has garnered much attention. Yet, to place one’s faith entirely in such a venture is akin to betting on a snail in the Grand National. A charming prospect, perhaps, but ultimately…unlikely.

Alphabet, that behemoth of search and surveillance, attempts to craft its own “Tensor Processing Units” – a charmingly bureaucratic name, suggesting a department devoted to calculating the optimal angle for filing complaints. But even they, with all their resources, find themselves returning to Nvidia, like a prodigal son seeking forgiveness… and processing power. A humbling sight, really.

Now, Anthropic is one of those AI companies that pops up every other Tuesday, all promising to revolutionize everything. But Claude Code, it seems, is different. Semianalysis – a blog followed by people who know an awful lot about semiconductors, which is more than I do, frankly – has declared it a potential inflection point in what they call “Agentic AI.” Apparently, this means AI is moving beyond simply answering questions to actually doing things. They predict it could be responsible for over 20% of all code changes on GitHub by the end of the year. That’s a staggering thought when you consider how much code is already sloshing around in the digital ether. It’s a bit like discovering a new species of digital worker, isn’t it?

Let’s be real, Amazon’s Q4 numbers were…robust. Sales up 14%, hitting $213.4 billion? Advertising revenue jumping 23% to $21.3 billion? It’s like they’re vacuuming up all the disposable income in America. And AWS, their cloud division? That’s the real cash cow. $35.6 billion in sales, accelerating growth. By 2025, they’re projecting $128.7 billion in sales and $45.6 billion in operating income. It’s enough to make even Jeff Bezos raise an eyebrow.