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Rigetti’s Day Trip & The AI Spending Spree

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It wasn’t anything Rigetti did, you understand. No miraculous breakthrough in quantum entanglement. No sudden realization that they could power the entire Eastern Seaboard with a slightly modified toaster oven. Just… the market decided to be nice for a day. A collective sigh of relief, or maybe just a temporary lapse in judgment. It reminded me of my Aunt Mildred, who once accidentally donated her entire collection of porcelain dolls to a dog shelter. A momentary miscalculation with surprisingly cheerful consequences.

Markets Today: A Bull’s Mild Amusement

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The semiconductor guilds4, led by the esteemed Nvidia (NVDA +8.01%), experienced a resurgence, fuelled by renewed demand for the arcane devices that power the increasingly insistent digital spirits. MicroStrategy (MSTR +26.09%), those brave souls who gamble on the fluctuating value of Bitcoin, also saw a substantial increase in fortune as the aforementioned digital spirit briefly remembered its manners and climbed back above $70,000. However, not all fared so well. Amazon.com (AMZN -5.49%), apparently planning to build a city-sized warehouse to house all the things people vaguely think they might need someday, saw its stock dip. Micron Technology (MU +3.17%) also experienced a slight setback, due to whispers of a delay in the production of a particularly elusive memory chip – the HBM4, rumoured to hold the secrets of forgotten cat videos.

Here Are the Best Movies to Stream this Weekend on Disney+, Including a Beloved Animated Classic

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Ratatouille tells the story of Remy, a gifted rat who longs to be a chef, even though his family doesn’t support his dream and it’s unusual for a rat to cook. He teams up with Linguini, a struggling kitchen worker, at a renowned Paris restaurant that was once the pride of Remy’s culinary hero. Together, they create incredible dishes that impress even the toughest food critics. The film highlights the importance of never giving up and shows that talent can be found in the most unexpected places. As a beloved Pixar movie, Ratatouille continues to be a popular choice for viewers on the streaming service.

Open World Games That Are Completely Empty

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This game challenges players to drive a bus on a realistic, but deliberately monotonous, eight-hour trip from Tucson to Las Vegas. The route is a flat, unchanging road with absolutely nothing happening – no other traffic, and the only event is a bug hitting the windshield. It was created as a joke, poking fun at how overly realistic some older computer games tried to be, and it’s now well-known for being a strikingly empty and simple digital world.

XRP’s Ascent: A Fleeting Salvation?

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The surge, predictably, echoes the larger market’s convulsions, a desperate rebound following Bitcoin‘s near-fall. The behemoth stumbled, flirting with the $60,000 mark, a chilling reminder of the fragility inherent in these constructed realities. And like sheep, the altcoins follow, XRP among them, caught in the undertow of collective delusion. Is it genuine recovery, or merely a collective postponement of the inevitable reckoning?

Every GAME OF THRONES Easter Egg In A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS Episode 4

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Inspired by shows like Game of Thrones, Trial by Combat was a way to settle disputes through a duel. Instead of a judge, the outcome was believed to be decided by divine intervention. The accused and accuser, or their chosen champions, would fight to the death, with the victor proving either guilt or innocence. However, a death wasn’t always necessary – if the accuser gave up, the accused was automatically considered innocent. Importantly, any knight, regardless of rank, had the right to demand a Trial by Combat. This tradition…

Palantir: A Phantom in the Machine

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This company, it seems, fashions software that analyzes…data. A rather mundane task, one might think, until one considers the sheer volume of meaningless information that now swirls around us, a digital blizzard of cat videos and forgotten passwords. Palantir, it is claimed, can sift through this chaos, extract…insights. It has aided military endeavors, uncovered financial trickery, even, they say, optimized hospital schedules. One pictures a vast, subterranean chamber filled with clerks frantically rearranging appointment slips. The numbers are, undeniably, impressive. A 70% growth in the last quarter, a projected $7.19 billion in sales for the coming year. But growth, dear reader, is a fickle mistress. It is a phantom, easily conjured, easily dispelled.

Opendoor: A House of Cards?

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The company proclaims a ‘turnaround strategy,’ an ‘energizing’ of its iBuyer business. But such pronouncements, uttered with the confident air of those accustomed to diverting attention, demand scrutiny. Does Opendoor possess the fortitude to truly disrupt the entrenched realities of the real estate market, or is it merely another exquisitely crafted illusion, a gilded trap for the unwary?