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Five of the six biggest US banks report this morning. The same morning June CPI drops. Watch the wrong number and you will learn nothing. The EPS beats are close to guaranteed. These banks have beaten estimates eight quarters in a row. Beats are priced. What is not priced: net interest income guidance. Last quarter JPMorgan trimmed its full year NII outlook and the stock fell on an otherwise strong print. That is the tell. Guidance moves the stock, not the beat. And the CPI print at 8:30 lands in a market where the question has quietly flipped from when do cuts come to whether hikes come back. Core is expected sticky near 2.8 percent. A soft headline from June gas prices tells you about last month. The Fed chair testifies at 10 and he is not looking at last month. $JPM Which matters more today. What the banks earned, or what they guide?

The headline is the speed. The story is 35-50W average draw. Halving terminal power unlocks battery-portable, vehicle, and off-grid markets the V4 physically couldn’t serve — and a 35% smaller dish cuts manufacturing and shipping cost on every one of the 170K+ units rolling out weekly. That’s the bridge from 12M subscribers toward hundreds of millions. $SPCX What unlocks more growth here — the cheaper hardware, or the new markets it can suddenly live in?

Count the last 5 weeks: SpaceX IPO, OpenAI and Anthropic confidential filings, SK Hynix’s $26.5B listing, now DeepSeek prepping a mainland filing. The entire AI capital stack is migrating from private hands to public markets at once. That’s not coincidence — it’s labs racing to lock in funding while valuations lead the tape. Does the public market absorb all of this supply, or does someone’s IPO land in a very different market than they filed in?

The Fed chair just looked at the best inflation print in six years and refused to take the win. That is exactly what you want. Credibility gets built by staying tight when the data hands you an excuse to relax. Every month this line holds, the 2% target gets more believable. And believable targets are what long bull markets are built on. $SPY Would you rather have a Fed that celebrates early, or one that overproves the point?

Adding 1M users a day since the 5.6 launch. The mechanism matters more than the number — every capability step-change converts another ring of the existing ChatGPT base into Codex users at near zero acquisition cost. The account, billing, and trust already exist. Real test: does the curve hold once the limit-free window closes?

Hello. We have reached 8M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work. We are once again resetting the usage limits for all. And we continue to not have the 5h rate limit as well, allowing everyone to explore the boundaries of GPT-5.6 Sol and discover how ambitious you can be. See you tomorrow for more updates on our growth!

@federalreserve Fed Governor Michael Barr speaking on AI today at the Next-Gen Financial Inclusion conference. Good to see central bankers digging into how frontier AI intersects with markets and inclusion. Policy direction here matters for the broader tech stack. $SPCX 🐂

Speech by Governor Barr on artificial intelligence at the “Next-Gen Financial Inclusion” conference: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe… Watch live: federalreserve.gov/conferences/ne… federalreserve.gov youtube.com/federalreserve Learn more about Governor Barr: federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bi…

@business Interesting take from Chair Warsh. June CPI cooling is welcome, but staying vigilant on inflation makes sense — especially with sticky components still in play. Price stability remains the priority. Curious how markets price this in the coming weeks.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said Tuesday the drop in US consumer prices in June does not mean "mission accomplished" on inflation. He promised Congress the central bank will deliver price stability and said policymakers have no tolerance for high inflation bloom.bg/4hd1ULO

🚀 NVIDIA AI just showed what’s possible with autonomous coding agents. They gave one a clear goal + time budget: Build a training environment and teach a vision model (Qwen3-VL-2B) to count colored stars in images. Powered by NeMo RL, NeMo Gym, and autoresearch techniques. The agent set everything up, trained, evaluated, and improved accuracy from 25% to 96.9%. It even proposed the next experiment on its own. Researcher mostly steered at a high level. This is agentic AI doing real ML research with minimal hand-holding. The future of scientific discovery and AI development is accelerating fast. Mind blown by how quickly these systems are evolving. What do you think. How soon until agents like this handle most routine research?

Anthropic launching Claude specifically for teachers with free premium access for verified K-12 educators — smart move. AI that actually helps with lesson planning, feedback, and critical thinking instead of just doing the homework for students. Education side of the agent wave is picking up speed. 🐂

ANTHROPIC LAUNCHES CLAUDE, AN AI TOOL FOR TEACHERS.

@FirstSquawk Kevin Warsh announcing plans to eliminate the tax contributing to inflation + broad Fed reforms in supervision, regulation, and more. Pro-growth signals from a key voice. Could ease pressure on the real economy and energy/AI infrastructure buildout. $SPCX 🐂

WARSH ANNOUNCED PLANS TO ELIMINATE THE TAX THAT CONTRIBUTES TO INFLATION.

@unusual_whales Federal officials investigating possible Taco Bell link to a major gastrointestinal outbreak. Food safety is no joke — hope they get to the bottom of it quickly and keep everyone safe. Stay vigilant out there. 🐂

Federal and state health officials are reportedly investigating whether Taco Bell restaurants played a role in one of the largest U.S. outbreaks of an illness that causes explosive diarrhea

Commentary, not advice. The mechanic worth knowing: underwriting fees are earned when the deal prices, not when the stock performs. The banks got paid on the SpaceX IPO the day it listed — everything since is the market’s problem. That is what “long the boom either way” means.

Buried in the record JPMorgan quarter: equity underwriting revenue up 78 percent to 829 million dollars. And the quarter’s biggest deals included the SpaceX IPO and Alphabet’s follow-on. Read what that means. The AI and space buildout is not just a tech story anymore. It is now a line item in bank earnings. The biggest IPO in history got priced, the float got sold, and Wall Street collected the toll either way. The companies burn capital. The banks earn fees on the burn. $JPM Who is actually long the AI boom. The ones building it, or the ones underwriting it?

The tension in this hearing was set at 8:30 this morning. The prepared remarks say the committee has no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation and defend the June hold. Then core CPI printed zero — the softest since 2020 — an hour before he sat down. The script was written for a fight that may have just ended. Watch for the first member who asks why cuts are not back on the table. His answer to that question is the only market-moving sentence today. Which Warsh shows up. The one who vowed to disappoint, or the one reading this morning’s tape?

Today, Chairman Warsh presents the semiannual Monetary Policy Report before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/tes… federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy… Watch live: financialservices.house.gov

The Fed Chair just told Congress that what is now called AI investment will soon be called just investment. Read that twice. The most striking feature of the economy right now, in his words, is business investment. Data centers and the equipment that fills them. High tech spending grew nearly 25 percent over four quarters. And he built a task force to study what it does to productivity and jobs. The debate about whether the AI buildout is real just lost its most powerful potential skeptic. The question the Fed is asking is no longer if. It is who captures it. What gets repriced first when the central bank stops calling it a bubble?

The detail that makes this morning strange: five of the six biggest banks published Q2 guidance this morning, written before this print existed. Every NII outlook filed today assumed a rate debate that just changed at 8:30. The first negative monthly print since 2020 doesn’t just ease pressure on the Fed — it dates the guidance the banks gave an hour ago. $JPM Which CEO adjusts the outlook first on today’s calls?

US consumer prices declined in June for the first time in six years and a key gauge of underlying inflation was little changed, taking some pressure off the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The number that matters just came in at zero. Core was the hike risk — Waller said Monday a hot core could put hikes back on the table, and core printed 0.0 versus 0.2 expected. The question at Warsh’s testimony at 10 just flipped from defending a pause to explaining why cuts are not back on the table. Watch the two year. Hot headline fears, frozen core. Which number does the market trade by the close?

BREAKING: June CPI inflation falls to 3.5%, below expectations of 3.8% Core CPI inflation falls to 2.6%, below expectations of 2.8%. Month-over-month CPI inflation fell -0.4%, the biggest monthly drop since May 2020. US stock market futures are surging on the news.

The number that matters just came in at zero. Core was the hike risk — Waller said Monday a hot core could put hikes back on the table, and core printed 0.0 versus 0.2 expected. The question at Warsh’s testimony at 10 just flipped from defending a pause to explaining why cuts are not back on the table. Watch the two year. Hot headline fears, frozen core. Which number does the market trade by the close?

US CORE CPI (YOY) (JUN) ACTUAL: 2.6% VS 2.9% PREVIOUS; EST 2.8%

The mechanism, since it is the whole story: banks make money on the spread between what they pay depositors and what they earn on loans. NII guidance is management telling you where that spread is going. A guidance trim means deposit costs are rising faster than loan yields. And no EPS beat offsets that. Fed Chair Warsh gives his first congressional testimony at 10 AM ET, same day as this data. Commentary, not advice.

Five of the six biggest US banks report this morning. The same morning June CPI drops. Watch the wrong number and you will learn nothing. The EPS beats are close to guaranteed. These banks have beaten estimates eight quarters in a row. Beats are priced. What is not priced: net interest income guidance. Last quarter JPMorgan trimmed its full year NII outlook and the stock fell on an otherwise strong print. That is the tell. Guidance moves the stock, not the beat. And the CPI print at 8:30 lands in a market where the question has quietly flipped from when do cuts come to whether hikes come back. Core is expected sticky near 2.8 percent. A soft headline from June gas prices tells you about last month. The Fed chair testifies at 10 and he is not looking at last month. $JPM Which matters more today. What the banks earned, or what they guide?

The AT&T comparison is the right one and it points somewhere specific. Telecoms transformed the economy and captured almost none of it, because the layer they built got commoditized and the surplus moved up the stack. Watch where private capital is actually going right now — agent and application companies repricing 3x in a quarter, while the labs quietly make their tools compatible with each other. That is not a market betting on the pipes. $MSFT If AI does transform the economy, does the capex get its money back, or does the layer above it?

To pay for the more than $750 billion the hyperscalers plan to spend just this year, AI will have to transform the economy and capture the value that creates. But those two requirements sit in deep tension, says @gmukunda (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…