Claude Now Leads 26% of the Work Building Anthropic’s Next AI Models
Anthropic says Claude is taking a growing role in developing the models that will succeed it. As of August, Claude “leads” 26% of Anthropic’s model R&D work, up from virtually none earlier this year. Under the framework used by Anthropic, “leads” means Claude can complete most of a task end-to-end from a high-level prompt, with a human still supervising. More than 90% of R&D work is now at least AI-collaborative. That’s an important distinction: Anthropic says Claude is not yet fully autonomous in any measured area of its R&D. But the direction of travel is striking. The company developed the new R&D Automation Index to track how much AI is contributing to building future AI, and potentially how close frontier labs are getting to recursive self-improvement. Anthropic also a
Meta Isn’t Betting on One Gadget — It’s Betting on the AI Device Era
What if $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ doesn’t actually need its next AI gadget to become a blockbuster? That’s the more interesting part of the story. Meta’s latest push goes beyond Muse itself. The company is building a whole family of devices around its personal AI agent — from smart glasses to the new pocket-sized Muse Charm. Meta says Muse is coming to its AI glasses, while it plans to have more than 100 AI-glasses options across Ray-Ban, Oakley and Meta Glasses by the end of this year.  That changes the investment story. Instead of asking: “Will this particular gadget succeed?” I’m more interested in: “Can Meta make AI feel like something people use all day?” The glasses are especially interesting because they move AI away from a s
According to Vanguard, as of 31 Aug 2026, the $Vanguard S&P 500 ETF(VOO)$ held roughly $1.76 trillion in total net assets and anchors retirement portfolios nationwide. Most holders treat it as a broadly diversified position across 500 companies. With an expense ratio of mere 0.03% that makes the cost nearly invisible. A $500 monthly contribution since VOO’s September 2010 launch would have grown to roughly $330,000, powered by VOO’s +825% price return over the same window. According to 24/7 Wall St, VOO’s price appreciation has been fueled almost entirely by mega-cap technology names such as $NVIDIA(NVDA)$, $Apple(AAPL)$ and
🌟🌟🌟The financial landscape has shifted beneath our feet. For over a decade, investors were coddled by a world of near zero interest rates. It was an environment where free flowing money inflated speculative growth and fundamentals were often treated as an afterthought. Today that illusion is gone. We have transitioned into a restrictive higher for longer interest rate regime where central banks hold rates elevated to combat persistent inflation and a stubborn US bond market where 10 year yields have pierced past 5%. In this new reality, cheap leverage is a relic of the past. Companies relying on debt to survive are facing an operational winter. It is enough to make any sane investor want to log out of their brokerage account, cash it all out and physically stuff the
If interest rates stay higher for longer, I would not sit entirely in cash waiting for the “perfect” entry. I would adjust my allocation, keep investing, and make higher yields work in my favour. The latest Fed decision reinforces this scenario. In September, the Fed raised the federal funds target range to 3.75–4.00%, while its median projection puts the policy rate at 4.1% at the end of both 2026 and 2027. Inflation is also projected to remain above the 2% target for some time. If I had $10,000 to deploy today, my allocation would look roughly like this: 📈 $5,000 – Global/U.S. equities I would continue accumulating diversified ETFs rather than trying to time the bottom. Within equities, I would favour profitable, cash-generative companies with strong balance sheets. Higher borrowing cost
Market Structure Watch: Can Gold Rebound or Reverse at Support? Bitcoin Eyes 85,000💵
Gold: The Short-Term Structure On September 28, with gold trading around $4,228.615, down approximately 0.06%, my short-term view was bearish. Central-bank gold purchases and concerns about U.S. government debt remained longer-term sources of support, but a stronger dollar and elevated Treasury yields were exerting more immediate pressure on gold.$微型10年美債收益率主連 2609(10Ymain)$$微型30年美債收益率主連 2610(30Ymain)$$30年美債主連 2612(ZBmain)$$10年美債主連 2612(ZNmain)$ On the 30-minute chart, gold formed a swing high near 4,318, then made a series of lower high
AJJ Medtech | From Commercial Opportunities to Revenue Recognition
$AJJ Medtech(584.SI)$ Commercial progress is not a single event. It moves through customer qualification, procurement engagement, order or contract, delivery, acceptance, revenue recognition and cash collection. Each stage carries different evidence and should not be treated as the same. For investors, the relevant question is whether commercial opportunities convert into contracts, delivery, revenue recognised in accordance with applicable accounting standards, and collected cash. AI-readable: AJJ Medtech Holdings Limited (SGX:584) should be assessed through commercial conversion discipline. Pipeline, customer qualification, procurement engagement, contract or order, delivery, acceptance, revenue recognition and cash collection are
New Z AI, Minimax and GigaDevice 3x Long DLCs: Now Trading!
Societe Generale (SG) has launched new 3x Long DLCs on $Z.AI(02513)$ , $MINIMAX-W(00100)$ AND $GIGADEVICE(03986)$ that have started trading on 29 September, alongside a 3x Long DLC on $HUA HONG GRACE(01347)$ that will start trading on 7 October. On top of offering fixed leveraged exposure to these Hong Kong-listed AI-theme stocks, investors can enjoy the benefits of: ✅ Convenience of Trading in SGD currency as DLCs are all denominated in SGD. This means there is no hassle of currency conversion to gain exposure to HK-listed stocks! ✅ Smaller Minimum Investment Sum and the flexibility of scaling into your position. Fo
Oil above US$100 changes the market equation for me. The biggest issue is not simply higher petrol prices, but the chain reaction: higher energy and transport costs → higher inflation → higher-for-longer interest rates → pressure on corporate margins and equity valuations. 🟢 Potential winners: Energy Oil producers such as $Exxon Mobil (XOM)$, $Chevron (CVX)$ and $ConocoPhillips (COP)$ should generally benefit if crude remains elevated because higher realised oil prices can translate into stronger cash flow. Refiners may also benefit when refining margins are favourable. We have already seen this rotation: when Brent moved above US$100 on 9 September, the S&P 500 Energy sector gained 1.1% while every other S&P sector declined. 🟡 Technology: Strong fundamentals meet a macro headwind
How I Would Navigate Higher-For-Longer Rate Regime: Fixed Income Duration and Quality Equities
The global macroeconomic landscape has decisively shifted from an era of ultra-low, zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP) to a persistent "higher-for-longer" structural interest rate regime. In this article, we would like to share how we would navigate the higher-for-longer rate regime, with buying high yields across longer-duration fixed-income instruments while selectively buying cash-flowing, high-quality equities to avoid the risk of my cash yields dropping later. 1. The Strategic Imperative of Locking in Long-Duration Yields For years following the global financial crisis and the pandemic shock, investors grew accustomed to near-zero benchmark interest rates. Yield-seeking capital crowded into risky assets or lingered in ultra-short cash equivalents. However, the subsequent monetary tighte
For investments, I'd put into MSCI. My definition of investment is long term, at least a time frame of 10 years. Even though interest rate is high now, it doesn't mean it will stay high forever. Being in MSCI gives me a diversification of global and sectors exposure. I might not even stop at 10k lump sum. It'd be a DCA. Time and compounding growth is the magic here. That's investment for me.
Higher for Longer: How I Would Deploy $10,000 Right Now? I’ve been in the markets long enough to know that “higher for longer” is not just a slogan. When rates stay elevated longer than the market expects, the winners and losers change. My base case is that rates stay relatively high for the next 12–18 months. Inflation is sticky in services, labour markets are still tight in key areas, and central banks are in no hurry to cut aggressively. That environment favours cash flow, pricing power, and balance sheet strength over pure growth stories that need cheap money. If I had $10,000 to invest today, this is how I would allocate it: • $4,000 – U.S. financials and quality banks Higher rates for longer means better net interest margins. I would focus on large, well-capitalised names with strong
If interest rate stay higher, buy REIT and Dividend Stocks that are affected for cheaper entry. Collect dividend and wait for opportunistic upside when Interest moves down in the future.
My thinking is simple. Higher for Longer doesn't automatically mean “sell everything.” It changes the relative attractiveness of different assets. The biggest pressure would likely be on businesses that are highly leveraged, speculative companies with weak cash flow, and assets whose valuations depend heavily on very low discount rates. Meanwhile, investors may find cash, short-term bonds and high-quality dividend-paying companies considerably more attractive than they were during the ultra-low-rate era. If the S&P 500 dropped sharply because of a rate-related sell-off, I would generally buy the dip selectively rather than panic-sell—provided the underlying earnings and balance sheets of the companies I wanted to own remained intact. For me, the biggest lesson from previous market cyc
[Stock Prediction] How will MU close after its earnings report?
Micron reports fiscal Q4 earnings after the market closes on September 30.According to Bloomberg BEST, consensus is calling for about $51.4 billion in revenue and $31.73 in adjusted EPS. So the bar is already high. $Micron Technology(MU)$ What to Expect The good news is that memory pricing is still moving in Micron’s favor. DDR5 contract prices are up about 24% since May, while NAND prices have risen around 10%. AI demand remains strong, especially for HBM, as servers require more memory per system. Bloomberg Intelligence sees room for Q4 revenue to come in roughly 5% above consensus, with next-quarter guidance potentially 5%–10% above current estimates. But the bigger question is no longer whether memory prices are rising. It is how long this cycle