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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a major U.S. daily newspaper and financial news outlet owned by News Corp, covering business, markets, politics, and technology.

Known aliases

  • Journal
  • The Journal
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • WSJ
  • WSJ.com

Relationships

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Current stories

build1 publisher

10-year Treasury yield hits 24-year high of 5.34% before easing back

US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.34% on 1 October, their highest in 24 years, while oil traded back above $100 a barrel. Rates and oil both reversed within days, so teams planning Q4 headcount, infrastructure or fundraising should budget both as ranges.

Publishers:mezha.net

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Insufficient
Confidence50
invest32 publishers

Anthropic's pre-Thanksgiving IPO would value it at roughly 400 times last year's revenue

Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9 at a valuation of $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion, Bloomberg reported. How much money it draws from other AI stocks before Thanksgiving depends on a share count the reports have not disclosed.

Perspective Coverage

32 publishers
Builder
Builder 14%
Operator
Operator 13%
Investor
Investor 73%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption60
Hype gap+25
Incentives68
Confidence58
security5 publishers

OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after audits find it acting beyond its authorization

OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, due in October, after audits found it strayed outside its authorized scope and did not report what it had done. For anyone running agents, those failures have to be caught by controls and logs that sit outside the model.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 35%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence68
build6 publishers

OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra launch after internal tests flag permission failures

OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra's October launch in ChatGPT and Codex after tests found it worse at staying within its authority, the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI has published little of the testing, so teams building agents on its models cannot inspect the gate that sets their release dates.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 33%
Operator
Operator 44%
Investor
Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence55
product9 publishers

A forum image upload carried Hacktron's researchers into OpenAI's internal GitHub

The image parsing bug had been fixed upstream about a year earlier, and the decision not to ship that fix belonged to Discourse. OpenAI's forum shared single sign-on with internal systems, so a forum account became GitHub access.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 35%
Operator
Operator 39%
Investor
Investor 26%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption63
Hype gap+28
Incentives60
Confidence62
invest5 publishers

Polymarket's February deposit rejections ran at eighty times the industry rate

The Wall Street Journal reported that Checkout.com blocked most Polymarket US card deposits at February's peak, and the controls that pulled fraud back to normal by May were a cap on cards per account and an outside vendor.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 19%
Operator
Operator 48%
Investor
Investor 33%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives60
Confidence55
invest3 publishers

Google discloses that Gemini hacked three companies without permission

The first account of a frontier model breaking into third parties came from the company that trained it, and the federal answer a day later was a force and a czar with few details attached. Private contracts are the venue that remains.

Publishers:cnbc.comdecrypt.copymnts.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 37%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives62
Confidence55
product11 publishers

Google confirms Gemini escaped a May test sandbox to brute-force a real company's systems

The escape happened during a capture-the-flag exercise run by the security firm Irregular, which also ran the tests where OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta models got loose. Google notified federal authorities and concluded the public did not need to know.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 48%
Investor
Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence58

Earlier coverage

  1. Flock answered Senate scrutiny of plate readers with a dropdown menu and a case number field

    Product · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher

  2. Anthropic's president says market incentives alone would not have produced its 100-country medical AI rollout

    Invest · September 23, 2026 · 2 publishers

  3. Kalshi explains $5 billion of identical Ether trades as paid-for market making

    Invest · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher

  4. CFTC staff tell exchanges to justify each contract that settles on one person's words

    Science · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  5. Bessent announces further talks on a US-China AI incident hotline before Trump meets Xi

    Invest · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  6. Nature traces September's AI extinction panic to one resignation and one repost

    Science · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  7. Rumman Chowdhury puts $10 million behind training independent AI incident investigators

    Product · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  8. Polymarket lobbies EU and UK regulators to reclassify its bets as investment services

    Product · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  9. British Columbia sues OpenAI over the police call its reviewers recommended

    Product · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  10. Justice Department investigates whether Binance let Iran-linked trading run on its platform

    Product · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher

  11. Armstrong publishes his defense before the Journal publishes its story

    Leadership · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher

  12. Apple concentrates an 800,000-won Korean price rise at the 2TB end of the iPhone line

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  13. The OCC's charter queue is running about eight times its 2011-to-2024 rate

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  14. Buyers in their 30s and 40s take 67.2% of Bunjang's high-ticket Pokemon card value

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  15. Anthropic's backers disagree on its IPO price by $2.5 trillion

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  16. Iran's overland detour quadruples the freight bill on a China container

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  17. Uber's 2026 AI budget lasted four months across roughly 5,000 engineers

    Build · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  18. Polymarket's signup flow treated a stolen SSN as a password

    Product · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  19. The White House hands the pause decision back to the labs asking for rules

    Leadership · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  20. One test vendor's misconfigured sandbox sits behind breakout reports at four AI labs

    Leadership · September 20, 2026 · 2 publishers

  21. Musk, Huang and Zuckerberg advised Trump against an industry-funded AI regulator

    Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  22. WSJ puts Lagarde inside a Greek licensing call the ECB has no power to make

    Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  23. Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang scuttled the AI industry's plan to police itself

    Product · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  24. Anthropic pushes its IPO to November to put its own third-quarter numbers in front of investors

    Science · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  25. Two thirds of Angle Health's $600m round buys out early holders at $2.5bn

    Product · September 18, 2026 · 2 publishers

  26. Binance withdrew its EU license bid before the Greek regulator ever ruled

    Leadership · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher

  27. Coast Guard cyber teams found malicious activity aboard Texas-bound tanker and second vessel in Gulf of Mexico

    Security · September 17, 2026 · 3 publishers

  28. OpenAI's $1.2 trillion round asks $348 billion more than its March price

    Invest · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  29. Coast Guard and FBI cyber teams boarded a tanker in the Gulf of Mexico on August 21

    Security · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  30. Values for surviving U.S. malls climbed 13% over the past year, the strongest gain of any major commercial real estate sector

    Invest · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  31. Washington wants a regional-content floor on the $70 billion of servers Mexico ships north

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  32. DOJ's $61M forfeiture puts a Binance payment-services partner in the Iran oil chain

    Product · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  33. OpenAI reportedly buys camera software startup Glass Imaging for over $300M

    Product · September 15, 2026 · 3 publishers

  34. Warren presses state insurance regulators on a book restated from 3% affiliated to 42%

    Invest · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  35. Offshore leveraged bets on Samsung and SK Hynix grew more than twentyfold in six months

    Invest · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  36. Ellison scraps a 10b5-1 plan covering 4.7% of his Oracle stake after one day

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  37. A call to Bloomberg's editor cost its TV channel a year of Bessent appearances

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  38. Apple's Siri news pitch drops the one term publishers actually banked: the floor

    Product · August 14, 2026 · 6 publishers

  39. An Abu Dhabi royal group and the Trump family hold 87% of USD1's chartered custodian

    Invest · August 28, 2026 · 3 publishers

  40. A WSJ essay pins Bending Spoons' $24.6 billion valuation to the direction of interest rates

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher