Trendly digest — 2026-08-25

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Armenian authorities detained a former president and chief rival of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as part of an investigation into the alleged acquisition of state property at below-market prices during his time in office.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Northam Platinum Holdings Ltd. jumped after disclosing that it’s received an unsolicited approach from a “major producer” of platinum-group metals in South Africa.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Fresh signs of European stock exchanges losing out to the US in attracting key IPOs have emerged this week, despite bourses and governments intensifying their efforts to win and retain listings.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Disney is cutting costs while pouring billions into different quarters.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bond traders have begun to treat Mexican debt like junk after the government has spent $130 billion to bail out state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos. Bloomberg's Scott Squires explains. (Source: Bloomberg)”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “CEOs are boasting about the business processes that are being handled by AI”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Long the poster child of fiscal probity in emerging markets, Mexico was, at its peak, an A-rated borrower in the bond market just a few years ago. Today, the country finds itself teetering on the cusp of junk status and paying interest rates that are higher than those offered by…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"They make my table look so festive and welcoming."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Oliver Blume told workers at the main Wolfsburg factory on Tuesday that roughly half of the carmaker’s additional workforce reductions will need to happen in Germany. William Wilkes reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “US sanctions are aimed at Iran’s leaders but regular people are already struggling.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infrastructure company, has ordered 9,000 Nvidia Corp. Vera Rubin systems, seeking to become one of the first adopters of the advanced computing platform in Asia.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Nvidia’s earnings are under pressure. Shares trail the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index by 50%, costs are rising and rivals are building their own chips. Credit markets are uneasy as hedging costs double and Asia traders will be watching closely when results are released this…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Thailand plans to overhaul its securities laws to speed up investigations of financial crimes and tighten oversight of auditors and advisers.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “PSP Growth Managing Director Momei Qu says Nvidia's earnings will be a key test for the AI trade, with expectations so high that simply beating estimates may not be enough for investors. As the chipmaker looks beyond its dominant data center business, Qu says, "They have to tell…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"I literally wear them every day, everywhere!"”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a failed drone attack uncovered this month at an airport shows that Germany is under renewed threat of hybrid assault — and vowed that those responsible will be held accountable.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Ben Rosen, a longtime chairman of Compaq Computer Corp. and key player when Wall Street went all-in on the personal computer, has died. He was 93.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Top Chinese military thinkers wrote about how AI can be used to help commanders make battlefield decisions faster, articles that provide a rare glimpse into how the Asian nation is modernizing its fighting forces.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The investor bailed on share dilution fears. A day later, Alibaba priced a $10.3B offering that sent shares tumbling.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The City of Johannesburg is stuck in a “debt doom loop,” because its failure to collect outstanding obligations has forced it to raise tariffs to the point where fewer and fewer customers are willing or able to pay for services, a new study has found.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “European stocks gained as a pullback in oil prices offered some relief from inflation concerns and bond-market pressures that have weighed on the region in recent sessions.”

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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “OnlyFans, the platform known for adult content, paid its billionaire owner $709 million in dividends over several months prior to his death in March.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"It's big enough for all my tools, yet small enough to fit on my driveway."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir concluded a one-day visit to Iran as part of efforts to ease tensions between Tehran and Washington and end their conflict.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat to unleash an economic assault against Iran risks setting the US on a collision course with China, its main trading partner.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Global stocks rose as chipmakers rebounded, with falling bond yields adding support after Brent crude slid below $90 a barrel.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Use Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode for free (1.3B+ free tokens) from your terminal, app, IDE, or phone like OpenClaw (voice supported + ToS friendly)”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal”

Excerpt from GitHub: “The job search that runs on your machine. AI job application framework built on Claude Code: evaluate postings, tailor CVs, write cover letters, prep interviews. Fork it and own it.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “The agent that grows with you”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Community plugin marketplace for Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Read-only mirror — submit plugins at clau.de/plugin-directory-submission.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “⚡️A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Apache Maka (Incubating) is a local-first AI agent workspace. Model messages, tool calls, tool results, permission decisions, and termination events are recorded as an append-only log.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “🦔 PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools – AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, and more – capture all the context agents need to diagnose problems, uncover opportunities, and…”