The NASDAQ Index—three syllables that sound like a luxury perfume but smell more like a casino floor at 4 a.m.—has become the planet’s unofficial mood ring. When it flashes green, champagne corks ricochet from Silicon Roundabout to Shenzhen. When it bleeds red, finance ministers cancel dinner reservations in 26 languages and Bitcoin bros discover the…
Quantum Computing, Imperial Ambitions, and the Curious Case of QBTS Stock By Our Correspondent in a Café That Still Accepts Cash PARIS—On any given afternoon along the Boulevard Saint-Germain you can overhear hedge-fund tourists explaining quantum superposition to their mistresses between sips of €9 espresso. The object of their breathless pedagogy is usually QBTS, the…
A micro-cap company from Plano, Texas, just reminded the planet that the twenty-first-century gold rush isn’t in the Yukon—it’s in whatever widget happens to rhyme with “artificial intelligence” this week. Rezolve AI (ticker: RGTI, formerly the less glamorous “Armada Acquisition Corp.”) has become the latest contestant in the global sweepstakes where venture capitalists, pension funds,…
