The Sunday edition
The Digital Tycoon
Wednesday · October 7, 2026 · 6-minute read
Anthropic cut its small-model price by 90% on the same day the 10-year Treasury touched its highest yield since 2002, and those two facts are one story.
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The Tapecrypto 24h as of Wed 8:03 PM ET · markets at the last close
BTC$83,224 -2.70%ETH$2,571 -4.66%SOL$116.16 -3.66%S&P7,802 -0.22%NASDAQ27,539 -0.22%10Y5.28% +1 bpDXY102.24 +0.40%GOLD$4,135 -1.24%
Everything's red except the 10-year and the dollar. That's a rates day: ether fell 4.66% and bitcoin 2.70% while the S&P gave up only 0.22%.
Money got pricier and intelligence got cheaper on the same Wednesday. It isn't often a decade fits in one day. MRTY
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