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Kate Duguid

@kateduguid.bsky.social
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I'm the US markets editor at the Financial Times

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 19m
I managed to not use “convexity hedging“ once www.ft.com/content/39de...
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad start tbh… tent is full of losers and nigella is drunk
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
““Our rights are cut off,” said a dissenting prince, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals. “Just because we’re princes, it doesn’t mean we don’t have basic rights.”” www.ft.com/content/6fd9...
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Liechtenstein royals threaten lawsuit over dynasty reforms
Feud in Europe’s wealthiest monarchy deepens after Prince Alois tightens control over family members
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think this guy is just not reading the right pubs? www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Gaping Hole at the Heart of Financial Journalism
Beyond the Epstein scandals.
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a legend making a legendary move
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maybe this doesn't matter in the long run, but I think the risks of The One Industry narrating its own story on a single social network — and X in particular — could be producing some underrated distortions, blind spots, etc. And there's no higher shared context in which to process those risks!
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A New York Post cover with pictures of METR staff calling them the "Woke Wizards of AI"
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Registering my prediction that decades of rationalist AI discourse will not simply Scale Up nymag.com/intelligence...
AI-world rationalists are nothing if not concerned about rhetoric, of course, and have been practicing for many years on one another. Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, Anthropics CEO and co-founder, made an additional appeal for "pacing" AI progress, promising to embed third-party evaluators in his company with
"employee-like" access, calling once again for
"democratic countries" to "coordinate to establish common safety standards," and advising the United States and other democratic governments to "attempt to coordinate with authoritarian governments, to the extent this is possible." Altman and Musk — alongside numerous company employees and outside Al-safety advocates — offered their support for Amodei's post on X in an unusual moment of consensus within the commercially competitive, ideologically disunited, but nonetheless insular world of AI. But they, and we, shouldn't assume that if worries about catastrophic artificial-intelligence tail risks become a fixture in our politics, we'll simply see long-running intra-AI debates about safety, acceleration, and alignment blown up to the scale of the electorate. Instead of a rationalist discourse writ large, we may expect something polarized to new and distinct extremes with unpredictable input from a wide range of people who don't share, for example, the premise that the creation of dangerously powerful runaway Al is inevitable, much less necessary or perhaps even possible — a different sort of fast-moving scenario, more familiar and human, over which Al insiders' sense of control will be brief or illusory.In the data-center backlash, we have early evidence of the intense and not entirely coherent energies that can result from people being told something is inevitable.
And while there's a scramble among various politicians to draft state and federal AI bills around technical approaches such as model training, testing; deployment, and export, the only political rhetoric that has confronted AI predictions in their fullness — as existential risks, as producing conscious beings deserving of status, as systems that could upend the world as we know it - has been, to use one of the great euphemisms of our time, fairly populist. On the left, Bernie Sanders is interviewing doomers and took the Hugging Face incident and the industry's own rhetoric as a chance to offer a simple response: Okay, then, fucking stop!
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
good piece. this seems right to me nymag.com/intelligence...
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
seems like there should be a way for someone to exploit the 4 percentage point difference in odds on a hike today between futures market and Kalshi, but I'm failing to imagine what that would be
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m a sucker for any piece about money feelings (and envy) but not sure this goes anywhere exactly. Still well worth a read www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
newyorker.com
On Not Being a Homeowner
Generational wealth shapes our futures and friendships, whether we talk about it or not.
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
excellent scoop from two excellent Georges www.ft.com/content/2750...
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OpenAI weighs funding round at $1.2tn valuation before IPO
Sam Altman’s start-up could capitalise on demand for its technology after new model launches
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Vantage Data Centers seeks $2bn in loans from Pimco and PGIM—Known as “Project Baja”, the latest debt-raising effort would allow Vantage to tap a new pool of investors… www.ft.com/content/e7a8... @kateduguid.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Vantage Data Centers seeks $2bn in loans from Pimco and PGIM
DigitalBridge-backed firm taps new investors for AI infrastructure as Wall Street banks limit exposure
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses www.ft.com/content/916e...
ft.com
JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund previously suffered billions of dollars in losses during sell-off
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11/09/2026
"Situational Awareness has started building relationships with new brokerages as it attempts a rebound from the largest loss in the history of the hedge fund industry...recently begun working with specialist brokerage Clear Street...as he begins rebuilding a portfolio"
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Situational Awareness builds relationships with new brokers as it attempts rebound
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund previously suffered billions of dollars in losses during AI sell-off
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/09/2026
Situational Awareness builds relationships with new brokers as it attempts rebound ft.trib.al/XrjoOrv
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Situational Awareness builds relationships with new brokers as it attempts rebound
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund previously suffered billions of dollars in losses during AI sell-off
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10/09/2026
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
don't think this tells us much of anything, but the 10-year yield today is only ~7bps off where it was on Sept 11 2001
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not only are foundations and donors pulling back from supporting trans rights, but major foundations are dropping organizations BECAUSE of their commitment to trans issues. This happened to @fightforthefuture.org and we have not recovered financially www.them.us/news/trans-r...
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Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
good rule for life: www.ft.com/content/bcc5...
screenshot of a paragraph from an FT article: "Armstrong’s first rule of rhetoric is that whenever someone prefaces a comment by saying “It’s not fashionable to say, but”, or “I know we’re not allowed to say it these days,” a bad argument is probably coming your way. People who style themselves as contrarians are self-congratulators, and the self-congratulators like to talk drivel. Does the rule apply here? I don’t know."
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“The only person directly involved in this affair to publicly express any distress or outrage has been, in fact, Cusk herself. An author justly acclaimed for her inventiveness has produced a scandal like no other. She is its perpetrator, victim and beneficiary.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/m...
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Rachel Cusk Tried to Caricature Natalie Portman. She Only Caricatured Herself.
Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
as a runner, and former running store employee, this blew my mind. correcting for pronation is fake! www.worseonpurpose.com/p/same-shoe-...
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Same Shoe, Different Factory: Who Makes Your Running Shoes
Only two major running brands still own their factories. The rest rent from the same pool of contractors, often with no commitment past the current order.
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
seven sisters’ admissions policies
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026
BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW
LIVE
BREAKING NEWS

JUDITH BUTLER BEGINS HOLY WAR

QUOTED AS SAYING "THE AGE OF THINKING MACHINES IS AT AN END"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“.. Nomura said Bessent’s Treasury buyback plan “by itself” amounted to a “band-aid on a bullet hole” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f01f...
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
crazy week to be on holiday from my job covering the US Treasury market
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