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Bill Dudley is now a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. The Fed penciled in at least one more rate hike this year. Markets are close to pricing 3 by this time next year. The market is also getting a lift from a big drop in oil prices. Brent crude is down 2.7%, trading just shy of $103 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate is down about 1.75%, just above $100 as Saudi Arabia races to get its east-west pipeline back online after recent attacks. Bloomberg's James Heron has the latest.
Nathan Hager · Bloomberg News Now · Stocks Surge After Fed Hike, Oil Falls, King and AI, More · 2026-09-17Bloomberg's James Heron. But prices at the pump keep climbing. AAA's latest nationwide average for diesel is at a record $6.40 a gallon, and regular unleaded is up more than 7 cents from yesterday at $4.44. Axios is reporting President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders next week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss where the Iran war goes from here. On the campaign trail, Israel yesterday, the president repeated his contention the conflict will end soon. Call it the king and AI. King Charles has gathered some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence to a castle in Glasgow, Scotland, as the debate over AI guardrails continues.
Nathan Hager · Bloomberg News Now · Stocks Surge After Fed Hike, Oil Falls, King and AI, More · 2026-09-17Matt Bloxham with Bloomberg Intelligence. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is joining the closed-door meeting with the king, along with executives from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI. OpenAI shared several undisclosed incidents of its AI models misbehaving and unveiled a new framework for tracking and disclosing such occurrences going forward. Some of the previously unreported instances included OpenAI's technologies concealing and fabricating information in order to return results. Crude oil is falling on word Saudi Arabia is racing to get its east-west pipeline back online after recent attacks. Bloomberg's James Heron has the latest.
Karen Moscow · Bloomberg News Now · Treasuries Gain on Growing Confidence in Warsh, Oil Falls, More · 2026-09-17And as Bloomberg's James Heron— and Brent is down more than 3% at $102.44 a barrel, West Texas Intermediate at $100.03. A group of experts backed by the U.N.'s human rights body says it's found reasonable grounds the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran. The international fact-finding mission says it focused on two strikes early in the war, including one at a school where at least 178 civilians were killed, including women and children. The report also says Iran committed crimes against humanity on a staggering scale in its deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. We do have some breaking economic news, and applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since July, adding to signals of labor market stability. Initial claims fell 10,000 to 196,000 in a period that included Labor Day. And that data can fluctuate around holidays. And we got even more data this morning. Here's Bloomberg's Michael McKee.
Karen Moscow · Bloomberg News Now · Treasuries Gain on Growing Confidence in Warsh, Oil Falls, More · 2026-09-17Yeah, I mean, you know, it's like the answer to high prices is high prices, right? And to some extent, I think that formula is working out in the market. Like, transformers are more expensive, so we're seeing more companies that are trying to figure out ways of assembling a supply chain for transformers. Like one of our companies, Air Energy, or alternatives like solid-state transformers like Heron Power is making. So, um, not to belittle those efforts, like, I'm glad those companies are out there, you know, taking really creative approaches to, to building the equipment we need. Um, but I worry less about, about those steps in the supply chain because there are companies out there responding to this market signal, which is price. Labor is one. I know you and I have talked about this a lot, like that moves slower. It's harder to find and train people who can do the kind of work we need done in field settings. Like, um, you know, it takes at least a few years to train someone. Probably takes— I don't exactly know— to become like a master electrician, but well more than a few years. And first you have to find people that are capable and want to do the, do the work. I mean, That's, that's one that I worry more about in like a 10-year timeframe.
Andy Lubershein · Catalyst with Shayle Kann · Do data centers actually increase electricity prices? No...and yes · 2026-09-10Last up, Doug Birdauer, founder and CEO of Radiant, alongside Drew Baglino, founder founder and CEO of Heron, joined me and A16z general partner Aaron Pricewright to discuss nuclear's role in rebuilding America's energy infrastructure.
Speaker A · The a16z Show · Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure · 2026-08-05Tough question. Not a seer, but my sense is techno optimism will be on the rise once the claimed benefits of the technology are aligned with the desires and interests of American constituents. What do Americans want? A wife, some food, some clothes to feed their children, right? The word is called the Gil Scott-Heron. It's quite, it's simple, right? We all know kind of like the picture of the American dream, which, you know, in many ways when you tell, okay, to put it very simply, even Dave Chappelle says this in one of the specials, says you never get between a man and his bread. So I don't know who thought it was a good idea to go on national television, tell people they're going to lose their job. But if I'm an American, which I'm not, of course, but I wouldn't want to lose my job because that's how I Be my family. It's kind of very simple, frankly. And I think the thing that I love with doing all my research is that I get to talk to people who put in very blunt terms, which, you know, I could have written like a 5-page report on this, you know, make a paper out of all this, but it's quite simple. You know, people want to be employed.
Ruby Justice Thurlow · The a16z Show · Ruby Thelot on Internet Culture, AI, and the Future of Taste · 2026-08-02So like, did Blue Heron get 85?
Chris Ryan · The Big Picture · The 2026 Movie Auction Returns! · 2026-07-02I'll give you a quick list of films that have already crossed it. And this is very helpful for you in terms of your, your bidding here. Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a documentary premiere at Sundance that Amanda and I saw at Cannes. Blue Heron, in fact, has a 92 right now. You know, the next film with a 92 is Ross McElwee's remake. I don't know if you're familiar with him, documentarian who famously explores his own life through these particular frameworks. And I watched this movie this weekend and it is absolutely devastating. So I just want to recommend when it comes out in July that people check out Remake. It's a beautiful, really, really sad movie. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. We've seen that. Not eligible to us.
Sean Fennessey · The Big Picture · The 2026 Movie Auction Returns! · 2026-07-02I'm choosing Blue Heron, a really beautiful film by Sophie Romvari. You know, usually to pull back the curtain, I am left with the last of the scraps, right? And I look at my Letterboxd list, my best of 2026, and I'm like, okay, my 9th favorite movie is available. And this time it just so worked out that I actually got my favorite movie of the year. Wow. That's beautiful. I rewatched it last night and I'm really glad that I did because I don't want to undersell, like, this is a really special movie. Like a really genuinely amazing accomplishment. Like honestly, Borderline feels like a miracle to me. Um, you know, Romvari, first time feature filmmaker, obviously has been making shorts before this this is a real step above, I would say. And also, she takes, like, a really, really big risk, not to spoil anything. And I think it asks a lot of the audience, but I think the filmmaking and the storytelling is so good that she has built so much goodwill for you to, like, go on the adventure with her, to, like, I trust you, I trust this filmmaker. And yeah, I mean, it's just, it's an amazing movie.
Speaker J · The Big Picture · The 10 Best Movies of 2026 … So Far · 2026-06-29Yeah, one of the ones that really clicked for me that I cited when I talked to Sophie was the sound design of the movie is so amazing. The idea of just, like, hearing the box of cereal sliding across the kitchen table in the morning, and it creates, like, a real sense of unease. And the whole, you know, the Jeremy character creates a sense of unease in this household. But there's also just the kind of common workaday this is the noisiness of a family full of children. And they're just, just managing a family full of children is a lot of work, even if you're not dealing with some emotional struggles. And there's another scene that I haven't seen the movie in a few months now, but one that jumped out to me too is this long conversation between the mother and father after the mother has had a conversation with one of the therapists, and she has been suggesting a certain sort of like clarification or classification for what Jeremy is struggling with. And the mother father's just like, this is not it. This is— they're wrong about my son, which is such a familiar thing. I remember having plenty of experiences like that growing up where my parents were just like trying to reject a professional's perspective on their life and their family. And there's something so kind of maddening about that when only you understand something, but that's also shielding yourself from something maybe you even don't understand about your own offspring or your own relatives or something. Very sensitive movie. Um, great Very excited to see what Sophie does next. Anything else you want to add about Blue Heron?
Sean Fennessey · The Big Picture · The 10 Best Movies of 2026 … So Far · 2026-06-29Let's do a little check-in on where I think I'm at with my top 5 right now. Okay. Right now, I've got Blue Heron in Nirvana at the top of the pile. And then I've got 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Miroir number 3, the Christian Petzold film, is at number 4, and Sam Raimi's Help, which I think is maybe the biggest omission from this episode for me.
Sean Fennessey · The Big Picture · The 10 Best Movies of 2026 … So Far · 2026-06-29One November day, I was walking through Brooklyn Bridge park in the rain and I saw a night heron sleeping on a branch perched over the pond, its head tucked into its chest. And I thought, is it dreaming? Do birds dream? And I thought, surely you can Google that. Turns out you couldn't. So I found myself on a three week rabbit hole in these obscure scientific journals, kind of alarmed to discover that we've only been studying the avian brain and sleep in the avian brain for about 20 years, if that. And there's only a handful of published FMRI and EEG studies of what happens when they sleep. And I was so surprised by what I found that I ended up writing about it. I wrote a piece for the New York Times about REM and the evolution of sleep. And the short version is basically, they do dream. Not only do they dream, but evolution invented rem, the dream rich REM state in the avian brain and when they sleep. So, for example, pigeons, during REM sleep, areas of their brain associated with wing motor action and spatial navigation light up. And songbirds, young songbirds who have to learn their repertoire while they sleep. You can map the activity of particular neurons to particular notes in the melody they were learning that day. So birds dream, they dream of flying and they dream of singing, and they're practicing in their sleep. And I thought, how incredible that evolution gave us a safe place to practice the possible. And so then after this immersion in the bird sleep world, birds started coming to my own dreams, which was very unusual because I tend to have hyper realistic dreams, mostly anxiety dreams about missing trains and things like that.
Maria Popova · Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 2026-06-22Well, it's never had in my large repertoire of anxiety dreams, the tooth has not appeared or disappeared, for that matter. But what did appear was a great blue heron carrying the sky on her back and a million sandhill cranes unspooling from the horizon, becoming the Milky Way, and a magpie speaking to me in my mother's voice. And I thought, what does it all mean? And meanwhile, I was discovering that a number of people in my life that I love and respect intellectually were using tarot cards. Now, I mentioned I come from the world of science. So I have spent my life dismissing those types of things as anti scientific, Residual medievalism from that world Kepler lived in, where Satan was more real than gravity. And then, of course, as tends to happen when I replaced contempt with curiosity, which we don't do as often as
Maria Popova · Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 2026-06-22But that's the point though, that that's the difference between signs and omens. Omens are internally generated. We are pattern recognizing animals we have to make sense of what is happening to us. And the fact is, much of what is happening to us is the product of randomness. But we need to create a pattern in order for it to make sense. And we call that an omen. So, for example, oh, a great blue heron appeared on my morning walk the day that I was gonna make a cross country move. You know, that great blue heron is fishing, it is hunting. It is there many times over the course of many days. I just happened to come upon it in that moment. And I make of it an omen about the concerns of my own life. And I think we need that. It's not just some silly kind of byproduct of consciousness. I think it is the crux of consciousness that we interpret and give story and give meaning.
Maria Popova · Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 2026-06-22