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Short films from Dark Vector Cognition on markets, filings and money. Where a film rests on a public company, the filings behind it are one click away. Not investment advice.

  1. IPO filing ·

    The strangest details in Anthropic's IPO Filing

    A countdown through Anthropic's Form S-1: five share classes, one share with 50.1% of the vote, shares outstanding but missing from the balance sheet, about $280 billion in compute commitments, and a board that must weigh profit against its mission.

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  2. Markets ·

    Is AI a Bubble? What does the data say.

    Skips the opinions and follows the money through three layers: the hardware base, the hyperscalers in the middle, and the frontier model companies, to find where cash returns end and speculation begins.

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  3. Crypto ·

    The $3.6 Billion Bitcoin Heist a Spreadsheet Solved

    Thieves took 119,754 bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016. Six years later, federal agents recovered $3.6 billion of it by following a public ledger that never forgets.

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  4. Banking ·

    Your money is not where you think it is

    Follows the balance in a banking app to where it actually lives: a ledger entry for what the bank owes you. Along the way, the size of the US money stock and how little of it is cash.

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  5. Commodities ·

    China's Rare Earth Chokehold: What Happens Before January 10

    The US-China trade truce runs to January 10. Underneath it sits a chokepoint most people have never heard of: rare earths and the magnets made from them, where they are mined, where they are refined and why China holds the leverage.

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  6. Oil ·

    Oil Prices: What to Expect in the Next 4 to 8 Weeks

    The base case is an uneven recovery: more oil gets out through pipelines and quiet transits, but the Strait of Hormuz stays contested and inventories stay thin. That points to high, jumpy prices and tight diesel into winter.

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