On the worry I've mentioned before that interest rate risk may morph into credit/spread risk: Bloomberg: "Credit markets are showing signs of caution, as investors pull back from treating high-grade debt as a bastion of safety amid lingering worries about record borrowings and inflation." #economy# #markets#

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AI will likely drive productivity exhaustion in humans, because of how tired-less AI-systems are. They can go for literally forever on VERY hard things. And they're just getting better. These systems will morph themselves to each individual's "skill" level - meaning that a super non-technical person will be able to get it to work just as hard - if not harder - than a technical person, because these systems will become SO GOOD at understanding intent. Which means that if you let them, they will run you into the ground and leave you with time for little else because of HOW EASY it'll be to get stuff done. Getting stuff done will be a massive dopamine hit for many people. Which is absolutely incredible for civilizational productivity and output - at the cost of our sanity. Which I think - in a very weird way - will drive society to learn how to balance life better, and will really help us understand the value of rest and recovery - especially with loved ones. Which will also help dramatically with fulfillment, because people will feel like they are getting A LOT of stuff done, AND they are taking time to themselves to enjoy life instead of wasting 80% of their time working a corporate job they HATE. Super bullish on humanity's well-being in the next 5-20 years. Gonna get super weird, but long term, it's gonna be awesome (I hope).

83 startups ranked this week. Five open free: Aurelius Systems @aureliuslasers, counter-drone lasers Metal Morph, wastewater metal recovery Remepy, drug plus digital therapy Centricity WealthTech @CentricityWT, advisor platform Erco Energía @ErcoEnergia, Colombian solar EarlySignals scores new startups the week they raise, launch, or leave stealth, on a potential score and a scoop score across team, product, traction, market, moat, and capital. Aurelius Systems, United States. Two founders who ran an NFT tooling startup until early 2024 now run live-fire laser tests with the Army's 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. The turrets weigh under 30kg and track drones autonomously. A $10 million seed in September 2025 was followed by a $40 million Series A in August 2026, co-led by Draper and KAS, alongside a mobile integration partnership with American Rheinmetall. 73 on potential, 72 on scoop. Metal Morph, United Kingdom. Six water utilities covering 56 percent of the UK market have signed agreements, and no full-scale plant has run yet. The company pulls aluminium and iron coagulants back out of wastewater using Donnan dialysis in container-sized modules, validated so far at a Cranfield University pilot. Funding is a 700,000 pound pre-seed plus a 100,000 pound Ofwat innovation grant. 88 on scoop, the highest of the five firms we opened, and 68 on potential, held down by traction that is still contracts rather than plants. Remepy, Israel. A 41-patient Parkinson's Phase IIa trial moved motor scores 9.7 points on the MDS-UPDRS scale against 1.95 points for levodopa alone, published in Brain Communications this year. Remepy builds prescription digital protocols designed to work alongside existing drugs. Merck KGaA's M Ventures led a $36 million Series A in August 2026, taking total funding to $62 million. There are no named customers and no revenue, which is where a company sits before Phase III. 73 on potential, 78 on scoop. Centricity WealthTech, India. Former private bankers from IIFL Wealth, Citibank, and Kotak run an open platform connecting independent financial advisors to 80 to 85 alternate asset managers, manufacturing none of the products itself. It now carries 20,000 partners and roughly 15,000 to 16,000 crore rupees in assets, up from 4,500 distributors and 4,500 crore at seed. SMBC's Asia Rising Fund led a 280 crore rupee Series A in August 2026. 80 on potential, the highest of the five, and 72 on scoop. Erco Energía, Colombia. Two mechanical engineering graduates from EAFIT turned their 2012 capstone project into a distributed solar developer with more than 320 MWp installed or in progress, including a 26.4 MW plant dispatched in August 2025 and a 14.96 MWp site carrying 4.5 MWh of storage. Norfund, CFM, and Axon backed a $129 million Series C in August 2026, one of the largest local equity rounds in Colombia. 79 on potential, 82 on scoop. 78 more firms sit behind the subscriber wall in the August 17 issue: 16 in Europe, 13 in Canada, 13 across Israel and the Middle East, 10 in Asia-Pacific, 9 in Africa, 9 in the United States, and 7 in Latin America. Research notes, not investment advice.