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# CME to launch Solana futures. Texas needs reactors. ChatGPT beats DeepSeek on stock predictions.
- URL: https://www.james-corcoran.com/weekly-3x3-2/
- Published: 2025-03-01T15:06:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T21:59:26.000Z
- Description: From Solana futures and fragile payments infrastructure to negative power prices and soaring data-center energy demand, markets are testing new edges. AI research pushes into finance and long-context reliability as real-world constraints bite.
- Author: James Corcoran
- Tags: Weekly 3x3

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## MARKETS

**CME Group plans to launch Solana futures | February 28th 2025**

Institutional demand for crypto continues to grow. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/cme-group-plans-launch-solana-futures-march-17-2025-02-28/?ref=james-corcoran.com)

**ECB's multi-trillion payments breakdown sends shudders through Europe | February 28th 2025**

Breakdown on payday draws attention to the interconnectedness and resilience of the financial payments system. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/deutsche-boerses-clearstream-deals-with-residual-impact-ecb-outage-2025-02-28/?ref=james-corcoran.com)

**Why power prices can go negative, and what it means | February 28th 2025**

This article from Bloomberg explains that prices can go negative when the cost of holding or disposing of a good exceeds its value, leading sellers to pay buyers to take it off their hands. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-17/why-power-prices-go-negative-wind-solar-and-energy-demand?srnd=phx-markets&ref=james-corcoran.com)

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## MACHINES

**AI will upend a basic assumption about how companies are organized | February 28th 2025**

As AI reshapes workflows, companies may need to rethink traditional hierarchies and organizational structures. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/how-ai-reasoning-models-will-change-companies-and-the-economy?srnd=homepage-europe&ref=james-corcoran.com)

**Texas needs equivalent of 30 reactors to meet data center demand | February 28th 2025**

Surging data center demand in Texas highlights the growing energy challenge. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/texas-needs-equivalent-of-30-reactors-to-meet-data-center-demand?srnd=homepage-europe&ref=james-corcoran.com)

**Blue Origin's all-women flight | February 28th 2025**

Katy Perry adds star power to space mission. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-27/katy-perry-gayle-king-to-fly-to-space-with-bezos-fiancee?srnd=homepage-europe&ref=james-corcoran.com)

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## MODELS

**ChatGPT and DeepSeek: Can they predict the stock market | February 14th 2025**

A study finds that ChatGPT can predict the stock market and macroeconomy from *Wall Street Journal* data, outperforming other models. Its predictive power comes from investors’ underreaction to positive news. [ArXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10008?ref=james-corcoran.com)

**Re-routing in test-time for multimodal mixture of experts | February 27th 2025**

Vision encoders often underperform compared to language models. Using a mixture-of-experts approach helps, but the router that mixes expert representations isn't always optimal. This paper proposes re-routing in test-time by aligning routing weights to correctly predicted samples in a neighbourhood of the test sample. [ArXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20395?ref=james-corcoran.com)

**Expect the unexpected: Failsafe long context QA for finance | February 10th 2025**

[Writer](https://writer.com/?ref=james-corcoran.com) introduces FailSafeQA, a benchmark testing the robustness of LLMs in finance. Results show that while some models handle input changes well, they struggle with hallucinations. Writer's Palmyra-Fin-128k-Instruct model is the most compliant but falters in 17% of cases, while OpenAI o3-mini fabricates information in 41% of cases. The benchmark highlights the need for improvement in LLMs for financial applications. [ArXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06329?ref=james-corcoran.com)