James Altucher:

Kawasaki Unveils a Hydrogen-Powered, Ride-On Robot Horse

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has pulled the covers off perhaps the most outrageous concept vehicle we've ever seen. The Corleo is a two-seater quadruped robot you steer with your body, capable of picking its way through rough terrain thanks to AI vision.

Unveiled at a preview for the Osaka Kansai Expo on April 4, the Corleo is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, as all good Japanese concepts should be, and it appears electrically actuated. Its rear legs appear to have an additional joint in them for improved impact resistance.

Its bifurcated "hooves" have grippy rubber treads. The adjustable-length stirrups will suit a wide range of riders, holding onto a rudimentary handlebar and sitting on a floating seat unit long enough to take a passenger, and capable of moving independently from the robot. There's a wind-deflecting screen because it's designed to gallop at north of 50 miles an hour.

KHI has already produced a prototype that's capable of standing and posing, and says it's an idea for a 2050 mobility project.

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Chris Campbell:

Bitcoin Price Retakes $80K as U.S. Stocks Avoid ‘Black Monday’ Meltdown

Bitcoin sought a relief rally into the April 7 Wall Street open as U.S. stocks rebounded from a 4%+ loss. Internet gold attempted to solidify support in the mid-$70,000 range, having come within spitting distance of old all-time highs from March 2024.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed the area around $80,000 forming a focus for BTC/USD after the pair hit five-month lows.

Meanwhile, the fallout from U.S. trade tariffs has continued to ricochet across global markets, with Asia stocks closing the day with considerable losses.

At the same time, reports of a potential 90-day pause in the tariffs going live, against a background of negotiations with over 50 U.S. trading partners, helped pare losses in futures markets ahead of the open and allowed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index to avert a ”Black Monday” 1987-style implosion.

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Enrique Abeyta:

Tariff 2.0: A Pattern in the Chaos

To make sense of the current moment, we only have to turn back the clock to the last time Trump sent investors into a panic with tariffs.

Back in early 2018, Trump triggered a big selloff in the stock market after making comments at the Davos economic forum. This caused the stock market to plummet for the next few weeks. After that, the stock market went to new highs.

Without a doubt, this move into the tariff space is MUCH bigger than last time. To use Trump's favorite adjective — it is “huge!” The magnitude of the initial bid is 10 times (or more) than what he was trying to do previously. He also is going much broader than before.

With the previous tariffs, we saw that it took three months for the market to digest the news. The same could happen here, if not even longer. While this will be painful for long-term investors, it will provide many short-term opportunities for traders.

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