Tuesday links: deliberate lies

Finance

• Battery maker CATL is now public. (semafor.com)
• The SEC is losing staff and its willingness to enforce rules. (ft.com)

Fund management

• Timing the market is hard: the case of the Pacer Trendpilot US Large Cap ETF ($PTLC). (morningstar.com)
• Private equity should be careful what it wishes for. (axios.com)

Companies

• How Home Depot ($HD) is prepared for tariffs. (npr.org)
• Robots are coming to your pharmacy. (cnbc.com)
• Cargo theft is on the rise. (crossdockinsights.com)

AI

• How AI could kill the entry level job. (nytimes.com)
• More code is being written by AI. (axios.com)
• How would ads and AI mix? (generativevalue.com)
• AI models can be taught to lie. (petewarden.com)

Cities

• Don’t write off big cities just yet. (slate.com)
• Has Austin’s moment as tech darling passed? (wsj.com)
• Why Florida’s real estate market has reversed course. (bloomberg.com)
• Downtown Portland, Oregon is struggling. (wsj.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Research links: unwieldy and inefficient. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Adviser links: acting on instinct. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• People are turning to Google to learn how to adult. (axios.com)
• What the MSM can learn from The Onion. (reason.com)
• The online survey model is broken. (laurenleek.substack.com)
• The Athletic is now profitable. (axios.com)