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“Anthropic has now officially overtaken OpenAI on a run-rate basis.”

“SpaceX filing for IPO at two trillion is a market-defining moment.”

“Seeing Doug Leone return to the helm of Sequoia is truly fascinating.”

“The removal of Delve from Y Combinator is a very rare occurrence.”

“Supabase is now targeting a ten billion dollar valuation in this round.”

“From Iran's perspective, they feel emboldened. This war that started with a call to replace the regime, well, one Khamenei was replaced by another Khamenei. So the regime is still there. It is proven that it can withstand the most powerful army in the world and the most powerful army in the region, Israel. And it discovered the Strait Of Hormuz and what havoc it can wreak, not only on The Gulf, but on the entire globe.”

“Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming the Iranian backed Hezbollah militants, making the announcement Thursday amid disagreement over whether the Iran ceasefire includes Lebanon. British prime minister Keir Starmer describing the ceasefire as fragile and has criticized Israel's strikes on Lebanon.”

“The prime minister also drew parallels between Russian president Vladimir Putin and president Trump, saying he was fed up with the fact that British families would see their energy bills rise because of, quote, the actions of Putin or Trump across the world. Before this latest surge in prices from The US and Israel's war in Iran, the Russian president's invasion of Ukraine had already pushed up energy prices.”

“While talking to reporters from space, astronaut Victor Glover said he'd been thinking about the return to Earth ever since he was assigned to this mission a few years ago. We have to get back. There's so much data that you've seen already, but all the good stuff is coming back with us. There's so many more pictures, so many more stories. And riding a fireball through the atmosphere is as profound as well.”

“Fans in LA went from ecstatic to heartbroken when they logged on to buy Olympics tickets and saw prices in the hundreds and thousands of dollars. Seats at the games start at $28, but go as high as 5,500, including a whopping 24% service fee on each ticket. And the cheap seats sold out fast. Denny Nivens has been to eight summer games and said he's never seen price tags so high.”

“Vice president JD Vance is expected to arrive in Islamabad today at the head of a US delegation, which includes president Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff. They are to hold talks tomorrow seeking to shore up a cease fire, shaky over Israel and Hezbollah exchanging fire and Iran's choke hold over this trade of Hormuz.”

“A staff wide email from the White House management office put Trump officials on notice over prediction market sites like Koushi and Polymarket. It said it's a criminal offense to use nonpublic information to make money on betting markets about federal policy, military strikes, and war. It comes as a number of suspiciously well timed bets have raised alarms, including 6 figure poly market bets on a ceasefire.”

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. Melania Trump also denied that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump and said she is not one of Epstein's victims. She urged congress to hold public hearings for them.”

“The Artemis two astronauts are preparing for a return to Earth this evening. The three Americans and one Canadian are now under 150,000 miles from home after setting a new distance record during Monday's lunar flyby. They're aiming for splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego.”

“Hotter temperatures means less sea ice. And for emperor penguins, which rely on sea ice for breeding in his places to rest, it means fewer penguins are surviving. Twice in recent years, the ice has broken up early, causing thousands of chicks to drown in the frigid water. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says emperor penguins are now considered to be endangered.”

“The Americans are led by vice president, JD Vance, and the Iranians by the parliament speaker, Mohammad Baher Ghalibaf. The negotiations are based on a 10 Iranian plan that includes an end to attacks and sanctions on the country. Analysts warn negotiations will take time, and it's unlikely one meeting will resolve this conflict.”

“A sharp spike in gasoline prices during the war triggered a surge of inflation last month. Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase in twenty two months. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices, core inflation was 2.6%, high enough to make the Federal Reserve cautious about additional cuts to interest rates.”

“57 of 77 forest service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires. The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research. It's just relocating small teams to other spaces.”

“The four Artemis two astronauts are now heading in get to medical evaluations, this after a ten day journey to the far side of the moon. The spacecraft had a near perfect return to Earth Friday evening, landing in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of San Diego, and then the astronauts were imported into a ship.”

“The Southern California Music Festival, which has been running for more than twenty five years, is one of the hottest tickets of the festival season. And the Colombian star, Carol G, will make history on Sunday night as the first Latina to ever headline the festival.”

“Pakistan's prime minister called the talks, quote, make or break for whether a fragile ceasefire will hold. That's after the country's leaders wrangled behind the scenes and then publicly for weeks to make them happen. Journalists have been corralled into the city's convention center waiting for any news about how exactly these talks will look.”

“Integrity and her crew of four astronauts flew 700,237 miles. We hit our flight path angle target within point 4%. We flew an entry range of 1,957 miles, and we landed within less than a mile of our target. What a tremendous day.”

“57 of 77 forest service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires. The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research; it's just relocating small teams to other spaces.”

“McIlroy was on fire on the back nine. He had back to back birdies on the twelfth and thirteenth holes, then ended with a flourish. Four straight birdies to wrap up the round, including a remarkable 90 foot chip shot from off the green that rolled in.”

“The Trump administration has released plans for a massive arch to be built in Washington DC. The project is meant to mark the nation's two hundred fiftieth anniversary in July, though details on funding and approval remain unclear. Critics say the proposal would mark a significant departure from how sitting presidents typically approach public memorials.”

“Iran's foreign ministry says it won't be involved in talks unless Lebanon is part of the deal. Israel insists its fight with Hezbollah is not part of the two week ceasefire between The US and Iran and continues hitting Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Wednesday, Israel struck multiple targets including in Beirut, killing more than 300 people.”

“Surging gas prices helped push inflation to 3.3% in March, the largest increase in nearly two years. That's according to the latest numbers by the Labor Department. The average price for a regular grade is now $4.15 per gallon.”

“The astronauts will hit Earth's atmosphere going nearly 24,000 miles per hour. One source of anxiety, the heat shield. After a test flight without a crew found some unexpected damage a few years ago, NASA investigated and changed the reentry procedures to deal with this issue.”

“The Trump administration is taking steps toward automatic registration for the military draft. The selective service has required eligible men ages 18 to 25 to register since 1980. The agency says it will begin registering men automatically instead of requiring them to sign up themselves.”

“The scientists found that the same neurons that fire when someone looks at an object also fire when a person imagines that object. The finding supports earlier evidence from brain scans suggesting that seeing and imagining activate the same circuits.”

“Apollo was when I was a child, and to be here now and say we actually did this. We've gone back, and we're gonna go, build a moon base. We are going to have an enduring presence on the moon. Just incredibly powerful.”

“I will find out what's going on. They're militarily defeated, and now, we're gonna open up the Gulf with them with or without them. But that'll be open. We're gonna be, or the straight as they call it. And I think it's gonna go pretty quickly.”

“The submitted plans from the Harrison Design Firm show a structure very similar to the model that Trump showed off at a fundraising dinner at the White House last October. The proposed arch bears a striking resemblance to the Arc De Triomphe in Paris and is topped with two eagles and a winged crowned figure reminiscent of the Statue Of Liberty.”

“The jury in the civil trial against concert giant Live Nation finished its first day of deliberations on Friday. 34 states have charged that the company and its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, have driven up the cost of watching live music across the nation.”

“Rory McIlroy has set a PGA Masters tournament record. After 36 holes, he holds a six stroke lead over Sam Burns and Patrick Reed, who were tied for second with two rounds left. McElroy is the defending champion.”

“SpaceX filed, confidentially, to go public on April 1st, targeting a $1.75 trillion with a T valuation. When SpaceX goes public, if it's at that $1.75 trillion valuation, so weird to say trillion dollar valuation for an IPM, they would be the eighth largest company in the world, right behind TSMC and Saudi Aramco. They're aiming to raise Chamath $75 billion, which would be by far the biggest raise ever in an IPO.”

“But the most important positive thing that will happen from the IPO is a validated external mark-to-market valuation of SpaceX. And the market every day in real time gives you a valid mark-to-market assessment of the value of Tesla. And this allows you to put these two things together to minimize these losses. And I think that that's what Elon really needs. It'll make his life tremendously simpler from a governance perspective.”

“Getting to the moon, I think, is going to be very important, not just because there's this important social milestone and race happening on right now with China, but I think the moon could end up being kind of the next industrial frontier for humanity. And the reason is, if you can get to the moon, the moon has an extraordinary abundance of material that we can mine, process and manufacture into goods.”

“And the autonomous competency is what led to the robotics revolution. And the robotics revolution, even if the socialists ban robotics on earth and tell us no robots allowed, they're taking all the jobs, you could ship all those robots to the moon and they could get to work and create an entirely new manufacturing frontier for our civilization, for humanity. That frontier can manufacture precious metals and other goods and ship them back.”

“SpaceX has also created, and this is going to be a big part of the valuation analysis that many are doing, they've created a backup to the Internet. The Internet is fundamentally limited by all of the nodes on the network and the connectivity amongst all those nodes, and that connectivity is largely driven by copper and fiber optic cable. So in space, with the number of satellites going up with Starlink, and to actually deploy data centers that can output data on those nodes.”

“President Trump has not said anything about the missing airmen. But earlier today, he threatened to unleash, quote, all hell if the Strait of Hormuz wasn't open by Monday.”

“As for humans who have looked at the moon our entire lives, it just looked different out the window, and that is wild. It just really put our place in the universe in perspective.”

“Hundreds of TSA workers resigned during the recent pay disruption, and experts say it can take months to hire and train replacements. That means staffing levels can vary by airport and even by the time of day, creating unpredictable wait times for travelers.”

“Flights are more expensive because fuel prices are increased due to the Strait of Hormuz being mostly closed for the last four weeks. In the Middle East region, aviation data showed more than 46,000 flights cancelled since February 28th, when the US and Israel began attacking Iran.”

“Easter comes this year into a world torn by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and at a time of great political strife in the US., yet Christians around the world celebrate, as they have for millennia, the resurrection of Christ, as the triumph of light over darkness, peace over violence, life over death.”