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Forbes

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley discusses his book "Running Down a Dream," arguing that career success stems from pursuing "fascination"—deep, endless curiosity—rather than grinding for achievement or prestige. He shares investing lessons from missing Google and backing Uber/OpenTable, while advising entrepreneurs to apply a 15-year happiness test and build intensive peer learning circles to accelerate growth in the AI era.

Yahoo Finance

The video analyzes Apple's strategic pivot back to hardware innovation under incoming CEO John Ternus, expectations for monetary policy continuity under potential Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, and the looming threat of historic oil supply disruptions if US-Iran negotiations collapse.

Reuters

President Trump hosts seven NCAA championship teams at the White House, honoring their achievements while announcing executive orders to reform college athletics through restrictions on transfers, eligibility limits, and bans on transgender athletes in women's sports.

Reuters

NASA announced the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is complete and targeting an early September launch, eight months ahead of schedule and under budget. With capabilities to survey the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble and test coronagraph technology for future exoplanet hunting, the mission aims to revolutionize understanding of dark energy, cosmic structure, and planetary systems.

Bloomberg Technology

Tim Cook announced he will step down as Apple CEO on September 1 after 15 years, handing leadership to hardware engineering chief John Ternus, while transitioning to Executive Chairman to focus on high-stakes geopolitical diplomacy amid ongoing US-China trade tensions.

Reuters

French President Emmanuel Macron met with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Paris to discuss the ongoing conflict, reaffirming France's commitment to humanitarian aid and outlining conditions for regional stabilization including Israeli withdrawal and Hezbollah disarmament.

Forbes

Former stand-up comedian Haley Sacks explains how she built Mrs. Dow Jones into a thriving finance media business by transforming her fear of money into aspirational, meme-driven content that bridges the gap between intimidating jargon and condescending frugality tips.

Reuters

Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard outlines the company's path to commercial fusion power by the early 2030s, emphasizing manufacturing-based scaling, the push for $10 billion in federal fusion funding, and rising energy security concerns driving investment in the technology.

Reuters

Kevin Warsh's nomination hearing revealed deep partisan divisions, with Democrats accusing him of being a politically malleable loyalist who would facilitate Trump's control of monetary policy, while Republicans praised his crisis experience and commitment to restoring the Federal Reserve's focus on its dual mandate of stable prices and maximum employment.

Reuters

The Department of Transportation announced a $12.5 billion, 2.5-year emergency overhaul of U.S. air traffic control systems to replace dangerously outdated 1960s-90s infrastructure including floppy disks and paper flight strips across 4,600 locations. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy emphasized that while the current system is safe due to skilled controllers, the modernization requires additional Congressional funding for software to prevent the project from repeating the 25-year failure of the previous NextGen initiative.

Yahoo Finance

Kevin Warsh's Senate confirmation hearing for Federal Reserve Chair exposed deep partisan divisions over central bank independence, with Republicans praising his crisis management experience while Democrats accused him of enabling 2008 Wall Street bailouts and reversing monetary policy positions to align with President Trump's political interests.

The Verge

The Verge redesigned its homepage to separate real-time social feeds from curated magazine content, addressing different user consumption habits while outlining plans to integrate with open protocols like BlueSky to reduce platform dependency and build direct audience relationships.