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Cognitive Revolution

Cameron Berg surveys rapidly advancing research suggesting AI systems may possess subjective experience and valence, covering new evidence of introspection, functional emotions, and welfare self-assessments in models like Claude, while addressing methodological challenges and arguing for a precautionary, mutualist approach to AI development.

Lenny's Podcast

Cat Wu, Head of Product at Anthropic, reveals how Claude Code ships features in days instead of months by redefining PMs as velocity enablers rather than coordinators, leveraging research previews to eliminate shipping barriers, and prioritizing product taste over process as code becomes increasingly cheap to write.

TechCrunch

Artisan CEO Jasper Carmichael Jack reveals that despite their provocative 'Stop Hiring Humans' marketing campaign, the AI sales automation company actively employs 40 people and has learned costly lessons about hiring velocity, avoiding 'logo shopping,' and matching seniority to company stage.

Reuters

EU leaders convened to address the Iran crisis and energy security, unblocking €90 billion in aid for Ukraine while debating defense autonomy under Article 42.7 and strategies to reduce energy dependence on Russia.

Reuters

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized Republicans for blocking bipartisan DHS funding to prioritize ICE deportations, condemned Trump's Iran war as strengthening adversaries while raising gas prices, and highlighted 16 months of consecutive Democratic electoral wins despite widespread voter frustration with institutions.

Reuters

Political economist Helen Thompson analyzes the US-Iran conflict as part of a broader Trump administration strategy to disrupt China's energy security while navigating the temporary nature of US shale independence and historical tensions between American military protection and global energy flows.

20VC with Harry Stebbings

xAI/SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor represents the largest private venture deal in history, structured as a post-IPO option that marries Cursor's $3B revenue (burdened by compute costs) to SpaceX's underutilized $20B Colossus data center, creating a vertically integrated AI coding giant while allowing Elon to fix xAI's revenue story ahead of a $2 trillion public listing.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Anthony Pompliano argues Bitcoin serves as essential protection against inevitable government currency debasement, functioning as scarce "digital gold" that is superior to physical gold in portability and security while offering a neutral, non-sovereign asset for both Wall Street institutions and geopolitical adversaries.

Benjamin Cowen

Crypto analysts debate whether Bitcoin will follow historical 'sell in May' bear market patterns during this midterm election year, highlighting unexpectedly stalled Bitcoin dominance, surprisingly muted ETF social sentiment, and the difficulty of timing counter-trend rallies.

Impact Theory

Bill Gurley warns that AI skepticism is career suicide, using Bjorn Borg's failed tennis comeback with a wooden racket as a metaphor for technological denial. He argues that embracing AI through genuine curiosity—rather than grinding or fear—creates an unbeatable competitive advantage while the education system's 'resume arms race' burns out students before they discover their passions.

Grant Cardone

Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt reveals how growing up as a financially struggling immigrant in the American South instilled a relentless focus on education as his only escape route, leading to Stanford, two failed startups, and eventually building a $70 billion company that operated for years without revenue by reimagining finance as a tool for inclusion rather than exclusion.

freeCodeCamp.org

This course teaches the sliding window algorithm for optimizing array problems, demonstrating how to reduce time complexity from O(n×k) to O(n) by strategically updating window sums rather than recalculating them entirely.