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The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Legendary venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains how AI will create a stark divide between high-agency curious workers who accelerate their careers and ambivalent employees facing replacement, while detailing how venture capital's shift toward mega-funds and massive private rounds has fundamentally altered Silicon Valley and locked retail investors out of early growth opportunities.

freeCodeCamp.org

Software engineer Landon Gray explains that LLMs are merely 'raw fuel' requiring 'harnesses' (specialized tooling infrastructure) to produce reliable results, distinguishes AI engineering from data science and ML engineering, and argues developers must understand ML fundamentals to solve critical problems that models themselves cannot fix.

Reuters

The UN Human Rights Council convened an urgent debate following a US missile strike on Shajarat Hayaba Elementary School in Minab, Iran, that killed approximately 175 children and teachers. UN officials condemned the attack as a grave violation of international law and potential war crime, demanding transparent accountability while reporting that attacks on schools globally surged 44% in 2024.

In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

Sports psychology professor Anne Marte Pensgaard explains Norway's Olympic dominance as the result of a 30-year cultural shift prioritizing youth enjoyment over early competition, systematic mental training, and tight-knit cross-sport collaboration established after the medal-less 1988 Calgary Games.

Reuters

Raw behind-the-scenes audio from Reuters' live coverage captures photographers directing celebrity poses, coordinating group shots for award winners, and managing technical logistics during the iHeartRadio Music Awards red carpet arrivals.

This Week in Startups (Jason Calacanis)

Jensen Huang explains that AI progress is now driven by four simultaneous scaling laws (pre-training, post-training, test-time, and agentic), with synthetic data eliminating previous data scarcity concerns and making compute the sole limiting factor for intelligence growth.

Financial Education

The NASDAQ has officially entered an 11% correction as investors lose faith in the market's three key pillars—the Federal Reserve, the Trump administration, and the MAG 7 tech giants—while the speaker's portfolio suffers a brutal $121,000 single-day decline amid soaring volatility.

How I Built This (NPR)

The Trump administration is deploying thousands of US troops to the Middle East despite earlier denials, with military planners eyeing Car Island's oil facilities as a potential target, while experts warn that reopening the Strait of Hormuz would require a month-long complex operation involving minesweepers and air patrols that allies have not agreed to join.

Bloomberg Technology

A Los Angeles jury delivered a landmark verdict holding Meta and Google liable for negligently designing addictive platform features that harmed a young user, exposing the companies to billions in potential damages from thousands of pending cases and threatening the foundational engagement mechanics of the attention economy.

The David Lin Report

Gold has crashed over 20% from its January highs near $5,600 to around $4,100 due to a perfect storm of Fed hawkishness, profit-taking, and the Iran war shutting down Dubai's physical gold trade, yet institutional investors remain bullish on long-term fundamentals.

TED

The TED Idea Search in Chicago follows diverse speakers as they rehearse and deliver six-minute talks vying for a single spot on the main TED stage in Vancouver, revealing the rigorous coaching and vulnerable preparation required to transform personal passion into global impact.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Senator Cory Booker proposes the Keep Your Pay Act to make the first $75,000 of household income tax-free, funded by closing loopholes for the wealthy and raising corporate taxes, arguing this will restore faith in capitalism while requiring military spending cuts and immigration reform to address the deficit.