AI is democratizing access to technology globally while simultaneously concentrating the epicenter of innovation in the Bay Area.

The SEC/CFTC crypto proposal is a 'nothing burger' because it is not legislation and can be reversed by a future administration.

Neuroscience researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have noted it is easier to do neuroscience on AI models than on biological brains, suggesting AI models are now the most productive substrate for neuroscience research.

A method that worked once is not necessarily the right way; it is just one way that happened to work in that instance.

In AI-first products, a user logging into the dashboard to manually intervene is a sign of product failure, inverting the traditional SaaS focus on DAU/MAU as success metrics.

Gold has surpassed its 1980 inflation-adjusted all-time high for the first time in 45 years.

TIPS at 3% real yield represent a significant buying opportunity that investors are broadly ignoring.

AI creates a 'tragedy of the cognitive commons': checking AI output requires deep expertise, deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years, and grunt work is the first thing AI automates away, so organizations are building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the process that creates experts.

When the team that defines risk is separate from the team building and running the systems that created it, misalignment is inherent to the design.

A $249 chocolate bar brand says it moved $40M in a year, one cocoa-butter shock nearly broke it

Two market-making firms control 40% of all equities trading, with the largest controlling 25% and the second largest controlling 15%.

Sadness in amnesic patients persists for at least five minutes even without any declarative memory of the triggering movie, demonstrating that emotions have temporal persistence independent of memory.